Android Developer

Requirements

Minimum education (essential) : National Senior Certificate

Minimum education (desirable) : Diploma and / or degree in IT / Engineering / Programming

Minimum applicable experience (years) : 5 years as an Android Developer

Required nature of experience :

Hands on software developer having been responsible for the development and maintenance of 1 or more projects.

Skills and Knowledge (essential) :

• Experience in native Android (Kotlin and Java) development specifically.
• Reactive programming
• Strong knowledge of Android development and its supporting systems
• Proficient in Kotlin (Minimum 2 years experience)
• Good development practices utilising modern design patterns using software architectures : MVP, MVVM, Clean Architecture
• A good understanding of storage mechanisms, threading, lifecycles
• Knowledge of common 3rd party frameworks / libraries available and integration experience
• Strong UI development experience and developing for dynamic screen support
• Experience with RESTful API integration
• Well versed in Git
• Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle within an Agile environment
• Atlassian JIRA software experience is beneficial
• Good understanding of Bluetooth on Android is beneficial

Good understanding of RxAndroid, RxJava and RxKotlin is beneficial