SUMMARY:
Join a large enterprise and build your own team
POSITION INFO:
Android Developer (Senior / Lead)
Permanent
Cape Town
Hybrid work arrangement of office & work from home
In the role of Android Mobile Developer your deep specialised knowledge of systems development and testing combined with mobile customer applications will be a key success factor. Your collaborative technical guidance and mentorship will ensure a high quality of code and performance is maintained. You will foster a high performing mobile team and work closely with Product Managers, Business Analysts and Solution Architects and other cross functional teams and stakeholders in co-creating sustainable mobile experiences.
Role Description
Configuration and creation of technical components and services required to deliver online customer facing features.
- Possess a passion for pushing mobile technologies to the limits.
- Design, build and maintain the next generation of our mobile applications.
- Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.
- Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability.
- Analyze and understand business and customer requirements in the context of the current business environment and future opportunities.
- Set up and maintenance of the technical infrastructure.
- Develop and document design and maintain the source base.
- Create conceptual, logical and physical solutions, using appropriate coding techniques and methodologies.
- Identify and implement suitable coding solution(s) and alternatives that address the business needs/requirements of key stakeholders from the business, solution delivery and operations areas to meet and exceed customer expectations.
- Attention to detail. Adhere to standard coding practices and maintain development principles and quality compliance criteria to deliver according to commitments.
- Integrate design for maintainability, scalability and efficiency.
- Coordinate with Architects and business stakeholders to determine functionalities.
- Complete deliverables throughout the system development life cycle for compliance according to an agreed plan.
- Work within the frameworks of Agile (SCRUM) methodologies.
Successful delivery of development projects and changes as required.
- Work as part of a team without close supervision. Facilitate networks and work closely with external agencies and other third-party suppliers to provide input to design to ensure technical viability.
- Complete deliverables throughout the system development lifecycle for compliance according to agreed plan.
- Work within the framework Agile methodologies and/or other agreed cross-functional team ways of working ,
- Ensure a thoughtful and clear understanding of program and project goals and needs through thorough engagement with different stakeholders.
- Perform adequate project risk assessments by considering all technical and other interdependencies Identify and prioritise of project risks.
- Setup best practices and processes for new team inclusive of defining and performing code reviews.
- Detect critical deficiencies and recommend improvements.
Provide technical input and guidance into online channel evolution by keeping up to date with relevant technology.
- Provide active technical advice to the team, IT and other business stakeholders.
- Play a leading role in maintaining best of breed development standards for technologies and solutions.
- Research, understand and stay up to date with current trends in Information Technology and specifically lead the technical competency within your area of expertise.
- Actively share insights and information with relevant stakeholders and team.
Guidance, Mentoring and coaching the development team
- Provide technical leadership in DSL to team, identify knowledge and skills gaps and actively devise learning strategies to develop the team as required including areas such as new DSL, business awareness, problem solving.
- Inspire the team to take accountability for their technical delivery and participation in the full IT team and foster an open environment that seeks to receive and provide regular feedback at individual, team and management levels.
Qualifications and experience
- Experience in general software development, testing and standards development. This includes the practical ability in developing applications using multiple programming languages, frameworks and technologies such as: Java, Kotlin and Hybrid Mobile Development (React Native).
- 3-5 years experience in a senior developer role with specific exposure to mentoring and coaching a team of developers
- Deep understanding of fragmentation within the Android Ecosystem and the need to pay special attention to application compatibility.
- Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle
- Strong knowledge of Android SDK, different versions of Android, and how to deal with different screen sizes
- Experience with offline storage, threading and performance tuning.
- Strong knowledge of Android design principles, patterns and best practices.
- Knack for benchmarking and optimization.
- Familiarity with native build tools, like Android Studio, Gradle
- Firm grasp of the JavaScript and TypeScript language and its nuances, including ES6+ syntax
- Familiarity with Continuous Integration and Continuous deployment
- Exposure to and an understanding of Corporate, Customer interfacing environment in a similar role (non sector specific) - essential
- Any additional experience in technical solutions support with exposure to both waterfall and agile projects in DevOps with the Agile/Scrum Tool set, preferably Atlassian - highly beneficial
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