iOS Software Engineer

Mr D a division of the Takealot Group is looking for a highly talented Intermediate and Senior 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 youve 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: Mr D & TFS. We like to promote from within: Heres your chance.

Whos 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

Lets 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 arent 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 arent kidding when we say the people with the best people win. Nows 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 youll 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).

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If you meet the above you are an Extraordinary Mind. Apply today!!