Gauteng: Android Developer posted by The Hiring House

Minimum education (essential): National Senior Certificate
Minimum education (desirable): Diploma and/or degree in IT / Engineering / Programming
Minimum applicable experience (years): 5 years as an Android Developer

Required nature of experience:
Hands on software developer having been responsible for the development and maintenance of 1 or more projects.

Skills and Knowledge (essential):
– 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
– Atlassian JIRA software experience is beneficial
– Good understanding of Bluetooth on Android is beneficial
– Good understanding of RxAndroid, RxJava and RxKotlin is beneficial

Key Performance Areas, Weights And Objectives
Application planning and development
– Be involved in the planning, design and development of assigned applications.
– Research, consult analyse and evaluate application needs and designs.
– Write and maintain efficient, reusable and reliable code to meet system requirements, system designs and technical specifications in accordance with quality accredited standards.
– Work from wireframes and/or designs to develop high quality applications.
– Following best practice design and development methodologies in sustaining a high quality, clean, auditable and manageable applications.
– Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications.
– Identify issues, bugs, and bottlenecks and devise solutions to these problems.
– Identifying technology limitations and deficiencies in applications and associated processes, procedures and methods.
– Testing, debugging, diagnosing and correcting errors and faults in an applications within established testing protocols, guidelines and quality standards to ensure programs and applications perform to specification.

Project planning and capacity management
– Estimate accurate completion timelines for projects for use by the project lead in capacity planning.
– Provide input into the requirements documentation and assist in work breakdown to draft a proper timeline to plan the schedule and what is required.
– Manage time and tasks effectively in order to complete tasks in the correct order of priority.
– Manage time and tasks effectively in order to complete tasks on time.
– Liaise effectively with other team members and backend engineers to ensure timeous completion of integration and the coming together of mobile applications and the required back end system.
– Track tasks and timing on JIRA.

Contribution to team
– Participate in peer-reviews of solution designs and related code.
– Communicate and collaborate with current team to solve problems and discuss best programming practices.
– Contribute to team development efforts towards successful project delivery.
– Contribute innovative ideas to project and application plans and roll outs.
– Communicate effectively with team lead.
– Communicate effectively with team members and internal stakeholders, using communications channels appropriately.
– Take personal ownership for projects and products

Quality Management and Compliance
– Ensure continued improvement and upkeep on existing applications.
– Ensure compliance with QMS frameworks for CE certification.
– Ensure products are developed accurately (i.e. according to specifications and end user requirements).
– Ensure products are developed efficiently (i.e. according to best practice and on time).
– Ensure testing is completed according to specification.
– Manage release schedule and release notes for Android applications