Our client in the IT Industry is looking for a Specialist Android Frontend Software Engineer. (Only Persons with Disability will be considered)
Salary: R700 000 – R900 000pa
Location: Midrand
Requirements:
Technical / Professional qualifications:
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Analysis, or other related field
• At least 3 years relevant experience of which a minimum of two years is in programming and/or systems analysis applying agile frameworks
• Experience working with agile methodologies, such as Scrum, Kanban, XP, LSD, and FDD
• Experience with the following technologies relating to Android
o Exposure to Android, Android tools and environments, Android Play Store deployment
o Familiar with the features of various mainstream mobile phones and have a deep understanding of the development features of mobile client software.
o Master the Android Framework layer, have experience in source code reading and positioning problems, and have certain understanding and proficiency in the implementation of more popular open source libraries in the industry.
o Familiar with Android UI development, have an understanding of UI architecture and basic UI interaction knowledge
o Cross-platform related technology research and development experience is a plus (RN)/Weex/Flutter/chromium/V8, etc.).
• Knowledge of software architecture principles
• Experience working in cloud-native environments
• Professional experience and knowledge of the Telecommunications industry preferred
• Certified Scrum Developer (CSD) preferred
• Competency in UX principles and practices preferred
• Experience with the following will be considered an advantage: Git, Spring JPA or any ORM tool, Junit or any Testing Framework, Linux , Kubernetes, AWS EC2, ECS, Spring DI or any DI Framework, Jenkins or any Build/Deploy tools.
Your responsibilities will include:
• Estimate user and technical stories to help inform and prioritize backlog related to Android frontend ecosystems
• Design modules according to user stories, UX designs, and technical stories
• Develop solutions according to module designs and deploy using delivery pipeline
• Develop and execute unit and integration tests; support testing against user and technical story acceptance tests
• Suggest improvements to user stories and UX
• Manage technical debt as part of daily activities
• Conduct peer reviews and maintain coding standards
• Manage incidents as level two and level three support
• Manage problems as level two and level three support
• Actively contributing to and improving DevOps processes
• Collaborate closely with Solutions architects to define and refine “Emergent Application Architecture”
• Continuously Improve the quality of software being built by applying clean architecture, clean coding and DevOps best practices