Senior Engineer Mobile Apps

at  MultiChoice Group

Designation:
Senior Engineer Mobile Apps
Category:
Group Technology
Level:
Closing date:
12 Jun 2024
Position Type:
Permanent
Location:
MultiChoice City

JOB DESCRIPTION:

The MultiChoice Group is a multinational media and entertainment group headquartered in South Africa, Dubai and the Netherlands with principal operations in pay television, video entertainment, advertising and content security. Brands within the Group include DStv, GOtv, SuperSport, M-Net, DStv Media Sales, Showmax and European-based content security leader Irdeto. We’re proud to say we serve 20 million subscribers across 52 African markets, with a successful history of identifying and adapting to industry trends, allowing us to continuously deliver the best in entertainment. Key areas of operations are:

• Storytelling ranging from content creation, production and aggregation including the best global general entertainment, sport and eminent African content library, delivered to customers
• Pay Television: direct-to-home satellite and digital terrestrial television services;
• SVOD: subscription video on demand services across multiple online platforms with a focus on library and local content in developing markets, and
• Advertising: providing dynamic media solutions; handling commercial airtime, on-air sponsorships, content integration, and online sales across a variety of 130+ channel brands on linear TV, VOD, social media, and digital platforms.

The group’s strength lies in its focus on local language and culture, its entrepreneurial spirit and the quality of its workforce. Multichoice Group has a successful history of identifying trends early, adapting them for the markets in which it operates and leveraging them to maximum advantage. The group generates revenues primarily through subscription model, with a growing contribution from advertising revenue. Its key objectives are to:

• Expand Pay TV, SVOD subscriber base and Advertising sales
• Focus on investment and technology
• Maintain a local approach
• Provide quality service
• Attract innovative and motivated employees

Join Africa’s most loved storyteller!

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Degree in IT/Computer Science or related field.
• Relevant Mobile Application development certification
• Post Graduate qualification in IT/Computer Science advantageous

EXPERIENCE ESSENTIAL:

• Solid understanding and experience in integrating RESTful APIs
• Strong knowledge of MVC / MVVM architecture, Design Patterns, OOP, and SOLID principles
• Strong grasp of software architecture in terms of reliability, performance, security, scalability, and cost-efficiency.
• Working knowledge of security best practices (e.g., OWASP)
• Experience in data stores development (e.g., CosmosDB, MS SQL etc.) 6+ years’ experience with Mobile Applications development
• 2+ years’ Cloud development experience including but not limited to:
• Azure Logic Apps
• Azure Service Bus
• Azure Web/API Apps

• Play a lead role in the development, maintenance and support of technical solutions for Digital Enablement’s suite of USSD, WhatsApp and Mobile Applications
• This is a role for those who can think and act independently in a start-up like environment. It’s for the developer/engineer that wants to be a craftsman, rather than just code a generator. It’s about being passionate about code you’ve written. It’s about building big things, looking to the future and striving for solutions that become game changers in the media space. Blue sky vision and green field’s projects are more the norm then exception for this role.