SUMMARY:
One of SA’s leading online retailer, is looking for a highly talented iOS Software Engineer to join their team in Cape Town. By part of a team by building the best possible mobile experience for their customers and help shape the mobile eCommerce landscape in South Africa.
POSITION INFO:
Work on apps that are consistently in the top 5 of their respective category in the app store, with thousands of active daily users.
This dynamic, hyper growth company is looking for smart, creative, hard-working people with integrity to join them. You will have the flexibility to structure your total CTC according to your needs and also work in an excellent working environment. Their promise to you is that you won’t get bored, as long as you are prepared for a challenge to build something WOW.
You will:
- 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
We expect you to:
- Be accountable
- Creative
- Solution-based
- Flexible
- And take pride in your work
The position reports to the Mobile Engineering Team Lead.
Requirements
- 3 year computer science degree preferred (or equivalent experience)
- At least 2 years of professional experience in native iOS
- Strong Computer Science and programming fundamentals
- Experience developing applications with iOS SDK using Objective-C, for both iPad and iPhone
- Full understanding of the iOS application, view-controller and tableview life-cycles
- Appreciation of iOS-specific asynchronous processing techniques.
- Experience with using Storyboards, Interface Builder, auto and adaptive layout for universal apps with differing screen sizes.
Desirable Skills
- Swift development experience
- Experience working with unit test frameworks (OCMock, Hamcrest, etc)
- Experience with network requests to RESTful APIs using best practice and well known libraries (AFNetworking etc)
- Knowledge and Appreciation of iOS 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 Appium
- Any experience with Android
The Environment:
- Their employees are entrepreneurial and dynamic, smart, customer-centric, fun and have the shared ambition of being the leading e-commerce company in Africa.
- They have fun, work hard, take ownership, work in teams to create solutions, and are always open to direct feedback/new ideas on where they can improve.
- They are short on ego and high on output.
- They are doers and not only thinkers, it’s all in the execution after all.
- They love what they do and what they are creating.
They 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
- 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!
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