Lead Android Developer

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of senior consultant specialist

In this role, you will

• Develop and maintain software products in Smart Channels entire technology stack. Mobile apps (Android) and supporting services
• Provide support across the end-to-end delivery and run lifecycle. Carry out software development, testing and operational support activities with the ability to move between the technology stack.
• Advocate and advance modern software development practices within the mobile engineering community.
• Grow the technical expertise of mobile engineering community
• Helping with designing, maintaining and improving all aspects of the mobile software delivery lifecycle
• Collaborate with technical leaders and product owners to contribute to product and project strategy, code standards, roadmap definition, and requirements gathering
• Collaborate with the recruiting team and regional Heads of Engineering to attract, onboard and retain diverse top talent
• Participate in broader discussions about mobile software architecture
• Working with Ops, Dev and Test Engineers to ensure operational issues (performance, operator intervention, alerting, design defect related issues, etc.) are identified and addressed at all stages of a product or service release / change.
• Liaise with other engineers, architects, agile coaches, and other stakeholders to understand and drive the Smart Channels software products
• Work closely with teams, product owners, agile coaches and other stakeholders to ensure we deliver world-class tools and capabilities for our engineering community
• Actively participate in the Engineering Discipline and associated communities
• Keep up to date and have expertise on current tools, technologies and areas like cyber security and regulations pertaining to aspects like data privacy, consent, data residency.

Qualifications - External

To be successful in this role you should meet the following requirements:

• Solid experience on engineering and delivering software products.
• Good knowledge and development experience in following
• Proven hands-on experience on android development
• Sound knowledge of Kotlin and android SDK
• Sound knowledge of Gradle, Design Pattern, Jetpack compose for mobile development, Kotlin flow, Declarative UI, Reactive programming, Unit and UI testing.
• Familiar with security practices for mobile development
• Good troubleshooting skills
• Proficiency in Version Control using Git.
• Familiar with AI coding assistants.
• Familiar with Android application profiling
• Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle
• Good to have knowledge of tools like Splunk, AppDynamics, JIRA, Confluence
• Sound verbal and written communication to interact with global teams. Good Interpersonal skills
• Good to have knowledge of tools like Splunk, AppDynamics, JIRA, Confluence
• Good understanding about clean architecture and design principles.
• Good understanding of dependency injection framework (Dagger/Hilt/Koin)
• Good analysis and problem-solving skills. Knowledge of CI/CD.
• Experience as Lead in a large-scale engineering environment. Strong Leadership. Mentoring Junior/Mid-Engineers, Passionate about open-source ways of working
• Good understanding on Enterprise application design.
• You have experience in fostering a strong engineering culture in an agile and DevOps environment
• Track record of identifying and implementing opportunities to enable engineers to develop more productively and with high quality
• Experience collaborating effectively across multiple engineering centers in multiple territories
• Credibility and ability to influence stakeholders convincingly with well-considered logic.
• Advocate for quality and ambassador for writing testable code
• Knowledge of agile project management with cross functional teams, using Jira and Confluence
• We promote a DevOps culture so you will need to look beyond pure programming and get involved with the deployment and operation of the software we build.