Senior Mobile Developer
Company Description
Issued by:
Cathay Pacific (Shenzhen) Information Technology Management Limited
Cathay is a leading premium travel lifestyle brand based in Hong Kong, offering products and services across four lines of business – Premium Travel, Cargo, Low-Cost Travel and Lifestyle. The Cathay Group comprises premium full-service airline Cathay Pacific, cargo business Cathay Cargo, low-cost airline HK Express, express all-cargo carrier Air Hong Kong, and various other subsidiaries.
At Cathay, we are committed to moving people forward in life — whether through travel experience, lifestyle products or career growth. Being part of Cathay is more than just a job, it’s a meaningful career journey toward realising your ambitions. Your skills will become a bridge that connects the world, opening up infinite possibilities along our customers’ life journeys. If you are seeking an opportunity to take flight, let your ambitions propel you higher and further.
Make Your Career Move, together with Cathay.
Notes:
- All Chinese mainland based positions are subject to local terms and conditions.
Role Introduction
The Senior Mobile Developer is responsible for building reliable, secure and highly-scalable IT systems for complex business problems by understanding and translating user needs into business and technical requirements and collaborating with crucial stakeholders to design, develop, test, integrate and implement these solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Collaborate with business users, internal technology teams and external vendors to identify fit-for-purpose, reliable, secure and highly-scalable IT solutions to complex business problems
- Analyze and translate user needs into business and technical requirements, design, develop and ensure smooth implementation through collaboration with business and IT stakeholders
- Participate in Scrum activities in various roles such as Scrum Master, Product Owner or Developer, subject to the assigned team structure
- Work independently during programme and project execution to ensure successful, on-time delivery by anticipating dependencies and impediments, prioritizing tasks, making trade-offs between business needs and constraints and managing work time efficiently
- Facilitate collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders through clear communication and documentation
- Plan, prioritize and deliver systems enhancements and bug fixes
- Provide Level 2 and 3 support, troubleshoot production systems and services
- Design, build, test and deploy mobile/web application and/or prototype following best practices
- Work closely with technical leads and architects to architect and develop the best technical design and approach for web/mobile applications
- Collaborate with other IT domains to drive innovation
E&A Responsibility
- Emergency and Accident and Crisis Response responsibilities as required
Requirements
Academic qualifications
- Bachelor’s (or equivalent education qualifications) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related disciplines
Knowledge, skills, training and experience
- Minimum 5 years of IT experience across entire software development lifecycle for delivery of complex software solutions
- Solid hands-on experience with web / mobile application development using modern technologies, e.g. Swift, React Native, React, AngularJS, Spring Boot and NodeJS in a containerized environments like Openshift and Docker
- Familiarity with common mobile platforms such as iOS, Android and cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure
- Advanced expertise in software development methodologies –Agile and DevOps is a must
- Strong understanding of current technology concepts, trends and capabilities
- Well-developed analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills, leveraging both logic and creativity
- Strong troubleshooting skills; ability to identify patterns and generate ideas
- Well organized, thrive in a sense-of-urgency environment, leverage best practices, and most importantly, innovate through any problem with a can-do attitude
- Experience in collaborating with multiple cross-functional and geographically dispersed teams
- Ability to interact professionally with diverse groups of stakeholders
- Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, strong verbal and written presentation skills
- Knowledge in security and compliance practices and technologies
- Airline knowledge is beneficial but not a must
Personal & Application Information
Cathay Pacific is an Equal Opportunities Employer. Personal data provided by job applicants will be used strictly in accordance with our Applicant Personal Information Collection Statement and for recruitment purposes only. Candidates not notified within eight weeks may consider their application unsuccessful. We keep records of your data for no longer than is necessary for the purpose for which we obtained them and any other permitted linked purposes. If your application is unsuccessful, we will keep your details on file for as long as is necessary to process your application or for the purposes of further job opportunities if you agree to such longer periods.
