iOS Software Engineer

takealot.com
Cape Town, Western Cape
Full-time
Posted 1 hour ago
Full-time IT & Software
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Job Description

Who’s who in the tech space

This position reports to an Engineering Manager 

Your mission, should you choose to accept it:

  • Take ownership, build, and maintain our bleeding-edge mobile e-commerce iOS application.
  • Modernise legacy codebase and drive platform evolution
  • Design, develop, and test code written in Swift
  • Apply best practices and ensure the stability and security of the applications.
  • Monitor and profile application performance.
  • Take part in daily standups, with the ability to manage time and workload effectively.
  • Collaborate with creative, content, and engineering teams to design and develop a world-class iOS mobile application.
  • Publish applications to the Apple App Store

The skills we need:

  • Strong programming fundamentals.
  • Experience in architecting, developing, testing, and maintaining iOS mobile applications.
  • Demonstrated best practices in the implementation of SwiftUI
  • Experience with network requests to RESTful APIs (JSON) using best practices.
  • Full understanding of the iOS application, view-controller, and tableview life-cycles.
  • Appreciation of iOS-specific asynchronous processing techniques.
  • Knowledge and Appreciation of iOS user experience design patterns.
  • Experience using GIT version control.
  • Experience developing in an Agile team environment
  • Experience using CI/CD (CircleCI)
  • Experience using Fastlane
  • Experience using Cocoapods
  • Experience using Swift Package Manager
  • Github Actions
  • Be accountable, engaging, and inventive.
  • Work alongside a QA engineer regarding testing and product finalisation.

Nice to have:

  • Experience with Figma and Miro.
  • Experience with Google Maps, Firebase & Braze.
  • Any Android experience.
  • Experience using AI to generate and/or validate code

Qualifications & Experience: 

  • Information Technology or Computer Science Degree or equivalent of 5 years relevant experience. 
  • Minimum 3-5 years of experience for an Intermediate Software Engineer
  • Minimum 5-8+ years of experience for a Senior Software Engineer coupled with tech lead experience
  • Solid experience with SwiftUI

Let’s talk about life @ Mr D 

  • The power is in your hands: We offer a market-related, Total Remuneration Package which allows full flexibility according to your needs. Go on, be the master of your own destiny.
  • No doors: We aren’t fans of stuffy offices or siloed work environments. See someone you like? High five, collab, and make something great.
  • Remote working: Love water cooler chats and working from home? We offer a hybrid working model for the best of both worlds.
  • Mentorship programme: We aren’t kidding when we say the people with the best people win. Now’s your chance to be one of the best by learning from the best.
  • Naspers Tech Community& Online Learning: Share ideas and grow with global industry leaders who are all just a Slack message away. Love to learn? Upskill with free access to courses on MyAcademy, Udacity, Coursera, and more.
  • Good times: Get to know the other extraordinary minds in the takealot group during regular social events and out-of-office activities (think hikes, think mini golf, think good times).
  • Birthday leave: Cake Day all the way. Enjoy your day off - you deserve it. 
  • TakealotMORE Benefit 
  • Right tools, right job: Mac or Windows, two monitors or one. Whatever your preference, you’ll work on the latest tech, off the latest tech.
  • Help when you need it most: Confidential counselling, legal support and financial guidance, for free, anytime, anywhere. 
  • Tech stack (for days): Angular, Python, Kotlin, Swift, AWS, Kafka, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, IoT, and all things machine learning. If you build it, they will come.
  • Free parking: No more 5km fun runs to your desk (unless you want to). 

Interested in this role?

You'll apply on takealot.com's own site before 7 November 2026. Put your most relevant experience at the top of your CV first.

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Job details
Job TypeFull-time
LocationCape Town, Western Cape
CategoryIT & Software
Experience5+ years
Posted24 October 2026
Closing Date7 November 2026
takealot.com
Cape Town, Western Cape

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