Android Architect SME

Android Archtiect SME

If you have a strong passion for mobile application development, especially the Android platform, and are looking to join a seasoned team of IT professionals, this could be an advantageous next step. We are experiencing rapid growth and seek a Lead Android Developer/Trainer to coach and mentor our junior consultants.

This position involves overseeing, in partnership with a consultant development manager (CDM), a diverse body of IT consultants throughout their career, or lifecycle, with our company. Three main aspects of the consultant lifecycle are as follows: training, marketing, and on-project.

Not only will you mentor, assist, and guide consultants with their onsite technical training in Atlanta, but you will also be preparing your consultants in effective technical and actively engaging behavior so that they can successfully win client interviews, in order to secure a project placement.

Lastly, you will track your consultants' success on project by assessing their deliverables and approach, providing them with support and guidance as needed, to ensure that they add value to the client site and continue billing on project.

Responsibilities:

The Android Mobile Application Specialist will take on the following responsibilities:

Be responsible for the design, development, and maintenance of our best-in-class Android training materials

Train, guide, and mentor consultants with existing basic programming and computer science skills up to junior and mid-level developers

Prepare mock interview situations for the consultants to enhance the learning process provided by the company

Act as a primary technical support resource for consultants working on a variety of projects throughout the US (this requires the ability to support remotely)

Interact with our Executive and Sales team to ensure that projects and employees are appropriately matched

Interact with our Executive and Sales team to ensure that consultants on projects remain successful on these projects and do not result in technical failure

Prepare consultants for interviews for specific assignments involving mobile development

Desired Qualifications Include:

8+ Years of professional experience in the IT Industry

Bachelors Degree in the Computer Science field, Software Engineering or Math

Project Management background preferred

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, MVP, Builder, Factory, Singleton, Adapter, Proxy, Façade, Bridge, Observer, Command, Java, Kotlin

MVVM versus MVP versus MVC - which ones lend themselves to testing - why choose one over the other? What does one address that others may not?

TDD and testing, unit testing, instrumentation testing, functional testing, stress testing

Testing tools such as Espresso, Mockito, and Junit

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 - async task, 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, NFCills.

-> Must have experience in documentation and should be disciplined.

Tech Skills:

1. Compose / Custom Views
2. Kotlin coroutines
3. Java / Kotlin / Collections
4. RxJava
5. Hilt / Dagger
6. Room / Realm
7. MVVM, MVI, MVP, SOLID/CLEAN
8. Wifi Connectivity / WifiManager Class etc.
9. JUnit4 / Junit5
10. Mockk, Mokito
11. Roboelectric / Espresso
12. Testing coroutines/RxJava Observers
13. Ktor / Koin ( at least basics ) for KMM projects