Mobile Development Lead: Android

Boardroom Appointments; Pretoria; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Boardroom Appointments seeks a Mobile Development Lead: Android to steer a skilled Android team in delivering robust products. You will drive technical direction, oversee sprint planning, and ensure code quality across Android projects, while collaborating with stakeholders to align on timelines and quality.

The role requires 7+ years experience including 2+ years in leadership, a strong Android background, and familiarity with Firebase and modern architectures.

Qualifications

• BSc in Computer Science / Engineering or other applicable technical discipline.
• Honors / MSc in computer science / engineering or other applicable technical discipline.
• 7+ years working experience with 2+ years in managing a team.
• Hands on Android software developer responsible for development and maintenance of one or more projects.

Responsibilities

• Manages the team and the sprints, responsible for communication, team health and culture.
• Has authority over process, structure, scheduling, task assignment, documentation.
• Develop and maintain our native Android platform, ensuring code is neat, accurate, well-architected and scalable.
• Motivate employees and foster win-win agreements within the team.
• Structure sprints and teams to speed up time to market.

Skills

Android development

Team management

Reactive programming

Modular architecture

RESTful API integration

GIT

Agile

Atlassian Jira/Confluence

Firebase

BLE (advantage)

Education

BSc in Computer Science / Engineering

Honors / MSc in computer science / engineering

Tools

Git

Firebase

Jira

Confluence

Job description

About the job Mobile Development Lead: Android

• BSc in Computer Science / Engineering or other applicable technical discipline
• 7+ years working experience 2+ years of managing a team
• Hands on Android software developer having been responsible for the development and maintenance of 1 or more projects
• Line management of Android developers (and iOS devs a plus)
• Team culture, coaching and development
• Project management
• Documentation
• Use sound engineering practices to build a solid product while iterating quickly.
• Experience with using Firebase
• Honors / MSc in computer science / engineering or other applicable technical discipline

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
• Git
• Agile knowledge and experience
• Knowledge of Atlassian Suite (Jira and Confluence) Knowledge of development pipelines
• 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 Firebase would be advantageous

Responsibilities:

• Manages the team and the sprints, being responsible for communication, team health and culture.
• Has authority over process, structure, scheduling, task assignment, documentation.
• Develop and maintain our innovative hearing health platforms on the native Android platform ,ensuring code is written in accordance with specifications, is neat, accurate, well architecte and scalable.
• Responsible for motivating employees and bringing about win-win agreements within the team.
• Efficiently structure sprints and teams to partner together, allowing for tasks to be comple faster; ultimately speeding up time to market.