Mr D, a division of the Takealot Group, 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 and Mr D. 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.
- Migrate the existing Objective-C app to Swift
- Design, develop, and test code written in Objective C/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.
- Experience with network requests to RESTful APIs (JSON) using best practices.
- 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.
- Any Android experience.
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? 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).
Like what you see?
If you meet the above you are an Extraordinary Mind. Apply today!!
Mr D is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference
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What We Do
Takealot.com is the leading eCommerce retailer in South Africa and one of the largest, most innovative eCommerce retailers on the African continent. Our mission is to be the most customer-centric online shopping destination in Africa, built around the simple concept that our customer comes first. Need help or have a question? Reach out to us via our Help Center for assistance https://www.takealot.com/help-centre Our focus is dedicated to improving the customer experience, from the moment they arrive on our website to the moment they receive their order. By aligning ourselves to this philosophy, we believe Takealot will be the #1 shopping destination across Africa.
