Build an easy to use, fast, reliable and visually engaging Android app.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product and design to define, design, and ship new features as well as to improve existing ones.
- Build reusable Android software components
- Design, produce, test and debug software from functional specifications
- Maintain best practices throughout the code base
- Ensure that unit tests pass
Desired Skills and Experience
- 3+ years Android and/or iOS programming experience, with apps in the app store.
- Maintain best practices throughout the code base
- Deep knowledge of memory management, unit testing, and continuous integration
- Proficiency with source control (Git)
- Strong understanding of Android Java. Topics include but not limited to
- Activities and Fragments
- Abstraction and Inheritance (abstract classes and interfaces)
- UI Views (XML layouts and custom views) and various screen size support
- Processes, Threads, Services, and AsyncTasks
- HTTP requests and responses
- Storage such as SQLite, SharedPreferences, File Storage, and Cache Storage
- Animations, Graphics, Locations, and Sensors packages/libraries
- Excellent problem solving, critical thinking and communication skills
Company
Activehours is a technology company that is completely reinventing the way people get their paycheck. We’re creating a new class of financial services built upon cutting edge use of technology and a great customer experience.
Our team has great experience building and growing consumer technology brands. We are looking for the most talented individuals to help us build a great company.
Work with a small, nimble and talented group of people transforming a large underserved market.
Fantastic opportunity to building an awesome product, an amazing customer experience and a vibrant brand.
Our Team:
We're a group of passionate and experienced developers split between Cincinnati and Palo Alto. Our Cincinatti team has a strong background in financial services and backend development, while our Palo Alto team is focused on mobile development, growth hacking, and data processing and analytics. We collaborate throughout the day on via Slack, Facetime and Hangouts.
Skills Required
- 3+ years of Android and/or iOS programming experience with apps published in an app store
- Deep knowledge of memory management
- Unit testing experience
- Continuous integration experience
- Proficiency with Git source control
- Strong understanding of Android Java
- Knowledge of Android Activities and Fragments
- Knowledge of abstraction, inheritance, abstract classes, and interfaces
- Knowledge of Android UI Views, XML layouts, custom views, and screen-size support
- Knowledge of processes, threads, services, and AsyncTasks
- Knowledge of HTTP requests and responses
- Knowledge of SQLite, SharedPreferences, file storage, and cache storage
- Knowledge of animations, graphics, location, and sensor packages or libraries
- Excellent problem-solving, critical-thinking, and communication skills
What We Do
Activehours, later rebranded as EarnIn, develops financial technology that gives people immediate access to wages they have already earned rather than making them wait for payday. Its mission is to make every day payday and help users improve their financial futures. The company operates as a live-service software business, using data analysis and product innovation to expand its earned-wage-access offering.
