Are you looking to use your skills to make an impact on the world? We are seeking an iOS developer to join our start-up team. We are building NaviBlind, a hardware-enabled navigation app that helps blind and visually impaired people walk to any destination. NaviBlind is a disruptive product that will bring navigation for blind people to the 21st century.

What will you do?

• Develop new features in the NaviBlind iOS app that rely on next generation GPS technology and traffic IOT

• Be responsible for optimizing the app based on user feedback

• Propel the business forward, shaping the company’s plans

• Work with our experienced CTO, Per Friis, who is a senior iOS developer

Qualifications

You have at least 3 years of experience in iOS development:

• Building Native iOS app in Swift

• Using UIKit

• CoreLocation

Clear advantage having experience with:

• Accessibility within app development

• SwiftUI

• CoreBluetooth

• Vapor, server side swift

• Docker

• Network communication

• Combine framework

Nice-to-have skills:

• Swift package manager

• Android native, Kotlin

You are keen to take ownership as a co-founder.

Technology Stack

We are running on leading-edge, using server-side swift, vapor, on the backend. Servers are packed into Docker containers, for hosting, connected to a relational database. We also have a back-end UI interface, running as a native macOS App, using SwiftUI. For the user app, we are on native Swift app on iOS, with some SwiftUI. We are using GIT with git-flow, for branch management.

Where is NaviBlind today?

NaviBlind is set to soon launch their Minimum Viable Product (MVP). The MVP has been tested with over 30 blind and visually impaired people. We have raised over EUR 200,000 and the founders own 100% of the company. We are backed by the European Space Agency BIC and EU’s Innovation Council, among several other notable investors.

What do we offer?

• Be part of a start-up with a validated, disruptive product that is very close to market

• Salary and equity: We would like to “date” and see how we work together before committing to a partnership. Ideally, you will be working half time for a salary for at least the first 3 months, whereafter you will start working for equity. We are open to discuss other possibilities

• Access to the latest technology in pedestrian navigation

• Plenty of opportunity for growth as you will work with our experienced CTO Per Friis

Our Story

Today, blind and visually impaired people can only walk to 3-5 places on their own. Learning how to go to new places requires many hours of one-to-one training. NaviBlind has set out to change this. Using the latest technologies, we have found that it is possible to help blind people navigate to as many places as they like, even in busy urban environments. With you onboard, we would be poised to scale the business and deliver the robust navigation service that blind and visually impaired people have been waiting for.