Senior Android Developer - Pretoria

SUMMARY:
Our client in Pretoria is looking for a Senior Android Developer to join their team.

The purpose of this role is to develop and maintain innovative hearing health platforms on the Android platform, ensuring code is written that is to specification, neat, accurate and scalable. Work focuses on maintaining and upgrading hearing aid solutions platforms while providing guidance from an Android best practice perspective for products in the rest of the Company. The senior role entails mentoring other Android developers as well as helping with capacity planning of the team.

POSITION INFO:
Description:

• Analysis and Planning (20%): Lead the application lifecycle by creating user stories and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Research technologies, design reusable architecture, provide project estimates, and track JIRA progress to mitigate risks.
• Development and Testing (40%): Lead development using high-quality code and standards. Manage version control, test environments, automated testing, and CI/CD pipelines to ensure seamless production deployment.
• Reporting and Communication (10%): Provide stakeholders with clear updates on status, risks, and progress. Maintain system logs, release notes, and technical manuals while offering expert insights on project queries.
• Contribution to Team (20%): Lead through code reviews, mentoring, and knowledge sharing. Foster a collaborative culture, contribute to technical recruitment, and interface across teams to ensure successful product delivery.
• Quality Management and Compliance (10%): Ensure products meet FDA, CE, ISO, and SOC2 standards via QMS guidelines. Safeguard information per company policy and assist the team lead in updating development processes.

• 8+ years relevant experience

• Essential: National Senior Certificate
• Desirable: Tertiary education diploma/degree relevant to software development
• Desirable: 3 year degree in computer science or equivalent

• Hands on software developer having been responsible for the development and maintenance of 1 or more projects.

• Experience in native Android (Kotlin and Java) development specifically.
• Reactive programming.
• Strong knowledge of Android development and its supporting systems.
• Proficient in Kotlin (Minimum 2 years experience).
• Good development practices utilising modern design patterns using software architectures: MVP, MVVM, Clean Architecture.
• A good understanding of storage mechanisms, threading, lifecycles.
• Knowledge of common 3rd party frameworks/libraries available and integration experience.
• Strong UI development experience and developing for dynamic screen support.
• Experience with RESTful API integration.
• Well versed in Git.
• Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle within an Agile environment.