# iOS Software Engineer at takealot.com

iOS Software Engineer at takealot.com in Cape Town. Hybrid. Posted October 23, 2025.

- Company: takealot.com
- Location: Cape Town
- Workplace: Hybrid
- Experience: 3+ years
- Posted: 2025-10-23
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/takealotcom/jobs/7317035
- Source: https://jobmagic.ai/jobs/ios-software-engineer-takealotcom-5nx4j5

## Requirements

- Information Technology or Computer Science Degree or equivalent of 5 years relevant experience.
- Minimum 3-5 years of experience for an Intermediate Software Engineer
- Minimum 5-8+ years of experience for a Senior Software Engineer coupled with tech lead experience
- Solid experience with SwiftUI

## Description

Mr D, a division of the Takealot Group, is looking for a highly talented** iOS Engineer **to join our team in Cape Town.

We are a young, dynamic, hyper-growth company looking for smart, creative, hard-working people with integrity to join us! 

**Think you’ve been challenged before? Think again!**

- **Scale**: Show the millions of Mr D customers what you can do 

- **Learn**: We work with the best of the best, and then some. Code alongside industry leaders and upskill in record time. 

- **Grow**: Expand your career in the fast-growing Takealot Group: takealot.com, Mr D & TFS. We like to promote from within: Here’s your chance. 

**Who’s who in the tech space**

This position reports to an Engineering Manager 

**Your mission, should you choose to accept it:**

- Take ownership, build, and maintain our bleeding-edge mobile e-commerce iOS application.

- Modernise legacy codebase and drive platform evolution

- Design, develop, and test code written in Swift

- Apply best practices and ensure the stability and security of the applications.

- Monitor and profile application performance.

- Take part in daily standups, with the ability to manage time and workload effectively.

- Collaborate with creative, content, and engineering teams to design and develop a world-class iOS mobile application.

- Publish applications to the Apple App Store

**The skills we need:**

- Strong programming fundamentals.

- Experience in architecting, developing, testing, and maintaining iOS mobile applications.

- Demonstrated best practices in the implementation of SwiftUI

- Experience with network requests to RESTful APIs (JSON) using best practices.

- Full understanding of the iOS application, view-controller, and tableview life-cycles.

- Appreciation of iOS-specific asynchronous processing techniques.

- Knowledge and Appreciation of iOS user experience design patterns.

- Experience using GIT version control.

- Experience developing in an Agile team environment

- Experience using CI/CD (CircleCI)

- Experience using Fastlane

- Experience using Cocoapods

- Experience using Swift Package Manager

- Github Actions

- Be accountable, engaging, and inventive.

- Work alongside a QA engineer regarding testing and product finalisation.

**Nice to have:**

- Experience with Figma and Miro.

- Experience with Google Maps, Firebase & Braze.

- Any Android experience.

- Experience using AI to generate and/or validate code

**Qualifications & Experience: **

- Information Technology or Computer Science Degree or equivalent of 5 years relevant experience. 

- Minimum 3-5 years of experience for an **Intermediate Software Engineer**

- Minimum 5-8+ years of experience for a **Senior Software Engineer **coupled with tech lead experience

- Solid experience with SwiftUI

**Let’s talk about life @ Mr D **

- **The power is in your hands**: We offer a market-related, Total Remuneration Package which allows full flexibility according to your needs. Go on, be the master of your own destiny.

- **No doors**: We aren’t fans of stuffy offices or siloed work environments. See someone you like? High five, collab, and make something great.

- **Remote working**: Love water cooler chats *and *working from home? We offer a hybrid working model for the best of both worlds.

- **Mentorship programme**: We aren’t kidding when we say the people with the best people win. Now’s your chance to be one of the best by learning from the best.

- **Naspers Tech Community& Online Learning**: Share ideas and grow with global industry leaders who are all just a Slack message away. Love to learn? Upskill with free access to courses on MyAcademy, Udacity, Coursera, and more.

- **Good times**: Get to know the other extraordinary minds in the takealot group during regular social events and out-of-office activities (think hikes, think mini golf, think good times).

- **Birthday leave**: Cake Day all the way. Enjoy your day off - you deserve it. 

- **TakealotMORE** Benefit 

- **Right tools, right job**: Mac or Windows, two monitors or one. Whatever your preference, you’ll work on the latest tech, off the latest tech.

- **Help when you need it most**: Confidential counselling, legal support and financial guidance, for free, anytime, anywhere. 

- **Tech stack (for days): **Angular, Python, Kotlin, Swift, AWS, Kafka, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, IoT, and all things machine learning. If you build it, they will come.

- **Free parking: **No more 5km fun runs to your desk (unless you want to). 

**Like what you see? **

If you meet the above you are an **Extraordinary Mind. **Apply today!!