Android Developer (3-Months Contractual)

Job Summary:
Do you enjoy creating and developing applications for mobile devices? Are you someone with strong computer programming skills who is seeking a creative challenge? We have an opening for an Android developer to join our development team, where you will have the opportunity to work with the best developers in the business. Use your design and code expertise to make your mark by improving or even inventing our cutting-edge services.

Be part of a leading tech company, to go remote-first! Develop your career and your skills further while receiving a market-competitive pay and benefits package.

Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Design and build advanced applications for the Android platform
2. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features
3. Work with outside data sources and APIs
4. Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability
5. Work on bug fixing and improving application performance
6. Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency
7. Perform upgrades and maintenance while modifying existing software to improve performance, correct errors, and allow adaptation to new hardware.
8. Recommend software upgrades for clients’ programs and systems if necessary, and analyze software requirements and user needs to determine whether the system design is feasible and can be completed within time and budget constraints.
9. Collaborate with engineers, programmers, systems analysts, and others on projects, and gather information on project capabilities and limitations, interface, and performance requirements to create optimum software.
10. Design, develop and modify software systems, using mathematical models and scientific analysis to predict and measure possible outcomes.
11. Store, retrieve, and manipulate data to understand system capabilities and requirements.
12. Direct software system testing, validation procedures, application, and system documentation and programming to ensure normal program functioning.
13. Manage the work of technologists, programmers, technicians, and other related team members, and provide instruction on writing software code as needed.
14. Coordinate software installation and monitor equipment to confirm specifications have been met.

Managing core features of the app include services, network, database etc.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Masters degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field from a local or reputable university.
• 4+ years of development experience in Android App Development or Mobile App Developer.
• Ability to understand the requirements of business and translate them technically.
• Strong knowledge of Google’s Android design principles and guidelines.
• Working knowledge of emerging mobile technologies.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work independently.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Outstanding presentation skills.
• Good time management skills.
• Previous programming experience
• Familiar with development, program testing, and database management system software
• Proficient with application and computer servers
• Mobile application development experience on Android - shipping applications in the Google Play Store (large user-base).
• Knowledge of Android development tools and paradigms (Android Studio, Gradle, User Interface Layout, Fragment Usage, intents, and general lifecycle management.
• Strong skills developing with Kotlin (new language features, object-oriented design patterns, most optimal application of Kotlin in Android environments.
• Comprehensive knowledge of Android platform SDKs as well as commonly applied 3rd party and open source libraries.
• Experience creating clients for REST APIs and understanding of best practices for interacting with remote services.A general end-to-end understanding of modern connected application architectures and implementations.
• Ability to resolve issues that arise in backend and embedded contexts, especially focusing on robustness and performance of the holistic system.
• Experience supporting application designers, providing a productive pipeline for content creators from early design phases through the integration of production assets and interactions.
• Experience with evaluation and integration of internal, third party, and open source technologies to solve complex problems in a customer-centric manner.
• Familiarity with common development tools (Git, Jira, Confluence, etc.) and working with common development methodologies (Agile, Scrum, etc.).Familiarity with the design & analysis of computer algorithms and data structures