Senior Android Developer

Job description / Role

Role purpose

Android software engineers will have a range of responsibilities from shaping and implementing digital products to ensuring that we stay on the leading edge of technology. Our engineers contribute across the full technology stack, from database and DevOps infrastructure that supports continuous deployment, over native apps, to front end development. As a senior developer you will work in a cross-functional team with the product owner, designers and engineers to co-develop the digital products.

Key accountabilities of the role

• Use agile engineering practices and various software and mobile development technologies to rapidly develop creative and efficient solutions that enhance the client, customer and employee experience.
• Work in a team to craft clear user stories, design tests for prototypes and products, and continuously deliver product enhancements.
• Liaise with other teams within and outside the digital unit to negotiate timelines, deliverables and dependencies.
• Collaborate closely with product owners, designers and team members to identify and socialize product and delivery risks.
• Drive forward and role-model best practice engineering processes and agile behavior, ensuring team members follow suit.
• Communicate with business stakeholders about agile processes to set and manage expectations about delivery methods and timelines.
• Own and drive best practice in terms of automation such as continuous integration and deployment.

Specialist skills / technical knowledge, technical competencies required for this role

• Real passion for development and a demonstrated appetite for continual learning.
• Knowledge of pair programming, continuous integration and test-driven development.
• Familiarity with the concepts of functional programming and microservices is a plus.
• Community contributions (e.g., open source work, GitHub, StackOverflow, publishing / speaking on technical ideas) is a plus.
• Should be a change agent that always challenges status quo.
• Fluent in English.

Previous experience

• At least 7 years of software development experience with experience working in agile teams using SCRUM.
• Experience in leading and managing a team of developers.
• Extensive mobile development experience using Android, Android Studio and Gradle to develop both phone and tablet apps.
• Extensive experience with Android SDK, Google Play Services, and Android Compatibility Library.
• Experience in Android development patterns including Java OOP, MVP, SQLite, JSON/Rest APIs, and multi-threading/background tasks.
• Experience with Android front-end/UI development (with knowledge of Google Material Design), web services & XML/JSON/REST connectivity/consumption, and local storage/databases/SQLite.
• Experience with common Android libraries such as Dagger2, Retrofit2, etc.
• Experience with build tools such as Fastlane.
• Expert knowledge of using and writing Android libraries.
• Extensive experience with Playstore deployments and has deployed apps to the Playstore.
• Extensive experience of TDD and writing unit and UI tests using JUnit, Mockito, Espresso, etc.
• Experience with code coverage and unit testing tools JaCoCo.
• Experience with converting high-fidelity designs to mobile UI, familiarity with tools such as InVision and Zeplin.
• Experience with IBM Mobile First Platform is preferred.
• Extensive experience with Git, such as branching, merging, tagging and pull requests.
• Experience with development processes and tools e.g. crash reporting, debugging, Atlassian JIRA/Confluence, etc.
• Experience with mobile CI-CD (Jenkins or similar) is preferred.
• Excellent programming skills in at least 2 modern programming languages/frameworks, such as Swift, Objective C, Java, Node.js, JavaScript, C, C++, Python, or others.
• Infrastructure knowledge including RESTful APIs, Single Sign On, LDAP, Search Technologies.
• Experience with code refactoring, design patterns, design-driven development, continuous deployment, highly scalable applications, application security.