iOS Software Engineer
Cape Town - South Africa
Job Summary
Mr D a division of the Takealot Group is looking for a highly talented Intermediate and Senior iOS Engineer to join our team in Cape Town.
We are a young dynamic hyper-growth company looking for smart creative hard-working people with integrity to join us!
Think youve been challenged before Think again!
- Scale: Show the millions of Mr D customers what you can do
- Learn: We work with the best of the best and then some. Code alongside industry leaders and upskill in record time.
- Grow: Expand your career in the fast-growing Takealot Group: Mr D & TFS. We like to promote from within: Heres your chance.
Whos who in the tech space
This position reports to an Engineering Manager
Your mission should you choose to accept it:
- Take ownership build and maintain our bleeding-edge mobile e-commerce iOS application.
- Modernise legacy codebase and drive platform evolution
- Design develop and test code written in Swift
- Apply best practices and ensure the stability and security of the applications.
- Monitor and profile application performance.
- Take part in daily standups with the ability to manage time and workload effectively.
- Collaborate with creative content and engineering teams to design and develop a world-class iOS mobile application.
- Publish applications to the Apple App Store
The skills we need:
- Strong programming fundamentals.
- Experience in architecting developing testing and maintaining iOS mobile applications.
- Demonstrated best practices in the implementation of SwiftUI
- Experience with network requests to RESTful APIs (JSON) using best practices.
- Full understanding of the iOS application view-controller and tableview life-cycles.
- Demonstrated best practices in the implementation of SwiftUI.
- Appreciation of iOS-specific asynchronous processing techniques.
- Knowledge and Appreciation of iOS user experience design patterns.
- Experience using GIT version control.
- Experience developing in an Agile team environment
- Experience using CI/CD (CircleCI
- Experience using Fastlane
- Experience using Cocoapods
- Be accountable engaging and inventive.
- Work alongside a QA engineer regarding testing and product finalisation.
Nice to have:
- Experience with Figma and Miro.
- Experience with Google Maps Firebase & Braze.
- Any Android experience.
Qualifications & Experience:
- Information Technology or Computer Science Degree or equivalent of 5 years relevant experience.
- Minimum 3-5 years of experience for an Intermediate Software Engineer
- Minimum 5-8 years of experience for a Senior Software Engineer
Lets talk about life @ Mr D
- The power is in your hands: We offer a market-related Total Remuneration Package which allows full flexibility according to your needs. Go on be the master of your own destiny.
- No doors: We arent fans of stuffy offices or siloed work environments. See someone you like High five collab and make something great.
- Remote working: Love water cooler chats and working from home We offer a hybrid working model for the best of both worlds.
- Mentorship programme: We arent kidding when we say the people with the best people win. Nows your chance to be one of the best by learning from the best.
- Naspers Tech Community & Online Learning: Share ideas and grow with global industry leaders who are all just a Slack message away. Love to learn Upskill with free access to courses on MyAcademy Udacity Coursera and more.
- Good times: Get to know the other extraordinary minds in the takealot group during regular social events and out-of-office activities (think hikes think mini golf think good times).
- Birthday leave: Cake Day all the way. Enjoy your day off - you deserve it.
- TakealotMORE Benefit
- Right tools right job: Mac or Windows two monitors or one. Whatever your preference youll work on the latest tech off the latest tech.
- Help when you need it most: Confidential counselling legal support and financial guidance for free anytime anywhere.
- Tech stack (for days): Angular Python Kotlin Swift AWS Kafka Redis Docker Kubernetes IoT and all things machine learning. If you build it they will come.
- Free parking: No more 5km fun runs to your desk (unless you want to).
Like what you see
If you meet the above you are an Extraordinary Mind. Apply today!!
Mr D is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference
Required Experience:
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About Company
South Africa's leading online store. Fast, reliable delivery to your door. Many ways to pay. Shop anything you can imagine: TVs, laptops, cellphones, kitchen appliances, toys, books, beauty & more. Shop the mobile app anytime, anywhere.