iOS Software Engineer

takealot.com; Cape Town; Hybrid; ZAR 700,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model

Mentorship programme

Online learning access

Birthday leave

TakealotMORE Benefit

Free parking

Job summary

Takealot Group, including Mr D, seeks an experienced iOS Engineer in Cape Town to own and evolve our bleeding-edge mobile e-commerce iOS application. You will design, develop, and test Swift code, modernise legacy components, and ensure performance, security, and reliability.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, publish to the App Store, and participate in daily standups in a hybrid work environment. Strong Swift, SwiftUI, and RESTful API experience are essential.

Qualifications

• Degree in Information Technology or Computer Science or equivalent with 5 years relevant experience.
• 3–5 years of experience for an Intermediate Software Engineer.
• 5–8+ years for Senior Software Engineer with tech lead experience.
• Solid experience with SwiftUI.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership, build, and maintain the iOS application.
• Modernise legacy codebase and drive platform evolution.
• Design, develop, and test code written in Swift.

Skills

Swift

SwiftUI

RESTful APIs

Git

Agile

Education

BSc in CS/IT or equivalent

Tools

Cocoapods

Swift Package Manager

CircleCI

Fastlane

GitHub Actions

Firebase

Braze

Google Maps

Job description

Mr D, a division of the Takealot Group, is looking for a highly talented 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 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, Mr D & TFS. We like to promote from within: Here’s your chance.

Who’s 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.
• 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
• Experience using Swift Package Manager
• Github Actions
• 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.
• Experience using AI to generate and/or validate code

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 coupled with tech lead experience
• Solid experience with SwiftUI

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? 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, 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).

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