<p><a href="https://www.mrdfood.com/"><strong>Mr D </strong></a>, a division of takealot.com, is looking for highly talented <strong>Senior </strong><strong>Software Engineer</strong> <strong>(iOS) </strong>to join our team in Cape Town.</p><p>We are a young, dynamic, hyper growth company looking for smart, creative, hard-working people with integrity to join us! </p><p><strong>Think you’ve been challenged before? Think again!</strong></p><ul><li><strong>Scale</strong>: Show the millions of Mr D customers what you can do </li><li><strong>Learn</strong>: We work with the best of the best, and then some. Code alongside industry leaders and upskill in record time. </li><li><strong>Grow</strong>: Expand your career in the fast-growing Takealot Group: takealot.com, Superbalist.com and Mr D. We like to promote from within: Here’s your chance. </li></ul><p><strong>Who’s who in the tech space</strong></p><p>This position reports to an Engineering Team Lead </p><p><strong>Your mission, should you choose to accept it:</strong></p><ul><li>Take ownership, build and maintain our bleeding edge mobile e-commerce iOS application.</li><li>Migrate the existing Objective C app to Swift</li><li>Design, develop and test code written in Objective C/Swift.</li><li>Apply best practice and ensure stability and security of the applications.</li><li>Monitor and profile application performance.</li><li>Take part in daily standup, with the ability to manage time and workload effectively.</li><li>Collaborate with creative, content and engineering teams to design and develop a world-class iOS mobile application.</li><li>Publish applications to the Apple App Store</li></ul><p><strong>The skills we need:</strong></p><ul><li>Strong programming fundamentals.</li><li>Experience architecting, developing, testing and maintaining iOS mobile applications.</li><li>Experience with network requests to RESTful APIs (JSON) using best practice.</li><li>Full understanding of the iOS application, view-controller and tableview life-cycles.</li><li>Demonstrated best practices in the implementation of SwiftUI.</li><li>Appreciation of iOS-specific asynchronous processing techniques.</li><li>Knowledge and Appreciation of iOS user experience design patterns.</li><li>Experience using GIT version control.</li><li>Experience developing in an Agile team environment</li><li>Be accountable, engaging and inventive.</li><li>Work alongside a QA engineer regarding testing and product finalisation.</li></ul><p><strong>Nice to have:</strong></p><ul><li>Experience with Figma and Miro.</li><li>Experience with Google Maps, Firebase & Braze.</li><li>Any Android experience.</li></ul><p><strong>Qualifications & Experience: </strong></p><ul><li>Information Technology or Computer Science Degree or equivalent of 5 years relevant experience. </li><li>Minimum 3-5 years of experience<strong><br></strong></li></ul><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>Let’s talk about life @ Mr D </strong></p><ul><li><strong>The power is in your hands</strong>: 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.</li><li><strong>No doors</strong>: We aren’t fans of stuffy offices or siloed work environments. See someone you like? High five, collab and make something great.</li><li><strong>Remote working</strong>: Love water cooler chats <em>and </em>working from home? We offer a hybrid working model for the best of both worlds.</li><li><strong>Mentorship programme</strong>: 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.</li><li><strong>Naspers Tech Community</strong> <strong>& Online Learning</strong>: Share ideas and grow with global industry leaders who are all just a Slack message away. Love to learn? Up-skill with free access to courses on MyAcademy, Udacity, Coursera and more.</li><li><strong>Good times</strong>: 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).</li><li><strong>Birthday leave</strong>: Cake Day all the way. Enjoy your day off - you deserve it. </li><li><strong>TakealotMORE</strong> Benefit </li><li><strong>Right tools, right job</strong>: Mac or Windows, two monitors or one. Whatever your preference, you’ll work on the latest tech, off the latest tech.</li><li><strong>Help when you need it most</strong>: Confidential counselling, legal support and financial guidance, for free, anytime, anywhere. </li><li><strong>Tech stack (for days): </strong>Angular, Python, Kotlin, Swift, AWS, Kafka, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, IOT and all things machine learning. If you build it, they will come.</li><li><strong>Free parking: </strong>No more 5km fun runs to your desk (unless you want to). </li></ul><p><strong>Like what you see? </strong></p><p>If you meet the above you are an <strong>Extraordinary Mind. </strong>Apply today!!</p><p><em>Mr D is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference</em></p><p> </p>