Android Mobile Developer

About the position

This position reports to the Mobile Engineering Manager

Your mission, should you choose to accept it:

• Help design, develop and refine new features
• Locate and resolve bugs and crashes
• Brainstorm new ideas and concepts
• Work with teammates on design, code reviews, and estimation

The skills we need:

• Be accountable
• Creative
• Solution oriented
• Flexible
• Take pride in your work

Qualifications & Experience:

• A computer science or engineering degree (or equivalent experience)
• At least 2 years of professional experience in native Android written in Kotlin
• In the event that you do not have a Bachelor's Degree or an Advanced Diploma (Computer Science, Mathematics or Engineering), an equivalent experience requirement must be met, which equates to a minimum of 5 years' of Software Development experience
• Strong Computer Science and programming fundamentals.
• Full understanding of the Android application and activity lifecycles.
• Experience with Fragments.
• Appreciation of Android-specific asynchronous processing techniques.
• Knowledge of strategies to handle issues related to platform fragmentation, differing screen sizes and multiple OS versions.
• Knowledge and Appreciation of Android user experience design patterns.

Additional Desirable Skills

• Android Java experience is a bonus.
• Any iOS native development experience is a bonus.
• Experience with network requests to RESTful APIs using best practice and well known libraries (Retrofit, glide, coroutines).
• Experience working with unit test frameworks
• Experience with writing UI Automation scripts using Robot Framework.
• Experience developing eCommerce apps for retail
• Experience working with software development tools including Git, Jira and Confluence.

Desired Skills:

• Android
• java
• kotlin
• computer science
• Android Development