Senior Android Engineer

Job Title: Senior Android Engineer
Location: Toronto, Canada
Employment Type: Contract

Job Overview

We are looking for a Senior Android Engineer with experience in native Android mobile application development. Your primary focus will be developing the Payfare Android apps and their integration with our back-end services and third-parties. As a Senior Android Engineer, you will be working in a team maintaining and making additions to our Android applications as well as creating brand new applications from the ground up.

Reports To: Director of Mobile Engineering

Responsibilities and Duties

• Support the entire application lifecycle (concept, design, test, release and support)
• Build and evolve modern iOS apps to provide the best discovery experience for millions of users
• Create functional mobile applications while writing clean code
• Create highly secure mobile apps that are free of security vulnerabilities, promptly addressing any vulnerabilities found through ongoing code scans and penetration tests
• Design user interfaces with the ability to follow design guidelines
• Write great unit tests and end-to-end tests
• Help maintaining code quality, documentation and automation

Qualifications and Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field and 5+ years of work experience
• Firm understanding of OOP design principles.
• Extensive understanding of Android framework components and their respective life cycles
• Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms and programming languages
• Experience working closely with product teams, designers, and other developers to create a truly delightful mobile experience
• Experience developing highly performant Kotlin code and view layouts and the ability to diagnose performance bottlenecks
• Current and detailed knowledge of the capabilities of different Android API levels
• A disciplined approach to development, testing, documentation and code structure in a team environment
• A familiarity with the Android tool ecosystem for development, testing, debugging, and performance benchmarking
• An excellent understanding of best practices for concurrency and threading
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect Android applications to back-end services
• At least three years of engineering experience, a large portion of which in a team environment
• A constant desire to improve, learn more and take things higher
• Multiple years experience using Kotlin with MVVM and MVP architecture
• Good Understanding of code versioning tools (Git)

Bonus Points for

• Experience in a continuous integration and continuous delivery environment
• Experience with Native iOS or using cross-platform technologies like React Native or Flutter.