Lead Telematics Mobile Engineer at Discovery Limited

About Telematics Team

The telematics team within Discovery Insure is responsible for managing and innovating on our core telematics technology which currently spans some M2M hard wired devices and our flagship smartphone based telematics offering. The team consists of technical members based in SA and has strong ties with its technology partner Cambridge Mobile Telematics, based in Boston, MA, a startup that has evolved and grown together with the Discovery Insure Telematics team.
We are based in 1 Discovery Place, Sandton. The greenest building in the Southern Hemisphere. This is also Discovery Limited’s global headquarters, with 8 coffee shops, 1 restaurant, 2 cafeteria’s, 1 gym and 600m of running track on the roof.
The building encourages an open work environment, and our team embraces some hot desking, but is up to personal preference. We also have a telematics engineering lab that is closed to the rest of the company.

Key Purpose

The telematics team is growing to permanently support in house development of our iOS and Android telematics-driving app. To this effect, we are looking for a dynamic, innovative, driven lead Mobile Engineer to lead our efforts in building out our expertise.
Ideally, this candidate will be comfortable with working in either iOS native or Android native. Has some management experience (reviewing pull requests, manage workloads, backlog grooming). Is looking to be a lead engineer on a dynamic team as we expand our product offering.
The mobile lead engineer will have extensive working relationships with our telematics technology partner Cambridge Mobile Telematics and our various third party app development companies.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

• Lead our mobile development efforts and define our roadmap over time
• Maintain our continuous integration pipeline
• Manage two developers (one iOS and one Android)
• Own our code base for long term maintainability and stability
• Code review
• Pull requests
• Deployments
• Innovate new features for the product
• Manage pipeline of requests for changes
• Comfortable with coordinating international team tasks

 

Competencies

• Values Driven
• Optimistic
• Learns on the Fly
• Resilient
• Instils Trust
• People Savvy
• Drives Results
• Problem Solver

 

Education & Experience

• Degree in Engineering or Computer Science
• 1-3 year’s related experience
• Experience with Telematics systems is advantageous

 

Knowledge

• CI: Bitrise
• iOS: Objective C and Swift
• Android: native
• Rest api’s to serve content