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[Hiring] Mobile Architect @iKhokha
Mar 21, 2025 - iKhokha is hiring a remote Mobile Architect. đź’¸ Salary: unspecified. đź“ŤLocation: South Africa.
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Role Description
Are you a seasoned Mobile Innovator who's designed and built innovative mobile applications from scratch, defined cutting-edge tech stacks, and led engineering teams through successful deployments? Our iKTribe is looking for a visionary leader ready to showcase their architectural brilliance and elevate our mobile engineering to new heights.
As a Mobile Architect within the iKhokha product team, you will play a pivotal role in designing and architecting core functionality and features for both our Android and iOS iKhokha applications.
- Work closely with fellow Technical Architects and Product Owners to design solutions in line with business strategic objectives.
- Be part of an architecture board to give input on best practices, assess current technologies, and propose new technologies.
- Drive the technical strategy within your teams to ensure software deliverables align with company-wide architectural standards.
- Estimate the technical feasibility of high-level backlog items and projects to present to senior management.
- Offer mentoring to engineers.
- Define components and modules as needed by following best architecture principles.
- Design and contribute highly cohesive and loosely coupled microservices to our existing architecture.
- Research and vet 3rd party tools and services.
- Database modelling and review.
- API design and review.
- Design systems with security in mind from the start (OWASP, secure communication protocols, network architecture).
- Stay up to date with the latest threats and vulnerabilities in the industry.
- Advise on weak-points and areas of improvement within iKhokha’s architecture and provide solutions.
- Ensure that architecture complies with regulatory requirements (PCI, POPIA, GDPR).
- Front-load design and produce adequate technical documentation for development teams.
- Review documentation from peers.
- Give input on architecture standards and practices, introducing new technologies, tools, and practices.
- Give input in scoping and feasibility exercises.
- Make technical dependencies visible to stakeholders.
- Present technical knowledge and material to product team (TED Talk etc).
- Mentor and guide engineers.
- Assist in creating a technical roadmap.
- Help set standards around tools and technologies / technical radar.
Qualifications
- A degree or Diploma in Computer Science, Information Technology or Systems Engineering.
- At least 5 years of experience in a technical lead/architect role within a native mobile development space.
- At least 8 years of Software Engineering experience building native mobile apps (Android Java, Kotlin, Swift etc).
- High proficiency in programming languages such as Kotlin and Swift.
- Experience building native applications from the ground up, following best practices and principles.
- Strong understanding of mobile architectural patterns (MVC, MVVM, MVP) and familiarity with different integration patterns and protocols (REST, Web Sockets, GraphQL etc).
- Proven track record of improving mobile app performance, including app launch time, memory management, battery efficiency, and network optimization.
- Demonstrated experience implementing mobile app security best practices, including secure authentication, data encryption, and compliance with regulations (e.g., PCI, POPIA).
- Hands-on experience with DevOps practices for mobile, including release automation, phased rollouts, feature flag management, and rollback strategies.
- Experience working with POS / card acceptance systems will be advantageous.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate technical concepts to different audiences with varying degrees of technical ability.
- Comfortable documenting and diagramming designs according to UML standards (Context, Sequence, BPMn etc).
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Pragmatism.
Benefits
- Work in a high-growth company with tangible results you're accountable for.
- Enjoy hybrid, remote, and in-office work models.
- Competitive remuneration and benefits, including Medical Aid and Group Risk scheme contributions.
- Be guided by visionary leadership.
- Seize the opportunity for study leave.
- Access to on-demand learning and development.
- Experience a friendly, collaborative culture with a team of all-round-lekker humans.
- If you find yourself at HQ, coffee on tap and a selection of hot beverages provided by our very own onsite Barista.
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Software Development
Software Development
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Salary
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Remote
Location
South Africa
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Job Type
full-time
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Posted
Mar 21, 2025
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| đź“Ť | Be aware of the location restriction for this remote position: South Africa |
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