Mobile App Developer in Nairobi
About the role:
We are searching high and low for our next Mobile App Developer to join our world-class team.
What will you be doing?
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior members in the team.
- Continuously collaborate with iOS Engineers across different teams.
- Work and collaborate with product owners and Agile teams to understand, design, develop and implement new features using engineering best practices, design guidelines and principles.
- Develop innovative new features: evaluate user journeys, design implementations from product specifications, write great code and collaborate with your team to deliver features.
- Contribute technical ideas to improve our products and refine our development process - we have a well-defined roadmap for technical improvements on our iOS codebase.
- Translate designs into efficient, maintainable and reusable code and tests.
- Participate in code review to integrate changes with the existing codebase.
- Use your time effectively and take ownership of your work.
- Support other members of the team, communicate and participate.
- Be part of the team and Scrums.com's culture
- Attend daily stand-ups, plan with your team and share knowledge.
Skills and Experience:
- Good knowledge of Swift and UIKit
- Experience working with a component library and style guide
- Good understanding of SOLID principles
- Experience with Functional Reactive Programming (FRP), particularly RxSwift and/ or Combine
- Experience consuming RESTful APIs, and collaborating in their design
- Experience with unit testing (XCTest) and, equally important, writing testable code
- Experience with Git and GitHub
- Comfortable working with CI/CD processes
- Familiarity with the process of creating and shipping apps (provisioning profiles, certificates, App Store Connect, TestFlight, etc.)
- Familiarity with common architectural patterns (MVC, MVVM, etc.)
Mobile App Developer in Nairobi
Nairobi, Kenya is quickly establishing itself as a major tech hub in Africa, with a growing community of software developers. As the capital city of Kenya and a major economic hub, Nairobi is attracting investment from both local and international tech companies, leading to a high demand for skilled software developers. This has resulted in a booming job market for developers, with numerous opportunities in both established companies and startups.Some of the most sought-after software developer jobs in Nairobi include mobile app development, web development, software engineering, and data science. Kenyan developers are also increasingly working on projects related to fintech, e-commerce, and healthtech, as these industries are rapidly expanding in Kenya and across Africa. The Kenyan government has also been supportive of the tech industry, providing tax incentives and other forms of support to attract investment and promote innovation. This has created an environment in which software developers can thrive, with access to the resources and support they need to build successful careers in the tech industry.
