Android Development Lead Pretoria East

Android Mobile Development Lead

An exciting opportunity has become available within the medical research industry for an Android Mobile Development Lead.

Our client is an impact-driven digital health company passionate about affordable access to healthy hearing for everyone, everywhere.

This is an opportunity to be part of making a change and impacting human lives. The position is based in Pretoria.

Direct Reports: Remote Working: 2 days work-from-home in line with Company Policy (only applicable after probation is successfully passed).

Duties & Responsibilities

Manages the team and the sprints, being responsible for communication, team health, and culture.

Has authority over process, structure, scheduling, task assignment, and documentation.

Develop and maintain our innovative hearing health platforms on the native Android platform (with a basic knowledge of iOS in order to manage the team), ensuring code is generated that is in accordance with specifications, and which is neat, accurate, and scalable.

Responsible for motivating employees and bringing about win-win agreements within the team.

Efficiently structure sprints and teams to partner together, allowing for tasks to be completed faster; ultimately speeding up time to market.

Team Management Distribution

1. Team Management - 25%
2. Application Planning and Development - 35%
3. Project Planning and Capacity Management - 20%
4. Team Work - 10%
5. Quality Management and Compliance - 10%

Desired Experience & Qualification

BSc in Computer Science / Engineering or other applicable technical discipline.

Minimum education (desirable): Honors / MSc in computer science / engineering or other applicable technical discipline.

Minimum applicable experience (years): 7+ years working experience, including 2+ years of managing a team.

Required nature of experience: Hands-on Android software developer having been responsible for the development and maintenance of 1 or more projects.

Line management of iOS and Android developers.

Team culture, coaching, and development.

Project management.

Documentation.

Use sound engineering practices to build a solid product while iterating quickly.

Skills and Knowledge (essential)

1. Development of mobile software for a hardware product.
2. Reactive programming.
3. Modular code design principles, familiarity with different software architectures: MVP, MVVM, Clean Architecture.
4. Restful API integration.
5. GIT.
6. MySQL.
7. Agile knowledge and experience.
8. Knowledge of Atlassian Suite (Jira and Confluence).
9. Knowledge of development pipelines.

Other: Experience with ISO, CE, or FDA compliance for software would be advantageous. Medical device software development experience would be advantageous. Experience with BLE would be advantageous. Experience with AWS would be advantageous.

Package & Remuneration

R90,000.00 - R,.00 p/m