Senior Android Developer (Kenya 3rd Party)
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Job Title: Senior Android Developer
Reports to: Practice Head: Mobile Services
ROLE OVERVIEWRolverview
The employed individual will be challenged with access to a range of projects at clients across industries, working with other experienced technologists whose single pursuit is optimal value creation for our customers through the construction of peerless solutions. This dynamic self- starting individual will be involved in the definition of development best practices and serve as team’s authority on creation of code quality and development of sound front-end architecture to ensure successful delivery on hundreds of software development assignments. You would have the opportunity to be involved with both consulting projects and internal projects.
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
- Interaction design and user experience guidelines
Android SDK and Java
Design patterns
Parsing and consuming XML and JSON
Working with RESTful services
Unit testing, integration and functional testing
Using version control systems – Git, SVN, TFS- Solutions design and implementation
Improving the design of existing code
Keep up to date with technology
Ability to Multitask
System design and analysis
Ability to conceptualise and simplify complex problems
Ability to read and write specifications
Good communications skills
Ability to self-manage and not rely on detailed instruction from a manager
ATTITUDES
competencies
- Enthusiastic and committed
Work with minimal supervision
Work in a team environment
Ability to work under pressure
Delivery focused
Work to achieve tight deadlines
Professionalism (conduct and appearance)
Motivated
Show initiative
Awareness of the environment
RESPONSIBILITIES
Developing, maintaining and debugging of software applications
Testing of independent modules and complete applications making use of automated and manual testing techniques
Working with project managers, technical leads and customers to provide task estimates, report on progress and discuss implementation details
Following and contributing to the improvement of software architecture, coding standards and practices being observed within the team environment
Designing of solutions that are maintainable, efficient, performant and secure
Refactoring source code to improve system design
Resolving software defects in collaboration with software test analysts
Conducting peer reviews of project code
Consume and create technical documentation such as specification documents, UML diagrams, user stories, wireframes etc.
Using a version control system to manage code changes
Configure, optimise and deploy applications for public release
Managing the submission of applications to online repositories and app stores
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
Bachelor’s Degree in Informatics, Computer Science, Engineering or other related qualification- 5 years’ experience in mobile software development
Preferably in a banking, insurance or telecoms industry
Experience in SDLC methodologies such AGILE (SCRUM)
TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL NEED:
Knowledge of Android First party API’s/Frameworks ( Services, Broadcast Receivers, Notifications, Camera etc.)
Good knowledge of Jetpack libraries ( Navigation, Room., ViewModels, Work Manager etc.)
Understanding of different programming paradigms ( Reactive, Functional etc )
MutiThreading in Android ( eg. Coroutines )
Deep dive into Unit testing with Frameworks such as PowerMock, Mokito, MockK
Deeper knowledge of Architectural approaches like Offline-First, Redux based architecture like MVI and common ones like MVP and MVVM
Knowledge of common Android Design patterns
Knowledge of Dependency Injection and Frameworks ( Dagger , Koin , Kodein)
Basic knowledge of Clean Architecture
Basics of Unit Testing (JUnit)
Understanding of Data Binding
Basics of DevOps in Android
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