Mr D - Senior iOS Software Engineer

takealot.com; Cape Town; Hybrid; ZAR 600 000 - 800 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading e-commerce platform in Cape Town seeks a Senior Software Engineer (iOS) to enhance its mobile application. The ideal candidate should have 3-5 years of experience in iOS development and be proficient in Swift and Objective-C. This role offers flexibility with a hybrid working model and ample opportunities for growth and mentorship.

Benefits

Market-related salary

Hybrid working model

Mentorship programme

Birthday leave

Free parking

Qualifications

• Experience architecting and developing iOS mobile applications.
• Full understanding of iOS application life-cycles.
• Demonstrated best practices in implementing SwiftUI.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of the mobile e-commerce iOS application.
• Migrate existing Objective C app to Swift.
• Collaborate with teams to design a world-class iOS application.

Skills

iOS mobile application development

RESTful APIs

Swift

Objective-C

Git version control

Agile team environment

Education

Information Technology or Computer Science Degree

Tools

Figma

Miro

Google Maps

Firebase

Braze

Job description

Overview

Mr D, a division of takealot.com, is looking for a 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: takealot.com, Superbalist.com and Mr D. We like to promote from within: Here’s your chance.

Team and Mission

This position reports to an Engineering Team Lead.

Responsibilities

• 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 practices and ensure 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.

Required Skills & Experience

• 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 SwiftUI.
• 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.

Nice to Have

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

Qualifications & Experience

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

Life at Mr D

• The power is in your hands: We offer a market-related, total remuneration package which allows full flexibility according to your needs. 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 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. Access courses on MyAcademy, Udacity, Coursera and more.
• Good times: Get to know other extraordinary minds in the takealot group during regular social events.
• Birthday leave: Cake Day all the way. Enjoy your day off.
• Right tools, right job: Mac or Windows, two monitors or one. You’ll work on 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.
• Free parking: No more 5km fun runs to your desk.

EEO

Mr D is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference.

Next steps

Thanks for your interest in joining Mr D. If you meet the above, apply today.