Scope
Drives effective delivery of product/platform needs through developing high-quality software and technical solutions. Fluent across the full stack and coach junior developers to promote a flexible mindset and develop technical competence.
Responsible for the partial technical leadership of and execution of day-to-day software development tasks as defined by product managers within a single product. Provide technical thought leadership to the quality and end-to-end functionality of committed code for junior members of the software engineering team. Operate as a highly skilled individual contributor and develop enterprise-grade software with some technical oversight on a single product or subject matter area, while maintaining awareness of the broader system.
Essential Functions
. Expert-level proficiency in Kotlin, with strong software design and architectural skills.
. Deep knowledge of Android SDK internals, UI frameworks, and performance optimization techniques.
. Demonstrated experience designing and driving adoption of reusable frameworks and platform components across teams.
. Extensive experience with RESTful and GraphQL APIs, and system integration.
. Mastery of modern Android development tools, libraries, and patterns (RxJava, Coroutines, Flow, Dagger/Hilt, Jetpack components).
. Strong background in test automation strategies and frameworks.
. Proven ability to write high-quality, scalable, and maintainable code while leading technical initiatives.
. Experience mentoring engineers at multiple levels and fostering cross-team technical collaboration.
. Track record of identifying technical risks and implementing mitigation strategies.
. Excellent communication skills, able to influence engineering standards and align
technical direction.
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering or related, or equivalent work experience
8 years of experience in custom software development in Java/Javascript or iOS/Android
6 years in solution design and development experience building cloud-native applications using open-source frameworks like Spring
6 years of full stack development experience with one or more object-oriented programming languages (like Java, Groovy or Python) and UI frameworks (like React, Angular or Vue)
6 years of experience using SQL (like PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.) and NoSQL (like MongoDB, Couchbase, Postgress, Redis, etc.) databases and persistence frameworks (like JPA, Hibernate, etc.)
5 years of experience with version control system (using Git or similar)
4 years of experience with Agile and Test Driven Development (TDD)
4 years of experience utilizing Continuous Integration (CI) servers (like Jenkins or similar) for build and process automation (CD)
4 years of experience building & deploying applications on a cloud platform like AWS, GCP or Azure
4 years of knowledge and experience with REST API design and implementation, and event driven architecture
Preferred Qualifications
10 years of experience in custom software development using Java/Javascript or iOS/Android
Experience mentoring and developing technical and functional skills of team members
Experience with enterprise software development recommended practices in application development environments
Practical exposure to software scalability, performance, and resiliency optimization techniques
