Application Software and Build Engineer
Description
This can be a remote position; the selected candidate can reside and perform the work from anywhere within the United States.
GM Connected Customer and Mobility Solutions Team is seeking an ambitious and creative software engineer who will contribute to the build and development of new Telematics/Infotainment applications that are downloaded and/or directly integrated to in-vehicle infotainment. As a member of the in-vehicle applications team, this individual will work hand in hand with stakeholders and other engineers throughout the entire product development lifecycle in order to define, design, develop, and deliver groundbreaking applications that re-define the driving experience.
The Software Engineer will be responsible for application development and support including story elaboration, estimation, analysis, design, programming, unit/integration testing and code debugging leveraging the Scrum framework. This person will work in a highly collaborative, cross-functional, and Agile environment and will contribute to team commitments and deliverables. This person will:
- Proficiently build and maintain Android applications that contribute to the connected car feature roadmap
- Generate automated test cases based on feature development within applications
- Elaborate, estimate, and design for small increments of work based on sprint planning
- Perform and participate in root cause analysis of defects
- Commit to completing well-defined work and deliver on those commitments
- Swarm around tasks along with other Scrum team members
- Pair program with different people in many situations as dictated by sprint planning strategies
- Configure and manage continuous integration build and delivery pipelines for release
- Report status of assigned software development and/or maintenance tasks
- Implement and maintain tools to further automate build, release packaging, deployment, and configuration management processes
Additional Description
Qualifications
Required:
- BS in Computer Science or similar 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, Handlers and AIDL.
- Experience managing the build and release process for Android apps
- Experience installing, configuring, and maintaining DevOps tools and technologies such as Bitbucket, Jenkins, Git, Gerrit, Artifactory
- Experience with Maven, Gradle dependency management systems and Android build tools
- Strong understanding of CI and experience with industry standard solutions, e.g., Jenkins
- Proven experience with object-oriented design and design patterns
- Experience using source code control systems such as Git and pull request processes
- Knowledge of and desire to work in an Agile development environment
Preferred:
- Experience with native Android UI development for embedded (vehicle) systems
- Experience with Kotlin and RX Java methods
- Thorough knowledge of evolving Android platforms (Android M, Android P, etc.)
- Experience with Agile development methodologies including XP practices, test-driven development and pair programming
- Strong programming and scripting knowledge, e.g., Python, Ruby, PowerShell, Bash
- Awareness of the Android UI/UX guidelines
- Experience with mapping and search providers
- Experience with other Google APIs (licensing, in-app billing, etc)
- Experience leveraging Android Widgets
- Experience with Internationalization and Localization
- Experience with Alexa and Google assistant Skill/Action development
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