Android Engineer

Role Overview: 

This is an individual contributor role with a considerable backdrop of professional experience in system design and development. In addition to technical expertise within their team, people in this role will be starting to have a greater influence across the business.  

You will be expected to be able to turn your hand to any part of the software development lifecycle. This includes things like requirements capture, analysis, design through to implementation and to the delivery, test and ongoing support of systems. At this level, there may be a focus on specialist areas such as specific domain expertise or technical leadership.  

Your role means you will produce high-quality, thoughtful software at scale and will reason through multiple approaches towards optimal outcomes. You can adopt practices that consistently achieve high quality outcomes and have a comprehensive knowledge and understanding of the working domain, anticipating common problems. 

What You Need for This Role:  

• Experience of native Android development: Android SDK, Java, Kotlin, Coroutines and Android Lifecycle  
• Experience working on distributed, high-volume transactional systems  
• Great understanding of Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices including dynamic UIs, Fragments and Android Architecture Components  
• Experience of ensuring compatibility across a wide range of Android devices including older models and Android versions  
• Strong understanding of design patterns, OOP, and architectural patterns like, MVVM and Clean Architecture  
• Hands-on experience and knowledge of popular 3rd party libraries including Retrofit, Dagger, RxJava  
• CI/CD understanding including unit tests, test automation, GIT, gitflow  
• Extensive experience working with remote data via RESTful APIs and JSON formats  
• Experience on profiling and debugging Android apps, Unit and UI testing  
• Understanding of networking essentials, including TCP/IP, routing and DNS  
• Agile methodologies and incremental development, with a solid background in JIRA and use of Confluence  
• Ability to work well in a dynamic, fast-paced environment and to pick up new skill sets quickly   
• A passion for detail and problem solving, with excellent verbal and written communication skills    
• A high degree of experience working with remote teams   
• Hyper-growth start-up experience is a strong plus   

How you do it – Expectations for fulfilling your role:  

As a general rule at KingMakers we want people to be: 

• Customer Focus: We keep the customer at the center of everything we do.  
• Passion & Dedication: We are passionate about what we do, employing only smart, honest, dedicated, and results oriented team players.  
• Openness, Honesty & Directness: We embrace a culture of candor and work together towards the right solution whilst being open, honest, and willing to give and receive feedback, judgment-free. We play the ball, not the person.  
• Innovation & Big Thinking: We always look for ways to innovate whilst not losing sight of what's important. The bigger we think, the more we inspire, the better the outcome.   
• Ownership & Accountability: We think like owners. If we see a problem, we find a solution. We are pragmatic and always strive to do more with less. 
• Speed & Focus: We plan, we strategize, but mostly, we DO. Without doing, there is no progress, we can always change direction but only if we start moving. Fast beats slow.  
• Low Ego: The best solutions are achieved when we leave our egos at the door. We always seek opportunities to learn in every situation. No job too small.  
• Fun: On balance, we believe in having fun whilst working. We maintain perspective as best as we can, and together, we celebrate our successes.