iOS Software Engineer at takealot.com

Your mission, should you choose to accept it:

You will:

• Help design, develop and refine new features
• Locate and resolve bugs and crashes
• Brainstorm new ideas and concepts
• Work with teammates on design, code reviews, and estimation

We expect you to:

• Be accountable
• Creative
• Solution-based
• Flexible
• And take pride in your work

The skills we need:

• Solutions-oriented, can-do attitude, and high energy
• Strong analytical and critical thinking, using data to inform decisions
• Ability to dis-aggregate and structure solutions to ambiguous problems
• Solid quantitative skills
• Ability to interview and interact professionally, with internal and external people
• Capability to present ideas succinctly, in writing and verbally
• Versatile and with the appetite to learn by doing

Qualifications & Experience:

• 3 year computer science degree preferred (or equivalent experience)
• At least 2 years of professional experience in native iOS
• Strong Computer Science and programming fundamentals
• Experience developing applications with iOS SDK using Swift, for both iPad and iPhone
• Full understanding of the iOS application, ViewController, TableView and CollectionView life-cycles.
• Appreciation of iOS-specific asynchronous processing techniques.
• Experience with using Storyboards, Interface Builder, auto and adaptive layout for universal apps with differing screen sizes.

Desirable Skills

• Objective C development experience
• Experience working with unit test frameworks
• Experience with network requests to RESTful APIs using best practice and well known libraries (Alamofire etc)
• Knowledge and Appreciation of iOS user experience design patterns.
• Experience developing eCommerce apps for retail
• Experience working with software development tools including Git, Jira and Confluence.
• Experience with writing UI Automation scripts using Robot Framework
• Any experience with Android