Job Description

Day to day responsibilities will include:

• Attend and assist with sprint planning, making sure tickets are estimated appropriately for technical complexity and adding technical specifications where required.
• Help team manage DevOps board by helping other teammates eliminate blockers of a technical nature and making sure assigned user stories are broken down into manageable tasks and estimated correctly.
• Support and enhancement of an established, multi-faceted technology platform, and associated 3rd party integrations.
• Work with Solutions Architects, Team Leads and Product Managers to deliver on business requirements.
• Work with Solution Architects and Team Leads on architectural system design.

Continuously seek to improve code quality and architecture while optimizing performance of native mobile applications, championing a culture of quality effectively with all stakeholders where resistance is met.

• Working closely with QA to identify development and production issues.
• Taking responsibility for ensuring changes are:

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• Taking responsibility for sharing knowledge regarding programming best practices with team members and working with the team to ensure that best practices are adhered to.
• Assisting in out of hoursxe2x80x99 production releases when required, as well as out-of-hours support when necessary.
• Support and mentor team members, offering effective technical advice and support.
• Assist with pull requests and code reviews, taking ownership of outcome

Minimum requirements:

• Have a minimum of 10 yearsxe2x80x99 experience in software development.
• Experience in mentoring junior developers.
• Be passionate about technology, enthusiastic about problem solving, and constantly seeking to learn and improve skillset.
• Have experience of working with enterprise scale application stacks.
• Have had exposure to the full software development lifecycle.
• Have a proven track record of implementing improvements in quality, performance, stability, and scalability to code bases they work on.
• Have a proven track record of working well with others, influencing a team to make sustainable technical decisions, and taking ownership of and pride in their work.
• Be able to work across teams to get to the best possible solution for any problem.

Analysis and Design

• Sound knowledge of OO design principles and patterns.
• Understanding of Android and IOS development
• Understanding of Microservices, REST and MVC / MVVM driven Mobile development.
• Strong skills for architectural systems analysis and design
• Strong code analysis skills

Skills

• Strong experience in native mobile development (Android or IOS)
• Strong experience in Kotlin for Android
• Experience with SQLite database technologies for mobile platforms
• Experience with asynchronous programming
• Strong git skills
• Strong communication and team-work skills
• Experience with Android and/or IOS app store deployment processes.
• Experience with setting up CI/CD pipelines for mobile applications.
• Strong experience in Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban).
• Ability to maintain and enrich project related documents.
• Ability to work calmly and methodically when under pressure. Resolve issues effectively as they arise.
• Must be able to engage with different stakeholders and champion a culture of quality and code testing.
• Ability to context switch between tasks and understand multiple different work streams.
• Ability to context switch between tasks and understand multiple different work streams.
• Ability to work out an effective engineering strategy for systems under their care and get buy-in from all relevant stakeholders.
• Ability to proactively identify and avoid potential problems that might challenge our scale or business direction.
• Effective communication and leadership skills.

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