Android developer

Android contract- London- £550.00 per day

Our client is a leading media and broadcast company they are looking for an Android developer to help them in working on a huge exciting re-platforming project introducing all the latest cutting edge technology and best practices, building a new multi-platform OTT/VOD application. You will be a part of working in a cross functional lean agile team to enhance their customer experience building new products and services to the market.

Requirements

• Passion for creating the very best apps.
• Exceptional software and analytical skills.
• 3+ years of solid native Android experience, in addition to a solid general software engineering background.

• Experience of working as part of a cross functional Agile delivery team.
• Taking an active role in planning, assisting QA’s and business stakeholders with defining and then implementing acceptance criteria.

• Embrace agile software engineering practices: BDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Pair Programming etc.

• To be able to demonstrate an understanding of how android work and to be able to demonstrate up to date knowledge and best practices around it.

• Design appreciation and experience working with UX/UI designers.
• Having taken substantive apps from concept through to submission and the App

Store.

• Strong commitment to quality and an obsessive attention to detail.
• Excellent communication skills.

Essential

• RxJava 2.
• Dagger 2.
• Android Libraries publishing Experience
• MVP/MVVM Architecture.
• GIT/github
• Junit, Mockito etc.
• Circle-ci.
• Code coverage tools, code style etc.
• Familiar with App distribution.

Desirable

• Kotlin
• Android TV experience.
• Custom UI.
• GraphQL.
• BDD, writing tests in python for Appium.
• Familiar with AWS services, e.g. Device farms.
• OTT/Video streaming experience.

Personal

• A track record of delivery, and getting things done.
• Passionate about code quality and test coverage.
• Perfectionist most of the time, Pragmatist when required.
• Great communicator, always keen to discuss your ideas on a whiteboard.
• Enjoy showing off your wares – we do regular showcases of our work.
• Have fun doing what you do, and this rubs off on the rest of the team.

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