Mr D - iOS Software Engineer at takealot.com

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 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:

• Strong programming fundamentals.
• 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.
• Any Android experience.

Qualifications & Experience: 

• Information Technology or Computer Science Degree or equivalent of 3 years relevant experience. 
• Minimum 2-3 years of experience