Android Developer

ADIB - Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution in Abu Dhabi seeks an experienced Android software engineer to shape and implement innovative digital products. The successful candidate will collaborate with cross-functional teams and drive best practices in Agile engineering. Extensive experience with Android SDK and mobile development is essential. Join a progressive team focused on enhancing user experiences through technology.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software development experience, especially in Agile teams using SCRUM.
• Extensive mobile development experience using Android, Android Studio, and Gradle.
• Experience with Android front-end/UI development (knowledge of Google Material Design).

Responsibilities

• Shape and implement digital products while ensuring technological leadership.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop digital products.
• Drive best practice engineering processes and Agile behavior.

Skills

Agile engineering practices

Continuous integration

Android SDK

Unit testing

Java OOP

Tools

Android Studio

Gradle

JIRA

Git

Job description

Android software engineers will have a range of responsibilities from shaping and implementing digital products to ensuring that we stay on the leading edge of technology.

Our engineers contribute across the full technology stack, from database and DevOps infrastructure that supports continuous deployment, over native apps, to front end development.

Will work in a cross-functional team with the Product Owner, Designers and engineers to co-develop the digital products.

Key accountabilities of the role:

Use Agile engineering practices and various software and mobile development technologies to rapidly develop creative and efficient solutions that enhance the client customer and employee experience

Work in a team to craft clear user stories, design tests for prototypes and products, and continuously deliver product enhancements

Liaise with other teams within and outside the Digital unit to negotiate timelines, deliverables and dependencies

Collaborate closely with Product Owners, Designers and team members to identify and socialize product and delivery risks

Drive forward and role-model best practice engineering processes and Agile behavior and ensuring teams members follow suit

Communicate with business stakeholders about Agile processes to set and manage expectations about delivery methods and timelines

Own and drive best practice in terms of automation such as continuous integration and deployment

Specialist skills / technical knowledge, technical competencies required for this role:

Real passion for development and a demonstrated appetite for continual learning

Knowledge of pair programming, continuous integration and test-driven development

Familiarity with the concepts of Functional Programming and Microservices is a plus

Community contributions (e.g., open source work, GitHub, StackOverflow, publishing / speaking on technical ideas) are a plus

Should be a change agent that always challenges status quo

At least 5 years of software development experience with experience working in Agile teams using SCRUM

Extensive mobile development experience using Android, Android Studio and Gradle to develop both phone and tablet apps.

Extensive experience with Android SDK, Google Play Services, and Android Compatibility Library.

Experience in Android development patterns - including Java OOP, MVP, SQLite, JSON/Rest APIs, and multi-threading/background tasks.

Experience with Android front-end/UI development (with knowledge of Google Material Design), Web services & XML/JSON/REST connectivity/consumption, and local storage/databases/SQLite.

Experience with common Android libraries such as Dagger2, Retrofit2, etc.

Experience with build tools such as Fastlane

Expert knowledge of using and writing Android Libraries

Extensive experience with Playstore deployments and has deployed apps to the Playstore

Extensive experience of TDD and writing unit and UI tests using Junit, Mockito, espresso, etc.

Experience with code coverage and unit testing tools JaCoCo

Experience with converting High-Fidelity designs to mobile UI, familiarity with tools such InVision and Zeplin.

Experience with IBM Mobile First Platform is preferred

Extensive experience with Git, such as branching, merging, tagging and Pull Requests.

Experience with development processes and tools e.g. crash reporting, debugging, Atlassian JIRA/Confluence, etc.

Experience with mobile CI-CD (Jenkins or similar) is preferred

Infrastructure knowledge including RESTful APIs, Single Sign On, LDAP, Search Technologies

Experiences with code refactoring, design patterns, design-driven development, continuous deployment, highly scalable applications, application security

Experience with build tools such as Fastlane

Expert knowledge of using and writing Android Libraries

Extensive experience with Playstore deployments and has deployed apps to the Playstore

Extensive experience of TDD and writing unit and UI tests using Junit, Mockito, espresso, etc.

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