Software Engineer, iOS (Ads Mobile)

About SmartNews 

SmartNews is a leading global information and news discovery company dedicated to delivering quality information to the people who need it. Thanks to our unique machine-learning technology and relationships with more than 3,000 global publisher partners, we provide news that matters to millions of users.

Founded in 2012 in Tokyo, SmartNews also has offices in San Francisco, Palo Alto, New York, and Singapore.

If you share our vision and are passionate about our mission, we encourage you to apply!

The Team & Role

The Ads Mobile Team is responsible for treating Ads as a meaningful content to the users and gracefully merging the Ads into the news feed.

As an iOS engineer, we expect you to drive the ads development of our iOS App. More specifically, we expect you to understand the third-party Ads SDKs and the internal Ads APIs to design and implement the client-server architecture of Ads content. These tasks include: deciding how Ads/News are merged, deciding the caching strategy and leading our external partners and internal backend counterparts to design their interfaces.

Your Responsibilities:

• Follow iOS best practices to build a performant App
• Utilize third-party Ad SDKs such as Google Ads Manager to serve third-party Ads
• Design and implement the client-server architecture of our in-house Ads demands
• Work together with Product Managers to improve the Ad experiences and performance
• Support Data Scientists to collect data and make data-driven decisions

Requirements

Minimum requirements

• 2 years active iOS development experience for a large scale user base app
• Experience designing a new feature from scratch 
• Problem Solving skills to self-serve finding the deliverables of assigned task
• Proven track of making decisions in a data-driven way

Nice to have experiences/skills

• React Native experience is strongly preferred
• Familiarity with Javascript is strongly preferred
• Experiences with iOS Ads SDK is preferred
• Hands-on experience with iOS App performance profiling

Working condition

• Office Location: Tokyo

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Benefits

• All healthcare and social insurance required by the Japanese labor law, plus annual health check
• Visa sponsorship and overseas relocation support available for eligible candidates

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