Mobile Architect

Are you a seasoned Mobile Innovator whos designed and built innovative mobile applications from scratch defined cuttingedge tech stacks and led engineering teams through successful deployments  

Our iKTribe is looking for a visionary leader ready to showcase their architectural brilliance and elevate our mobile engineering to new heights. 

So what will you do 

• As a Mobile Architect within the iKhokha product team you will play a pivotal role in designing and architecting core functionality and features for both our Android and iOS iKhokha applications.  
• You will work closely with fellow Technical Architects and Product Owners to design solutions in line with business strategic objectives. 
• You will be part of an architecture board where you will give input on best practices assess current technologies used and participate in the proposal/sharing of new technologies that will be of benefit to the company.  
• You will be responsible for driving the technical strategy within your teams and to make sure that software deliverables align with companywide architectural standards.  
• You will be responsible for estimating the technical feasibility of highlevel backlog items and projects to present to senior management. In addition you will offer mentoring to engineers. 

In addition to the above you will: 

• Define components and modules as needed by following best architecture principles including interfaces and interactions with internal as well as external systems. 
• Design and contribute highly cohesive and loosely coupled microservices to our existing architecture. 
• Research and vet 3rd party tools and services. 
• Database modelling and review. 
• API design and review. 
• Design systems with security in mind from the start (OWASP secure communication protocols network architecture). 
• Stay up to date with the latest threats and vulnerabilities in the industry. 
• Advise on weakpoints and areas of improvement within iKhokhas architecture as well as provide solutions. 
• Ensure that architecture complies with regulatory requirements (PCI POPIA GDPR). 
• Frontload design and produce adequate technical documentation for development teams.  
• Review documentation from peers. 
• Give input on architecture standards and practices introducing new technologies tools and practices. 
• Give input in scoping and feasibility exercises. 
• Make technical dependencies visible to stakeholders.  
• Present technical knowledge and material to product team (TED Talk etc). 
• Mentor and guide engineers. 
• Assist in creating technical roadmap. 
• Help set standards around tools and technologies / technical radar. 

Qualifications :

• A degree or Diploma in Computer Science Information Technology or Systems Engineering. 

Deal Breakers: 

• At least 5 years of experience in a technical lead/architect role within a native mobile development space. 
• At least 8 years of Software Engineering experience building native mobile apps (Android Java Kotlin Swift etc) as well as a high proficiency in programming languages such as Kotlin and Swift. 
• Experience building native applications from the ground up following best practices and principles as well as a strong understanding of mobile architectural patterns (MVC MVVM MVP) and familiarity with different integration patterns and protocols (REST Web Sockets GraphQL etc). 
• Proven track record of improving mobile app performance including app launch time memory management battery efficiency and network optimization. 
• Demonstrated experience implementing mobile app security best practices including secure authentication data encryption and compliance with regulations (e.g. PCI POPIA). 
• Handson experience with DevOps practices for mobile including release automation phased rollouts feature flag management and rollback strategies. 

In addition to the above the experience in the following technologies domains and best practices will make you a frontrunner for the role: 

• Experience working with POS / card acceptance systems will advantageous. 
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate technical concepts to different audiences with varying degrees of technical ability. 
• Comfortable documenting and diagramming designs according to UML standards (Context Sequence BPMn etc). 
• Strong analytical and problemsolving skills.  
• Pragmatism. 

Additional Information :

Perks of joining the Tribe

• Work in a highgrowth company with tangible results youre accountable for. 
• Enjoy hybridremote and in officeworkmodels. 
• Competitive remuneration and benefits including Medical Aid and Group Risk scheme contributions. 
• Be guided by visionary leadership. 
• Seize the opportunity for study leave. 
• Access to ondemand learning and development. 
• Experience a friendly collaborative culture with a team of allroundlekker humans(its true we surveyed our Employees and they told us so). 
• If you find yourselfat HQ coffee on tap and a selection of hot beveragesprovided by our very own onsite Barista.

Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Fulltime