Software Engineer (Android)

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Job Description

The MyGoals team is a dynamic unit within the newly formed OMiX business, within Old Mutual Limited. It aims to help our customers reach their financials goals through the use of dynamic, data-driven insights to create meaningful and timely digital and physical personalised interactions.

The team applies customer-focused design thinking, agile and lean development methodologies, and continuous delivery practices.

The Software Engineer (Android) is responsible for leading the development of high-quality designs and solutions. This role requires participation in technical designs and the development and maintenance of software and other digital applications or services. The incumbent will be expected to create prototypes, develop user-centered software, and advise on technical specifications. This role requires fundamentals in engineering practices, an analytical and data-driven approach to problem solving, while following DevOps, SRE and Cloud Based practices.

Key Result Areas:

Follow Agile methodologies (SCRUM / Kanban).

Work in a DevOps culture.

Work closely with multi-skilled and cross-functional teams e.g., architects, developers, UX designers, business.

Participates in team design, scoping and prioritization discussions.

Document & Design solutions at an Application Level with guidance from seniors.

Participates in team design, scoping and prioritization discussions.

Contributes to and develop technical specifications and software application architecture and designs.

Build cloud based functional mobile applications at an enterprise level.

Build Front-end and/or back-end solutions on the mobile digital channel/platform.

Implement complex Business Features and solutions autonomously.

Contribute to the technical roadmap and vision of the Digital & Data team.

Understand, communicate and/or translate complex procedures.

Writes secure, stable, testable, maintainable code with minimal defects.

Assumes responsibility for the state of the code you both inherit and produce.

Responsible for getting designs and code reviewed,

Writes unit tests and tests code thoroughly.

Classifies, stores, and handles data in accordance with Old Mutual policies.

Clearly documents software to ensure that future generations of developers understand the intention behind the features and components built.

Knowledgeable of and implements coding design patterns.

Review and refactor code according to coding standards.

Refactor complex code to improve maintainability.

Provide after-hours support of applications (you build it, you run it).

Understands the maintenance characteristics, runtime properties, and dependencies of the teams software, including hardware platform, operating system and build dependencies.

In the event of a problem, troubleshoots, researches the root cause of problems, and thoroughly resolve defects.

Drive monitoring and alerting for solutions.

Continuously develop skills.

Seek to learn the business context and technologies behind teams software.

Work effectively with customers and/or internal partners to understand business impacts and identify any opportunities/problems arising from technical decisions.

Understand and contribute to the technical roadmap and vision of the Digital & Data team.

Seek to learn the business context and technologies behind the teams software.

Work effectively with customers and/or internal partners to understand business impacts and identify any opportunities/problems arising from technical decisions.

Research and share programming/technology-related advances to team(s).

Build and test software prototypes.

Provide higher-level technical and programming support to fellow-developers/engineers.

Mentor and coach developers.

Research and recommend programming-related advances to team(s).

Create and test software prototype.

Requirements

Matric certificate with relevant tertiary qualification.

3+ years of experience in Android mobile application development.

Knowledge of, and experience in mobile frameworks and technologies such as:

Kotlin/Java

Android Studio

Spring Framework

Containerisation technologies e.g., Kubernetes, Docker

CI/CD Tools e.g., Jenkins, AWS Code Commit

AWS (preferred) or another cloud provider such as Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform

IaC technologies e.g., Terraform/Cloudformation

Collaboration tool e.g., Confluence, Jira, Microsoft Teams, Slack

Familiarity with architecture styles such as Microservice and Serverless architectures.

Critical thinking, root cause identification skills and attention to detail.

Ability to learn new technologies quickly.

Good communications skills and a team player.

Comfortable with pair programming.

Possess commercial and business awareness.

Skills

Education

Closing Date

31 May 2023

Old Mutual Limited is pro-vaccination and encourages its workforce to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19.

All prospective employees are required to disclose their vaccination status as part of the recruitment process.

Please refer to the Old Mutuals Covid-19 vaccination policy for further detail. Kindly note that Old Mutual reserves the right to reinstate the requirement to vaccinate at any point if it is of the view that it is imperative to do so.