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Senior Specialist Android Frontend Software Engineer:

• The Senior Specialist Android Frontend Software Engineer is responsible to demonstrate leadership in the team or sometimes lead a team who will be creating prototypes, translating UX/UI wireframes to code and implement visual elements in iterative agile cycles to develop, maintain, and optimize the business outcome. This role is responsible for estimating user and technical stories, designing and developing frontend code, writing and executing unit and integration tests, and supporting testing of deliverables against user and technical story acceptance tests.  The incumbent is responsible for performing peer reviews, collaborating with architects, business partners and other developers to produce “just enough” design, and ensuring that enough technical documentation and training is provided for reference and operational support. This role is responsible for providing software-related operations support, including managing level two and level three incident and problem management.

Responsibilities:

• Estimate user and technical stories to help inform and prioritize backlog related to Android frontend ecosystems
• Design modules according to user stories, UX designs, and technical stories
• Develop solutions according to module designs and deploy using delivery pipeline
• Develop and execute unit and integration tests; support testing against user and technical story acceptance tests
• Suggest improvements to user stories and UX
• Manage technical debt as part of daily activities
• Conduct peer reviews and maintain coding standards
• Manage incidents as level two and level three support
• Manage problems as level two and level three support      
• Actively contributing to and improving DevOps processes
• Collaborate closely with Solutions architects to define and refine “Emergent Application Architecture”

Minimum technical requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or other related field
• At least 8 years relevant experience of which a minimum of 5 years is in programming and/or systems analysis applying agile frameworks
• Experience working with agile methodologies, such as Scrum, Kanban, XP, LSD, and FDD

Experience with the following technologies relating to Android:

• Exposure to Android, Android tools and environments, Android Play Store deployment
• Familiar with the features of various mainstream mobile phones and have a deep understanding of the development features of mobile client software.
• Master the Android Framework layer, have experience in source code reading and positioning problems, and have certain understanding and proficiency in the implementation of more popular open source libraries in the industry.
• Familiar with Android UI development, have an understanding of UI architecture and basic UI interaction knowledge
• Cross-platform related technology research and development experience is a plus (RN)/Weex/Flutter/chromium/V8, etc.).
• Experience in network optimization, memory optimization and performance tuning under The Android platform is a plus
• Knowledge of software architecture principles
• Experience working in cloud-native environments
• Professional experience and knowledge of the Telecommunications industry preferred
• Certified Scrum Developer (CSD) preferred
• Competency in UX principles and practices preferred
• Experience with the following will be considered an advantage: Git, Spring JPA or any ORM tool, Junit or any Testing Framework, Linux, Kubernetes, AWS EC2, ECS, Spring DI or any DI Framework, Jenkins or any Build/Deploy tools.

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Senior Specialist IOS Frontend Software Developer:

• The Senior Specialist iOS Frontend Software Engineer is responsible to demonstrate leadership in the team or sometimes lead a team who will be creating prototypes, translating UX/UI wireframes to code and implement visual elements in iterative agile cycles to develop, maintain, and optimize the business outcome. This role is responsible for estimating user and technical stories, designing and developing frontend code, writing and executing unit and integration tests, and supporting testing of deliverables against user and technical story acceptance tests.  The incumbent is responsible for performing peer reviews, collaborating with architects, business partners and other developers to produce “just enough” design, and ensuring that enough technical documentation and training is provided for reference and operational support. This role is responsible for providing software-related operations support, including managing level two and level three incident and problem management.

Responsibilities:

• Estimate user and technical stories to help inform and prioritize backlog related to iOS frontend ecosystems
• Design modules according to user stories, UX designs, and technical stories
• Develop solutions according to module designs and deploy using delivery pipeline
• Develop and execute unit and integration tests; support testing against user and technical story acceptance tests
• Suggest improvements to user stories and UX
• Manage technical debt as part of daily activities
• Conduct peer reviews and maintain coding standards
• Manage incidents as level two and level three support
• Manage problems as level two and level three support      
• Actively contributing to and improving DevOps processes
• Collaborate closely with Solutions architects to define and refine “Emergent Application Architecture”
• Continuously Improve the quality of software being built by applying clean architecture, clean coding and DevOps best practices

Minimum technical requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or other related field
• At least 8 years relevant experience of which a minimum of 5 years is in programming and/or systems analysis applying agile frameworks
• Experience working with agile methodologies, such as Scrum, Kanban, XP, LSD, and FDD

Experience with the following technologies relating to iOS:   

• Familiar with Objective-C or Swift language, Foundation and UIKit framework, and interface development.
• Proficient in objective-C or Swift memory management and multi-threading operation, and understand the principles and application scenarios of various locks in iOS.
• Familiar with the features of various mainstream mobile phones and have a deep understanding of the development features of mobile client software.
• Master the iOS Framework layer, have experience in source code reading and positioning problems, and have certain understanding and proficiency in the implementation of more popular open source libraries in the industry.
• Cross-platform related technology research and development experience is a plus (RN)/Weex/Flutter/chromium/V8, etc.).
• Knowledge of software architecture principles
• Experience working in cloud-native environments
• Professional experience and knowledge of the Telecommunications industry preferred
• Certified Scrum Developer (CSD) preferred
• Competency in UX principles and practices preferred
• Experience with the following will be considered an advantage: Git, Spring JPA or any ORM tool, Junit or any Testing Framework, Linux, Kubernetes, AWS EC2, ECS, Spring DI or any DI Framework, Jenkins or any Build/Deploy tools.

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Senior Specialist Web Frontend Software Engineer:

• The Senior Specialist Web Frontend Software Engineer is responsible to demonstrate leadership in the team or sometimes lead a team who will be creating prototypes, translating UX/UI wireframes to code and implement visual elements in iterative agile cycles to develop, maintain, and optimize the business outcome. This role is responsible for estimating user and technical stories, designing and developing frontend code, writing and executing unit and integration tests, and supporting testing of deliverables against user and technical story acceptance tests.  The incumbent is responsible for performing peer reviews, collaborating with architects, business partners and other developers to produce “just enough” design, and ensuring that enough technical documentation and training is provided for reference and operational support. This role is responsible for providing software-related operations support, including managing level two and level three incident and problem management.

Responsibilities:

• Estimate user and technical stories to help inform and prioritize backlog relating to Web frontend ecosystems
• Design modules according to user stories, UX designs, and technical stories
• Develop solutions according to module designs and deploy using delivery pipeline
• Develop and execute unit and integration tests; support testing against user and technical story acceptance tests
• Suggest improvements to user stories and UX
• Manage technical debt as part of daily activities
• Conduct peer reviews and maintain coding standards
• Manage incidents as level two and level three support
• Manage problems as level two and level three support      
• Actively contributing to and improving DevOps processes
• Collaborate closely with Solutions architects to define and refine “Emergent Application Architecture”
• Continuously Improve the quality of software being built by applying clean architecture, clean coding and DevOps best practices

Minimum technical requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or other related field
• At least 8 years relevant experience of which a minimum of 5 years is in programming and/or systems analysis applying agile frameworks
• Experience working with agile methodologies, such as Scrum, Kanban, XP, LSD, and FDD

Experience with the following technologies relating to Web development:

• Backend service integration typically - REST Web Services (node.js, Java, .Net, Go and Java EE)
• Good knowledge and experience of frontend Testing frameworks
• Familiar with mainstream development frameworks (react, Angular, VUE at least one).
• Experience in mobile iOS/Android platform development is preferred
• Familiar with optimization of front-end performance and use of front-end debugging tools such as Chrome/Safari.
• Familiar with W3C specifications, HTML4/HTML5, CSS2/CSS3, ES5/ES6 and other front-end development technologies.
• Familiar with Node.js technology and ecology, proficient in NPM/Webpack/Gulp and other tool chains.
• Cross-platform related technology research and development experience is a plus (RN)/Weex/Flutter/chromium/V8, etc.).
• Knowledge of software architecture principles
• Experience working in cloud-native environments
• Professional experience and knowledge of the Telecommunications industry preferred
• Certified Scrum Developer (CSD) preferred
• Competency in UX principles and practices preferred
• Experience with the following will be considered an advantage: Git, Spring JPA or any ORM tool, Junit or any Testing Framework, Linux, Kubernetes, AWS EC2, ECS, Spring DI or any DI Framework, Jenkins or any Build/Deploy tools.