Lead Android Dveloper

Lead Android Dveloper

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Job Description

Lead Android Developer
Atlanta, GA
Direct Hire/ Full Time
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Lead Android Developer to help us build awesome mobile apps that integrate with our services platform. The Lead developer for the Mobile Team will report to the Mobile Development Manager (Android). The Mobile group is responsible for application architecture, development and innovation of new feature development to support consumer mobile applications. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in Android design and development, with one or more apps in the Google Play app store.

This is 100% hands on lead developer role. We are also looking for a person who can take diverse and changing requirements and turn them into actionable plans beyond technical capabilities. The ideal candidate will have had experience in the high paced energy of startups as well as experience in the structured world of a large company. Additional responsibilities include mentoring the team, driving agile development teams. The successful applicant will work closely with Business Analysts, other Technical Leads, Software Engineers, Operations, and Quality Assurance Engineers in a collaborative environment to provide quality software and solutions, while providing the necessary leadership to deliver releases on time and on budget.

• Lead small teams of Android & iOS engineers and steer them towards delivery.
• Work closely with product managers to develop excellent understanding of business needs; collaborate with architects and development teams to come up with high level systems design that is aligned with company's reference architecture, technology roadmap, software development best practices, patterns and standards.
• Decomposing high-level requirements from business partners and develop lower level stories/tasks that can be readily assigned to various project developers
• Enforce engineering rigor by participating in design & code reviews.
• Work with QE team in analyzing and resolving production issues and defects.
• Act as subject matter expert (SME) in assigned business and technical domains with an excellent understanding of business and system processes, inter relationship/dependencies/interactions among system components and how things work end to end.
• Work with Release Engineering team in app deployment activities
• Participate in the full SDLC (RUP/Agile), including meetings, iterative development, estimations and design sessions

Skills Summary:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent work experience.
• 3+ years as a technical lead with deep understanding of Android/iOS UX and UI design paradigms, and ability to implement and design Android/iOS apps
• 5+ years of broad knowledge of
  Java, Android Studio, Gradle
• Hands on experience programing apps with
  Kotlin.
• An Object-Oriented philosopher with experience understanding and applying design patterns.
• Knowledge of web application architecture and experience working on projects consuming REST APIs.

• Experience working with and tuning high volume mobile applications
• Experience integrating with RESTful API based backend systems.
• Desire to work in a fast paced, agile, collaborative environment
• Ability to clearly write technical specifications and strong estimating and planning skills
• Able to effectively communicate across teams and roles.
• Demonstrable ability to deliver projects on time, with high quality, and within budget.
• Ability to deliver full life cycle engagements.
• Ability and desire to thrive in a proactive, high-pressure, client-services, environment.
• Up to 5% travel - Offices Onshore, Conferences - up to 4x a yr.

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