Android Developer

Responsibilities

• Help design, develop, and maintain complex mobile applications
• Develop with a focus on app performance and maintaining responsive UI
• Work with backend API developers
• Collaborate with product management, technical writers, and user experience designers
• Handle individual project priorities, deadlines and work you're doing
• Contribute to software quality, performance, and resilience through code reviews, test-driven development, continuous integration, and documentation

Technical skills

• 3-5 years experience in native Android development
• Familiarity with Android design principles, patterns, and best practices
• Experience working with Kotlin & Java
• Experience consuming REST APIs
• Expert understanding of the Android System APIs, Android app lifecycle
• Knowledge of open-source and commercial libraries commonly used in the Android ecosystem, including Android architecture components, jetpack libraries, okhttp, retrofit, dagger
• Developed and launched large scale consumer mobile applications
• Experience with unit testing
• Ability to think of the customer and the business in order to solve problems and get stuff done
• Strong team player with excellent communication skills in English
• Experience mentoring other engineers and sharing your expertise
• Familiarity with Agile Scrum/Kanban software development methodologies

Nice to have

• Experience with using RxJava, Clean Architecture principles
• Ability to make independent decisions based on product requirements.
• Testing skills (Unit tests, integration tests. Knowledge in testing frameworks)
• Ability to manage complexity in a large project, and incur technical debt only after considering the tradeoffs.