Android Engineer (Contractual role)

About Us: 

Small businesses are the backbone of the US economy, comprising almost half of the GDP and the private workforce. Yet, big banks don’t provide the access, assistance and modern tools that owners need to successfully grow their business.   

We are looking for an inquisitive, motivated, and agile Android Engineer to join our banking revolution, who possesses a passion for pushing mobile technologies to the limits. You will work with our team of talented engineers to design and build the next generation of our mobile applications. Your primary focus will be the development of Android applications and their integration with back-end services Therefore, commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and creating quality products is essential. Are you ready to revolutionize the small business banking industry with us?

About the Role:

• The role is for period 3-4 months on contract  
• Translate designs and wireframes into high quality code.
• Design, build, and maintain high performance, reusable, and reliable Java and Kotlin code.
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the application.
• Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs.
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization.

Requirements for the Role:

• 5+ years of experience with developing Android Mobile applications in Kotlin and Java
• Strong conceptual understanding of Kotlin.
• Experience in publishing Android apps on Google Play Store
• In depth Understanding of Android recommended design principles, interface guidelines and best practices for coding
• Experience working with MVVM,Clean Architecture.
• Extensive hands-on experience of creating custom UI controls, designing protocols, implementing delegate interfaces
• Understanding of fragments and Android XML layouts, and how to create adaptive interfaces that work for multiple device form factors
• Experience working with Koin, Hilt and any dependency injection framework.
• Experience working with  Multi-threaded programming, Coroutines, Flow & observers
• Experience working with KTOR network client library.
• Deep understanding of security around data at rest and in-transit such as cert-pinning, keychain storage and payload encryption/decryption
• Experience with performance and memory tuning of complex Apps
• Demonstrated ability to work well with others in a team environment and with geographically distributed teams
• Experience working with Git and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience writing Unit Tests + UI Tests in a way that ensures quality of the application delivered
• Experience with Android Jetpack components and Navigation Graph, Work Manager & Paging
• Deep understanding of KMP project structure and release platform wise app.
• Experience with Kotlin Multi Platform development.
• Experience with KMP shared code interoperability between cross platforms(Kotlin->iOS & vice a versa) 

How We Define Success:

• Deliver features to the end user within reasonable timelines.
• Deliver features that work across a range of cases and devices and should introduce minimum breakage under unknown conditions.
• Taking care of non-functional requirements while delivering functional solutions: performance, security and unit testing.

Nice To Have, but Not Required:

• Worked in a product company before
•  Experience with GraphQL
• Showcase 2 live applications on App Store or Play Store, one of which is an enterprise application or a consumer application with over 20k users
• Github Actions for CI/CD.
• Good understanding in SSL pinning
• Experience in Mockito,Junit,Expresso
• Jetpack Compose