OM Bank - Lead Flutter Front-End Engineer at Old Mutual South Africa

Job Description

• In the role of a Lead Flutter Frontend Engineer, you will manage individual mobile project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables and will be responsible for designing, developing, testing, deploying, maintaining, and enhancing mobile software solutions.
• You will be working in an Agile environment, partnering with cross-functional teams to define new mobile product requirements, features, and functionality.
• In this lead level capacity, you will be expected to both act autonomously for day-to-day activities and guide engineers in their day-to-day activities.

KEY RESULT AREAS

• Design and develop mobile solutions for software fixes and new features using test-driven development.
• Analyze user stories, provide realistic estimations, and participate in sprint planning, scrums, demos, and retrospectives.
• Create detailed mobile development documentation and assign tasks to team members.
• Create pull requests and perform code reviews for peers and related teams.
• Track and manage key performance indicators (KPIs) to ensure that mobile software and services are performing well.
• Write unit and UI tests for mobile code.
• Build well-designed, well-engineered, stable, performant mobile applications using Flutter, Swift, Kotlin, and/or Java.
• Mentor and guide other team members to provide oversight and direction.
• Recommend improvements to mobile architectures, processes, technologies, and coding practices that improve the effectiveness of the team.
• Strong ability to maintain focus and problem solve in a dynamic, fast-paced environment working with cross-functional teams.
• Understand the company's architectural vision and how it helps meet technical and business objectives.

ROLE REQUIREMENTS

• Matric
• Degree in Computer Science/ Engineering/Mathematics or related (advantageous) 
• AWS components such as Lambda, SQS , Dynamo DB
• AWS API Gateway
• Knowledge of Rest API integrations
• Openapi, swagger
• GitHub actions for CI CD
• 3-5 years of experience in mobile application development

Knowledge of, and experience in mobile frameworks and technologies such as:

• Flutter
• Experience with clean architecture and bloc
• Experience creating code bridges/channels between native and flutter
• Collaboration tools e.g., Confluence, Jira, Microsoft Teams, Slack
• Mobile and API Testing Frameworks
• Architecture and Design: Event Driven
• Architecture / API First / Domain driven design
• Familiarity with architecture styles such as Serverless architectures

Skills

• Action Planning, Action Planning, Adaptive Thinking, Agile Project Management, Budget Management, Change Management, Current State Assessment, Data Compilation, Evaluating Information, Executing Plans, Futures Thinking, Gap Analysis, IT Implementation, Learning and Development (L&D), Managing Stakeholder Expectations, Oral Communications, Policies & Procedures, Project Life Cycle Management, Project Performance Management (PM), Project Quality Assurance, Project Reporting, Project Risk Management, Project Schedule Management, Project Scope Management, Project Strategy {+ 1 more}

Competencies

• Business Insight
• Collaborates
• Communicates Effectively
• Courage
• Cultivates Innovation
• Customer Focus
• Decision Quality
• Develops Talent

Closing Date

• 14 April 2026