Discovery Limited iOS Developer - Senior Jobs in South Africa

Discovery Limited iOS Developer - Senior Jobs in South Africa


Key Purpose

  • Within the Digital system area, the iOS developer will work on the Discovery application together with Product Owners from various business units, Business Analysts, UX/UI designers & Content Teams, System Architect and managers to understand the overall business need and the requirements, design the system solution using various approaches and technologies, implement the designed solution in the system with high quality source code.

  • iOS developers support the projects throughout the project lifecycle, including requirements, design, implementation, release and post release support.

  • iOS developers in the Digital area must be able to technically support and maintain the deployed applications on dev, test and production environments.

    Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

    Senior IOS Developers Must Have a Competent Understanding Of

  • The system development life cycle and can explain the developer’s role in each stage

  • The defined system development tools, processes and workflows

  • The distinction between business, functional and non-functional requirements and how to implement them

  • The importance of delivering high quality source code and how to achieve it

  • The technologies used and the systems components structure

  • The domain and business terminologies and link them back to system implementations

    Senior iOS developers should be able to demonstrate that they can:

  • Develop, test, and maintain the deployed application software with high quality
    Collaborate with product managers and designers to ensure a successful, high-quality product and great user experience

  • Analyse, maintain and enhance existing application and troubleshoot issues with efficiency.

  • Perform accurate development estimation

  • Produce technical specifications and designs. Participate in new business development through ideation, prototype development, and project estimates

  • Research new techniques, tools,
    and best practices and share that knowledge with the team and community

  • Maintain high standards

  • Analytical and problem solving skills
    Self-starter who takes ownership, is accountable, and is able to work under minimum supervision

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills

  • Can help with quality assurance and provide comments

  • Within 6 months of being in the position, a Senior iOS developer should be able to demonstrate strong domain knowledge and technologies in relation to the environment that they work in.

    Personal Attributes And Skills

    Behavioral Skills

  • Excellent written and oral communication skills (English)

  • Ability to work in a self-driven, complex environment with multiple and changing priorities

  • Ability to focus on deadlines and deliverables

  • Ability to think abstractly

  • Ability and desire to quickly learn new technologies

  • Clean code thinking

    Responsibilities

  • Maintain and extend existing development activities

  • Work with customers to determine project requirements

  • Design software to fulfill customer requirements

  • Develop software from requirements and specifications

  • Find and repair software defects; unit testing, UI automation testing

  • Stay current with Apple and iOS standards and guidelines

  • Documenting development work done

    Education And Experience

    Minimum

  • Informatics degree or Diploma

  • 4+ years’ experience developing iOS applications

    Advantageous

  • 2 year user interface analyst experience
    Software Engineering related degree/qualification

  • Honours degree

  • Business experience and product knowledge

  • Experience in Objective-C is beneficial

    Methodologies

  • Waterfall and Agile

  • Knowledge of OO design principles and development patterns

    Tools

  • SoapUI (SOAP) / REST client (JSON)

  • XCode

  • Atlassian tool suite (Jira, Confluence

    Technologies

  • iOS

  • UML

  • XML, JSON

  • SOAP and REST Web Service Development

    Other

  • Software architecture

  • JAD sessions

  • Data modelling techniques

    How to Apply

    For more information and job application details, see; Discovery Limited iOS Developer - Senior Jobs in South Africa

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