Real passion for development and a demonstrated appetite for continual learning
Knowledge of pair programming, continuous integration and test-driven development
Familiarity with the concepts of Functional Programming and Microservices is a plus
Community contributions (e.g., open sourcework, GitHub, StackOverflow, publishing / speaking on technical ideas) is a plus
Should be a change agent that always challenges status quo
Fluent in English
EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATION
At least 5 years of software development experience with experience working in Agile teams using SCRUM
Extensive mobile development experience using Android, Android Studio and Gradle to develop both phone and tablet apps.
Extensive experience with Android SDK, Google Play Services, and Android Compatibility Library.
Experience in Android development patterns - including Java OOP, MVP, SQLite, JSON/Rest APIs, and multi-threading/background tasks.
Experience with Android front-end/UI development (with knowledge of Google Material Design), Web services & XML/JSON/REST connectivity/consumption, and local storage/databases/SQLite.
Experience with common Android libraries such as Dagger2, Retrofit2, etc.
Experience with build tools such as Fastlane
Expert knowledge of using and writing Android Libraries
Extensive experience with Playstoredeployments and has deployed apps to the Playstore
Extensive experience of TDD and writing unit and UI tests using Junit, Mockito, espresso, etc.
Experience with code coverage and unit testing tools JaCoCo
Experience with converting High-Fidelity designs to mobile UI, familiarity with tools such InVision and Zeplin.
Experience with IBM Mobile First Platform is preferred
Extensive experience with Git, such as branching, merging, tagging and Pull Requests.
Experience with development processes and tools e.g.crash reporting, debugging, Atlassian JIRA/Confluence, etc.
Experience with mobile CI-CD (Jenkins or similar) is preferred
Excellent programming skills in at least 2 modern programming languages/ frameworks, such as Swift, Objective C, Java, Node.JS, JavaScript, C, C++, Python, or others.
Infrastructure knowledge including RESTful APIs, Single Sign On, LDAP, Search Technologies