Software Engineer (Android) at takealot.com

The position reports to the Mobile Engineering Team Lead.

Your responsibilities will include the following:

• Help design, develop and refine new features
• Locate and resolve bugs and crashes
• Brainstorm new ideas and concepts
• Work with teammates on design, code reviews, and estimation

Attributes required: 

• Be accountable
• Creative
• Solution oriented
• Flexible
• Take pride in your work

Qualifications and experience:

• A computer science degree (or equivalent work experience).
• At least 3 years of professional experience in native Android written in Java with preference in Kotlin.
• Strong Computer Science and programming fundamentals.
• Full understanding of the Android application and activity lifecycles.
• Experience with Fragments.
• Appreciation of Android-specific asynchronous processing techniques.
• Knowledge of strategies to handle issues related to platform fragmentation, differing screen sizes and multiple OS versions.
• Experience working with unit test frameworks (JUnit, Mockito, etc.).
• Experience with network requests to RESTful APIs using best practice and well known libraries (Retrofit, glide).
• Knowledge and Appreciation of Android user experience design patterns.
• Experience developing eCommerce apps for retail.
• Experience working with software development tools including Git, Jira and Confluence.
• Experience with writing UI Automation scripts using Robot Framework.
• Any iOS native development experience.

The Environment:

• takealot.com employees are entrepreneurial and dynamic, smart, customer-centric, fun and have the shared ambition of takealot.com being the leading e-commerce company in Africa.
• We have fun, work hard, take ownership, work in teams to create solutions, and are always open to direct feedback/new ideas on where we can improve.
• We are short on ego and high on output.
• We are doers and not only thinkers, it’s all in the execution after all.
• We love what we do and what we are creating.

We seek to Employ an Extra Ordinary Mind who

• is forthright but respectful
• is an expert at doing, who can not only design but also execute
• is analytical, able to use data to make decisions
• is competitive, self-directed and strive to be the BEST (GREAT requires a lot of work and does not only happen during business hours
• is passionate about the potential of e-commerce and delivering a world-class customer experience
• is entrepreneurial, thrives under change and accepts it is a constant and always looks for solutions to do something better and faster
• is able to think about problems from a business perspective using technical and product input
• is curious and challenge the status quo
• is innovative and enjoys iteration
• is collaborative
• will be at the cutting edge of developing new concepts for takealot.com.
• thinks like an owner of the business.
• is SMART, has INTEGRITY and is HARDWORKING
• If you meet the above you are an Extraordinary Mind so come and join us!