Android Developer

Job Overview:

We are looking for a passionate and experienced Android Developer with strong expertise in Kotlin to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have a firm understanding of mobile development principles and will be responsible for delivering high-quality, accessible, and scalable Android applications.

Key Responsibilities:

·         Design, develop, and maintain Android applications using Kotlin

·         Collaborate with cross-functional teams throughout the software development life cycle

·         Integrate RESTful APIs and third-party libraries into mobile applications

·         Ensure mobile applications meet accessibility and usability standards

·         Participate in agile ceremonies and contribute to continuous improvement

·         Engage in the full software development lifecycle including design, coding, testing, build, deployment, and maintenance

·         Follow DevOps practices for CI/CD and automation

·         Apply methodologies such as BDD (Behavior-Driven Development), ATDD (Acceptance Test-Driven Development), and TDD (Test-Driven Development) in day-to-day development

·         Actively participate in code reviews, design discussions, and team meetings

·         Lead and influence key stakeholders when required

Required Qualifications & Skills:

·         5+ years of hands-on commercial software development experience in Android using Kotlin

·         BS/MS in Computer Science or related discipline

·         Solid understanding of software development principles and mobile platform limitations

·         Proven experience in building and publishing Android applications

·         Strong knowledge of RESTful APIs and integration techniques

·         Deep understanding of mobile accessibility standards and implementation

·         Experience working in Agile/Lean environments

·         Exposure to DevOps models and CI/CD pipelines

·         Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

·         Strong team player with leadership potential

Responsibilities:

• Translate designs and wireframes into high-quality code.
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the application.
• Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs.

Requirements:

• Strong knowledge of Android SDK, different versions of Android, and how to deal with different screen sizes.
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect Android applications to back-end services. 
• Strong knowledge of Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices
• Knowledge of the open-source Android ecosystem and the libraries available for common tasks
• Understanding of Google's Android design principles and interface guidelines
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• Familiarity with continuous integration & Application Bundle Kotlin, Java
• Key requirements: Android SDK, Android UI, Core Java, Gradle, Kotlin.

What does the core role include?

• Designing and developing high-volume, low-latency applications for mission-critical systems and delivering high-availability and performance
• Designing stateless components in React Native
• Contributing in all phases of the development lifecycle
• Working with the developers to create and maintain a robust framework to support the apps
• Working with the developers to build the interface with a focus on usability features
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What else can you expect in the role?

• Prepare and produce releases of software components
• Optimizing performance for the apps
• Problem-solving skills, analytical mind, and positive attitude
• Ability to think from end users perspective and focused on improving the overall product experience.
• Deliver across the entire app life cycle concept, design, build, deploy, test, release to app stores and support
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What can fetch you brownie points?

• Hands on experience with React Native is required
• Hands-on experience in React Native APIs, ReactJS, Javascript, ECMAScript (OOJS) and JSX.
• Strong understanding of JavaScript ecosystem
• Hands on experience on Android in creating Hybrid / Native applications
• Demonstrable UI/UX experience on a large-scale app.
• Thorough understanding of React Native development tools like IDEs (Nuclide, Atom, Sublime Text, or Visual
• Good knowledge of JS frameworks like ReactJS is a plus.

Desired Skills and Experience

Hybrid Apps,React Native, Native iOS and Android Architecture understanding

Job Description: Angular Developer

We are looking for an Angular Developer responsible for the client side of our service. Your primary focus will be to implement a complete user interface in the form of a mobile and desktop web app, with a focus on performance. Your main duties will include creating modules and components and coupling them together into a functional app. The artistic design will be delivered to you, together with a few HTML templates, but we will ask for your help in regard to animations, CSS, and final HTML output. You will work in a team with the back-end developer, and communicate with the API using standard methods. A thorough understanding of all of the components of our platform and infrastructure is required.

Responsibilities

· Delivering a complete front end application

· Ensuring high performance on mobile and desktop

· Writing tested, idiomatic, and documented JavaScript, HTML and CSS

· Coordinating the workflow between the graphic designer, the HTML coder, and yourself

· Cooperating with the back-end developer in the process of building the RESTful API

· Communicating with external web services

Experience Required: Minimum 2 – 4 years.

Skills and Qualifications:

· Proficiency with JavaScript , HTML5, Core Java and Angular (6 and above)

· Professional, precise communication skills

· Deep knowledge of Angular practices and commonly used modules based on extensive work experience

· Creating self-contained, reusable, and testable modules and components

· Ensuring a clear dependency chain, in regard to the app logic as well as the file system

· Ability to provide SEO solutions for single page apps

· Extensive knowledge of CSS and JS methods for providing performant visual effects and keeping the framerate above 30fps at all times

· Thorough understanding of the responsibilities of the platform, database, API, caching layer, proxies, and other web services used in the system

· Validating user actions on the client side and providing responsive feedback

· Writing non-blocking code, and resorting to advanced techniques such as multi-threading, when needed

· Creating custom, general use modules and components which extend the elements and modules of core Angular

· Experience with all levels of operation available to the front-end, such as from creating XHRs in vanilla JS to using a custom wrapper around $resource

· Experience with building the infrastructure for serving the front-end app and assets

· Architecting and automating the build process for production, using task runners or scripts

· Documenting the code inline using JSDoc or other conventions

· Writing extensive unit tests using automated TDD tasks

· Creating e2e test suites for all components, and running them with Protractor (or a well-reasoned alternative)

· Creating configuration, build, and test scripts for Continuous Integration environmen

• 0-2 years of software experience in front-end mobile/web app development
• Good understanding of concurrency and multithreading
• Full Stack development experience building data, logic tier and user experience software
• Exposure to Android SDK (experience in AndroidTV framework will be a plus)
• Knowledge of REST, JSON, MQTT, Databases, Networking technologies
• React | React Native, Multi-platform exposure is a plus
• Experience with Agile development processes is a plus

Mobile Developer (Xamarin)
To assist us in building out our next generation of mobile apps using Xamarin, we’re looking for a well-rounded Mobile developer. A primary job responsibility will be to assist in developing and maintaining new features for the Xamarin application. The right person for this job will understand the agile methodology as well as thrive in a fast-paced environment.

Required Skills:

• 2+ years experience developing software using Xamarin.
•  Xamarin Form based UI development using XAML
• Strong desire to learn
• Basic understanding of design patterns
• Comfortable working with Subversion, Git, or similar source control environments
• Must be willing to do Test Driven Development.
• Strong communication skills, must embrace working in a highly-collaborative environment

Preferred Skills:

• Good understanding of web-service technologies, Restful APIs
• Some exposure to a version control system such as Git or Subversion
• Proven understanding of software development techniques, concepts and processes
• Driven and self-motivated.
• Works creatively to solve challenging problems

Responsibilities

• Assist in the design, implementation, and maintenance of features for our cross platform applications.
• Provide technical support and troubleshooting that are beyond capabilities of help desk or customer service
• Analyze and fix QA and production problems
• Ensure proper functioning of applications in a production environment
• Work collaboratively with designers, product managers and QA in meeting tight deadlines utilizing SCRUM in an agile environment.
• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability.
• Defines and documents requirements for data, workflow, logical processes, and interfaces with other systems.
• Other tasks and projects as assigned by management.