Android Developer at hearX Group

Job description

Location of the position: Innovation Hub, Pretoria

Start date: 17 July 2017 (if candidate can start sooner, it would be advantageous)

Job Description

We are looking for a well-versed, enthusiastic Android developer to help develop and maintain our innovative hearing health platforms. Work will vary between exciting new projects in line with provided designs and frameworks and maintaining and upgrading our current service offering, through improving and streamlining projects alongside further updates and additions. You would be required to report to both the developer lead and the lead project manager. At hearX, you will be exposed to a vast array of world-first mHealth systems. The mHealth space is growing rapidly worldwide and the hearX Group is at the forefront of providing effective and scalable solutions.

That being said, the successful candidate will need to be agile to accommodate for high-stress and often dynamic situations

Specific responsibilities include:

• Be involved in the planning, design and development of first-to-market mHealth applications.
• Taking personal ownership for projects as well as contributing to platform based products.
• Working from wireframes to develop high quality Android applications
• Working alongside fellow Android developers to help maintain the current 8+ hearX application suite
• Following best practice design and development methodologies in sustaining a high quality, clean, auditable and manageable system.
• Working within QMS frameworks for CE certification compliance.
• Attend meetings alongside the project lead with stakeholders for requirement analysis and feedback purposes.

Education and/or work experience requirements:

• Minimum of 2 years’ work experience
• Strong knowledge of the Android SDK and its supporting systems.
• Good development practices utilising modern design patterns. Notably: MVC, MVVC, MVP, Singleton
• A good understanding of storage mechanisms, threading, lifecycles, fragments, broadcasts, adapters, gradle.
• Knowledge of common 3rd party libraries available and integration experience.
• Strong UI development experience in xml and developing for dynamic screen support.
• Experience in developing new view classes through extension of android view classes is an advantage.
• Experience with RESTful API integration.
• Well versed in Git
• Being able to cope within stressful and dynamic (post-startup) environments.
• Team player mentality with a strong focus on taking personal ownership.
• Willingness to learn and contribute to the professional growth of fellow developers.