Senior Android Developer

MONIGOLD SOLUTIONS LTD ,
Woking, Surrey
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Salary: From £50,000 to £65,000 per annum

Overview

My client is a is an expert outsourced international shopper marketing and contract sales agency. The business has evolved into a dynamic, software led provider of contracted sales to a strong base of long standing customers. Due to expansion and growth they are looking for talented Android developers who get excited about technology, love learning new skills and want to work for a company where building great software is a primary focus of the business. This is an opportunity to work for a progressive forward thinking company where the products that the Development team build are essential to the success of the company. You will be working on new and interesting projects and gain exposure to the latest technologies, whilst at the same time having some fun and working with a great bunch of people. If you are passionate about creating great software and want to work somewhere where there is a pragmatic focus on being effective and doing things well, this could be the job for you. You will be working as a developer in one of our small, self-organising, cross functional teams in a place that knows the application of agile means far more than just putting the word Scrum in the title of meetings. We are serious about the application of Scrum and if you come and work for us you will gain exposure to working in a mature agile environment. You won’t find a stuffy inflexible corporate environment or approach, we like to be more relaxed and have fun while we work, however we are very serious about delivering quality products and doing things well. We encourage continuous improvement and our teams are empowered to change the way we do things to ensure we always employ the most effective approach possible. 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, Koin), 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 Espresso. 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. Broader mobile development experience beyond Android, such as iOS (Swift, Objective C) would be a plus. 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. Hours 37.5 hours per week Monday to Friday 09:00 to 17:30 Benefits Competitive salary Participation in a discretionary bonus scheme x4 Salary Life Assurance 25 days holiday (plus bank holiday) per annum pro rata Medi-cash scheme Membership Discounted Gym Membership This job was originally posted as www.totaljobs.com/job/89667903

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