Senior Android Engineer at Deimos | MyJobMag (2024)

Posted: Apr 15, 2024

Deadline: Not specified

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Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced Senior Android Engineer to join our Engineering team, joining a newly formed, mobile-focussed, competency area. In this role, you will be responsible for the setting and implementing of standards to enable the efficient delivery of high-quality mobile applications. You will be an integral member of a high-performing and cross-functional team, and will report to an Engineering Manager.

What you will be doing:

• Helping to deliver a mobile application for an exciting African Fintech platform.
• Extensively collaborating with the team on the requirements and their implementation, process improvements and domain analysis
• Implementing designs which realize customer value, focussing on quality through testing, automation and review
• Critical analysis of the applications you work on in an effort to identify opportunities for improved customer satisfaction and user experience
• Writing and implementing code that is idiomatic, maintainable and efficient
• Identifying and resolving bottlenecks, rectifying bugs and enhancing the application performance

What you must have:

• At least 5 Years of experience in Android development
• Deep understanding of the Android framework.
• Extensive knowledge of idiomatic implementation using Kotlin / Java
• A strong understanding of the RESTful API paradigm.
• Experience with third-party libraries and API's.
• Well-versed in design and architectural patterns such as MVC, MVP and MVVM
• A strong understanding of OOP and SOLID principles
• Thorough understanding and extensive experience with the implementation of automated testing
• Experience with the distribution of Android applications
• Good working knowledge of the use of Git
• Experience within an agile development environment
• A solid understanding of automated release management for mobile applications through the usage of CICD concepts.

About you

For us to achieve our ambitious vision together as a team, It is important for our Martians to lead at all levels, be self starters who take initiative and put their hands up for challenging tasks. A growth mindset is important to us and we encourage all our Martians to openly share knowledge, support and help each other, ask questions, get creative with new technologies and learn from setbacks.

Becoming a Martian means:

• Comfortably working and learning from a fully remote, culturally diverse team based predominantly in South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria and Ghana.
• Being an open, honest and respectful communicator.
• You enjoy asking questions, identifying areas of improvement and proposing solutions, no matter your job title or whether you have been with us for a day, a month or years!
• You are comfortable taking initiative and operating independently.
• You thrive in a fast paced environment, where change is constant.
• You find it exciting to work with various clients, from different industries, each with a different problem for you and your team to solve.
• Intentionally sharing tech and industry trends that excite you with your peers.
• Seeking continuous feedback and actively taking steps to continuously grow personally and professionally.

Want to know what you get by joining us?

• Become a member of a team where we value each individual's contribution from day 1 and empower you to make suggestions, get involved and do what you love most!
• Flexibility and the freedom to work remotely.
• Work-life balance where you are not expected to work over weekends or after hours.
• A forward thinking remote company that knows how important it is to stay connected as one team, by providing virtual social platforms for employee engagement.
• A monthly work from home allowance which you can use to set yourself up to work comfortably from home. Whether that is pens, notebooks, new headphones or work snacks!
• A MacBook or Windows laptop for you to do your best work on.
• Become part of a team of exceptionally clever and talented people who like to share their knowledge and learnings.
• We support your career growth and love to celebrate your successes and advancement!

Interested and qualified? Go to Deimos on deimoscloud.bamboohr.com to apply

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