OM Bank - Lead Flutter Front-end Engineer

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

Skills

Action Planning, Action Planning, Adaptive Thinking, Agile Project Management, Budget Management, Change Management, Current State Assessment, Data Compilation, Evaluating Information, Executing Plans, Futures Thinking, Gap Analysis, IT Implementation, Learning and Development (L&D), Managing Stakeholder Expectations, Oral Communications, Policies & Procedures, Project Life Cycle Management, Project Performance Management (PM), Project Quality Assurance, Project Reporting, Project Risk Management, Project Schedule Management, Project Scope Management, Project Strategy {+ 1 more}

Competencies

Business Insight

Collaborates

Communicates Effectively

Courage

Cultivates Innovation

Customer Focus

Decision Quality

Develops Talent

Education

Closing Date

14 April 2026 , 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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