Android Developer (B2C) - Hybrid After Probation

Zeal Hr; Pretoria; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 800,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading health company as a Senior Android Developer in Pretoria. You'll drive the development of cutting-edge health platforms, mentor fellow developers, and work within an impactful team focused on enhancing access to healthy hearing. Excellent growth opportunity with a strong emphasis on best practices in Android development.

Qualifications

• 5 years as an Android Developer.
• Hands-on experience developing and maintaining projects.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain innovative health platforms on Android.
• Upgrade hearing aid solutions platform and mentor other developers.

Skills

Native Android development

Kotlin

Java

Reactive programming

UI development

RESTful API integration

Git

Agile development

Bluetooth understanding

RxAndroid

RxJava

RxKotlin

Atlassian JIRA

Education

National Senior Certificate

Diploma in IT/Engineering/Programming

Job description

Introduction

An exciting opportunity has become available within the medical research industry for a Senior Android Developer.

Our client is an impact-driven digital health company passionate about affordable access to healthy hearing for everyone, everywhere.

This is an opportunity to be part of making a change and impacting human lives. The position is based in Pretoria.

Duties & Responsibilities

1. Develop and maintain our innovative health platforms on the Android platform, ensuring code is generated that is to specification, neat, accurate, and scalable.
2. Work mainly on maintaining and upgrading our hearing aid solutions platform.
3. Provide guidance from an Android best practice perspective for products in the rest of the company.
4. Mentor other Android developers as needed.

Desired Experience & Qualifications

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 responsible for the development and maintenance of one 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 understanding of storage mechanisms, threading, lifecycles.
• Knowledge of common 3rd party frameworks/libraries 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 lifecycle 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.

Package & Remuneration