Magnificent Seven joins Global Kinetic

Magnificent Seven joins Global Kinetic

We are proud and pleased to announce and welcome the ‘magnificent seven’ to the team here at Global Kinetic.

Niel takes on the role of senior iOS developer; Jason will be serving the company as a Scrum master; Unakho joins the development department as a junior Java developer; Kyle as a production support manager; Juwairiah dons the hat of mid-QA; Christopher is our new senior front-end developer; and  Fundile will be the company’s new junior Android developer.

With a growth of over 40% in headcount and profit over the past two years, we are constantly looking to increase our human capital in order to meet the demands of our rapid expansion in the Fintech space.

Martin Dippenaar, CEO of Global Kinetic says: “Our newcomers often come highly recommended by our current and previous members of the GK team. Having people recommend us to their friends and ex-colleagues as a great place to work at is probably the best compliment we can have.”

About Global Kinetic

Launching a rocket from a lighthouse

Achieving the seemingly impossible, a group of highly fuelled people work together at Global Kinetic to spearhead and develop brilliant products, including some that seriously disrupt the market.  One of the coolest places to work, this company has the nicest people creating amazing apps and products, which they do with flair and sheer professionalism, mixed with a dash of fun.

Steeped in expertise*, Global Kinetic makes both end-users and their clients equally happy because they get the stuff right every time.  They designed and created the world’s first fully immersive gamified children’s mobile banking app in Unity for Standard Bank as one example; in another they designed and developed PayToday, the Venmo for Southern Africa.  They’ve built slick and powerful mobile banking experiences for Old Mutual, Bidvest Bank and many more.

Global Kinetic is a leading software engineering company with a team of just under 100 tech-savvy and inspired developers, designers and creatives. They have great offices in Century City as well as in Palo Alto in the US.

*Global Kinetic (GK) provides solutions across the application stack, predominantly .NET or Java deployed to Azure, AWS or physical infrastructure on the enterprise side, and native or hybrid technologies on the mobile side for Apple, Android and Windows Phone.  GK implements SCRUM on all customer projects and provides professional services around the delivery, quality assurance, test automation, requirements gathering, analysis, UX/UI design and architecture.

To find out more on Global Kinetic please visit the website http://www.globalkinetic.com/