Job Description

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

Key Performance Areas, Weights And Objectives
Application planning and development

• Be involved in the planning, design and development of assigned applications.
• Research, consult analyse and evaluate application needs and designs.
• Write and maintain efficient, reusable and reliable code to meet system requirements, system designs and technical specifications in accordance with quality accredited standards.
• Work from wireframes and/or designs to develop high quality applications.
• Following best practice design and development methodologies in sustaining a high quality, clean, auditable and manageable applications.
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications.
• Identify issues, bugs, and bottlenecks and devise solutions to these problems.
• Identifying technology limitations and deficiencies in applications and associated processes, procedures and methods.
• Testing, debugging, diagnosing and correcting errors and faults in an applications within established testing protocols, guidelines and quality standards to ensure programs and applications perform to specification.

Project planning and capacity management

• Estimate accurate completion timelines for projects for use by the project lead in capacity planning.
• Provide input into the requirements documentation and assist in work breakdown to draft a proper timeline to plan the schedule and what is required.
• Manage time and tasks effectively in order to complete tasks in the correct order of priority.
• Manage time and tasks effectively in order to complete tasks on time.
• Liaise effectively with other team members and backend engineers to ensure timeous completion of integration and the coming together of mobile applications and the required back end system.
• Track tasks and timing on JIRA.

Contribution to team

• Participate in peer-reviews of solution designs and related code.
• Communicate and collaborate with current team to solve problems and discuss best programming practices.
• Contribute to team development efforts towards successful project delivery.
• Contribute innovative ideas to project and application plans and roll outs.
• Communicate effectively with team lead.
• Communicate effectively with team members and internal stakeholders, using communications channels appropriately.
• Take personal ownership for projects and products

Quality Management and Compliance

• Ensure continued improvement and upkeep on existing applications.
• Ensure compliance with QMS frameworks for CE certification.
• Ensure products are developed accurately (i.e. according to specifications and end user requirements).
• Ensure products are developed efficiently (i.e. according to best practice and on time).
• Ensure testing is completed according to specification.
• Manage release schedule and release notes for Android applications.

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