Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain high-performance, reusable, and reliable code.
• Translate designs and wireframes into high-quality code.
• Ensure optimal performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications.
• Identify and troubleshoot bottlenecks and bugs.
• Maintain code quality and organisation and implement automation processes.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and ship new features.
• Monitor app performance and user feedback for continuous improvement.

• Perform code reviews within the project teams.
• Manage and/or mentor junior members of the team.

Required Skills:

• Strong knowledge of Android SDK and experience with different Android versions (+14).
• Proficiency in Java, Kotlin and C.
• Experience in working with GMS and publishing of Android applications.
• Knowledge of cloud messaging APIs and push notifications (Firebase).
• Knowledge of the open-source Android ecosystem (AOSP) and libraries.
• Experience with third-party libraries and APIs. Understanding of direct integration into low-level hardware/systems components and functionality.
• Experience with RESTful APIs to connect Android applications to back-end services.
• Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning.
• Ensure software stability via regression, support quality assurance, and perform unit and user-acceptance testing to identify bugs and ensure production operations run successfully.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.

Additional Skills:

• Familiarity with continuous integration and development processes. Understanding of the complete mobile development life cycle.
• Work quickly and carefully to complete small edits requested by customers, develop plans for completing larger projects, collaborate with colleagues, and suggest new solutions to improve existing applications.
• Partaking in Rapid development projects and prototyping
• Perform UI designs and coding, creating reusable objects and templates, wireframes for applications and email templates; manage maintenance, updates, expansions, and scaling of each design. Understanding of Android UI design principles and best practices.
• Meet regularly with business stakeholders and management to understand and refine business and functional requirements and determine project scopes and specifications.
• Maintain updated knowledge of new and emerging industry trends and technology.

Qualifications:

• BSC Degree / Diploma Computer Science OR
• Associate Android Developer, ACAD (or similar Certification)

Experience:

• +5 years

• Android development experience
• AOSP, GMS and low-level SDK / library integration
• API integration (Backend)

• Experience with REST/SOAP web services and Swagger
• Object Orientated Design
• Source code management (GitHub)

Behavioural Competencies:

• Able to work alone (unsupervised) and/or within a large team
• Work at speed for rapid prototyping
• Continuous learning / Self improvement
• Building and maintaining open relationships & communication lines
• Initiative, Persistence/ Follow through
• Well-spoken/ good written communication skills
• Conceptual thinking

Technical Competencies:

• Java
• Kotlin
• C

Level of Work / Constructs:

• Agile orientated
• Fast and logical thinker
• Goal Driven

Location:

• Some level of on-site work will be required.
• Be able to work across multiple time-zones / flexitime when required.

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