Software Engineer: Junior IOS Developer at Old Mutual South Africa

The role of Software Engineer – Junior IOS Developer is responsible for the development of high-quality mobile solutions. This role requires participation in the development and maintenance activities of software and other digital applications or services. The incumbent will be expected to develop user-centered software and contribute to developing technical specifications. This role requires fundamentals in engineering practices, an analytical and data-driven approach to problem solving, while following DevOps, SRE and Cloud Based practices.

Responsibilities

• Follow Agile methodologies (SCRUM / Kanban)
• Work in a DevOps culture
• Work closely with multi-skilled and cross-functional teams e.g., architects, developers, UX designers, business
• Participates in team design, scoping and prioritization discussions
• Contributes to and develop technical specifications and software application architecture and designs
• Build cloud based functional mobile applications at an enterprise level
• Build Front-end and/or back-end solutions on the mobile digital channel/platform
• Writes secure, stable, testable, maintainable code with minimal defects.
• Assumes responsibility for the state of the code you both inherit and produce.
• Responsible for getting designs and code reviewed,
• Writes unit tests and tests code thoroughly
• Classifies, stores, and handles data in accordance with Old Mutual policies
• Clearly documents software to ensure that future generations of developers understand the intention behind the features and components built.
• Knowledgeable of and implements coding design patterns
• Review and refactor code according to coding standards
• Provide after-hours support of applications (you build it, you run it)
• Understands the maintenance characteristics, runtime properties, and dependencies of the team’s software, including hardware platform, operating system and build dependencies.
• In the event of a problem, troubleshoots, researches the root cause of problems, and thoroughly resolve defects.
• Continuously develop skills
• Seek to learn the business context and technologies behind teams' software.
• Work effectively with customers and/or internal partners to understand business impacts and identify any opportunities/problems arising from technical decisions
• Understand and contribute to the technical roadmap and vision of the Digital & Data team
• Seek to learn the business context and technologies behind the team’s software.
• Work effectively with customers and/or internal partners to understand business impacts and identify any opportunities/problems arising from technical decisions
• Research and share programming/technology-related advances to team(s)
• Build and test software prototypes

Experience & Qualifications Requirements

• Matric certificate with relevant tertiary qualification
• 2+ years of experience in Android mobile application development
• Knowledge of, and experience in mobile frameworks and technologies such as:
• Swift 5 on IOS for Native App Development
• Xcode/AppCode
• Kotlin (advantageous)
• Containerisation technologies e.g., Kubernetes, Docker
• CI/CD Tools e.g., Jenkins, AWS Code Commit
• AWS (preferred) or another cloud provider such as Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform
• IaC technologies e.g., Terraform/Cloudformation
• Collaboration tool e.g., Confluence, Jira, Microsoft Teams, Slack
• Familiarity with architecture styles such as Microservice and Serverless architectures
• Critical thinking, root cause identification skills and attention to detail
• Ability to learn new technologies quickly
• Good communications skills and a team player
• Comfortable with pair programming
• Possess commercial and business awareness
• Ability to understand, communicate and/or translate complex procedures to colleagues
• Takes ownership of problems (even when outside own domain), proposes solutions, and either takes ownership for their resolution or ensures a clear hand-off to the right owner

COMPETENCIES

• Customer focus
• Attention to detail and big picture
• Action Oriented
• Continuous Improvement
• Conflict management and resolution
• Multi-function team collaboration