Mr D - Senior Android Engineer

Mr D, a division of the Takealot Group, is seeking a highly talented Senior and Mid Software Engineer (Android) to join our team and craft the ultimate mobile experience for our thousands of daily active users. Be part of our mission to revolutionise the mobile eCommerce and food delivery landscape in South Africa.

Think you’ve been challenged before? Think again!

• Scale: Show the millions of Mr D customers what you can do.


• Learn: We work with the best of the best, and then some. Code alongside industry leaders and upskill in record time. 


• Grow: Expand your career in the fast-growing Takealot Group: takealot.com, TFS and Mr D. We like to promote from within: Here’s your chance. 

Who’s who in the tech space:

This position reports to an Engineering Manager. 

Your mission, should you choose to accept it:

• Take ownership, build and maintain our bleeding edge mobile eCommerce Android application.


• Design, develop and test code written in Java/Kotlin.


• Apply best practice and ensure stability and security of the applications.


• Monitor and profile application performance.


• Take part in daily standup; manage your time and workload effectively.


• Collaborate with creative, content and engineering teams to design and develop a world-class Android application.


• Publish applications to the Google Play Store.

The skills we need:

• Strong Computer Science and programming fundamentals.


• Experience architecting, developing, testing and maintaining Android mobile applications.


• Experience with network requests to RESTful APIs (JSON) using best practice.


• Full understanding of the Android application, activity and fragment life-cycles.


• Appreciation of Android-specific asynchronous processing techniques.


• Knowledge and appreciation of Android user experience design patterns.


• Experience using GIT, Jira and Confluence.


• Experience developing in an Agile team environment.


• Be accountable, engaging and inventive.


• Work alongside a QA engineer regarding testing and product finalisation.

Qualifications & Experience: 

• Bachelor's Degree or Advanced Diploma in Computer Science, Engineering or related field with a minimum of 3-5 years experience in a software development role.


• In the absence of a degree or diploma, a minimum of 6 years of equivalent experience in a software development role is required.


• For the Senior Android Engineer a minimum of 5 years native android experience is required including team lead experience 


• For the Mid-level Android Engineer a minimum of 3 years native android experience is required


• Solid understanding and experience with Android architecture


• Solid understanding and experience with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose


• Strong understanding of Computer Science fundamentals


• Familiarity with Figma and Photoshop, as well as Google Maps, Firebase, and Braze.

Let’s talk about life @ Mr D 

• The power is in your hands: We offer a market-related, Total Remuneration Package which allows full flexibility according to your needs. Go on, be the master of your own destiny.


• No doors: We aren’t fans of stuffy offices or siloed work environments. See someone you like? High five, collab and make something great.


• Remote working: Love water cooler chats and working from home? We offer a hybrid working model for the best of both worlds.


• Mentorship programme: We aren’t kidding when we say the people with the best people win. Now’s your chance to be one of the best, by learning from the best.


• Naspers Tech Community & Online Learning: Share ideas and grow with global industry leaders who are all just a Slack message away. Love to learn? Up-skill with free access to courses on MyAcademy, Udacity, Coursera and more.


• Good times: Get to know the other extraordinary minds in the takealot group during regular social events and out-of-office activities (think hikes, think mini golf, think good times).


• Birthday leave: Cake Day all the way. Enjoy your day off - you deserve it. 


• Right tools, right job: You’ll work on the latest tech, off the latest tech.


• Help when you need it most: Confidential counselling, legal support and financial guidance, for free, anytime, anywhere. 


• Tech stack (for days): Angular, Python, Kotlin, Swift, AWS, Kafka, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, IOT and all things machine learning. If you build it, they will come.


• Free parking: No more 5km fun runs to your desk (unless you want to). 

Like what you see? 

If you meet the above you are an Extraordinary Mind. Apply today!!

Mr D  is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference