Mobile Engineer

Location: Cape Town | Work Type: Office Based | Job ID: J107147 About our client: Our client is a well known local and international prestigious brand. With decades of continuous improvement and market dominance, they are big enough to have the budget to reward employees (very well) yet still dynamic and able to pivot as tech needs evolve. R&D is a big part of their investment strategy, they have implemented a flat organisational structure which provides both mentoring and freedom. Your ideas will be welcomed and supported. This is a new position within the organisation, you will have the ability to make this role your own. It is a permanent position, this client has a very low staff turnover and enjoys long term relationships with stakeholders across all levels. Employee wellness is very important to them as demonstrated by their excellent benefits which are defined as “company contributions” on top of your CTC earnings. They are very ethical, have a diverse culture and would certainly provide an interesting and exciting work day. What you will be doing: Design, build, and maintain mobile features using KMP to maximize shared business logic, domain, networking, and platform integration across Android and iOS. Implement platform-specific functionality while prioritising KMP code reuse, adhering to established architectural standards and patterns. Write clean, testable, and maintainable code; actively participate in code reviews to ensure high implementation quality. Take ownership of technical work from design through implementation, testing, release, and post-release support, including troubleshooting and defect fixing. Enhance application reliability, performance, observability, and maintainability; support mobile release processes and CI/CD automation. Partner with Product Managers, Designers, QA, Data, Operations, and backend teams for seamless end-to-end delivery, especially concerning API integration. Actively contribute to all agile ceremonies (planning, refinement, retrospectives) and contribute to engineering documentation and knowledge sharing. Clearly communicate progress, technical constraints, trade-offs, and potential delivery risks to the Engineering Lead and the team. Identify opportunities to reduce technical debt, simplify solutions, improve delivery speed, and enhance automated testing and code quality tooling. Ensure technical decisions support scalable delivery, and stay current with mobile engineering, the Kotlin ecosystem, and KMP best practices. What our client is looking for: 3+ years mobile software development experience with a proven track record of building production applications. Solid experience in cross-platform/shared-code environments, preferably with Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP), contributing to both Android and iOS delivery. Deep understanding of mobile architecture, design patterns, modularisation, and crafting maintainable software. Familiarity with agile frameworks and ability to function effectively as an individual contributor in cross-functional, product-led teams. Fluency in modern version control, peer code review, and collaborative engineering workflows. Exposure to mobile release management, CI/CD pipelines, crash reporting, and observability tooling. Strong empathy, active listening, and cultural fluency, essential for a high-touch, international VIP environment. Ability to remain calm and unhurried under pressure, during peak periods, or system failures. Talent for quickly turning challenges into opportunities and resolving issues before they impact the experience, combined with strong debugging skills. Strong attention to detail, combined with the flexibility to manage unpredictable changes in processes, resources, and last-minute VIP needs. For a more comprehensive list of opportunities that we have on offer, do visit our website - https://www.parvana.co.uk/careers Requirements Mobile Engineer, Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP), Cross-platform development, Android, iOS, CI/CD, Mobile architecture, Agile frameworks