21 Iphone Developer jobs in South Africa

• Build, test, and maintain applications for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets, focusing on creating user-friendly, functional, and high-performing experiences. T
• App Design and Development: Translate product requirements and design mockups into functional mobile apps.
• Coding: Write, modify, and test code for the application, ensuring it meets specifications.
• Collaboration: Work with UI/UX designers, graphic designers, and backend teams to develop comprehensive app solutions.
• API Integration: Develop and integrate Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to enable communication and data exchange with backend systems.
• Testing and Debugging: Conduct rigorous testing to identify and fix bugs and other issues, ensuring the app is stable and performs well.
• Maintenance and Updates: Continuously improve and update existing applications based on user feedback and evolving requirements.
• Performance Optimization: Optimize code and app performance, including factors like battery usage and responsiveness.

Key Skills

• Programming Languages: Proficiency in languages such as Java, Kotlin, Swift, C#, or JavaScript, depending on the platform.

Job Type: Part-time

Pay: R5 000,00 - R30 000,00 per month

Expected hours: 10 per week

Application Question(s):

• must be orginized and tidy by nature

Experience:

• app development : 3 years (Required)

License/Certification:

• driving licence (Preferred)
• certification (Preferred)

Work Location: Remote

Job Title: Mobile App Developer (Contract)

About the Role

We're seeking an experienced Mobile App Developer to join our team on a contract basis. You'll be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining high-quality mobile applications for iOS and/or Android platforms. This role involves working closely with designers, product managers, and backend engineers to create seamless, user-friendly mobile experiences.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain mobile applications for iOS and/or Android.
• Collaborate with UI/UX designers to build intuitive, visually appealing user interfaces.
• Integrate mobile apps with RESTful APIs or other backend services.
• Ensure performance, security, and scalability of mobile applications.
• Test, debug, and troubleshoot issues across multiple devices and OS versions.
• Contribute to the improvement of development processes and best practices.

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional experience in mobile app development.
• Proficiency in one or more of the following:
• Native Development: Swift/Objective-C (iOS), Kotlin/Java (Android)
• Cross-Platform: React Native, Flutter, Xamarin
• Strong understanding of mobile UI/UX principles.
• Experience with API integration and asynchronous programming.
• Familiarity with version control systems (Git).
• Ability to write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience publishing apps to App Store and/or Google Play.
• Knowledge of push notifications, in-app purchases, and analytics integrations.
• Familiarity with automated testing and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with cloud services (Firebase, AWS, Azure).

Job Type: Temporary

Contract length: 12 months

Pay: R800,00 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

Work Location: Remote

We are seeking a skilled
Hybrid Mobile App Developer (Android & iOS)
to build and maintain mobile applications for both Android and iOS platforms. The ideal candidate will work closely with our design and backend teams to deliver a seamless, high-performance mobile experience. The backend is fully developed and exposed via APIs, so the focus will be on frontend development, integration, and optimization.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain hybrid mobile applications using frameworks like
  Flutter
  , or
  React Native(
  Preferable
  )
  .
• Integrate RESTful APIs provided by the backend team.
• Collaborate with UI/UX designers to implement responsive and intuitive interfaces.
• Optimize app performance across devices and platforms.
• Implement push notifications, offline capabilities, and device-specific features.
• Conduct testing and debugging to ensure app stability and performance.
• Deploy apps to
  Google Play Store
  and
  Apple App Store
  , including handling certificates and provisioning profiles.
• Maintain documentation for code, APIs, and deployment processes.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Proven experience in hybrid mobile app development (Flutter or React Native (Preferable)).
• Strong knowledge of mobile UI/UX standards and best practices.
• Experience with API integration and state management (e.g., Redux, Provider, Bloc, ZusStand).
• Familiarity with mobile app deployment processes for Android and iOS.
• Proficient in Git and version control workflows.
• Understanding of mobile security and data protection practices.
• Experience with third-party libraries and native modules.
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Rest API's.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools for mobile apps.
• Knowledge of native Android (Kotlin/Java) or iOS (Swift) development is a plus.
• Experience with analytics and crash reporting tools (e.g., Sentry, Firebase Crashlytics).

Absolute Pets is looking for an intermediate, native mobile application developer to build and maintain a white-labelled iOS and Android application for our clients. The ideal candidate for this position is a hands-on professional with strong communication skills and an intimate knowledge of Android development using Android Studio (Java) and iOS development using Xcode (Swift). This role will report to the current mobile application developer and is primarily a remote development role.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Creating, developing and maintaining native Android and iOS applications for the business in line with client requirements.
• Writing clean, scalable and maintainable code while adhering to coding and business best practices.
• Troubleshooting, debugging and optimising application performance.
• Ensuring applications are fit-for-purpose, stable and secure through thorough testing, code reviews and version control (Git).
• App deployment management and monitoring.
• Working with clients, consultants and designers to achieve business and client objectives.

Required Skills and Experience

• 3+ years in application development and testing of Android and iOS applications
• Strong teamwork and leadership skills
• Android Studio (Java)
• Xcode (Swift)
• RESTful API development and integration
• GitHub or a similar code repository toolset

Advantageous Skills and Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science (or related field) plus 2-3 years' relevant experience
• Firebase for Push Notifications and Analytics
• Kotlin
• Objective-C
• Experience with scalable application architecture and coding practices
• Front-end application user interface design
• Back-end application design and architecture

Overview

We are seeking a highly organized and results-driven
App Development Project Manager
to oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of mobile and/or web applications. The ideal candidate will act as the bridge between stakeholders, designers, developers, and QA teams, ensuring projects are completed on time, within scope, and aligned with business goals.

Key Responsibilities

• Project Planning & Execution
• Define project scope, goals, deliverables, and timelines in collaboration with stakeholders.
• Create detailed project roadmaps, sprint plans, and resource allocation schedules.
• Monitor project progress and adjust schedules or scope when necessary.
• Team Management & Collaboration
• Lead cross-functional teams including developers, UI/UX designers, QA engineers, and business analysts.
• Facilitate daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Ensure clear communication between technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Quality & Delivery
• Implement best practices for Agile (Scrum/Kanban) or hybrid project management methodologies.
• Track milestones, manage risks, and ensure quality assurance testing before release.
• Oversee app deployment to App Store, Google Play, or web platforms.
• Stakeholder Management
• Gather and document requirements from clients or business leaders.
• Provide regular project updates and performance reports.
• Manage expectations on timelines, costs, and deliverables.
• Risk & Budget Management
• Anticipate potential project blockers and proactively implement solutions.
• Manage project budgets, contracts, and vendor relationships when applicable.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business, or related field preferred.
• 1-2 years of project management experience, preferably in
  mobile/web app development
  .
• Strong understanding of
  Agile, Scrum, and/or Kanban
  methodologies.
• Proficiency with project management tools (e.g., Jira, Trello, Asana, MS Project).
• Familiarity with
  mobile/web technologies
  (iOS, Android, APIs, cloud platforms).
• Excellent communication, leadership, and organizational skills.
• PMP, CSM, or other project management certifications (preferred but not mandatory).

• Collaborate with stakeholders to plan, design, and implement high-quality, maintainable iOS applications throughout the software lifecycle.
• Develop, test, and deploy code following best practices, coding standards, and CI/CD processes, including automated testing and DevOps.
• Track progress, report on project status, and communicate effectively with team members and stakeholders.
• Participate in peer code reviews, mentor colleagues, and contribute to team knowledge sharing and problem-solving.
• Ensure compliance with quality standards, regulatory requirements, and maintain accurate documentation for all systems and processes

• Programming Languages and Concepts
• Swift (Advanced)
• Concurrency - Grand Central Dispatch (GCD), Operation Queues, Tasks
• Memory Management
• iOS best practices
• iOS Frameworks and SDKs
• Animation - Core Animation/ SwiftUI animation

Business Unit: Discovery Central Services

Function: Development (Oracle/Delphi/Magic/etc)

Date: 21 Oct 2025

Discovery – Group Information Services - Digital Channels

Senior iOS Developer – Mobile Team

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 Digital Channels

Working in a high performance organization that prides itself in attracting the finest talent, we challenge ourselves to find solutions that make a difference in the world. Our environment is always buzzing with energy and smart, motivated people working on finding the best way to move forward.

The Digital Channels team works on dynamic new projects and product enhancements within the web and mobile platforms in order to improve business inefficiencies, gain competitive advantage on our products and ultimately to provide better service to our clients. Using knowledge of the organization's technology infrastructure and specific software applications, Application Platform Services helps the business to address changes through technologies.

Key Purpose

This team is responsible for the Discovery member application published to the Play Store. They work with other Discovery business units to deliver innovative solutions to all members.

Within the Digital system area, the iOS 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.

iOS developers support the projects throughout the project lifecycle, including requirements, design, implementation, release, and post release support.

iOS developers in the Digital area must be able to technically support and maintain the deployed applications on dev, test and production environments.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

Senior iOS developers must have a competent understanding of:

• The system development life cycle and can explain the developer's role in each stage
• The defined system development tools, processes and workflows
• The distinction between business, functional and non-functional requirements and how to implement them
• The importance of delivering high quality source code and how to achieve it
• The technologies used and the systems components structure
• The domain and business terminologies and link them back to system implementations

Senior iOS developers should be able to demonstrate that they can:

• Develop, test, and maintain the deployed application software with high quality

• Collaborate with product managers and designers to ensure a successful, high-quality product and great user experience

• Analyse, maintain and enhance existing application and troubleshoot issues with efficiency.

• Perform accurate development estimation

• Produce technical specifications and designs. Participate in new business development through ideation, prototype development, and project estimates

• Research new techniques, tools, and best practices and share that knowledge with the team and community
• Maintain high standards
• Analytical and problem solving skills
• Self-starter who takes ownership, is accountable, and is able to work under minimum supervision
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Can help with quality assurance and provide comments Within 6 months of being in the position, a senior iOS developer should be able to demonstrate strong domain knowledge and technologies in relation to the environment that they work in.

Personal Attributes and Skills

Behavioral Skills

• Excellent written and oral communication skills (English)
• Ability to work in a self-driven, complex environment with multiple and changing priorities
• Ability to focus on deadlines and deliverables
• Ability to think abstractly
• Ability and desire to quickly learn new technologies
• Clean code thinking

Technical Skills

• Project Management
• Business Writing Skills
• Presentation and Facilitation Skills
• Process Mapping
• Software testing pack design, functional testing

Responsibilities

• Maintain and extend existing development activities
• Work with customers to determine project requirements
• Design software to fulfil customer requirements
• Develop software from requirements and specifications
• Find and repair software defects; unit testing, UI automation testing
• Stay current with Apple and iOS standards and guidelines
• Documenting development work done

Education and Experience

Minimum

• Informatics degree or Diploma
• 4+ years' experience developing iOS applications

Advantageous

• 2+ years' user interface analyst experience
• Software Engineering related degree/qualification
• Honours degree
• Business experience and product knowledge
• Experience in Objective-C is beneficial

Methodologies

• Waterfall and Agile
• Knowledge of OO design principles and development patterns

Tools

• SoapUI (SOAP) / REST client (JSON)
• XCode
• Atlassian tool suite (Jira, Confluence)

Technologies

• iOS

• UML

• XML, JSON

• SOAP and REST Web Service Development

Other

• Software architecture
• JAD sessions
• Data modelling techniques

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.

Discovery – Group Information Services - Digital Channels

Senior iOS Developer – Mobile Team
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 Digital Channels
Working in a high performance organization that prides itself in attracting the finest talent, we challenge ourselves to find solutions that make a difference in the world. Our environment is always buzzing with energy and smart, motivated people working on finding the best way to move forward.

The Digital Channels team works on dynamic new projects and product enhancements within the web and mobile platforms in order to improve business inefficiencies, gain competitive advantage on our products and ultimately to provide better service to our clients. Using knowledge of the organization's technology infrastructure and specific software applications, Application Platform Services helps the business to address changes through technologies.

Key Purpose
This team is responsible for the Discovery member application published to the Play Store. They work with other Discovery business units to deliver innovative solutions to all members.

Within the Digital system area, the iOS 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.

iOS developers support the projects throughout the project lifecycle, including requirements, design, implementation, release, and post release support.

iOS developers in the Digital area must be able to technically support and maintain the deployed applications on dev, test and production environments.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to
Senior IOS Developers Must Have a Competent Understanding Of

• The system development life cycle and can explain the developer's role in each stage
• The defined system development tools, processes and workflows
• The distinction between business, functional and non-functional requirements and how to implement them
• The importance of delivering high quality source code and how to achieve it
• The technologies used and the systems components structure
• The domain and business terminologies and link them back to system implementations

Senior iOS developers should be able to demonstrate that they can:

• Develop, test, and maintain the deployed application software with high quality
• Collaborate with product managers and designers to ensure a successful, high-quality product and great user experience
• Analyse, maintain and enhance existing application and troubleshoot issues with efficiency.
• Perform accurate development estimation
• Produce technical specifications and designs. Participate in new business development through ideation, prototype development, and project estimates
• Research new techniques, tools, and best practices and share that knowledge with the team and community
• Maintain high standards
• Analytical and problem solving skills
• Self-starter who takes ownership, is accountable, and is able to work under minimum supervision
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Can help with quality assurance and provide comments Within 6 months of being in the position, a senior iOS developer should be able to demonstrate strong domain knowledge and technologies in relation to the environment that they work in.

Personal Attributes And Skills
Behavioral Skills

• Excellent written and oral communication skills (English)
• Ability to work in a self-driven, complex environment with multiple and changing priorities
• Ability to focus on deadlines and deliverables
• Ability to think abstractly
• Ability and desire to quickly learn new technologies
• Clean code thinking

Technical Skills

• Project Management
• Business Writing Skills
• Presentation and Facilitation Skills
• Process Mapping
• Software testing pack design, functional testing

Responsibilities

• Maintain and extend existing development activities
• Work with customers to determine project requirements
• Design software to fulfil customer requirements
• Develop software from requirements and specifications
• Find and repair software defects; unit testing, UI automation testing
• Stay current with Apple and iOS standards and guidelines
• Documenting development work done

Education And Experience
Minimum

• Informatics degree or Diploma
• 4+ years' experience developing iOS applications

Advantageous

• 2+ years' user interface analyst experience
• Software Engineering related degree/qualification
• Honours degree
• Business experience and product knowledge
• Experience in Objective-C is beneficial

Methodologies

• Waterfall and Agile
• Knowledge of OO design principles and development patterns

Tools

• SoapUI (SOAP) / REST client (JSON)
• XCode
• Atlassian tool suite (Jira, Confluence)

Technologies

• iOS
• UML
• XML, JSON
• SOAP and REST Web Service Development

Other

• Software architecture
• JAD sessions
• Data modelling techniques

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.

Job & Company Description:

An opportunity has become available for a
Senior IOS Developer
to join a fast growing company based in Gauteng
(Remote Role)
. The successful candidate will play an integral part in building native applications which will be integrated with various hardware applications through bluetooth connectivity. The successful candidate will also form part of the team who will enforce new ground breaking mobile applications that will enhance overall client satisfaction.

Job Experience & Skills Required:

• Diploma or Bachelor Degree in IT
• 5+ years' in IOS Development
• SwiftUI, Objective C is non-negotiable

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