Jobs in Cape Town, South Africa

About the role

This role owns iiDENTIFii’s mobile engineering output end-to-end. You are responsible for designing, building, testing, and shipping high-performance mobile applications — primarily on iOS, with Android and cross-platform experience advantageous — that meet the exacting quality, security, and performance standards of a biometric identity platform used by tier-1 financial institutions. This is a hands-on engineering role operating at the intersection of product, design, and backend. You will work closely with product managers, backend developers, and QA teams across all stages of the development lifecycle — from requirements and architecture through to release and ongoing optimisation. You bring both technical depth and a high standard of craft: clean, maintainable code, user-driven ui, rigorous testing, and a genuine interest in getting the details right.

What you'll bring

• Proven experience as a mobile developer with strong iOS expertise (essential) and Android exposure advantageous, with a portfolio of shipped applications across one or both platforms
• Demonstrated experience building end-to-end mobile applications: from design and architecture through development, testing, deployment, and store release
• Experience working in agile, cross-functional teams alongside product, design, QA, backend, and DevOps
• Strong understanding of the full mobile software development lifecycle and production engineering discipline
• Experience contributing to code reviews, technical documentation, and best-practice engineering standards
• Exposure to performance optimisation, scalability challenges, and production support at scale
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing practices
• Experience with cross-platform mobile solutions (React Native, Flutter) is advantageous
• Understanding of modern software architecture concepts such as microservices and event-driven systems
• Languages: Proficiency in Swift and Objective-C (iOS — essential)
• Java and Kotlin (Android — advantageous)
• SDKs & IDEs: Strong experience with iOS SDK and Xcode (essential)

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