Senior Mobile Platform Engineer

About the job Senior Mobile Platform Engineer

• Grade 12 National Certificate / Vocational
• Higher Diploma in Information Technology - IT Engineering or Information Technology - Computer Science
• A relevant tertiary qualification in Information Technology

Knowledge, skills and experience:

• Android: Java, Kotlin, Gradle and the knowledge of the Android platform
• iOS: Objective C, Swift and knowledge of the iOS platform
• Architecture and development experience in cross platform technologies e.g. React Native, Flutter
• Experience building client-server architectures
• All aspects of app distribution: Building and distributing for pre-release testing and publishing to app stores.
• Debugging: Using all the available tools to find and eliminate all kinds of defects including race conditions and memory leaks
• Networking: Including REST, gRPC, WebSockets
• Cordova: This is on the way out but relevant for porting to the new platform
• Kendo: This is on the way out but relevant for porting to the new platform
• NodeJS
• Amazon Web Services used extensively on our backend
• Securing mobile apps: App hardening, biometric authentication, preventing, security architecture, combatting fraud
• Cryptography good understanding of applying cryptographic techniques in applications to secure data and communications
• Version control system good understanding and experience managing codebases with branching strategies for feature development and hot-fixes
• Working with the Huawei HMS ecosystem
• Designing and building for testability
• Design and architecture documentation skills: Writing good wiki articles, communication architecture through agile modeling
• Good communication and presentation skills
• Interpersonal & Relationship management Skills
• Creative and analytical problem solving
• Embracing ambiguity and partial information
• Developing and mentoring peers
• Working in a team environment and continually improving processes over time in this context