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Role: Android Developer

Location: Abu Dhabi

Role Purpose:

• 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
• Fluent in English

Previous experience:

• 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
• Excellent programming skills in at least 2 modern programming languages/ frameworks such as Swift Objective C Java JavaScript C C Python or others.
• 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.
• 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
• Excellent programming skills in at least 2 modern programming languages/ frameworks such Swift Objective C Java JavaScript C C Python or others.
• 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