Old Mutual Careers Durban – Intermediate Android Developer

Job Description:

The My Old Mutual team is a dynamic division within Old Mutual Limited, which seeks to drive digital engagement with customers by being at the forefront of digital development and innovation. Old Mutual’s longstanding history and unquestionable success in the financial industry, provide a solid foundation for expansion of its digital platform. The Digital & Data team applies customer-focused design thinking, agile and lean development methodologies, and continuous delivery practices.

Job Responsibilities:

• Writes unit tests and tests code thoroughly
• Classifies, stores, and handles data in accordance with Old Mutual policies
• Assumes responsibility for the state of the code you both inherit and produce.
• Contributes to and develop technical specifications and software application architecture and designs
• Implement complex Business Features and solutions with minimal guidance
• Participates in team design, scoping and prioritization discussions
• Understand, communicate and/or translate complex procedures
• Responsible for getting designs and code reviewed,
• Clearly documents software to ensure that future generations of developers understand the intention behind the features and components built.
• Writes secure, stable, testable, maintainable code with minimal defects.
• Document & Design solutions at an Application Level with guidance from seniors
• Generate, contribute and drive technical documentation according to OML guidelines
• Build Front-end and/or back-end solutions on the mobile digital channel/platform
• Build cloud based functional mobile applications at an enterprise level

Job Requirements:

• Attention to detail and big picture
• Multi-function team collaboration
• Action Oriented
• Customer focus
• Conflict management and resolution
• Continuous Improvement

Qualification & Experience:

• Matric certificate with relevant tertiary qualification
• Spring Framework
• Containerisation technologies e.g., Kubernetes, Docker
• Android Studio
• IaC technologies e.g., Terraform/Cloudformation
• 3+ years of experience in Android mobile application development
• Kotlin/Java
• CI/CD Tools e.g., Jenkins, AWS Code Commit
• AWS (preferred) or another cloud provider such as Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform
• Collaboration tool e.g., Confluence, Jira, Microsoft Teams, Slack

Job Details:

Company: Old Mutual

Vacancy Type:  Full Time

Job Location: Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, SA

Application Deadline: N/A