Designation:

Senior Engineer: Mobile Apps

Category:

Technology

Level:

Senior

Closing date:

19 Nov 2024

Position Type:

Permanent

Location:

Multi Choice Technology

Job Description:

The Organization
The Multi Choice Group is a multinational media and entertainment group headquartered in South Africa, Dubai and the Netherlands with principal operations in pay television, video entertainment, advertising and content security. Brands within the Group include DStv, GOtv, Super Sport, M-Net, DStv Media Sales, Showmax and European-based content security leader Irdeto. We’re proud to say we serve over 22 million subscribers across 50 African markets, with a successful history of identifying and adapting to industry trends, allowing us to continuously deliver the best in entertainment. Key areas of operations are:

• Storytelling ranging from content creation, production and aggregation including the best global general entertainment, sport and eminent African content library, delivered to customers
• Pay Television: direct-to-home satellite and digital terrestrial television services;
• SVOD: subscription video on demand services across multiple online platforms with a focus on library and local content in developing markets, and
• Advertising: providing dynamic media solutions; handling commercial airtime, on-air sponsorships, content integration, and online sales across a variety of 130+ channel brands on linear TV, VOD, social media, and digital platforms.

The group’s strength lies in its focus on local language and culture, its entrepreneurial spirit and the quality of its workforce. Multi Choice Group has a successful history of identifying trends early, adapting them for the markets in which it operates and leveraging them to maximum advantage. The group generates revenues primarily through subscription model, with a growing contribution from advertising revenue. Its key objectives are to:

• Expand Pay TV, SVOD subscriber base and Advertising sales
• Focus on investment and technology
• Maintain a local approach
• Provide quality service
• Attract innovative and motivated employees

Join Africa’s most loved storyteller!
Position Name
Senior Engineer: Mobile Apps
Location
Johannesburg, South Africa
Purpose of the Position: The Senior Engineer: Mobile Apps is responsible for creating and maintaining native mobile and lean-back applications that are compelling and enable our users to consume our world-class content through the latest available technologies. The role is also required to support and develop software engineers by providing advice and coaching.
Key Performance Objectives
Tasks
Software Development

• Review designs created by designers; ask any necessary clarifying questions before starting on work.
• Write code to implement those visual elements into various mobile applications.
• Create prototypes, mock-ups, and staging apps for review and feedback.
• 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
• 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
• Effectively communicate with your peers on all levels
• Give detailed explanations and argue the pros and cons of your choices
• Follow and drive the implementation of department standards and methodologies

Qualifications

• A Degree in IT/Computer Science
• Post Grad in IT/Computer Science advantageous

Experience

• 6 years’ experience with Mobile Applications development
• Exceptional knowledge of Swift (i OS), Kotlin (Android), JSON, SOAP and REST Web Services
• Knowledge of MVC and MVVM architectures
• Knowledge of Reactive Programming (Reactive X or Rx) would be advantageous
• Demonstrable portfolio of released applications on the Apple App Store or the Android Play Store
• Solid understanding of Agile methodologies
• SCRUM experience would be advantageous
• An understanding of object oriented programming
• Experience in development practices like test-driven development, continuous integration and -deployment
• Knowledge of Android development (applicable to i OS developers) / i OS/tv OS development (applicable to Android developers) would be an advantage
• Knowledge of Java back-end development advantageous
• Eager to learn new technologies and excited by change
• Experience in taking lead within the team and other team members should come to you for guidance
• Mentor Junior developers
• Exposure to being involved in a number of complex projects
• Exposure to easily virtualizing the changes required for most features or bug fixes.
• Experience in designing, coding and testing the entire system