Mr D, a division of the Takealot Group, is looking for a highly talented iOS Engineer to join our team in Cape Town.
We are a young, dynamic, hyper-growth company looking for smart, creative, hard-working people with integrity to join us!
Think you’ve been challenged before? Think again!
- Scale: Show the millions of Mr D customers what you can do
- Learn: We work with the best of the best, and then some. Code alongside industry leaders and upskill in record time.
- Grow: Expand your career in the fast-growing Takealot Group: takealot.com, Mr D & TFS. We like to promote from within: Here’s your chance.
Who’s who in the tech space
This position reports to an Engineering Manager
Your mission, should you choose to accept it:
- Take ownership, build, and maintain our bleeding-edge mobile e-commerce iOS application.
- Modernise legacy codebase and drive platform evolution
- Design, develop, and test code written in Swift
- Apply best practices and ensure the stability and security of the applications.
- Monitor and profile application performance.
- Take part in daily standups, with the ability to manage time and workload effectively.
- Collaborate with creative, content, and engineering teams to design and develop a world-class iOS mobile application.
- Publish applications to the Apple App Store
The skills we need:
- Strong programming fundamentals.
- Experience in architecting, developing, testing, and maintaining iOS mobile applications.
- Demonstrated best practices in the implementation of SwiftUI
- Experience with network requests to RESTful APIs (JSON) using best practices.
- Full understanding of the iOS application, view-controller, and tableview life-cycles.
- Appreciation of iOS-specific asynchronous processing techniques.
- Knowledge and Appreciation of iOS user experience design patterns.
- Experience using GIT version control.
- Experience developing in an Agile team environment
- Experience using CI/CD (CircleCI)
- Experience using Fastlane
- Experience using Cocoapods
- Experience using Swift Package Manager
- Github Actions
- Be accountable, engaging, and inventive.
- Work alongside a QA engineer regarding testing and product finalisation.
Nice to have:
- Experience with Figma and Miro.
- Experience with Google Maps, Firebase & Braze.
- Any Android experience.
- Experience using AI to generate and/or validate code
Qualifications & Experience:
- Information Technology or Computer Science Degree or equivalent of 5 years relevant experience.
- Minimum 3-5 years of experience for an Intermediate Software Engineer
- Minimum 5-8+ years of experience for a Senior Software Engineer coupled with tech lead experience
- Solid experience with SwiftUI
Let’s talk about life @ Mr D
- The power is in your hands: We offer a market-related, Total Remuneration Package which allows full flexibility according to your needs. Go on, be the master of your own destiny.
- No doors: We aren’t fans of stuffy offices or siloed work environments. See someone you like? High five, collab, and make something great.
- Remote working: Love water cooler chats and working from home? We offer a hybrid working model for the best of both worlds.
- Mentorship programme: We aren’t kidding when we say the people with the best people win. Now’s your chance to be one of the best by learning from the best.
- Naspers Tech Community & Online Learning: Share ideas and grow with global industry leaders who are all just a Slack message away. Love to learn? Upskill with free access to courses on MyAcademy, Udacity, Coursera, and more.
- Good times: Get to know the other extraordinary minds in the takealot group during regular social events and out-of-office activities (think hikes, think mini golf, think good times).
- Birthday leave: Cake Day all the way. Enjoy your day off - you deserve it.
- TakealotMORE Benefit
- Right tools, right job: Mac or Windows, two monitors or one. Whatever your preference, you’ll work on the latest tech, off the latest tech.
- Help when you need it most: Confidential counselling, legal support and financial guidance, for free, anytime, anywhere.
- Tech stack (for days): Angular, Python, Kotlin, Swift, AWS, Kafka, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, IoT, and all things machine learning. If you build it, they will come.
- Free parking: No more 5km fun runs to your desk (unless you want to).
Like what you see?
If you meet the above you are an Extraordinary Mind. Apply today!!