Head of Mobile Engineering - Cape Town, South Africa - Yoyo Group

Yoyo Group

Verified Company

Cape Town, South Africa

1 day ago

Posted by:

Thabo Mthembu

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Description

Company Description

Yoyo powers some of the world's leading retail and corporate brands, through customer loyalty and rewards software solutions, to offer the world's most rewarding buying experience.

We create a space where passionate, smart, curious and creative people thrive.

Our values are our way of being, and how we show up every day.

This is how we help our clients build their best business and our staff build a career to be proud of.

Living these values builds an environment where world-class passionate people create world-class scalable products that delight customers and consumers and drive scalable profit and revenue growth.

Job Description:

What you'll do:

Strong attention to detail placing the end user at the forefront of all decisions.
Complete weekly code reviews for team members and be available to troubleshoot issues as/ when needed.

What we're looking for:

Thorough understanding of React Native and its core principles.
Build and release React Native and native apps to the stores.
Experience in dealing with stakeholders at all levels, including Csuite.
Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model.
Experience creating, optimising and integrating Application Programming Interface (API) calls; background in API development preferred.
Familiarity with native build tools such as XCode, Gradle, Android Studio, IntelliJ.
Familiarity with using Firebase and Sentry.
Experience in setting up analytics and providing leadership in order to obtain customer insights.
Experience and deep appreciation for testing code and unit testing.
Ability to write wellstructured code with a high test coverage.
Must be personable, enthusiastic and articulate ideas clearly.

Qualifications:

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field.
At least 8 years of experience in mobile development, with a focus on iOS and Android platforms.
At least 3 years of experience leading a team of Mobile Developers.
Strong understanding of mobile development best practices, including performance optimisation, security and usability.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively within crossfunctional teams.

Additional Information

Our Values:

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Be extremely customer centric: In everything we do, serve and delight our customers, using data to continuously improve.
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Be a passionate team player: Spiral up, be positive, bring momentum, and energy to those around you, leave ego at the door and be teachable.
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Be an owner: Be accountable and take responsibility. Find solutions, learn from your mistakes and own tasks to completion.
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Be world-class at speed: Delivering world leading solutions that delight our clients and customers.
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Be curious and creative: Constantly innovating, exploring, learning, stretching ourselves, pushing the boundaries and thinking out of the box.