Android Developer at Salt South Africa

• Take ownership, build and maintain our bleeding edge mobile eCommerce Android application.
• Design, develop and test code written in Java/Kotlin.
• Apply best practice and ensure stability and security of the applications.
• Monitor and profile application performance.
• Take part in daily standup; manage your time and workload effectively.
• Collaborate with creative, content and engineering teams to design and develop a world-class Android application.
• Publish applications to the Google Play Store

Attributes/Experience required:

• Strong Computer Science and programming fundamentals.
• Experience architecting, developing, testing and maintaining Android mobile applications.
• Experience with network requests to RESTful APIs (JSON) using best practice.
• Full understanding of the Android application, activity and fragment life-cycles.
• Appreciation of Android-specific asynchronous processing techniques.
• Knowledge and appreciation of Android user experience design patterns.
• Experience using GIT, Jira and Confluence
• Experience developing in an Agile team environment
• Be accountable, engaging and inventive.
• Work alongside a QA engineer regarding testing and product finalisation.

Nice to have:

• Experience with Sketch, Zeplin and Photoshop.
• Experience with Google Maps, Firebase & Braze.

Qualifications:

• Information Technology or Computer Science Degree.
• Minimum 3 years of experience.