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 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.

• 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.

• 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.