Kakao Intensifies Hiring of Experienced iOS Developers for Client Team, Offering KakaoTalk Development Experience

Kakao is conducting a focused hiring campaign for iOS developers in the KakaoTalk Client Team until April 11. This recruitment primarily targets professionals with 3+ years of experience, offering technical growth and a broad understanding of service domains through the development of KakaoTalk, a large-scale service.

Reasons to Apply

The Client Team is responsible for the entire KakaoTalk client, offering candidates the following opportunities:

• Technical Growth: Gain experience in operating a service maintained for over 10 years, balancing stability with the development of new features.
• Overwhelming Service Domain: Experience most mobile technologies, including security (encryption), VoIP, video conferencing, payments, image processing, socket communication, music streaming, and maps.
• Developer Networking: With over 50 KakaoTalk iOS developers, at least 30 of whom are in a single organization, there is active technical sharing and study with senior developers.
• High Engagement: Actively contribute to the service by voicing opinions to achieve goals alongside design and UX from the planning stage.

Work Style and Hiring Process

The iOS part of the Client Team consists of 2 parts and 4 cells, collaborating through scrums, pair programming, and regular seminars. The coding test is conducted on the HackerRank platform, and candidates can take the test in their preferred language.

Regarding legacy code management, all team members have been working on Swift porting for several years, converting over 99% of the project code. This has reduced the burden of Objective-C debugging and enabled the rapid application of new features such as dark mode and widgets.