Android Developer Lead

Our company is seeking to hire an Android Mobile Developer to help support our Android technical consultants within our business.

We are looking for a candidate with at least 5+ years of hands-on Android development experience, expertise in object-oriented programming, and the ability to interact/help with other Android programmers in a fast-paced and challenging environment.

What you'll be doing:

• Working together with our technical consultants to help them understand the intricacies of Android development
• Being able to explain Android development principles to junior consultants
• Being a mentor and leader
• Reviewing code and designs
• Assist with overcoming development issues with mobile applications for Android
• Overseeing projects and intervening at critical stages of the project

What you need for this position:

• 5 years of Native Android development experience
• 2+ years of leading a team
• Experience in Jetpack components like Compose
• Extensive experience in Testing
• Experience developing and maintaining mobile applications
• Excellent teamwork skills, flexibility, and ability to handle multiple tasks
• Great communications skills are a must
• Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

Desired Skills (Including but Not Limited to):

• Experience with building Android apps in both a UI/UX capacity as well as back-end
• Design patterns and architecture concepts such as MVC, MVVM, and MVP, MVI, SOLID/CLEAN, Builder, Factory, Singleton, Adapter, Proxy, Facade, Bridge, Observer, Command
• Java
• Kotlin
• Collections
• Hilt/Dagger
• Room/Realm
• Wifi Connectivity/ Wifi Manager Class
• TDD and testing, unit testing, instrumentation testing, functional testing, stress testing
• Testing tools such as Espresso, Mockito, Junit5, Junit4, MockK, Roboelectric, Testing coroutines, RxJava observers.
• OOO and S.O.L.I.D. principles
• What to consider when building an app from scratch and doing so (who is using the app -what's the intended outcome, the release date the budget, the architecture, the 3rd party libraries, the communication between the layers, how testing will be set up, etc.)
• Version Control - GIT, GitHub, pull requests, branching, BitBucket
• Continuous Integration - Jenkins, Travis, Circle CI
• Firebase
• Asynchronous task - asynctask, intent services, handlers, loopers, threads, runnables, loaders,
• 3rd party libraries - Retrofit, Volley, OKHTTP, GSON, Jackson, RXJava, HTTPURLConnector
• Local Databases - SQLite, Firebase, Parse, Realm
• Notifications - GCM, FCM, MixPanel, Flurry, Push Bots, PubNub, Firebase
• Security - Obfuscation, Encryption, SSL, Certification Pinning, Tokens
• Fingerprint authentication
• Dev Environment management - Agile, Scrum, Sprints
• Dependency Injection usage
• Android Pay
• Media Streaming Solutions - Media Player, ExoPlayer, etc.
• Bluetooth, BLE, NFC
• React Native experience is preferred, but not mandatory.