Android Developer

Requirements

Minimum education:

Bachelor

Years of work experience:

8 year(s)

Responsibilities

Our client, one of the largest Media & Entertainment companies in the US, is seeking multiple Senior Android Engineers for a long-term opportunity.

Responsibilities:

• Translates user requirements into design for new software or extensive software revisions.
• Creates high-level architectural specifications, while ensuring feasibility, functionality, and integration with existing systems and platforms.
• Provides expertise on cross-application implications.
• Approves business requirements, estimation, functional specifications, testing strategy and other activities to ensure architectural alignment.
• Works closely with stakeholders to identify and negotiate opportunities to apply architecture standards and guidelines.

Qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience designing or configuring software applications
• Experience with Native Android Mobile App development with strong knowledge in Kotlin
• Experience with Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices
• Experience building large scale, complex, Android application optimized for both UX and performance
• Project experience with enterprise in-house development focusing transactional business data processing and endpoint integrations
• Practical knowledge / experience on integration with 3rd party analytics SDKs is preferred, such as Google Analytics
• Hands on experience integrating Android applications to backend services
• Working experience working in Agile software development team leveraging continuous integration and deployment practices
• Good understanding of OO Design, concurrency, synchronization, memory management, data structures, algorithms, etc.
• Working experience and knowledge in TDD & BDD development practices
• Basic understanding of Linux/Unix kernel programming on networking is preferred
• Self-motivated and passionate attitude -- you wake up in the middle of the night to write down that great idea for your app you saw in your dream
• Ability to prioritize and organize effectively
• Team player mindset and a great sense of humor
• Willingness to mentor and advise other engineering team members
• Solid analytical and troubleshooting abilities.

Related Work Experience

6+ years Android application development experience

7+ years software development experience

3+ years web services development experience using REST, JSON, XML

3+ years version control systems experience (Git and Atlassian suite)

Remote conditions

MST time zone

Languages

Must have

English

Native or bilingual proficiency

Experience required

Top Skills:

• 7+ years experience designing / configuring software applications
• Experience with Native Android Mobile App development
• Strong knowledge in Kotlin
• Experience with Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices

Mobile delivery team is a fast paced group - need someone who understands the environment they're going to be working in and able to keep up / more importantly SPEAK UP if something is not working for them. Looking for an expert who can dig in and write code daily / help team where needed.

Skills : Android