Bluegrass Digital is a leading provider of creative technological solutions and digital production services for mobile, web and social platforms. With our head office in London and hubs in Cape Town and Johannesburg, our highly-skilled team offers a diverse pool of knowledge and expertise, bringing together creativity and innovative technology that delivers ...
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We're seeking a dynamic and creative Senior Mobile Technical Lead with 9+ years native mobile iOS (Swift), Android (Java, Kotlin) and Enterprise level React Native experience. The role is a long term contract, based at a blue chip Client, and will l suit someone capable of taking ownership and leading on multiple projects to help drive cgrowth and hange within the business. If you're passionate about cutting-edge technologies and excited by an opportunity for blue-sky growth and POC's, this is the perfect opportunity for you. Note, that this is a hybrid role, with 2-3 days onsite a week, based in Randburg, Johannesburg.
SKILLS REQUIRED
Minimum of 9+ years of continuous experience
Expert understanding of the JavaScript core language.
Experience architecting native mobile applications for both iOS (Swift) and Android (Java, Kotlin)
Architecting mobile applications using React Native, Expo, Redux, Detox for unit tests etc
Architecting headless web solutions using ReactJS and NextJS
Experience with more than one JS framework/library preferred (React, Vue.js, NextJS)
Experience with JavaScript tooling and build systems (Webpack, Gulp, NPM, Babel, Yarn etc.)
Experience working with RESTful APIs
Experience working with Figma
Experience setting up DevOps pipelines and managing E2E deployments
Able to question the status quo and proactively develop improvements in the technical skill set as well as identifying technical and core skills training requirements.
High level of attention to detail
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Evaluating requirements and producing, updating, and communicating accurate estimates of development projects.
Manage Azure infrastructure and DevOps responsibilities, ensuring that clients Azure applications are maintained and perform at optimal levels of availability
Ensure team adherence to programming standards across projects.
Perform code audits, peer code reviews, and support team members on their projects.
Interact with business users, business analysts and other developers to understand new requirements
Write technical specifications and develop new functionality to company standards and deadlines
Participate and lead in design and planning sessions
Implement and ensure development best practices, and programming standards are adhered to across all projects
Continuously improve development processes and libraries for maintainability, scalability and efficiency
Continuously look for ways to automate processes and implement automated solutions to be more efficient
Manage client expectations around technological limitations and challenges
Strengthen architectural and system design skills for end-to-end project management.
Enhance deadline management and project communication to avoid unnecessary frustration and overtime.
Encourage developer responsibility and ownership throughout projects, guiding the internal team to take charge and supporting project managers when necessary
KEY BEHAVIOURS
You set a high bar for yourself and the team’s engineering skills
You possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills (oral and written)
You provide technical leadership and proactively mentor more junior engineers
You develop high quality maintainable code to meet complex changing environment
You enjoy fixing and improving technical debt across legacy code
You seriously test your changes before hitting the main branch
You support your code in production
You continuously deliver improvements to the code base
You have solid analytical and problem solving skills and strong attention to detail
You learn quickly and like to stay current with new technologies
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