Role: Android Development Engineer
Location: Remote
Duration: Fulltime Permanent
JOB DESCRIPTION:
Component Development and Enhancement:
Develop new features and enhancements for ABC s design system by creating, implementing, and delivering new user interface components and features for Android-specific applications, leveraging Jetpack Compose and Kotlin.
Provide general software engineering services, including extending existing frameworks and creating new ones.
Perform daily testing of components on various Android devices, including phones and watches.
UX Partnership and Design Implementation:
Collaborate with the ABC UX team to build components by reviewing Figma mocks and following up with designers when more specifics are required.
Translate design needs into technical requirements for the development team.
Hand off implemented components to ABC software engineers for integration and implementation in ABC products.
Ensure that final deliverables are accessible and work across a range of assistive technologies, like TalkBack.
Ensure that final deliverables align with ABC s business goals and address their needs.
Maintenance and Bug Fixing:
Provide ongoing maintenance and support for existing front-end components.
Identify technical problems and develop updates and fixes for existing components and the design system.
Perform bug triaging of failing tests.
Manage bug submissions, tracking, and reporting to the ABC Creative Systems team.
Participate in periodic meetings, as required, with the design or engineering team to review known UX bugs, identify patches, and assess progress.
Quality Assurance and Testing:
Flag changes using our existing infrastructure and monitor changes as the new code rolls out to 100% production.
Write appropriate testing mechanisms, including unit tests, integration tests, and end-to-end tests, for new and updated components.
Maintain 100% test coverage, ensuring that every line of new code has a corresponding test.
Perform backend, regression, and exploratory testing on components as needed.
Add and execute tests on new features and functionality.
Monitor the pass rate for tests.
Documentation and Reporting:
Write detailed documentation that describes the behavior and implementation of each new or updated component.
Participate in weekly standup meetings to provide updates on component development and design system progress.
Report progress primarily through the bug burndown rate, which will be monitored and discussed during reports.
Maintain test cases and documentation