# iOS Developer (12 month contract)

Job Description: Here at Rakuten Kobo Inc. we offer a casual working start-up environment and a group of friendly and talented individuals. Our employees rank us highly in terms of commitment to work/life balance. We realize that for our people to be innovative, creative and passionate they need to feel valued and supported. If you’re looking for a company that inspires passion, personal, and professional growth - join Kobo and come help us on our mission of making reading lives better. The Role: As an iOS Developer (12 month contract), you will be a critical contributor to the entire Kobo iOS app. You will take ownership over key features, and deliver them from inception to completion. We pride ourselves in a collaborative environment, and you will have input over future product direction and features. You will be joining the iOS team within the Global Apps group. We have recently re-written our iOS app in pure Swift/SwiftUI. While most of the code inside the app is new native Swift code, the app incorporates some legacy React Native components (such as the reading experience). There is an existing React Native team to maintain these components, with integration and support provid

- **Id**: 3909088
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/rakuten-kobo-ios-developer-12-month-contract>
- **Role**: Mobile
- **Role family**: Mobile
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: contractor
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Toronto, Canada
- **Countries**: CA
- **Hiring countries**: CA
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-06T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T06:39:47Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 6
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3481
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: E-commerce Platforms, Books

## Company

- **Id**: 38977
- **Name**: Rakuten Kobo
- **Domain**: kobo.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/rakuten-kobo>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

## Technologies

- **React Native** — Optional: no
- **Swift Concurrency** — Optional: no
- **SwiftUI** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes
- **Modularization** — Optional: yes
- **Objective-C** — Optional: yes
- **React.js** — Optional: yes
- **Swift** — Optional: yes
- **UIKit** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 6

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Canada** — Iso: CA; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-07T05:28:22Z

## Visa

- Country: CA; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Positions approved through LMIA in 12 months: 1; Filings 12m: 1

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 5
- **Expected fill days**: 52
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

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