Mr D - Android Software Engineer

Mr D, a division of takealot.com, is looking for highly talented Mid Level Software Engineer (Android) 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, Superbalist.com and Mr D. We like to promote from within: Here’s your chance.

Who’s who in the tech space

This position reports to an Engineering Team Lead

We are looking for a talented Mid Level Android Engineer to be part of the Mr D Food mobile team. Build the best possible mobile experience for our thousands of daily active customers. Working with the Senior Android Engineer, help shape the mobile eCommerce/Food delivery landscape in South Africa by enhancing an app that, with over 1.4 million downloads, is consistently number 1 in its respective App Store category.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it:

Take ownership, build and maintain our bleeding edge mobile eCommerce Android application.

Design, develop and test code written in Java/Kotlin.

Apply best practice and ensure stability and security of the applications.

Monitor and profile application performance.

Take part in daily standup; manage your time and workload effectively.

Collaborate with creative, content and engineering teams to design and develop a world-class Android application.

Publish applications to the Google Play Store

The skills we need:

Strong Computer Science and programming fundamentals.

Experience architecting, developing, testing and maintaining Android mobile applications.

Experience with network requests to RESTful APIs (JSON) using best practice.

Full understanding of the Android application, activity and fragment life-cycles.

Appreciation of Android-specific asynchronous processing techniques.

Knowledge and appreciation of Android user experience design patterns.

Experience using GIT, Jira and Confluence

Experience developing in an Agile team environment

Be accountable, engaging and inventive.

Work alongside a QA engineer regarding testing and product finalisation.

Nice to have:

Experience with Figma and Photoshop.

Experience with Google Maps, Firebase & Braze.

Qualifications & Experience:

Information Technology or Computer Science Degree or equivalent of 3 years relevant experience.

Minimum 2-3 years of experience

Let’s talk about life @ Mr D

The power is in your hands: 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.

No doors: We aren’t fans of stuffy offices or siloed work environments. See someone you like? High five, collab and make something great.

Remote working: Love water cooler chats and working from home? We offer a hybrid working model for the best of both worlds.

Mentorship programme: 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.

Naspers Tech Community & Online Learning: 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.

Good times: 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).

Birthday leave: Cake Day all the way. Enjoy your day off - you deserve it.

Right tools, right job: Mac or Windows, two monitors or one. Whatever your preference, you’ll work on the latest tech, off the latest tech.

Help when you need it most: Confidential counselling, legal support and financial guidance, for free, anytime, anywhere.

Tech stack (for days): Angular, Python, Kotlin, Swift, AWS, Kafka, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, IOT and all things machine learning. If you build it, they will come.

Free parking: No more 5km fun runs to your desk (unless you want to).

Like what you see?

If you meet the above you are an Extraordinary Mind. Apply today!

Mr D is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference