Mr D - Senior iOS Software Engineer at Takealot Group

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

21 Jan, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

23 Oct, 25

Experience

2 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

iOS Development, Swift, Objective C, RESTful APIs, SwiftUI, Asynchronous Processing, User Experience Design, GIT, Agile Development, Collaboration, Testing, Mobile Applications, Application Performance, E-commerce, Code Review, Problem Solving

Industry

Software Development

Description

Mr D , a division of takealot.com, is looking for highly talented Senior Software Engineer (iOS) 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 you’ve 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: takealot.com, Superbalist.com and Mr D. We like to promote from within: Here’s your chance. Who’s who in the tech space This position reports to an Engineering Team Lead Your mission, should you choose to accept it: Take ownership, build and maintain our bleeding edge mobile e-commerce iOS application. Migrate the existing Objective C app to Swift Design, develop and test code written in Objective C/Swift. Apply best practice and ensure stability and security of the applications. Monitor and profile application performance. Take part in daily standup, 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 architecting, developing, testing and maintaining iOS mobile applications. Experience with network requests to RESTful APIs (JSON) using best practice. 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 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 Let’s 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 aren’t 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 aren’t kidding when we say the people with the best people win. Now’s 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? Up-skill 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, you’ll 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

Responsibilities

Take ownership of building and maintaining the iOS mobile e-commerce application. Migrate the existing Objective C app to Swift and ensure application stability and security.