Mr D - Senior iOS Software Engineer

Overview

Mr D, a division of , 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: ,  and Mr
  
  D. We like to promote from within:
  Here’s your chance.

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

• 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 Swift
  
  UI.
• 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.

• Experience with Figma and Miro.
• Experience with Google Maps, Firebase & Braze.
• Any Android experience.

• Information Technology or Computer Science Degree or equivalent of 5 years relevant experience.
• Minimum 3-5 years of experience

• 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 chatsandworking 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