Senior iOS Software Engineer

Takealot Group; Cape Town; Hybrid; ZAR 60 000 - 80 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading e-commerce company is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (iOS) to join their dynamic team in Cape Town. This role involves taking ownership of the mobile e-commerce app, migrating from Objective C to Swift, and ensuring application stability and performance. Candidates should have 3-5 years of experience in iOS development, familiarity with RESTful APIs, and a passion for collaboration and innovation. Enjoy a hybrid working model and numerous employee benefits including a mentorship program and ongoing professional development.

Benefits

Market-related compensation

Mentorship programme

Hybrid working model

Birthday leave

Free access to learning courses

Qualifications

• Minimum 3-5 years of experience in iOS application development.
• Experience with network requests using best practices.
• Full understanding of iOS life-cycles.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of mobile e-commerce iOS application.
• Migrate existing Objective C app to Swift.
• Design, develop and test code in Objective C/Swift.

Skills

iOS application development

RESTful APIs

SwiftUI implementation

GIT version control

Agile team environment

Education

Information Technology or Computer Science Degree

Tools

Figma

Firebase

Google Maps

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!

What we offer

• 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.

Your mission

• 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

The skills we need

• 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

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? 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.
• 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).

Equal Opportunity

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

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