Job Vacancies at FLASH Mobile Vending

Company:

• The Flash Group is a well-established Group with a global strategy, that prides itself on making people’s lives easier through frontier technology.

Culture:

At The Flash Group, and in the SwitchFox business unit of the Flash Group, we realise that “the way we do things around here” drives our business and enables us to achieve our purpose of “Making People’s Lives Easier”. Our 3 values are the drumbeat of our business:

• We are all in
• We have each other’s backs
• We are brave

The Flash Group is looking to hire a Product Manager who is passionate about building ecosystems and platform front ends that make customers happy!

In this role, you will be responsible for end to end management of all aspects of the products under your management and through all stages of the product life cycle.

This role requires strong fluency in user centred mobile app design and the ability to co-ordinate with various stakeholders whom influence the front end platforms at The Flash Group.

Minimum Requirements:

• Degree in BIS/ Multi-Media/ similar
• Previous experience in a Product Management / Similar role
• Previous experience following user centered design to build mobile apps with some UX design knowledge
• Sound understanding of retail and SME’s
• Previous experience in building mobile POS applications will be advantageous
• Strong stakeholder management experience
• Experience working in an Agile way of work

Role Specific requirements:

• Develop user experience strategy for all Flash channels, focusing on customer and seller ease of use
• Manage issues like navigation, page routing, product page design on each channel
• Develop mockups for our development and design team

Skills and Attributes:

• Logical and dependable
• Detail orientated
• Able to build and maintain relationships
• Proactive – capable of identifying, embracing and initiating change
• Able to work under pressure
• Outcome focused
• Ability to prioritize and complete tasks
• Persistent and accountable
• Able to meet deadlines
• Ability to look at situations from several points of view
• Persuasive with details and facts
• Strong negotiation skills
• Strong analytical skills
• Strong decision-making skills
• Ability to think out of the box – big picture / holistic thinker
• Strong problem-solving skills

Responsibilities:

• Help influence and maintain a frontend platform roadmap based on our architectural goals
• Work with the data and/or UX teams to research, prototype, test and validate ideas around our design system, tooling and frontend architecture
• Actively participate with product development teams to define product requirements, specifications and acceptance testing criteria. Review and provide final sign-off for all requirements.
• Interview and meet with our customers to better understand the market and market problems.
• Prioritize and validate trader needs and requests for product changes & enhancements.
• Track industry trends, product segment growth, market spend, and market share.
• Create and implement annual channel plans and roadmaps including new products/enhancements to expand service offering, drive revenue, and increase profitability.
• Continuously monitor the effectiveness of platform changes and recommend improvements
• Develop functional specifications for new ideas and channel enhancements
• Working closely with QA to compile and execute test cases and regression testing
• Enable, support and train sales, client services, and professional services staff on new channel functionality
• Engage closely with the development teams to help with making implementation decisions and develop schedules.
• Collaborate with various departments to ensure deployment, go-to-market and quality goals are defined, achieved and maintained.
• Communicate release status and status with key stakeholders.

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Company:

• The Flash Group is a well-established Group with a global strategy, that prides itself on making people’s lives easier through frontier technology.

Culture:

At The Flash Group, we realise that “the way we do things around here” drives our business and enables us to achieve our purpose of “Making People’s Lives Easier”. Our 3 values are the drumbeat of our business:

• We are all in
• We have each other’s backs
• We are brave

The Flash Group is looking to hire an iOS Developer to work as part of the software development team to build and maintain existing and new IOS apps for use within the company and by company clients

Minimum Requirements:

• Relevant IT Tertiary Qualification
• 5-8 years relevant experience in an environment that builds and maintains the full spectrum of IOS apps
• Experience with Agile methodologies including Scrum and Kanban
• Experience with RESTful JSON services required
• Experience with IOS design patterns for cleaning coding
• Experience in a Retail, Payments or Banking environment is preferred
• Experience with Apple Store deployment
• Better to have Swift3 experience

Responsibilities:

• IOS app development – full range of devices and OS integration (Location, Contacts, Camera etc.)
• Local storage / database implementation for IOS app
• Push notification, event tracking for IOS app
• RESTful JSON API request / response
• Design the structure of the IOS app to have good performance and clean code base
• Communicate with the team and PM to maintain the work speed
• Apple Store deployment

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Company:

• The Flash Group is a well-established Group with a global strategy, that prides itself on making people’s lives easier through frontier technology.

Culture:

At The Flash Group, and in the SwitchFox business unit of the Flash Group, we realise that “the way we do things around here” drives our business and enables us to achieve our purpose of “Making People’s Lives Easier”. Our 3 values are the drumbeat of our business:

• We are all in
• We have each other’s backs
• We are brave

The Flash Group is looking to hire a Senior Java Software Engineer. In this role, the individual will be designing, implementing and maintaining the Java tech stack at The Flash Group.

Minimum Requirements:

• Relevant IT Tertiary Qualification
• Have a minimum of 8 years’ experience in software development
• Experience in leading and guiding developers
• Be passionate about technology, enthusiastic about problem solving, and constantly seeking to learn and improve skillset
• Have experience of working with enterprise scale application stacks
• Have had exposure to the full software development lifecycle
• Sound knowledge of OO design principles and patterns
• Understanding of ORM frameworks (Hibernate/EclipseLink/.NET Entity Framework)
• Understanding of REST and MVC driven web frameworks

Skills:

• Strong core Java (Java / J2EE) skills
• Spring Framework
• Wide-ranging experience using Java tech stacks and other programming languages
• Versed in DevOps methodology including setting up CI/CD pipelines
• Strong experience in RESTful web services
• Solid grasp of Servlet containers and the Servlet API (Apache Tomcat preferable)
• Strong experience with Relational DBMS, MSSQL/Oracle
• Exposure to Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban)
• Ability to communicate about technology in non-technical terms to colleagues and Clients

Additional Advantageous Skills:

• RabbitMQ/Kafka
• Identity and Access Management
• API Management
• WSO2 suite of products
• Elastic Stack
• Grafana

Responsibilities:

• Support and enhancement of an established, multi-faceted technology platform, and associated 3rd party integrations
• Provide work estimates based on analysed business and technical requirements
• Working closely with QA to identify development and production issues

Taking responsibility for ensuring changes are:

• Unit and integration tested
• Documented
• Optimized to ensure benchmarks are met
• Assist in out of hours’ production releases when required