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SalaryJava
Kotlin
Gradle
Android Design Principles / Interfact Guidelines
AWS - Dynamo
AWS - Lambda
AWS - S3
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Automated Device browser testing
Automated API integration testing
About the Opportunity?
As a Senior Android Engineer, you are a highly skilled mobile developer and innovator. You possess extensive knowledge and expertise in building mobile applications using Kotlin and developing cloud-based technology solutions. You relish the opportunity to bring your ideas and your love of coding to support, enhance and define the future of our Android native mobile applications used by millions of students. You have an innate ability to work seamlessly with cross-functional teams while developing applications that integrate and communicate effectively with server-side APIs and enterprise backend systems. You are collaborative and intentional about aligning Android development with broader engineering projects, ensuring a cohesive and scalable product architecture. You build strong relationships with Product Owners as a reliable technical partner in prioritizing the backlog, identifying problems, determining options to solve the problem, and communicating issues that have a broader scope.
About the Team
Our teams Pivot team engineers, develops, and delivers products and customer-facing platforms critical to HigherEd institutions, students, and other internal and external stakeholders. We are a rapidly expanding elite team of engineers committed to building a privacy-forward product that will connect students and colleges. At maturity, our product will serve engaging content to students across multiple channels, including a widely used mobile app. We are highly motivated, initiative-taking and engaged technologists who take pride in implementing and building products that positively impact the educational and career trajectories of millions of students annually.
In this role, you will:
Design Implementation (75%)
- Design and build high-quality native mobile applications for the Android platform
- Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
- Collaborate with Product Owners and across engineering teams to define, design, and deploy new features
- Connect the application to back-end tools including the cloud, APIs, and push notifications
- Assist with maintaining high engineering standards in code quality, organization, and automation
- Participate in testing to ensure proper application functionality
- Implement encryption techniques to protect content
- Participate in Agile SCRUM ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Grooming, Daily SCRUM, Demo) and contribute to team deliverables
- Participate in peer reviews of software engineering artifacts
- Assist in the identification and resolution of production issues
- Ensure the team is adhering to development standards and security policies and procedures
You have:
- Ideally 7+ years of software development experience with a significant focus on Android native mobile applications
- Strong proficiency with Java and Kotlin?
- Demonstrated experience designing, developing, deploying and releasing Android applications in the App store
- Experience with Android frameworks, and Apollo is preferable
- Understanding of fundamental Android APIs, frameworks, capabilities, UI styles, and paradigms
- Understanding of UI design and a user-oriented focus
- Knowledge of performance limits and characteristics
- Working knowledge of the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies
- Proven ability to work in concert with cross-functional engineering teams and business partners
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related discipline
- Authorization to work in the U.S.
- Capability developing applications for multiple target platforms from a single codebase
- Hands-on experience with server-side APIs and enterprise backend systems JSON/XML
- Skill in API architecture in collaboration with backend teams
- Experience with backend for front-end server-side systems to optimize client-side experiences
- Experience and a willingness to work with the Agile software development methodology in a fast-paced, iterative, and multi-functional setting with contributors from various backgrounds, talents, and locations?
- Design and build applications for the native Android platform
- Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
- Collaborate across engineering teams to define, design, and deploy new features
- Connect the application to back-end tools like the cloud, APIs, and push notifications
- Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization
- Run tests to ensure the app's functionality is proper
- Accountable for assisting in the maintenance of code quality, and automation
- Use encryption techniques to protect content
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or related work experience
- Minimum of 7+ years of professional software development
- Minimum 5+ years of experience in Kotlin,?Java and experience with Gradle is highly preferable
- Exhibit a portfolio of Android apps designed and developed
- Experience with Android frameworks, especially Apollo is preferable
- Extensive experience developing end-to-end Android mobile apps, including design, development, and deployment to app marketplaces with a good understanding of performance limits.
- Hands-on experience with RESTful APIs to connect to back-end services and JSON/XML
- You are authorized to work in the United States of America
- Understanding of UI design and a user-oriented focus
- Understanding of fundamental Android APIs, frameworks, capabilities, UI styles, and paradigms
- Understanding of Apples design principles and interface guidelines
- Working knowledge of the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies
- Experience and a willingness to work with the Agile software development methodology in a fast-paced, iterative, and multi-functional setting with contributors from various backgrounds, talents, and locations
