Let's Write Africa's Story Together!
Old Mutual is a firm believer in the African opportunity and our diverse talent reflects this.
Job Description
In the role of a Lead Flutter Frontend Engineer, you will manage individual mobile project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables and will be responsible for designing, developing, testing, deploying, maintaining, and enhancing mobile software solutions.
You will be working in an Agile environment, partnering with cross-functional teams to define new mobile product requirements, features, and functionality.
In this lead level capacity, you will be expected to both act autonomously for day-to-day activities and guide engineers
in their day-to-day activities.
KEY RESULT AREAS
- Design and develop mobile solutions for software fixes and new features using test-driven development.
- Analyze user stories, provide realistic estimations, and participate in sprint planning, scrums, demos, and retrospectives.
- Create detailed mobile development documentation and assign tasks to team members.
- Create pull requests and perform code reviews for peers and related teams.
- Track and manage key performance indicators (KPIs) to ensure that mobile software and services are performing well.
- Write unit and UI tests for mobile code.
- Build well-designed, well-engineered, stable,
performant mobile applications using Flutter, Swift,
Kotlin, and/or Java. - Mentor and guide other team members to provide
oversight and direction. - Recommend improvements to mobile
architectures, processes, technologies, and coding
practices that improve the effectiveness of the
team. - Strong ability to maintain focus and problem solve in
a dynamic, fast-paced environment working with
cross-functional teams. - Understand the company's architectural vision and
how it helps meet technical and business
objectives.
ROLE REQUIREMENTS
- Matric
- Degree in Computer Science/ Engineering/
Mathematics or related (advantageous) - AWS components such as Lambda, SQS , Dynamo
DB - AWS API Gateway
- Knowledge of Rest API integrations
- Openapi, swagger
- GitHub actions for CI CD
- 3-5 years of experience in mobile application
development - Knowledge of, and experience in mobile frameworks
and technologies such as: - Flutter
- Experience with clean architecture and bloc
- Experience creating code bridges/channels
between native and flutter - Collaboration tools e.g., Confluence, Jira,
Microsoft Teams, Slack - Mobile and API Testing Frameworks
- Architecture and Design: Event Driven
Architecture / API First / Domain driven
design - Familiarity with architecture styles such as Serverless architectures
- Knowledge of coding design patterns and experience working with information architecture and design interfaces
- Ability to explain and articulate complex topics to
various levels stakeholders
Skills
Action Planning, Application Development, Business Process Design, Computer Literacy, Data Management, Data Modeling, Evaluating Information, Identifying Customer Needs, Information Technology (IT) Support, Market Analysis, Oral Communications, Product Development, Technical Support, Technical Troubleshooting, Test Case Management, User Requirements Documentation, Web Development
Competencies
Business Insight
Collaborates
Communicates Effectively
Courage
Cultivates Innovation
Decision Quality
Drives Results
Ensures Accountability
Education
Closing Date
29 November 2025 , 23:59
The appointment will be made from the designated group in line with the Employment Equity Plan of Old Mutual South Africa and the specific business unit in question.
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