Senior Android Software Developer

##### Project description

We're seeking a solid and creative Android Software Developer eager to solve scale problems and work on cutting-edge and open-source technologies. In this project, you will have the opportunity to write code that will impact thousands of users every month. You'll implement your critical thinking and technical skills to develop cutting-edge software, and you'll have the opportunity to interact with teams across disciplines. In Luxoft, our culture strives to solve challenging problems focusing on product engineering based on hypothesis testing to empower people to come up with ideas.  We do it with a truly flexible environment, high-impact projects in Agile environments, a culture focused on results, training, and strong support to grow your career. In this project, you will be a member of the Information Technology Team, within the Information Technology Division. This position supports and transforms existing and new mission-critical and highly-visible operational website(s) and applications - spanning multiple technology stacks - through all phases of SDLC, while working collaboratively across IT, business, and third party suppliers from around the globe in a 24x7, fast-paced, and Agile based environment.

##### Responsibilities

• Assist in design and development of the account Android application
• Influencing peers, juniors and seniors both within the organization and across the account.
• Native Android app development and converting ideas, designs and requirements to concrete stable production builds
• Coordinate and collaborate with the Product and Engineering teams to understand problems, come up with creative solutions, and help with tracking and delivering within the release plan
• Understand and implement Android-specific design patterns
• Collaborate with Engineering and QA to resolve bugs.

##### Skills

Must have

• At least 3 years of native Android development experience.
• 6 + years total experience
• Strong experience with Jetpack library components
• Extremely comfortable with understanding and implementing internet applications with REST services at the backend
• Super awesome with Android concepts like fragments, location services, Google Cloud Messaging API, UI transitions, Image processing and multi-threaded communications, among others
• Familiarity with continuous integration (Jenkins), application monitoring (Crashlytics and fabric.io), mocking tools (Appium and Apiary), build tool development and enhancements, using unit testing and cucumber tests for functional tests.
• Extremely comfortable with understanding and implementing client-side handlers for web services with REST services at the backend
• Knowledge of Android Studio and GitHub is a huge plus.
• Experience with Cucumber testing framework desired
• B.S. or equivalent degree in Computer Science is desired

Nice to have

• The candidate should have excellent communication skills. Verbal communication should be clear, as well as written skills using US English.
• The candidate should be capable of quickly grasping high-level concepts and can communicate them to others.
• The candidate can work on a fast-moving development team, and be candid about the status of their work with the development team.
• The candidate cares about quality.

##### Other

Languages

English: C1 Advanced

Seniority

Senior