Job Description

Our client in the Medical Devices industry is currently looking for a Mobile Development Lead: Android, in Pretoria.

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 their innovative hearing health platforms on the native Android platform, ensuring code is written in accordance with specifications, is neat, accurate, well architected 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 completed faster; ultimately speeding up time to market.
• Increase teams effectiveness with the following:
• Recruitment, selection and orientation.
• Training and development.
• Assign accountabilities and plan.
• Monitor and appraise job and project results.
• Develop a climate for offering information and opinions.
• Ensure conformity of products and documentation to product and company requirements in terms of the Company Quality Objectives.
• Provide technical leadership to the team through coaching and mentorship where appropriate.
• Develop the expertise within the team, ensuring continued development and best-practice.
• Package and support deployment of releases.
• Assist with managing team priorities and development schedules.
• Provide feedback to Line Manager regarding the efficiency and output of the team.
• Build team morale and keep the team motivated to work at a high pace and at the desired quality.
• Ensure the team meets specification and timescales as appropriate.
• Drive documentation completion and quality within the team.
• Ensure development is completed within the Quality Management framework.
• Be involved in the planning, design and development of assigned applications.
• Research, consult, analyse and evaluate application needs and designs.
• Write and maintain efficient, reusable and reliable code to meet system requirements, system designs and technical specifications in accordance with quality accredited standards.
• Work from wireframes and/or designs to develop high quality applications.
• Following best practice design and development methodologies in sustaining a high quality, clean, auditable and manageable applications.
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications.
• Identify issues, bugs, and bottlenecks and devise solutions to these problems.
• Identifying technology limitations and deficiencies in applications and associated processes, procedures and methods.
• Lead peer-reviews of solution designs and related code.
• Communicate and collaborate with the team to solve problems and discuss best programming practices.
• Contribute to team development efforts towards successful project delivery.
• Communicate effectively with team members and internal stakeholders, using communications channels appropriately.
• Take personal ownership of projects and products.
• Ensure continued improvement and upkeep on existing applications.
• Ensure compliance with QMS frameworks for CE certification.
• Ensure products are developed accurately (i.e., according to specifications and end user requirements)
• Ensure products are developed efficiently (i.e., according to best practice and on time)
• Ensure testing is completed according to specification.
• Manage release schedule and communicate deployment details.
• Ensure development is completed within the Quality Management framework.

• BSc in Computer Science/Engineering or other applicable Technical Discipline.
• Honors/MSc 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 insert technical skills.
• Development of mobile software for a hardware product (check out lexiehearing.com)
• Android (Java/Kotlin)
• Reactive programming.
• Modular code design principles, familiarity with different software architectures: MVP, MVVM, Clean Architecture.
• Restful API integration.
• Development Architecture.
• MySQL.
• Git.
• Agile knowledge and experience.
• Knowledge of Atlassian Suite (Jira and Confluence)
• Knowledge of development pipelines.

• R90 000 - R110 000 per month.

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