Android Mobile Development Lead R80K - R100K P / M

Zeal Hr; Pretoria; Hybrid; ZAR 300 000 - 400 000; Full time

Job summary

A digital health company is seeking an Android Mobile Development Lead to manage a team and drive innovative solutions in hearing health. This role involves team management, application development, and project planning, focusing on creating scalable Android software. The ideal candidate will have over 7 years of experience, including team management, along with essential skills in reactive programming and modular code design principles. The competitive package offered is R90,000 per month.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience, including 2+ years managing a team.
• Hands-on Android developer with project development experience.
• Experience with team culture, coaching, and development.

Responsibilities

• Manage team and sprints, ensuring team health and culture.
• Develop and maintain hearing health platforms on Android.
• Motivate employees and create win-win agreements.

Skills

Development of mobile software for a hardware product

Reactive programming

Modular code design principles

Restful API integration

GIT

MySQL

Agile knowledge and experience

Knowledge of Atlassian Suite (Jira and Confluence)

Knowledge of development pipelines

Education

BSc in Computer Science / Engineering

Honors / MSc in Computer Science / Engineering

Job description

Android Mobile Development Lead

Android Mobile Development Lead: An exciting opportunity has become available within the medical research industry, for an Android Mobile Development Lead. Our client is an impact-driven digital health company passionate about affordable access to healthy hearing for everyone, everywhere. This is an opportunity to be part of making a change and impacting human lives. The position is based in Pretoria. Direct Reports: Remote Working: 2 days work-from-home in line with Company Policy (only applicable after probation is successfully passed).

Duties & Responsibilities

• Manages the team and the sprints, being responsible for communication, team health and culture.
• Has authority over process, structure, scheduling, task assignment, and documentation.
• Develops and maintains innovative hearing health platforms on the native Android platform (with a basic knowledge of iOS to manage the team), ensuring code is generated that is in accordance with specifications, neat, accurate, and scalable.
• Responsible for motivating employees and bringing about win‑win agreements within the team.
• Efficiently structures sprints and teams to partner together, allowing for tasks to be completed faster and ultimately speeding up time to market.
• Team Management – 25%
• Application Planning and Development – 35%
• Project Planning and Capacity Management – 20%
• Team Work – 10%
• Quality Management and Compliance – 10%

Desired Experience & Qualification

• BSc in Computer Science / Engineering or other applicable technical discipline.
• Minimum education (desirable): Honors / MSc in computer science / engineering or other applicable technical discipline.
• Minimum applicable experience: 7+ years working experience, including 2+ years of managing a team.
• Hands‑on Android software developer having been responsible for the development and maintenance of one or more projects.
• Line management of iOS and Android developers.
• Team culture, coaching and development.
• Project management.
• Documentation.
• Use of sound engineering practices to build a solid product while iterating quickly.

Skills and Knowledge (essential)

• Development of mobile software for a hardware product.
• Reactive programming.
• Modular code design principles, familiarity with different software architectures: MVP, MVVM, Clean Architecture.
• Restful API integration.
• GIT.
• MySQL.
• Agile knowledge and experience.
• Knowledge of Atlassian Suite (Jira and Confluence).
• Knowledge of development pipelines.

Other

• Experience with ISO, CE or FDA compliance for software would be advantageous.
• Medical device software development experience would be advantageous.
• Experience with BLE would be advantageous.
• Experience with AWS would be advantageous.

Package & Remuneration

R90,000 per month.