Android Developer

Minimum Requirements:

• Minimum education (essential): National Senior Certificate
• Minimum education (desirable): Diploma and/or degree in IT / Engineering / Programming
• Minimum applicable experience (years): 5 years as an Android Developer
• Hands on software developer having been responsible for the development and maintenance of 1 or more projects.
• Experience in native Android (Kotlin and Java) development specifically. 
• Reactive programming
• Strong knowledge of Android development and its supporting systems
• Proficient in Kotlin (Minimum 2 years experience)
• Good development practices utilising modern design patterns using software architectures: MVP, MVVM, Clean Architecture A good understanding of storage mechanisms, threading, lifecycles
• Knowledge of common 3rd party frameworks/libraries available and integration experience 
• Strong UI development experience and developing for dynamic screen support
• Experience with RESTful API integration
• Well versed in Git
• Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle within an Agile environment Atlassian JIRA software experience is beneficial
• Good understanding of Bluetooth on Android is beneficial
• Good understanding of RxAndroid, RxJava and RxKotlin is beneficial

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain innovative hearing health platforms on the Android platform, ensuring code is generated that is to specification, neat, accurate and scalable.
• Work will mainly focus on maintaining and upgrading hearing aid solutions platform, as well as providing guidance from an Android best practice perspective for products in the rest of the company.
• Work might also include mentoring other Android developers.