Mobile Development Lead: Android

Our client in the Medical Devices industry is currently looking for a Mobile Development Lead: Android, in Pretoria.

Responsibilities:
Manages the team and the sprints, being responsible for communication, team health and culture.Has authority over process, structure, scheduling, task assignment, documentation.Develop and maintain their innovative hearing health platforms on the native Android platform, ensuring code is written in accordance with specifications, is neat, accurate, well architected and scalable.Responsible for motivating employees and bringing about win-win agreements within the team.Efficiently structure sprints and teams to partner together, allowing for tasks to be completed faster; ultimately speeding up time to market.Increase team's effectiveness with the following:Recruitment, selection and orientation.Training and development.Assign accountabilities and plan.Monitor and appraise job and project results.Develop a climate for offering information and opinions.Ensure conformity of products and documentation to product and company requirements in terms of the Company Quality Objectives.Provide technical leadership to the team through coaching and mentorship where appropriate.Develop the expertise within the team, ensuring continued development and best-practice.Package and support deployment of releases.Assist with managing team priorities and development schedules.Provide feedback to Line Manager regarding the efficiency and output of the team.Build team morale and keep the team motivated to work at a high pace and at the desired quality.Ensure the team meets specification and timescales as appropriate.Drive documentation completion and quality within the team.Ensure development is completed within the Quality Management framework.Be involved in the planning, design and development of assigned applications.Research, consult, analyse and evaluate application needs and designs.Write and maintain efficient, reusable and reliable code to meet system requirements, system designs and technical specifications in accordance with quality accredited standards.Work from wireframes and/or designs to develop high quality applications.Following best practice design and development methodologies in sustaining a high quality, clean, auditable and manageable applications.Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications.Identify issues, bugs, and bottlenecks and devise solutions to these problems.Identifying technology limitations and deficiencies in applications and associated processes, procedures and methods.Lead peer-reviews of solution designs and related code.Communicate and collaborate with the team to solve problems and discuss best programming practices.Contribute to team development efforts towards successful project delivery.Communicate effectively with team members and internal stakeholders, using communications channels appropriately.Take personal ownership of projects and products.Ensure continued improvement and upkeep on existing applications.Ensure compliance with QMS frameworks for CE certification.Ensure products are developed accurately (i.e., according to specifications and end user requirements)Ensure products are developed efficiently (i.e., according to best practice and on time)Ensure testing is completed according to specification.Manage release schedule and communicate deployment details.Ensure development is completed within the Quality Management framework.

Requirements:
BSc in Computer Science/Engineering or other applicable Technical Discipline.Honors/MSc in Computer Science/Engineering or other applicable Technical Discipline.7+ years working experience.2+ years of managing a team.Hands on Android Software Developer having been responsible for the development and maintenance of 1 or more projects.Line management of Android Developers and (iOS devs a plus)Team culture, coaching and development.System development coordination.Project management.Project implementation management.Documentation.Use sound engineering practices to build a solid product while iterating quickly.Experience with using Firebase insert technical skills.Development of mobile software for a hardware product (check out )Android (Java/Kotlin)Reactive programming.Modular code design principles, familiarity with different software architectures: MVP, MVVM, Clean Architecture.Restful API integration.Development Architecture.MySQL.Git.Agile knowledge and experience.Knowledge of Atlassian Suite (Jira and Confluence)Knowledge of development pipelines.

Remuneration:
R R per month.

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