<img id="photoDetail" src="https://www.discovery.co.za/gallery/template-resources/banners/general/smartpeople-recruit.jpg" style="width:1250.0px;height:301.0px"> <a name="_Hlk160181012"></a>Discovery – Insure Android Developer – Talent Pool 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 sectors. Vitality Drive, an internationally-recognised and award-winning programme, is a key differentiator in the market that incentivizes 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 but not limited to: <ul style="margin-top:6.0pt;margin-bottom:1.0 E-4pt"> <li style="margin:6.0pt 0.0in 1.0 E-4pt 0.0px;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Open Sans', sans-serif;color:#6d6e71">The system development life cycle and can explain the Android developer role in each stage</li> <li style="margin:6.0pt 0.0in 1.0 E-4pt 0.0px;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Open Sans', sans-serif;color:#6d6e71">The defined system development tools, processes and workflows</li> <li style="margin:6.0pt 0.0in 1.0 E-4pt 0.0px;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Open Sans', sans-serif;color:#6d6e71">The distinction between business, functional and non-functional requirements and how to implement them</li> <li style="margin:6.0pt 0.0in 1.0 E-4pt 0.0px;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Open Sans', sans-serif;color:#6d6e71">The importance of delivering high quality source code and how to achieve it</li> <li style="margin:6.0pt 0.0in 1.0 E-4pt 0.0px;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Open Sans', sans-serif;color:#6d6e71">The technologies used and the systems components structure</li> <li style="margin:6.0pt 0.0in 1.0 E-4pt 0.0px;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Open Sans', sans-serif;color:#6d6e71">The domain and business terminologies and link them back to system implementations.</li> </ul> Knowledge and Skills Technologies <ul style="margin-top:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in"> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;background-color:white;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Android, Java, Kotlin</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;background-color:white;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">WebLogic, Apache </li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;background-color:white;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">UML</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;background-color:white;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">XML, JSON</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;background-color:white;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">SOAP and REST Web Service Development</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;background-color:white;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Software architecture</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;background-color:white;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">JAD sessions</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;background-color:white;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Data modelling techniques </li> </ul> Methodologies <ul style="margin-top:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in"> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;background-color:white;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Waterfall and Agile</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;background-color:white;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Knowledge of OO design principles and development patterns</li> </ul> Tools <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="line-height:normal;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Open Sans', sans-serif;color:#6d6e71">SoapUI (SOAP) / REST client (JSON)</li> <li style="line-height:normal;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Open Sans', sans-serif;color:#6d6e71">Android Studio</li> <li style="line-height:normal;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Open Sans', sans-serif;color:#6d6e71">Atlassian tool suite (Jira, Confluence)</li> </ul> Processes <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;line-height:120%;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Open Sans', sans-serif;color:#6d6e71">ITIL (Incident, Release, Problem Management)</li> </ul> Personal Attributes <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="line-height:normal;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Open Sans', sans-serif;color:#6d6e71">Stress Management</li> <li style="line-height:normal;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Open Sans', sans-serif;color:#6d6e71">Time management and prioritization</li> <li style="line-height:normal;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Open Sans', sans-serif;color:#6d6e71">Creativeness</li> <li style="line-height:normal;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Open Sans', sans-serif;color:#6d6e71">Learning orientation</li> <li style="line-height:normal;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Open Sans', sans-serif;color:#6d6e71">Negotiation skills</li> <li style="line-height:normal;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Open Sans', sans-serif;color:#6d6e71">Innovation</li> <li style="line-height:normal;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Open Sans', sans-serif;color:#6d6e71">Clean code thinking</li> <li style="line-height:normal;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Open Sans', sans-serif;color:#6d6e71">Presentation and Facilitation Skills</li> <li style="line-height:normal;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Open Sans', sans-serif;color:#6d6e71">Software testing pack design, functional testing</li> </ul> Education and Experience Education: <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="line-height:normal;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Open Sans', sans-serif;color:#6d6e71">Matric (Essential)</li> <li style="line-height:normal;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Open Sans', sans-serif;color:#6d6e71">3+ Year IT related Degree or Diploma (BSc/BTech or similar) or related experience (Essential) </li> </ul> Experience: <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="line-height:normal;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Open Sans', sans-serif;color:#6d6e71">2+ years’ experience developing Android applications </li> <li style="line-height:normal;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Open Sans', sans-serif;color:#6d6e71">Have worked on multiple published apps in the Play Store</li> <li style="line-height:normal;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Open Sans', sans-serif;color:#6d6e71">3+ years of hands-on experience developing native apps for Android</li> <li style="line-height:normal;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Open Sans', sans-serif;color:#6d6e71">Deep understanding of REST, JSON, HTTP and related mobile networking frameworks</li> <li style="line-height:normal;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Open Sans', sans-serif;color:#6d6e71">Unit testing and mocking frameworks.</li> <li style="line-height:normal;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Open Sans', sans-serif;color:#6d6e71">Knowledge of OO design principles and development patterns</li> <li style="line-height:normal;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Open Sans', sans-serif;color:#6d6e71">Experience with agile development methodologies</li> <li style="line-height:normal;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Open Sans', sans-serif;color:#6d6e71">Experience with automated testing tools and techniques</li> <li style="line-height:normal;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Open Sans', sans-serif;color:#6d6e71">Experience in Kotlin beneficial</li> <li style="line-height:normal;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Open Sans', sans-serif;color:#6d6e71">Experience with GIT</li> <li style="line-height:normal;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Open Sans', sans-serif;color:#6d6e71">Have worked on at least 1 app published in the Play Store </li> </ul>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.

Android Developer - Talent Pool (Sandton - 1 Discovery Place, GP, ZA, 2196) @ Discovery

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