Job Title Principal Android Engineer
Location Remote
Duration: 12 Months
Must be an expert/Principal Android/Kotlin engineer
One of our Client is seeking a Principal Android Engineer to drive our Android Mobile platform. Your expertise in Android/Kotlin development will help us stay ahead of the curve in this constantly evolving landscape and chip in significantly to our success! The ideal candidate will be a servant leader bringing deep technical expertise to deliver outstanding agility availability resiliency security and performant mobile solutions. Your leadership will deliver these capabilities through communication collaboration creativity critical thinking problemsolving dedication inclusion and positivity.
Key Responsibilities:
- Mobile Engineering: Design develop and deploy scalable secure and highly available Android mobile solutions that meet the business needs across multiple geographies.
- Technical Leadership: Provide direction and mentorship to multifunctional teams ensuring alignment with company objectives and industry trends.
- Innovation: See opportunities for innovation and develop proofofconcepts (POCs) or minimum viable products (MVPs) to demonstrate the value of new technologies or approaches.
- Collaboration: Work with collaborators including business leaders product managers and engineering teams to understand requirements and design solutions.
- Technology Roadmap: Contribute to the development of the technology roadmap mentor and coach engineers sharing knowledge and expertise to help them grow in their careers.
- Lead strategy architecture and implementation of innovative Android solutions that are scalable resilient and efficient.
- Leads feasibility analysis and serves as technical leader for the most sophisticated multifunctional initiatives.
- Work closely with departments to proactively ensure Android mobile engineering capabilities are capable of handling emerging and future business requirements.
This role collaborates with the Senior Director of Digital (Discover) Engineering and will connect across all levels of the organization. In addition will partner closely with all FrontEnd Engineering teams.
What you bring:
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering Information Systems or similar field or relevant professional experience education and training.
- Minimum 12 years of experience in software engineering with a focus on Android mobile engineering.
- Experience in designing developing and deploying premium performant secure and stable Android based solutions.
- Deep expertise in Kotlin. Including design development and deployment.
- Strong technical leadership skills with experience guiding multifunctional teams and influencing technical direction.
- Knowledge of Agile development methodologies and Scrum framework.
- Innovative problemsolving skills with a track record of developing creative solutions to complex technical challenges.
- Familiarity with DevOps practices such as continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD).
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work optimally with both technical and nontechnical partners.
- Establish bestpractice software engineering methodologies for a global 24x7 highvolume highavailability critical production environment based on metricsbased KPIs.