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Business Unit: Discovery Insure

Function: Insurance (Short Term)

Discovery – Insure

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 Discovery Insure

Discovery Insure is committed to creating a nation of great drivers through our innovative Shared-value Insurance model. Discovery Insure is South Africa’s fastest growing short-term insurance company with comprehensive products that provide protection against current and emerging risks facing clients in the motor and home insurance sectors. Vitality Drive, an internationally-recognised and award-winning programme, is a key differentiator in the market that incentivises and rewards clients for driving well. The Vitality Drive programme has been scaled to local and international markets which now include Europe and the Middle East. The company employs over 1 000 people who are committed to putting our customers and financial advisers first by providing unique and innovative solutions and cover.

Key Purpose

The Android developer will work on the Discovery application together with Product Owners from various business units, Business Analysts, UX/UI designers & Content Teams, System Architect, and managers to understand the overall business need and the requirements, design the system solution using various approaches and technologies, implement the designed solution in the system with high quality source code.

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

Android developers in the Insure Digital area must be able to technically support and maintain the deployed applications on dev, test and production environments.

Areas of responsibility may include but are not limited to

The system development life cycle and can explain the Android 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

Skills and Knowledge

Technologies

J2EE, Sprint Boot
WebLogic, Apache
UML
XML, JSON
SOAP and REST Web Service Development
Software architecture
JAD sessions
Data modelling techniques

Methodologies

Waterfall and Agile
Knowledge of OO design principles and development patterns

Tools

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

Processes

ITIL (Incident, Release, Problem Management)

Personal attributes and skills

Stress Management
Time management and prioritization
Learning orientation
Clean code thinking
Presentation and Facilitation Skills
Software testing pack design, functional testing

Education and Experience

Education

Matric (Essential)
3+ Year IT related Degree or Diploma (BSc/BTech or similar) or related experience (Essential)
Have worked on multiple published apps in the Play Store
3+ years of hands-on experience developing native apps for Android
Deep understanding of REST, JSON, HTTP and related mobile networking frameworks
Unit testing and mocking frameworks.
Knowledge of OO design principles and development patterns
Experience with agile development methodologies
Experience with automated testing tools and techniques
Experience in Kotlin beneficial
Experience with GIT
Have worked on at least 1 app published in the Play Store

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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