Senior Mobile Application Developer (Android)

FGF Brands; Toronto; On-site; CAD 85,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading food company in Toronto seeks a Senior Mobile Application Developer (Android) to design and ship features that enhance operational efficiency. Candidates should have over 5 years of Android development experience and a strong command of Kotlin. Responsibilities include implementing user-friendly interfaces and improving the codebase through modern architectural patterns. This role offers excellent compensation, health benefits, and career growth in a supportive environment.

Benefits

Competitive Compensation

Health Benefits

RRSP matching program

Tuition reimbursement

Discount program

Qualifications

• 5+ years of commercial native Android development experience.
• 4+ years of experience with Kotlin.
• Proven experience writing and maintaining unit tests.
• Hands-on experience with Jetpack Components and Compose.
• Experience integrating APIs and back-end services.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with business and product teams to design and ship features.
• Implement user-friendly interfaces in partnership with design.
• Continuously improve codebase through refactoring.
• Engage in technical collaboration and code reviews.
• Work closely with QA to enhance automation and testing.

Skills

Commercial native Android development experience

Kotlin

Unit testing (JUnit, Mockito)

Pixel-perfect UI development

Jetpack Components and Compose

Dependency injection frameworks (Hilt, Koin, Dagger)

Modern software architecture principles

API integration

Firebase Firestore

Profiling and performance optimization

Git and collaborative workflows

Object-oriented design

Kotlin Multiplatform

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or equivalent

Job description

Senior Mobile Application Developer (Android)

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What FGF Offers

• FGF believes in Home Grown Talent, accelerated career growth with leadership training. Unleashing Your Potential
• Competitive Compensation, Health Benefits, & a generous flexible medical / Health spending account
• RRSP matching program
• Tuition reimbursement
• Discount program that covers almost everything under the sun - Restaurants, gyms, shopping etc.

Summary

• Collaborate with the Business and Product teams to design, architect, and ship impactful features that improve operational efficiency.
• Implement polished, user-friendly interfaces in close partnership with our design team.
• Continuously improve our codebase through refactoring and by applying modern design and architectural patterns.
• Engage in thoughtful technical collaboration, discussion, and code reviews with other engineers.
• Work closely with QA to enhance automation, testing, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Leverage AI-assisted development tools (e.g., code generation, smart refactoring, bug analysis, and test generation) to accelerate feature delivery, reduce technical debt, and maintain code quality.
• Stay up to date with the latest advances in Android, Kotlin Multiplatform, Jetpack Compose, and AI-driven development workflows.
• Perform other duties as required.

What You Bring

• 5+ years of commercial native Android development experience.
• 4+ years of experience with Kotlin (our apps are 100% Kotlin).
• Proven experience writing and maintaining unit tests (JUnit, Mockito).
• Skilled in developing pixel-perfect UI and creating custom UI components for rich, interactive experiences.
• Hands‑on experience with Jetpack Components and Compose.
• Proficiency with dependency injection frameworks (Hilt, Koin, or Dagger).
• Strong grasp of modern software architecture principles (MVVM, Clean Architecture, Unidirectional Flow).
• Experience integrating APIs and back‑end services (Retrofit, OkHttp).
• Practical experience working with Firebase Firestore and related services.
• Highly proficient in profiling, troubleshooting, and performance optimization.
• A demonstrated ability to deliver clean, organized, testable, and scalable code.
• Experience working with Git and collaborative workflows.
• Strong foundation in object‑oriented design, software development principles, and design patterns.
• Solid understanding of coroutines and concurrency best practices.
• Experience leveraging AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Cursor.AI, Claude.AI ) to:
  • Accelerate feature delivery and reduce repetitive coding tasks.
  • Improve bug detection and resolution workflows.
  • Generate maintainable boilerplate and test cases.
  • Support scalable, maintainable, and reusable Android codebases.
• Experience with Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) and/or Compose Multiplatform (CMP) is a strong plus.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

Desired Skills

• AndroidX, Android Architecture Components, Kotlin Coroutines
• Jetpack Compose