Android Developer
Typical Day in Role:
• Adheres to and demonstrates coding conventions and good practices and helps to maintain the architecture of the project.
• Takes the lead in reviewing others’ code, actively contributing suggestions and catching potential issues for their assigned project or scrum.
• Deep knowledge of Android design best practices and Google Guidelines. Willing and able to provide designers with constructive feedback.
• Demonstrate good understanding of layers below the app: API, services, and backend systems.
• Very involved in feature refinement to flag requirements and ask questions.
• Takes initiative to help identify and resolve production (and other critical) issues.
• Always works to balance user experience, performance (client and backend), and security.
• Helps to lead tech definition meetings, define and decide architecture patterns for their assigned project or scrum
• Exceptional understanding of our programming language(s) and tools Kotlin and Java.
• Experience with and understanding of all layers of app code: UI, business logic, models, networking.
• Build and maintain scripts / tools for Developer & Deployment Productivity. Embracing and promoting Continuous Delivery.
• Work closer to a tech lead/team lead sharing responsibility inside the team
• Be the voice for platform team in scrum discussions to maintain platform consistency across teams. E.g. Suggest platform specific changes to PO, pushback on design changes when deviating from patterns being followed elsewhere.
Work on new features for the project
Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:
1) 8+ years of experience as a mobile developer working on large scale projects
2) 5+ years of developer experience as an Android developer
3) 2+ years of intermediate experience with Kotlin
4) 4+ years of experience in integrating APIs with mobile apps
5) 3+ years’ experience with and understanding of all layers of app code: UI, business logic, models, networking
Nice-To-Have Skills:
1) Experience with Java
2) Experience using JIRA
3) Experience with Bitbucket
Soft Skills Required:
• Clear, articulate written and oral communicator.
• Communicates and collaborates well across all team channels (email, Slack, meetings), including cross-platform collaboration with other teams.
• Delivers high-quality work in a timely fashion, almost always meeting deadlines.
• Able to take the lead on complex tasks with minimal guidance. Sees the work through and is accountable from the planning stages to full completion.
• Be responsible for end to end delivery of features for the platform within the scrum team.
• Judicious in asking for guidance — doesn’t for every detail, but always validates larger decisions with the team, tech lead, and/or architect.
• Able and willing to mentor junior and intermediate developers.
• Self-motivated; shows initiative in taking on tasks and making suggestions
Education:
Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering degree or equivalent.
Best VS. Average Candidate:
Has all required and nice to have experience on recent fintech projects; ideal candidate would have higher years of experience; has worked on big projects as an Android Dev