Job Description

Sporty Group

Partnered with some of the World's greatest Champions including Real Madrid FC, Michael Essien and Eder Militao, we're on the lookout for some Champions of our own to be a part of the 'Top Ranked Fastest Growing and Most Successful Online Gaming Brand in the World'. Home to SportyBet, SportyTV, Sporty.com, Football.com and the newly launched SportyFM, we continue to lead with innovation and exclusive sports content.

Sporty is expanding and we're building the world's go to platform for everyday entertainment.

Sporty plans to launched its first iOS app to its millions of users at the end of January 2021. As an iOS developer in our team, you'll be on the ground floor for the greenfield development of one of Africa's most popular iOS apps.

Who We Are

Sporty Group is a consumer internet and technology business with an unrivalled sports media, gaming, social and fintech platform which serves millions of daily active users across the globe via technology and operations hubs across more than 10 countries and 3 continents.

The recipe for our success is to discover intelligent and energetic people, who are passionate about our products and serving our users, and attract and retain them with a dynamic and flexible work life which empowers them to create value and rewards them generously based upon their contribution.

We have already built a capable and proven team of 300+ high achievers from a diverse set of backgrounds and we are looking for more talented individuals to drive further growth and contribute to the innovation, creativity and hard work that currently serves our users further via their grit and innovation.

Our Stack

Languages: Swift
Architecture: MVC, MVVM
Layout: Programmatic UI, Xib
Testing: XCTest
Dependency management: Swift Package Manager
CI/CD: Fastlane, Github Action, Jenkins

Responsibilities

Collaborate with Product Managers, Designers and Backend Engineers to design and deliver high-quality products on iOS

Build end-to-end features of the app, such as networking, persistence, business logic and UI

Prepare and maintain documents that include architectural diagrams and navigation maps in your area of expertise

Analyse and prepare recommendations to address existing and potential issues in systems and procedures across the organisation, as well as design and recommend new solutions

Participate in code reviews with team members to ensure that each increment adheres to original vision as described in the user story and all standard resource libraries and architecture patterns as appropriate

Mentor less experienced team members

Requirements

2+ years of professional experience developing consumer-facing iOS applications using Swift

Experience developing, delivering, and supporting native iOS applications by integrating REST APIs, push notifications and multithreaded experiences

Solid foundation around software engineering fundamentals, object-oriented programming, MVC architecture, and iOS design patterns

Deep understanding of multi-threading, memory management, networking, caching, performance optimisation, localisation, and security for mobile applications

A creative approach to problem solving and crafting simplified solutions

Excellent verbal and written communication and collaboration skills to effectively communicate with both business and technical teams

Previous history of working with a remote, distributed team would be beneficial

Bonus Requirements

Experience with mobile video playback and streaming technologies

Experience with reactive programming, e.g. RxSwift, Combine

Experience with AVFoundation, CoreData, WKWebView

Experience with TCP / IP socket
What's In It For You

uD83DuDCCD Sporty is a remote first company in pursuit of sustainability
uD83DuDCB0 A competitive salary + individual performance based bonuses every quarter
uD83CuDF34 28 days paid annual leaveOur core working hours are 10am-3pm in your local time zone with flexibility outside of this

uD83DuDCDD Referral bonuses & flash bonuses
uD83DuDCBB Top of the line equipment
uD83CuDF0D Annual company retreats to provide great internal networking opportunities

Interview Process

Remote video screening with our Talent Acquisition Team
Offline Take home assignment
Remote video interview with Team Members (60 Mins)
Final discussion with the hiring manager (60 mins)

Personalised Support

We're committed to making our recruitment process accessible to everyone. If you need any adjustments or accommodations during the application or interview process, please let us know.

Your Move

If you're excited about this role, even if you don't meet every requirement, we'd still love to hear from you. We understand candidates may hesitate to apply if they don't meet all requirements, however your unique perspective is what helps us innovate and grow together.

If you're interested, we encourage you to apply! Every application is reviewed by a member of our team (AI is not used in our recruitment process), and we aim to respond within 48 hours.