Android Engineer

Java and Kotlin
Gradle and Android Studio
RxJava

New York City, NY (remote work on EST)

12-month Contract-Must be W2

Job Description:

Looking for a hardworking Senior Android Engineer to develop cohesive solutions to content based technical obstacles. The role will be end-to-end from understanding the goals and roadmaps of the product and engineering teams, through design and architecture of any solution and the delivery and maintenance of those platforms once in place.

We look for someone who will participate in the definition of product requirements, being able to articulate how the engineering effort will align to those requirements and provide accurate estimates of the effort.

You will also be working with a team of engineers through the development process, including implementing standards around code, tooling, metrics, progress reporting and interactions with the QE team to ensure a quality first approach to any work.

Responsibilities:

Hands on software development on the Android/Android TV/Amazon/Amazon Fire TV platform
Design, develop, test, and deploy new solutions as well as maintaining, integrating, and improving existing solutions
Collaborate with the product team to understand and deliver on their requirements
Handle individual project priorities and deadlines
Participate in preparing business cases, requirements documents and product roadmaps for the Android platform
Prepare architectural diagrams and technical specifications for the engineering team to deliver high quality, maintainable software
Represent coding standard methodologies through sharing your expertise, performing code reviews, and mentoring engineers

Basic Qualifications:

4+ years experience developing Android Applications
Have shipped one or more apps to the Google Play and/or Amazon app store.
Experience programming in Java and Kotlin
Experience using Gradle and Android Studio
Experience following and implementing software design patterns
Able to work with multiple scrum teams in an agile process
Experience with unit testing, test driven development, branching patterns and continuous integration / deployment
Good interpersonal skills with ability to facilitate conversations with business partners in project definition, business requirements definition and functional design sessions
Eye for quality and user experience
Translate business objectives into software requirements

Additional Qualifications:

Familiarity with RxJava or other reactive frameworks
Experience working across multiple interdisciplinary teams
Experience working with globally distributed teams
Developed an app across multiple platforms (ex Android and iOS), and with multiplatform technologies like Kotlin multiplatform

THIRD PARTY AGENCIES, SUBCONTRACTORS, AND RECRUITERS NEED NOT APPLY. Applicants received from firms will not be considered. Subcontracting is not available for this position.

Summary
Company name: Softworld Inc
Remote job title: Android Engineer