Android Developer, Remote, 12+ Months Contract

Position: Android Developer

Location: Remote (PST Timings)

Duration: 12+ months

Must Have Skills: Android, Memory Analyzers tools, API, Kotlin, Graph QL, React Native

Requirements

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject
• 5+ years of professional experience in various elements of full stack software development native mobile, web front end, back end, and hands-on coding experience in the past
• Experience with a consumer facing app and ecommerce or retail shopping
• Hands-on experience building scalable backend systems and platforms
• Previous knowledge of
  • Designing and developing advanced applications for the Android platform
  • Unit-testing code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features
• Experience with bug fixing and improving application performance
• Work with outside data sources and APIs
• Experience with the agile methodology Scrum
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency
• Proven software development experience and Android skills development
• Experience translating wireframes into pixel-perfect views
• Knowledgeable about animation and screen transitions
• Have published at least one original Android app
• Experience with Android SDK, Services, and various methods of background processing
• Experience working with remote data via REST, JSON, Google Cloud Messaging, and the HTTP protocol
• Experience with Google Play APIs: Maps, Location, and Cloud Messaging
• Experience with third-party libraries and APIs
• Experience with analysis of memory issues such as Memory Leaks using Memory Analyzers tools (DDMS, MAT)
• Working knowledge of the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies
• Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle and writing readable, maintainable, performant object-oriented code
• Experience working with Kotlin, Coroutines, MVVM, MVVM Clean, View Models, Repository Design pattern, and other architectures
• Experience working with an orchestration Layer and GraphQL
• Experience operating in an Agile environment and using tracking tools like Jir
• Experience with React Native a plus