Senior Android Developer (Kenya 3rd Party)

DVT; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Himalayas is seeking a Senior Android Developer to lead mobile app projects across industries. The role focuses on building scalable Android applications, applying best practices, and shaping front-end architecture for robust, high-quality code.

The candidate will work with peers on design patterns, unit testing, and integration testing, while collaborating with customers to deliver maintainable, secure software solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Informatics, Computer Science, Engineering or related field.
• 5 years of mobile software development experience.
• Experience in SDLC methodologies (AGILE/SCRUM).

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain and debug mobile applications.
• Test modules and apps using automated and manual testing techniques.
• Collaborate with project managers, technical leads and customers on estimates and implementation details.
• Contribute to software architecture and coding standards within the team.

Skills

Communication

Teamwork

Problem-solving

Self-management

Code quality

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Informatics/CS/Engineering

Tools

Android SDK

Java

Jetpack libraries

RESTful services

Git/SVN/TFS

Job description

R Job Title: Senior Android Developer Reports to: Practice Head: Mobile Services

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The employed individual will be challenged with access to a range of projects at clients across industries, working with other experienced technologists whose single pursuit is optimal value creation for our customers through the construction of peerless solutions. This dynamic self- starting individual will be involved in the definition of development best practices and serve as team’s authority on creation of code quality and development of sound front-end architecture to ensure successful delivery on hundreds of software development assignments. You would have the opportunity to be involved with both consulting projects and internal projects.

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

• Interaction design and user experience guidelines
• Android SDK and Java
• Design patterns
• Parsing and consuming XML and JSON
• Working with RESTful services
• Unit testing, integration and functional testing
• Using version control systems – Git, SVN, TFS
• Solutions design and implementation
• Improving the design of existing code
• Keep up to date with technology
• Ability to Multitask
• System design and analysis
• Ability to conceptualise and simplify complex problems
• Ability to read and write specifications
• Good communications skills
• Ability to self-manage and not rely on detailed instruction from a manager

ATTITUDES competencies

• Enthusiastic and committed
• Work with minimal supervision
• Work in a team environment
• Ability to work under pressure
• Delivery focused
• Work to achieve tight deadlines
• Professionalism (conduct and appearance)
• Motivated
• Show initiative Awareness of the environment

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Developing, maintaining and debugging of software applications
• Testing of independent modules and complete applications making use of automated and manual testing techniques
• Working with project managers, technical leads and customers to provide task estimates, report on progress and discuss implementation details
• Following and contributing to the improvement of software architecture, coding standards and practices being observed within the team environment
• Designing of solutions that are maintainable, efficient, performant and secure
• Refactoring source code to improve system design
• Resolving software defects in collaboration with software test analysts
• Conducting peer reviews of project code
• Consume and create technical documentation such as specification documents, UML diagrams, user stories, wireframes etc.
• Using a version control system to manage code changes
• Configure, optimise and deploy applications for public release
• Managing the submission of applications to online repositories and app stores

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor’s Degree in Informatics, Computer Science, Engineering or other related qualification
• 5 years’ experience in mobile software development
• Preferably in a banking, insurance or telecoms industry
• Experience in SDLC methodologies such AGILE (SCRUM)

TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL NEED:

• Knowledge of Android First party API’s/Frameworks ( Services, Broadcast Receivers, Notifications, Camera etc.)
• Good knowledge of Jetpack libraries ( Navigation, Room., ViewModels, Work Manager etc.)
• Understanding of different programming paradigms ( Reactive, Functional etc )
• MutiThreading in Android ( eg. Coroutines )
• Deep dive into Unit testing with Frameworks such as PowerMock, Mokito, MockK
• Deeper knowledge of Architectural approaches like Offline-First, Redux based architecture like MVI and common ones like MVP and MVVM
• Knowledge of common Android Design patterns
• Knowledge of Dependency Injection and Frameworks ( Dagger , Koin , Kodein)
• Basic knowledge of Clean Architecture
• Basics of Unit Testing (JUnit)
• Understanding of Data Binding
• Basics of DevOps in Android R

Originally posted on Himalayas