Senior Android Developer
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| Job Type | Permanent |
| Area | Bagshot, United Kingdom |
| Sector | IT |
| Start Date | |
| Job Ref | PH9821 |
- Description
- Salary: £55,000 to £75,000 + participation in a discretionary bonus scheme, x4 Salary Life Assurance, Health and Dental cash plan membership, 25 days holiday (plus bank holiday) per annum pro rata.
The successful candidate will be working in a cross functional scrum team. Their core specialism will be Android development and that is what they will spend the lion share of their time doing however we really value people that are interested in turning their hands to additional things.
The scrum teams are responsible for doing everything involved in taking a requirement and turning it into working software. We expect everyone in the team to pitch in however is necessary to get the job done. On occasion when there are no tasks that pertain to a team member’s direct specialism we expect them to pitch in with other jobs. This could mean touching other parts of the stack, our delivery pipeline, testing and maintenance of tests.
Ideal candidates are either people that have other relevant skills or are enthusiastic about learning them. The server side aspect of our application runs on Microsoft Azure. Any Android candidates that have some exposure to Azure, Azure pipelines, C# ,Net or are enthusiastic about learning and getting exposure to full stack development will be of more interest
Skills & Requirements
Must have
· Excellent knowledge of Android Material design guidelines and best practices
· Experience of using the latest Android framework like Android Architecture Components (Room, Volley , ViewModel, LiveData)
· Excellent knowledge of building scalable code using dependency injection (Dagger, Kodein / Kotlin), RXJava, Retrofit/Volley
· Experience of building complex Android applications using the latest design patterns (MVP, MVVM etc)
· Experience working with a variety of web services data formats (e.g. JSON, XML, ProtoBuf), architectural styles (e.g. REST, GraphQL) and authentication schemes (e.g. OAuth2.0)
· Excellent understanding of Junit, Mockito and Expresso
· Good understanding of Gradle and the Android Studio build process
· Experience in developing applications in Kotlin
· Excellent written and verbal communication, problem solving and analytical skills
· Positive proactive attitude, willing to turn their hand to any problem, and willing to work things out when they fall outside their area of direct expertise
· Eager to work as a member of a team and pitch in to ensure the team succeeds with its commitments
· An interest in expanding your horizons and learning new skills as well as caring about doing things well
· More senior candidates should demonstrate leadership potential and be able to tick a lot more of the nice to have boxes below
Nice to have
· We will be particularly interested in your application if you can tick some or all of these boxes too
· Mobile development experience for iOS using native methods (Swift, Objective C). Our current focus is Android however iOS is on the horizon so being able to make a contribution to iOS as well as Android would be extremely desirable. If you haven’t done iOS development then we’ll be hoping that you are enthusiastic about learning
· Full stack development - All of the server side aspects of our application are Microsoft Azure based. Candidates that already have some .Net skills or are interested in picking up Azure skills and C# .Net will be of particular interest
· Understanding of Domain Driven Design and exposure to working with microservice architectures
· Experience of test driven development, writing unit tests and solid understanding of how to write testable code
· Experience of working as a member of an agile team and familiar with agile planning and estimation techniques. A good understanding of the fundamental rationale for employing an agile approach
· Experience with using engineering practices that compliment an agile approach. Test driven development, source branching strategies (GIT Flow), continuous integration etc.
· Experience working with Jira, GIT and Azure DevOps / Azure App Center for source control, builds / deployment backlog and task management
Job Title: Senior Android Developer
Location: Woking, Surrey
Salary: £55,000 to £75,000 + participation in a discretionary bonus scheme, x4 Salary Life Assurance, Health and Dental cash plan membership, 25 days holiday (plus bank holiday) per annum pro rata
Hours of work: 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday 09:00 to 17:30
Job Type: Permanent
Job Reference: PH9821
Wilde Associates is working in the capacity of an Employment Agency for this role
