Android Developer

Job description

Job Summary

An Android developer is responsible for developing applications for devices powered by the Android operating system. Due to the fragmentation of this ecosystem, an Android developer must pay special attention to the application’s compatibility with multiple versions of Android and device types. They must also have a strong understanding of the patterns and practices that revolve around such a platform.

Responsibilities
• Design, build and maintain high performance, reusable, and reliable Kotlin code.
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the application. Help maintain code quality and automatization.
• Should be familiar with architectural patterns like MVP, MVVM, MVC.
• 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
• Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning
• Knowledge of the open-source Android ecosystem and the libraries available for common tasks
• Build lightweight, low latent Android applications with limited or no dependency on third-party modules.
• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability

Qualifications
• Minimum 2 Years of experience in building Android Apps using
• Strong knowledge of Android SDK
• Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git, SVN, bit bucket
• Experience detecting and correcting memory usage issues as well as optimizing code for application performance
• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and high reliability
• Work with modern tools including Jira, Slack, GitHub, Google Docs, etc
• Rock solid at working with third-party dependencies and debugging dependency conflicts
• Experience with task planning and estimating effort
• Strong collaborator and comfortable to work in an agile, remote and distributed team environment