Android Developer; B2C - Hybrid Probation

Introduction

An exciting opportunity has become available within the medical research industry, for a Senior Android Developer.

Our client is an impact-driven digital health company passionate about affordable access to healthy hearing for everyone, everywhere.

This is an opportunity to be part of making a change and impacting human lives.

The position is based in Pretoria.

Develop and maintain our innovative 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 our 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.

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

Required nature of experience :
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)
• A good understanding of storage mechanisms, threading, life cycles
• 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 Rx Android, Rx Java and Rx Kotlin is beneficial

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