Android Developer

SUMMARY:
Our client based in Umhlanga is looking for an experienced Android Developer  with more than three years’ experience, to be involved in all aspects of building  and maintaining native Android  apps for their broad and diverse range of clients.

POSITION INFO:

As a successful candidate you would:

• be directly involved in creating native apps for clients and partners in the fields of media, communications and education
• actively contribute to ideation, strategy, implementation and iteration of features and functionality
• be responsible for upholding code quality and testing practices for our fleet of Android apps
• take ownership of re-architecting the existing Android codebase into a modular architecture.
  
• manage the transition from Java to Kotlin

We expect from you as a successful candidate that:

• have more than three years’ experience working as an intermediate Android App Developer, having filled the primary role on a shipped Android App Developed natively
  
• have more than a year’s experience using Kotlin
  
• are well-versed in Unit & Automated testing techniques for Android Apps
  
• strong competency in Git
  
• recently published and/or maintained live app(s) in the App Store
  
• some experience in a leadership/team lead role
  
• experience in UI design
  
• awareness of Agile/Scrum methodologies or have worked in an Agile / Scrum team
• used to an in-flight teaching and mentoring atmosphere

You would even be more successful as a candidate if you:

• have successfully completed the Android NanoDegree
  
• comfortable working with wireframing tools and prototyping proof of concepts
  
• comfortable using AppCenter and Microsoft’s Azure DevOps
  
• have experience writing Bash Scripts
  

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