Required Skills/Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (preferred), Math, Physics, or Electrical Engineering or equivalent work experience
  
• Min 5 years of software development experience
  
• 3+ years of Android development
  
• Experience in coding new Android mobile apps from scratch as well as refactoring, transitioning, and revising existing apps
  
• Strong knowledge of Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices including Custom UI or views.
  
• Strong knowledge of Android SDK, different versions of Android, and how to deal with different screen sizes.
  
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect Android applications to back-end services.
  
• Strong knowledge of Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices
  
• Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning
  
• Ability to design applications around natural user interfaces, such as “touch.”
  
• Familiarity with the use of additional sensors, such as gyroscopes and accelerometers
  
• Knowledge of the open-source Android ecosystem and the libraries available for common tasks
  
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements.
  
• Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications.
  
• A knack for benchmarking and optimization
  
• Understanding of Google’s Android design principles and interface guidelines
  
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
  
• Familiarity with continuous integration
  
• Min 4 years hands on GIT source code control experience
  

• Perform full stack hands-on mobile development for native mobile app design and implementation on Android, including system analysis, test-driven application development, unit test, test automation, code review and application maintenance support.
  
• Code and ship complex new mobile features and apps.
  
• Establish and maintain strong partnerships with the project manager and technical product owners.
  
• Work with owners and system leads, including Vendor Solutions, to logically design and negotiate solutions and participate in long-term product planning.
  
• Ensure commitments are met while providing high-quality and cost-effective systems that meet client expectations.
  
• Keep up to date on new technology, standards, protocols and tools in areas relevant to the rapidly changing digital mobile environment.
  
• Work with the application support teams and external vendors as necessary to ensure all applications are supported according to their Service Level Agreements.
  
• Troubleshoot and fix issues in production and non-production environments.
  
• Collaborate and work with external teams to design API specs.
  
• Propose and implement process improvements to make our engineering team even better