OMF Lead Software Engineer (IOS) at Old Mutual

Job Description

If you're looking for a company that offers great culture, leadership, learning opportunities, challenges, rewards and recognition, then look no further than Old Mutual.Who are We?

Old Mutual is a premium African financial services organisation that offers a broad spectrum of financial solutions to retail and corporate customers across key market segments in 17 countries. The lines of business include Life and Savings, Property and Casualty, Asset Management and Banking and Lending.

Old Mutual Finance was established in 2008 to provide unsecured lending products and services to the SA market. The business started with a staff compliment of 34 and has since grown to over 3000 staff with more than 300 branches nationally. Within our branches we offer insurance, transactional banking and lending products as well as servicing.

Why Join Old Mutual?

Enabling our people to be their exceptional best is at the core of what we do. We are rooted in our purpose of Championing Mutually Positive Futures Every Day and believe that a great customer experience is anchored in a great employee experience.

We will provide you with a holistic experience to realize and unleash your potential.

What we Offer:

In partnership with you, we promise to challenge and help you grow in your career through a personalized development plan. We strive to create and expose our people to diverse learning opportunities through formal and informal learning. Most importantly you work in diverse teams made up of enthusiastic people who strive for excellence.

The Opportunity:

We are looking for a Senior IOS Developer who will be responsible for developing applications for mobile devices powered by Apple’s iOS operating system. Ideally, someone who is proficient with one of the two programming languages for this platform: Objective-C or Swift. They must also have a strong understanding of the patterns and practices that revolve around the iOS platform.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain banking application for iOS
• Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of the application
• Collaborate with a team to define, design, and ship new features
• Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization
• Work within an Agile environment
• Writing and implementing efficient code
• Working closely with other developers, business and systems analysts and QA testers
• Publishing application on App Store.

Requirements And Skills

• Proven experience as an app developer
• Proficient in Objective-C and swift
• Extensive experience with iOS Frameworks
• Knowledge of iOS back-end services
• Knowledge of Apple’s design principles and application interface guidelines
• Proficient in code versioning tools like Git
• Familiarity with push notifications, APIs, and cloud messaging
• Experience with continuous integration and tools like Jenkins

A Matric or Grade 12 equivalent, relevant Tertiary Qualification as well as a minimum of 8 years’ experience in Software Design and Programming.

You will also need to have experience in working with the following technologies in an Agile environment:

• Swift
• Objective C
• Xcode
• Agile
• Git
• Cocoapods/Carthage
• Restful webservices
• Patterns

Skills

Education

Bachelors Degree (B): Information Technology (Required), High School (Grade 12) (Required)