Intermediate Android Developer

Our client a Tech firm is Rosebank with an innovative solution is seeking an Intermediate Android Developer to join their team. They offer stability, growth, excellent benefits, such as medical aid, Provident fund, Bonus, travel and much much more. The organization focuses extensively on empowering people to monitor and make informed health decisions proactively. They are simply bridging the gap in healthcare by taking privilege out of it using patented solutions that allow you to manage your 360 degrees of care easily.

About You;

Do you know the intricacies of the Android platforms inside and out? Are you an Android developer who pushes mobile technologies to their limits? We are looking for an extremely technical, self-driven, highly motivated individual to join our mobile team. This role focuses on end-to-end development & Ui/UX design, and detailed testing. You should be comfortable working in smaller teams and taking greater ownership of your work. Own the android codebase and ensure it adheres to high-quality metrics, such as unit test coverage, readability, and conformity. Be responsible for designing and developing new features as well as fixing bugs. You will also ensure that all of the company's mobile applications are secure and compliant with current industry standards.

Requirements

• Diploma, Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent
• Typically 2+ years experience or more
• Hands-on experience in driving the full development lifecycle of cross platform mobile applications (concept, design, test, release, support, etc.) within deadline.
• Build and deliver scalable cross platform mobile applications
• Responsible for designing prototype applications.
• Write clean, elegant, readable, testable, and well-documented code
• Review designs created by UX team and working with them to build a great product
• Write code to implement those visual elements
• Troubleshoot and debug to optimize performance
• Maintain code and write automated tests to ensure the cross platform mobile applications is of the highest quality
• Provide second/third line support to IT for software deployed into company eco system.
• Analyse and resolve complex and high impact production issues where required.
• Excellent knowledge and experience in developing for the Android platforms and comfortable (having excellent knowledge) with Java and Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Coroutines, etc.
• Proficient with Android SDK, Retrofit, OKHTTP, RESTful API, Git, Github, and modern libraries (Retrofit, RxJava, Moshi, etc.)
• Experience with offline storage, persistency, and threading (multi)
• Expericence and knowledge of low-level system work is preferred (services, backgrounding)
• Familiar with RESTful APIs and JSON to interact with backend systems
• Well-versed in Unit & Automated testing techniques for Android apps. Unit-testing code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability
• Have an awareness of Agile / Scrum methodologies or have worked in an Agile / Scrum team.
• Atlassian tool suite (Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence)
• Knowledge of OO design principles and development patterns