Al Futtaim Jobs - UAE National | IOS Andriod - Developer (Dubai, AE)

Job Requisition ID: 39704 

No two days are the same at Al-Futtaim, no matter what role you have. Our work is driven by the desire to make a difference and to have a meaningful impact with the goal of enriching everyday lives. Take our engaging and supportive work environment and couple it with a company culture that recognises and rewards quality performance, and what do you get? The chance to push the limits every single day.

 

As a humble family business that started on the banks of the Dubai Creek in the 1930s, Al-Futtaim has expanded to a presence in 31 countries, a portfolio of over 200 companies, and 42,000 employees. You’ll find us in industries ranging from automotive and retail, to finance and real estate, and connecting people with international names like Lexus, Ikea, Robinsons, and Adidas. Our team is proudly multicultural and multinational because that kind of diverse representation gives us the global mindset to grow and impact the people, markets, and trends around us.

 

Come join us to live well, work better, and be the best.

About the Role:

The application developer will be part of mobility front-end team, which have an end-to-end responsibility of building and delivering the front-end of all Al-Futtaim B2B, B2E and B2C mobile apps.

 

Our application developers have a passion to push mobile technologies to the limits. In addition to adhering to exceptionally high engineering standards, you are expected to build the application in a largely scalable manner, high quality, good application performance and applying best-in-class usability standards and practices.

 

Education:

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication, Computer Science or similar

 

Responsibilities:

• Design and build advanced, scalable applications for the iOS/Android platform.
• Collaborate with the product and design teams to understand end-user requirements and use cases and translate them pragmatic and effective technical solutions.
• Integrate with our backend services (JSON, REST, etc.) to make sure we are delivering a great mobile user experience that is super-fast for end users.
• Own end-to-end product modules/features from requirement to going live.
• Design and review code, troubleshoot and act as a consultant to team members on technical matters.
• Gather requirements by interacting directly with the end users and advocate delightful user experiences.
• You continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.
• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability.
• Some understanding of Xamarin and  Hybrid application development frameworks.
   
  The ideal candidate will have a passionate commitment to improving the lives of people, an insane focus on excellence and customer service, and a strong alignment with our core values: being bold, focused, agile and collaborative.
   
  Experience and Knowledge: 
• 5+ years of iOS/Android application development, with solid experience of Swift, I/O, collections, algorithms and well-known application frameworks.
• Strong understanding of interactive application development paradigm under iOS/Android, memory management, file I/O, network programming, concurrency and multithreading.
• Experience in iOS/Android-specific application development and publishing iOS/Android apps.
• Good understanding of design patterns.
• Excellent understanding of the full mobile development life cycle. Working knowledge of the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies.
• Experience in working with third-party libraries and APIs.
• Strong and innovative approach to problem solving and finding solutions. Flexible and proactive/self-motivated working style with strong personal ownership of problem resolution.
• Excellent communicator (written and verbal, formal and informal).
• Highly accountable and takes ownership, with collaborative attitude, and a lifelong learner.

 

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