Bluegrass

Mobile Developer

Bluegrass  •  Cape Town, ZA (Hybrid)  •  6 days ago
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Job Description

Cape Town (Hybrid – 3 days onsite)

Contract Position

Bluegrass Digital is looking for a strong Mobile Developer to join our delivery team on a contract basis. We’re looking for someone who thrives in fast-paced environments, builds scalable mobile applications, and enjoys collaborating with cross-functional teams to create high-quality digital products.

You’ll work on exciting projects across industries, partnering with designers, developers, QA, and product teams to deliver exceptional mobile experiences.

What You’ll Be Doing

  • Develop and maintain high-quality mobile applications
  • Collaborate with product owners, designers, and backend developers
  • Build reusable, scalable, and maintainable code
  • Participate in architecture and technical design discussions
  • Troubleshoot, debug, and optimize application performance
  • Ensure code quality through testing and peer reviews
  • Contribute to CI/CD and release processes
  • Stay up to date with mobile development trends and best practices

Tech Stack / Experience Required

  • React Native
  • Flutter
  • Kotlin / Android Development
  • Swift / iOS Development
  • Additional experience with:
  • REST APIs and third-party integrations
  • Firebase and push notifications
  • Git version control
  • Agile/Scrum environments
  • App Store / Google Play deployments
  • CI/CD pipelines

What We’re Looking For

  • 5+ years of mobile development experience
  • Strong understanding of mobile architecture and performance optimization
  • Ability to work independently and within a collaborative team
  • Strong communication skills
  • A proactive problem-solver with attention to detail
  • Comfortable working in a hybrid environment (3 days onsite)

Bonus Points

  • Experience working in digital agencies or consulting environments
  • Exposure to cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS
  • Experience building enterprise or customer-facing apps
  • UI/UX sensitivity and strong product thinking

Why Join Bluegrass?

At Bluegrass, we build impactful digital solutions for leading brands across the UK, EU, US, and South Africa. You’ll join a team that values innovation, collaboration, and delivering meaningful technology solutions — without the corporate red tape and endless bureaucracy that kills momentum.

If you’re passionate about mobile development and enjoy solving real business challenges through technology, we’d love to hear from you.

Bluegrass

About Bluegrass

Founded over 25 years ago, we are an independent digital solutions company that design and build products and platforms for ambitious brands. Our mission is to help our clients drive business growth using data-led user experiences, innovation and technology built to scale.

- We use the latest cloud technologies, predominately Azure Cloud Platform and are Microsoft Gold Partners

- We apply modern architecture principles into our solutions using React front-ends, API and headless driven solutions.

- We deliver digital experiences for websites using industry leading platforms such as Umbraco, Optimizely and WordPress

- We are Umbraco Gold Partners and Optimizely Silver Partners

- We deliver ecommerce platforms using modern headless architecture with tools like Optimizely, Umbraco Commerce, WooCommerce and other commerce tools.

- We have an experience mobile practice delivering cutting-edge mobile apps across iOS and Android for both B2B and B2C brands.

With offices in London, Cape Town and Johannesburg we work and support clients around the world from funded start-ups to large corporate enterprises. We are also a BEE Level 2 rated company.

We help deliver on design and technical execution of mobile and web solutions for customers like Allan Gray, Monster Energy, Clover, Kenya Airways, Coronation, Dineplan, DSTV, Johnson & Johnson and more.

Our service offerings cover the following areas:

- Strategy and digital transformation

- UX & UI Design

- Custom software development

- Mobile application development

- DXP & Content management systems

- Ecommerce solutions

- Azure DevOps & Managed Hosting Solutions

- Maintenance & Service Level Agreements

- Data analysis & insights (Google Cloud & CRM)

Industry
IT & Software
Company Size
51-200 employees
Headquarters
Cape Town, ZA
Year Founded
1996
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