About Hey Savi
We’re a fully female-founded company on a mission to change the way people search and shop online for fashion…forever! We’re going to spark a new era of fashion discovery, igniting confidence in everybody and every body, and to create a world where fashion confidence starts with “Hey Savi…”.
Hey Savi is at the beginning of an exciting journey and we’re looking for top talent to join our team. Unlike many start-ups we’re well funded, have a detailed business and financial plan, and are looking for experienced, passionate professionals to join us in creating and scaling a game-changing business.
So if you want a role where you will make a major impact and want to be a part of a team of women building an incredible product and experience for other women, come join us and make the most Savi move of your career!
About the Role
We’re looking for an experienced Application Developer to build our world-class consumer app from the ground up—a truly greenfield project that will redefine how women search and shop online. This role is perfect for someone who thrives on shaping technical strategies and tackling the challenges of creating something entirely new. You’ll have the chance to define the architecture, integrating cutting-edge machine learning integrations for personalised fashion recommendations, delivering a delightful, user-first experience.
Requirements
Key Responsibilities
- Technology Strategy:Lead the Application development architecture and strategy, evaluating native and hybrid alternatives.
- Rapid Prototyping: Rapid prototyping and experimentation through PoCs to evaluate viable options for implementing upcoming features.
- Development of High Quality Applications: Develop, test and maintain mobile applications for iOS platforms, ensuring high performance, responsiveness and scalability.
- Cross-functional Collaboration: Collaborate with cross-functional teams (designers, product managers, backend developers) to define, design and implement new features.
- Writing Clean Code: Write clean, maintainable and well-documented production code following best practices.
- Up-keeping Best Engineering Practices: Follow agile development practices, applying extreme programming practices like combining multiple automated testing techniques, continuous integration and delivery.
- Performance Optimisation: Monitor and enhance application efficiency, debugging and resolving issues as they arise.
- Team Mentorship:Contribute to the team growth through hiring and mentoring new team members.
Desirable Experience In:
- Native mobile app development in iOS
- Swift, SwiftUI, and UIKit for iOS development
- Building hybrid applications with technologies such as React Native, Flutter, PWA
- Architectural patterns (MVC, MVVM, SOLID) and best practices
- Managing the application lifecycle from integration to release, using tools and techniques such as: Git, CI/CD, Github Actions, SPM, TestFlight, Crashlytics
- Agile development processes, including testing frameworks like XCTest
Ways of Working
We know HOW you work is as important as what you work on so we’re looking demonstrable skills and experience with the following competencies and ways of working:
- Product Mindset and Customer Focus:You’re passionate about creating meaningful experiences that address real user needs. You have a strong desire to understand customer behaviour and deliver solutions that inspire confidence and delight, keeping a critical eye on available data to evaluate outcomes of each development iteration.
- Adaptable and Resourceful Problem Solver: You learn quickly and adjust to new context, tools, and technologies. You’re comfortable experimenting and pivoting when needed to find the best solution. You approach challenges with no pre-established solution with curiosity and independence, seeking out viable options and taking ownership of the whole process.
- Collaborative Team Player: You thrive in a collaborative environment and enjoy working closely with cross-functional teams to achieve shared goals.
- Effective Communicator: You excel at conveying information clearly, telling compelling stories, and influencing diverse audiences. Whether collaborating with technical teams or engaging non-technical stakeholders, you ensure alignment, understanding, and impact across different contexts and backgrounds.
PLEASE NOTE: If you don’t meet 100% of the criteria but arepassionate about our mission and visionand think you cando the job, especially if the person we described in ways of working resonated with yourpersonal values, principles andwork ethos, westrongly encourage you to apply!
Location + Work Style
We’ll all be where we need to be based on what’s happening. We’ll have in-person team sessions (usually once a week) as needed for key activities like planning, strategy, and brainstorming sessions (and some fun!), and remote work the rest of the time to allow for flexibility, work-life balance, and quiet time for deep work.
Hey Savi is based in London and are looking for people in the UK and Europe to join our team. We regret that we can’t hire candidates from other locations or provide Visa sponsorship yet, but check back with us as we grow as we’ll be global soon!
Benefits
Salary:£50,000 to £70,000
Benefits:
UK 26 days PTO plus bank/national holidays
Employee equity
