Overview

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  • Job Position: Mobile Developer
  • Job Location: Lagos
  • Reports to: Head, Technology
  • Direct Reports: None

Purpose
A brief overview of the role:

  • Provide support in the development, implementation, and assurance of strategies across the enterprise.
  • Develop and maintain high-quality mobile applications.
  • Translate code into user-friendly apps.
  • Develop functional mobile applications
  • Design and build the next generation of Konga’s mobile applications.
  • Implement new user interfaces and features together with automated unit and integration tests.
  • Ensure solid application performance and an excellent user experience.

Job Responsibilities

  • Developing new features and user interfaces from wireframe models
  • Ensuring the best performance and user experience of the application
  • Fixing bugs and performance problems
  • Writing clean, readable, and testable code
  • Cooperating with back-end developers, designers, and the rest of the team to deliver a well-architected and high-quality solution
  • 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
  • Design interfaces to improve user experience
  • Liaise with the 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.

Relationship – External / Internal:

  • VPs and Heads of Departments – Internal
  • Managers and Staff – Internal
  • Software Developers, TechOps, DevOps and Network & Infrastructure Team – External / Internal

Skills and Experience
Required Skills:

  • B.Sc degree in Computer Science or relevant field
  • Proven work experience as a Mobile developer
  • Demonstrable portfolio of released applications on the App Store or the Android market
  • In-depth knowledge of at least one programming language like Swift and Java
  • Experience with third-party libraries and APIs
  • Familiarity with OOP design principles
  • Excellent analytical skills with a good problem-solving attitude
  • Ability to perform in a team environment
  • Extensive knowledge about mobile app development. This includes the whole process, from the first line of code to publishing in the store(s)
  • Deep knowledge of mobile platforms on which the app runs, e.g., Android, iOS, etc.
  • Proficiency with writing automated tests in JUnit, Espresso, Mocha, Jest, Enzyme, XCTest, etc. depending on the libraries you use to test
  • Familiarity with RESTful APIs and mobile libraries for networking, specifically Retrofit, axios, Alamofire, etc.
  • Familiarity with the JSON format
  • Experience with profiling and debugging mobile applications
  • Strong knowledge of architectural patterns MVP, MVC, MVVM, and Clean Architecture and the ability to choose the best solution for the app
  • Familiarity with Git
  • Familiarity with push notifications
  • Understanding mobile app design guidelines on each platform and being aware of their differences
  • Proficiency in Kotlin/Java/Swift/Objective-C/JavaScript/C#, whichever language you use in the app.

How to Apply

Interested and qualified candidates should apply by forwarding their updated CV to gabriel.elachi@konga.com using “the job title” as the subject of the mail.

Note: All CV’ should be in word doc and/or pdf formats.

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