Mobile Developer at Konga Online Shopping Limited

Reports to: Head, Technology
Direct Reports: None

Purpose
A brief overview of the role:

• Provide support in the development, implementation and assurance of strategies across the enterprise.
• Develop and maintain high quality mobile applications.
• Translate code into user-friendly apps.
• Develop functional mobile applications
• Design and build the next generation of Konga’s mobile applications.
• Implement new user interfaces and features together with automated unit and integration tests.
• Ensure solid application performance and an excellent user experience.

Responsibilities

• Developing new features and user interfaces from wireframe models
• Ensuring the best performance and user experience of the application
• Fixing bugs and performance problems
• Writing clean, readable, and testable code
• Cooperating with back-end developers, designers, and the rest of the team to deliver well-architected and high-quality solution
• Support the entire application lifecycle (concept, design, test, release and support)
• Produce fully functional mobile applications writing clean code
• Gather specific requirements and suggest solutions
• Write unit and UI tests to identify malfunctions
• Troubleshoot and debug to optimize performance
• Design interfaces to improve user experience
• Liaise with Product development team to plan new features
• Ensure new and legacy applications meet quality standards
• Research and suggest new mobile products, applications and protocols
• Stay up-to-date with new technology trends.

Relationship - External / Internal:

• VPs and Heads of Departments - Internal
• Managers and Staff - Internal
• Software Developers, TechOps, DevOps and Network & Infrastructure Team - External / Internal

Skills and Experience
Required Skills:

• B.Sc degree in Computer Science or relevant field
• Proven work experience as a Mobile developer
• Demonstrable portfolio of released applications on the App store or the Android market
• In-depth knowledge of at least one programming language like Swift and Java
• Experience with third-party libraries and APIs
• Familiarity with OOP design principles
• Excellent analytical skills with a good problem-solving attitude
• Ability to perform in a team environment
• Extensive knowledge about mobile app development. This includes the whole process, from the first line of code to publishing in the store(s)
• Deep knowledge of mobile platforms on which the app runs, e.g., Android, iOS, etc.
• Proficiency with writing automated tests in JUnit, Espresso, Mocha, Jest, Enzyme, XCTest, etc. depending on the libraries you use to test
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs and mobile libraries for networking, specifically Retrofit, axios, Alamofire, etc.
• Familiarity with the JSON format
• Experience with profiling and debugging mobile applications
• Strong knowledge of architectural patterns MVP, MVC, MVVM, and Clean Architecture and the ability to choose the best solution for the app
• Familiarity with Git
• Familiarity with push notifications
• Understanding mobile app design guidelines on each platform and being aware of their differences
• Proficiency in Kotlin/Java/Swift/Objective-C/JavaScript/C#, whichever language you use in the app.