Junior/Intermediate Android developer in ecommerce at bidorbuy.co.za

Job description

Responsibilities

• Manage the full technical life-cycle of Android applications during each development phase.
• Collaborate with team members to brainstorm about new products, provide each other with technical insight and review working drafts.
• Document and maintain design specifications, source code, and archives for new applications and ideas (we use JIRA and Confluence)
• Work from UI/UX requirements, APIs, mockups to build functional, high-performance Android phone and tablet apps.
• Understand the nuances of fragments and Android XML layouts, and how to create adaptive interfaces that work for multiple device form factors.
• Design, build, and maintain high performance, reusable, and reliable Java code
• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the application
• Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization

Skills

• Strong knowledge of Android SDK, Eclipse, Android Studio, different versions of Android, and how to deal with different screen sizes
• Min 1 year of overall software development and/or Android software development experience.
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect Android applications to back-end services
• Strong knowledge of Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices
• Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning
• Ability to design applications around natural user interfaces, such as “touch”
• Knowledge of the open-source Android ecosystem and the libraries available for common tasks
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications
• A knack for benchmarking and optimization
• Understanding of Google’s Android design principles and interface guidelines
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git/Bitbucket
• Familiarity with continuous integration (Jenkins, Atlassian stack)