Position: iOS Team Lead
Location: Toronto (hybrid 3-4 days onsite)
Duration: expected 6 Months
About the Role
We are seeking a seasoned iOS Team Lead to join a leading Canadian bank’s Payments & Loyalty division, driving the delivery of innovative mobile pilot projects. The ideal candidate is a hands-on technical leader with deep expertise in Swift, strong engineering practices, and proven experience leading iOS development teams in an Agile environment. This is a highly visible role requiring collaboration with product, design, and enterprise technology teams to deliver cutting-edge solutions in the financial services space.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead a team of iOS engineers, providing technical guidance, mentorship, and performance coaching.
- Design, develop, and maintain high-quality iOS applications using Swift and modern iOS frameworks.
- Collaborate with product managers, UX designers, and backend teams to deliver seamless, customer-focused mobile experiences.
- Drive Agile practices within the team, ensuring iterative delivery, backlog management, and continuous improvement.
- Act as a hands-on contributor, reviewing code, setting coding standards, and ensuring technical excellence.
- Architect mobile solutions with a focus on scalability, security, and performance, particularly within payments and loyalty use cases.
- Partner with stakeholders across the bank to manage pilot project lifecycles, from concept through deployment.
- Identify risks, propose solutions, and ensure timely delivery of milestones.
Required Skills & Experience
- 8+ years of experience in iOS development, with at least 2–3 years in a leadership or team lead capacity.
- Advanced proficiency in Swift, with strong knowledge of iOS SDKs, UIKit, SwiftUI, Combine, and related frameworks.
- Proven experience leading engineering teams in Agile/Scrum environments, ideally within large enterprises or financial institutions.
- Solid understanding of mobile architecture patterns (MVC, MVVM, VIPER, Clean Architecture).
- Experience with mobile CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and code quality practices.
- Strong knowledge of App Store submission, provisioning, and deployment processes.
- Familiarity with mobile security, encryption, and compliance best practices (financial services experience strongly preferred).
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence, mentor, and collaborate across business and technical teams.
Nice to Have
- Prior experience in payments, loyalty, or fintech.
- Exposure to backend APIs and integration with enterprise platforms.
- Experience with Kotlin Multiplatform or cross-platform frameworks.
- Banking or large-scale enterprise program experience.
Why Join
- Lead a talented mobile engineering team at the forefront of payments innovation.
- Work on high–impact pilot projects with visibility across the bank.
- Opportunity to shape mobile strategy in one of Canada’s largest financial institutions.
The pay range that the employer reasonably expects to pay for this position is between CA$90.00 and CA$100.00
Our voluntary benefits offering includes medical, dental, vision and retirement benefits.
Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis.
Tundra Technical Solutions would like to thank you for the interest you have demonstrated in this opportunity. However, only candidates with the required skills will be contacted.
Tundra Technical Solutions is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We welcome and encourage diversity in our workplace.
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