IT - Senior Android Developer

BuzzClan is an elite business consulting firm collaborating to provide software, advisory & implementation services. BuzzClan is a certified partner for most of the tier 1 cloud, hardware & software providers. Being a vertically integrated solutions company, BuzzClan is known for their capability in the IT Services space.

Job Title: Sr. Android Developer

Job Location: Remote

Job Duration: 12 Months

Job Description:

The Senior Android Developer serves as a one of the native scrum team to develop new features and support native Android application that meet business needs and the technical vision. Senior Android Developer is familiar with a variety of the field's concepts, practices and procedures; and performs complex applications development related tasks without guidance.

Primary Responsibilities

• Actively contributes to the development of solutions and ideas that add value.
• Develops elegant and simple solutions utilizing technology including Kotlin, Android SDK, Gradle
• Ensuring high performing app for UI and networking
• Cooperating with the back-end developer in the process of building the RESTful API
• Communicating with external web services
• Participate in Agile scrum meetings and responsible for completing assigned stories in a timely manner with quality
• Produces code of high quality and reliability - strong quality code metrics.
• Effectively performs code walk-throughs.
• Shows initiative to initiate and actively facilitate meetings and issue resolution, involving the right individuals.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Any combination of relevant education and experience and/or related professional designations/certifications in this field is highly desirable.

Education

• Minimum Required: Bachelor of Science in computer science or a related technical field or equivalent combination of post-secondary education and work experience

Experience

• 5-7 years of increasingly responsible Android native app development using Java/Kotlin

Primary Skills

• Proficiency with Kotlin for Android development
• Deep understanding and experience using Android Architectural Components
• Creating self-contained, reusable, and testable modules and components
• Expert level knowledge in using Retrofit 2 for consuming REST API
• Expert knowledge of Gradle as a build and dependency management system
• Experience with UI implementation using constraint layout
• Experience with using asynchronous and event-based code using RxJava/Kotlin
• Experience implementing MVVM design pattern
• Experience working with Git
• Writing extensive unit tests
• Creating configuration, build, and test scripts for Continuous Integration environments