iOS Software Engineer

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!!