Android Developer/Senior Developer - SDK/Kotlin

The Mobile Application Developer will be the primary resource responsible for Envoy’s mobile offering.  They will develop improvements using Ionic, as well as manage deployment to the appropriate app stores.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop solutions in Ionic with focus on building scalable, maintainable and secure code, while providing an intuitive, modern user experience
• Actively collaborate with business, production support, and other software engineers
• Maintain the mobile apps status and manage deployments to Google’s and Apple’s app stores
• Keep up to date and champion the latest mobile technology and methodologies

Position Requirements:

• At least 7 years of experience with mobile development OR a modern web platform such as Angular, React or Vue.js
• At least 2 years of experience and demonstrated expert knowledge of Ionic.
• Experience with maintaining and deploying mobile applications to Google’s and Apple’s app stores
• Ability to “own” a project and be a strong contributor without constant management.
• Strong written, verbal and presentation skills

Envoy Global is an equal opportunity employer and will recruit, hire, train and promote into all job levels the most qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identification, veteran status, pregnancy, or any other protected classification.

WE EXPECT YOU TO WIN:Everyone at chargeMOD is given the tools and resources they need to succeed at their job. We offer a flexible and positive work environment so you have the autonomy to build amazing software for our customers and add to our team of industry leading visionaries. You will build a compelling and easy to use interface, ensure its maintainability and ease of use, and suggest ways to improve the look and feel of the application. We are lean, which means we reflect on what we learn and use that new knowledge to quickly make better products. Your job is to keep learning, contribute your knowledge back to the rest of the team, and apply what you learn to make chargeMOD and our clients even greater.

YOUR OPPORTUNITY:

chargeMOD’s engineering team is looking for an Android Developer to join our growing team. You are highly motivated, collaborative, and technical, with the passion to help shape the delivery of software products for our customers. You are passionate about web development and interested in helping to shape the future of our web services team.You are always seeking new and diverse challenges to grow your skill set and broaden your experience.

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

• You will join development on a mobile SDK, in use by tens of thousands of users around Pan India.
• You will join the weekly team meetings with the client and communicate progress to the client, as well as work closely with our development team in Slack/Gmeet.
• You will be responsible for development, do a portion of the testing, and be responsible for the release of the application

RESPONSIBILITIES: As a developer, you are responsible for delivering valuable software to your clients while adhering to technical standards, company values, and industry best practices. Your success in this position will require you to set and meet appropriate expectations with customers and delight customers by anticipating their needs. You will be accountable for meeting commitments and producing quality, tested software. High output, driven developer, able to work in a team setting.
Here are some tools we use in our Android development process:

• Slack
• Atlassian Tools (Jira, Confluence, etc)
• Android Studio
• Jenkins
• Github

YOUR QUALIFICATIONS:

• You have ability to write and test SDKs for use by other developers
• Here are some of the skills we expect you to possess:
  • Java and Kotlin
  • Client and team communication
  • Material design
  • Action bar/toolbar
  • Support libraries/Android X/Jetpack
  • Understanding of the activity and fragment lifecycle
  • Efficient layout design
  • Resource/asset management
  • Multi-threading, background processing
  • Networking
  • Functional / UI Testing (Espresso)

WE CONSIDER IT A PLUS IF YOU HAVE EXPERIENCE WITH:

• Significant UI experience (one of the primary SDKs is UI-related – so although you will not be developing a user interface for the application, knowledge on UI is important)
• Significant push notification experience (one of the primary SDKs is push-notification related)

• Owning significant architectural and product areas of the platform
• You’ll make the key decisions and see them through to successful user engagement
• Delivering features that make a big impact on our growth journey
• Writing high-quality, highly-performant code
• Pushing changes every week
• Participating in code reviews and architectural discussions - we want you to bring your expertise to the team and make us all better engineers

• An expert with Kotlin and the rest of the Android ecosystem
• Collaborative and want to see the team succeed in its goals
• Practical about tradeoffs between speed and polish
• Passionate about showing others how to do something new
• Excited to join a small team that moves quickly

• Design and build advanced applications for the Android platform
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features
• Experience in working with SDLC. Experience in end to end SDLC documentations.
• Experience in Banking/Financial Application.
• Work with outside data sources and APIs
• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability
• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency
• Hands-on experience in Web Services
• Excellent programming, unit testing and debugging skills in Mobile Java (Android and Kotlin)
• Good designing skills based on object-oriented design patterns & frameworks
• Basic/core Java/Kotlin/OOPS knowledge and an understanding of Java technologies is mandatory
• Very good exposure in frameworks like Android Architecture, SDK, SDK Development
• Strong Experience in Mobile Application Development Life Cycle
• Experience in Design Patterns MVVM, MVP etc.
• Programming new Android Applications from specifications
• Experience in implementing communication with API servers via web-services using JSON and XML
• Exploring upcoming new features of Android Platform

As part of your day to day job, you’ll

1. Own end-to-end features of the app: networking, persistence, business logic, and

UI

2. Use Kotlin (primary) and Java

3. Do reactive programming using RxJava2

4. Follow Model-View-Intent architecture to build UI of the app

5. Use Android Architecture Components

6. Write tests

7. Invent awesome Android stuff to make your job easier

Qualifications

1. Motivation to design and build reliable, elegant apps

2. 3 - 5.5 years of android application development experience

3. Proficiency in Java and experience in Kotlin

4. Familiarity with RxJava2, Dagger2, OkHttp, Retrofit, Android Architecture

Components

5. Familiarity with material design