Android Mobile Engineer

About the Company

About the Role

Responsibilities

• Execute each development project with good quality in a timely manner.
• Design, develop and test Android applications (including quality control).
• Review deliverables at each process (design, code, test cases, etc.).
• Plan and Execute project release with minimal risk.
• Investigation and troubleshooting.
• Discover issues, includes not only tangible but also potential, in development organizations and improvement activities.
• Market trend surveys and proposals for the introduction of latest technologies.
• Select and propose a sustainable architecture.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical discipline.

Required Skills

• More than 3 years of system development experience with Android Development in Java/Kotlin Android environments.
• Experience with Android frameworks.
• Experience in mobile design patterns (MVVM, MVP, MVI etc.).
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices and best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing and operations.
• Knowledge of open-source and commercial libraries commonly used in the Android ecosystem (okhttp, retrofit etc.).
• Excellent critical thinking, problem solving and communication skills and able to take ownership of tasks.
• Strong passion for code quality and not allergic to unit tests.
• Comfortable working in an Agile environment.
• Be eager to help your teammates, share your knowledge with them, and learn from them.
• Be open to receiving constructive feedback.
• Business level English in reading and speaking.
• Experience of publishing android apps on Google Play.
• Building mobile frameworks / SDKs.

Preferred Skills

• Experience of publishing android apps on Google Play.
• Building mobile frameworks / SDKs.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Key Interfaces for Role

• Junior members: Knowledge sharing, guidance, and support.
• BE team members: Integration, debugging issue together.
• Project Manager: Providing the timely updates/raise concerns/flags for the QA topics that needs attention.

Key Performance Indicators

• Finish development tasks in timely manner with good code quality.
• Providing expertise and experience in the team proactively.
• Helping and Coaching other engineers and introducing new technologies which help to improve the product.

Rakuten Shugi Principles

• Always improve, always advance. Only be satisfied with complete success - Kaizen.
• Be passionately professional. Take an uncompromising approach to your work and be determined to be the best.
• Hypothesize - Practice - Validate - Shikumika. Use the Rakuten Cycle to success in unknown territory.
• Maximize Customer Satisfaction. The greatest satisfaction for workers in a service industry is to see their customers smile.
• Speed!! Speed!! Speed!! Always be conscious of time. Take charge, set clear goals, and engage your team.