Android Application Engineer

Android Application Engineer

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• Leads and generates technical solutions including specifying of requirements, functional decomposition, analysis, design, development and testing for Infotainment software.
  • Design and develop Android/QNX based software for automotive infotainment system.
  • Perform Unit and functional level of testing before pushing to Integration.
  • Own and Lead software development of certain components and anomaly corrections.
  • Support root cause activities of bench/plant/vehicle level issues working with various stakeholders.
  • Maintain and enhance existing software components to provide a robust and efficient fundamental for application layer.
  • Generate structural and complete documentation to describe design and implementation following GM software development process.
  • Engage in all regular software development activities such as architecture study, feature requirements review, test case reviews and so on to ensure that the team delivers high quality code on time.
  • Collaborate with team members in software development activities using the Scrum/Agile development process.
  • Provide, communicate, and support common standard methodologies among software community
  • Bridge multiple subject areas, including Engineering, Information Technology, Technical Support, and Marketing, to make appropriate system-level design trade-offs and to identify, capture and refine system requirements and to identify innovation opportunities.
  • Follow GM software development process where quality comes first and ensure that the designed solutions conform to architectural requirements such as scalability, maintainability, reliability, extensibility, usability and security

• Qualifications:Required:
  • BS in Computer Science or other field of study along with applicable work experience
  • Experience with Android UI design (including custom views)
  • Experience writing Android clients for Web Services (REST, RPC, and/or SOAP)
  • Experience with Android Activities and Fragments
  • Experience with multi-threaded development on Android platforms
  • Firm understanding of Intents, ContentProviders, Services, BroadcastReceivers, AsyncTask, Handlers and AIDL
  • Experience with SQL Lite on Android
  • Proven experience with object-oriented design and design patterns
  • Experience using source code control systems such as Git
  • Knowledge of XML parsing, and/or DOM traversal.
  • Knowledge of and desire to work in an Agile development environment
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills required
  • Creative problem solving skills and ability to effectively communicate and translate feedback, needs and solutions
  • Must have strong teamwork orientation and the ability to foster collaboration within and across teams
  • Must have the desire to be a people leader
  • Needs good work ethic and strong sense of ownership of end result
  
  Preferred:
  • Experience as developer on App(s) publicly available in the Google Play App Market
  • Experience with native Android UI development for phones and tablets (multi-resolutions, resource utilization such as images, layouts, strings)
  • Experience with Agile development methodologies including XP practices such as test driven development and pair programming
  • Awareness of the Android UI/UX guidelines
  • Experience with mapping and search providers
  • Experience with other Google APIs (licensing, in-app billing, etc)
  • Experience developing Android Widgets• Experience with Bluetooth, NFC, Location and/or Accelerometer; other sensors
  Experience with Internationalization and Localization