Developer

Discovery's core purpose is to make people healthier and to enhance and protect their lives. We seek out and invest in exceptional individuals who understand and support our core purpose, and whose own values align with those of Discovery. Our fast-paced and dynamic environment enables smart, self-driven people to be their best. As global thought leaders, Discovery is passionate about innovating in order to not only achieve financial success, but to ignite positive and meaningful change within our society.

Discovery Insure is committed to creating a nation of great drivers through our innovative Shared-value Insurance model. Discovery Insure is South Africa's fastest growing short-term insurance company with comprehensive products that provide protection against current and emerging risks facing clients in the motor and home sectors. Vitality Drive, an internationally-recognised and award-winning programme, is a key differentiator in the market that incentivizes and rewards clients for driving well. The Vitality Drive programme has been scaled to local and international markets which now include Europe and the Middle East. The company employs over 1 000 people who are committed to putting our customers and financial advisers first by providing unique and innovative solutions and cover.

The iOS developer will work on the Discovery application together with Product Owners from various business units, Business Analysts, UX/UI designers & Content Teams, System Architect, and managers to understand the overall business need and the requirements, design the system solution using various approaches and technologies, implement the designed solution in the system with high quality source code and technically support and maintain the deployed applications on dev, test and production environments.

The IOS developers will support the projects throughout the project lifecycle, including requirements, design, implementation, release, and post release support.

• The system development life cycle and ability to explain the developer's role in each stage
• The defined system development tools, processes and workflows
• The distinction between business, functional and non-functional requirements and how to implement them
• The importance of delivering high quality source code and how to achieve it
• The technologies used and the systems components structure
• The domain and business terminologies and link them back to system implementations

• Develop, test, and maintain the deployed application software with high quality
• Collaborate with product managers and designers to ensure a successful, high-quality product and great user experience
• Analyse, maintain and enhance existing application and troubleshoot issues with efficiency
• Perform accurate development estimation
• Produce technical specifications and designs. Participate in new business development through ideation, prototype development, and project estimates
• Research new techniques, tools, and best practices and share that knowledge with the team and community
• Assist with quality assurance and provide comments

• Excellent written and oral communication skills (English)
• Ability to work in a self-driven, complex environment with multiple and changing priorities
• Ability to focus on deadlines and deliverables
• Ability to think abstractly
• Ability and desire to quickly learn new technologies
• Clean code thinking
• Analytical and problem-solving skills
• Maintain high standards
• Self-starter who takes ownership, is accountable, and can work under minimum supervision

• Project Management
• Business Writing Skills
• Presentation and Facilitation Skills
• Process Mapping
• Software testing pack design, functional testing

• Waterfall and Agile
• Knowledge of OO design principles and development patterns

• SoapUI (SOAP) / REST client (JSON)
• XCode
• Atlassian tool suite (Jira, Confluence)

• iOS
• UML
• XML, JSON
• SOAP and REST Web Service Development

• Software architecture
• JAD sessions
• Data modelling techniques

• Matric (Essential)
• BSc Information Sciences or Diploma or IT related qualification
• Software Engineering related degree/qualification (Advantageous)

• 2+ years' experience developing iOS applications
• 1+ years' user interface analyst experience
• Business experience and product knowledge (Advantageous)
• Experience in Objective-C is beneficial (Advantageous)

EMPLOYMENT EQUITY

The Company's approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.

About the company

Discovery Limited

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