Android Developer

1 day ago

Sandton, Gauteng, South Africa Discovery Ltd. Full time

Business Unit: Discovery Central Services

Function: Development (Oracle/Delphi/Magic/etc)

Date: 21 Oct 2025

Discovery – Group Information Services - Digital Channels

Senior Android Developer – Mobile Team

About Discovery

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.

About Digital Channels

Working in a high performance organization that prides itself in attracting the finest talent, we challenge ourselves to find solutions that make a difference in the world. Our environment is always buzzing with energy and smart, motivated people working on finding the best way to move forward.

The Digital Channels team works on dynamic new projects and product enhancements within the web and mobile platforms in order to improve business inefficiencies, gain competitive advantage on our products and ultimately to provide better service to our clients. Using knowledge of the organization's technology infrastructure and specific software applications, Application Platform Services helps the business to address changes through technologies

Key Purpose

Senior Android developer will support the projects throughout the project lifecycle, including requirements, design, implementation, release and post release support.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

The senior Android developer must have a competent understanding of:

  • The system development life cycle and can explain the Java developer 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

Senior Android developers should be able to demonstrate that they can:

  • 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

  • Maintain high standards

  • Analytical and problem solving skills
  • Self-starter who takes ownership, is accountable, and is able to work under minimum supervision
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Can help with quality assurance and provide comments within 6 months of being in the position, a senior Android developer should be able to demonstrate strong domain knowledge and technologies in relation to the environment that they work in.

Personal Attributes and Skills

Behavioral Skills

  • Stress Management
  • Time management and prioritization
  • Creativeness
  • Learning orientation
  • Negotiation skills
  • Innovation
  • Clean code thinking

Technical Skills

  • Project Management
  • Business Writing Skills
  • Presentation and Facilitation Skills
  • Solution Architecture
  • Process Mapping
  • Entity Diagram mapping
  • Software testing pack design, functional testing

Education and Experience

Minimum

  • 3+ Year IT related Degree or Diploma (BSc/BTech or similar)
  • 4+ years' experience developing Android applications
  • Have worked on multiple published apps in the Play Store

Advantageous

  • 4+ year user interface analyst experience
  • Java related degree/qualification
  • Honours degree
  • Business experience and product knowledge

  • Experience in Kotlin beneficial

  • Experience with agile development methodologies

  • Experience with automated testing tools and techniques
  • Experience with GIT
  • Native Android

Methodologies

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

Tools

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

Processes

ITIL (Incident, Release, Problem Management)

Technologies

  • J2EE, Spring Boot
  • Android, Java, Kotlin

  • WebLogic, Apache

  • UML

  • XML, JSON
  • SOAP and REST Web Service Development

Other

  • Software architecture
  • JAD sessions
  • Data modelling techniques

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.

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