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Mobile Development Lead: Android

Boardroom Appointments
On-site
Pretoria, South Africa

Minimum Requirements:

  • BSc in Computer Science / Engineering or other applicable technical discipline
  • 7+ years working experience 2+ years of managing a team
  • Hands on Android software developer having been responsible for the development and maintenance of 1 or more projects 
  • Line management of Android developers (and iOS devs a plus)
  • Team culture, coaching and development 
  • System development coordination 
  • Project management
  • Project implementation management.
  • Documentation
  • Use sound engineering practices to build a solid product while iterating quickly.
  • Experience with using Firebase 

Minimum education (desirable):

  • Honors / MSc in computer science / engineering or other applicable technical discipline

Skills and Knowledge (essential):

  • Development of mobile software for a hardware product
  • Android (Java / Kotlin)
  • Reactive programming
  • Modular code design principles, familiarity with different software architectures: MVP, MVVM, Clean Architecture Restful API integration
  • GIT
  • Development architecture MySQL
  • Git
  • Agile knowledge and experience
  • Knowledge of Atlassian Suite (Jira and Confluence) Knowledge of development pipelines
  • Main development language for role: Kotlin
  • 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 Firebase would be advantageous

Responsibilities:

  • Manages the team and the sprints, being responsible for communication, team health and culture. 
  • Has authority over process, structure, scheduling, task assignment, documentation. 
  • Develop and maintain our innovative hearing health platforms on the native Android platform ,ensuring code is written in accordance with specifications, is neat, accurate, well architecte 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 comple faster; ultimately speeding up time to market.