Android Developer

Our DXC Application Services team works with our customers as a trusted partner to help simplify, modernize, and accelerate mission-critical applications that support business agility and growth. Customers work with us to take advantage of the latest digital platforms with both custom and packaged applications, ensure resiliency, launch new products, and enter new markets with minimal disruption.

Our Android Developer applies specialized knowledge to conceptualize, design, develop, unit-test, configure, and implement portions of new or enhanced (upgrades or conversions) business and technical software solutions through the application of appropriate standard software development life cycle methodologies and processes. Interacts with the Client and project roles (e.g., Project Manager, Business Analyst, Data Engineer) as required, to gain an understanding of the business environment, technical context, and organizational strategic direction. Defines scope, plans, and deliverables for assigned components. Understands and uses appropriate tools to analyze, identify, and resolve business and or technical problems. Applies metrics to monitor performance and measure key project parameters. Prepares system documentation. Conforms to security and quality standards. Stays current on emerging tools, techniques, and technologies.

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

 Assist in the design and development of the account Android application.

 Influencing peers, juniors, and seniors both within the organization and across the account.

 Native Android app development and converting ideas, designs, and requirements to concrete stable production builds.

 Coordinate and collaborate with the Product and Engineering teams to understand problems, come up with creative solutions, and help with tracking and delivering within the release plan.

 Understand and implement Android-specific design patterns.

 Collaborate with Engineering and QA to resolve bugs.

WHO YOU ARE

At least 3 years of native Android development experience.

 6 + years total experience

 Extremely comfortable with understanding and implementing internet applications with REST services at the backend.

 Super awesome with Android concepts like fragments, location services, Google Cloud Messaging API, UI transitions, Image processing, and multi-threaded communications, among others

 Familiarity with continuous integration (Jenkins), application monitoring (Crashlytics and fabric.io), mocking tools (Appium and Apiary), build tool development and enhancements, and using unit testing and cucumber tests for functional tests.

 Extremely comfortable with understanding and implementing client-side handlers for web services with REST services at the backend.

 Knowledge of Android Studio and GitHub is a huge plus.

 Experience with Cucumber testing framework desired

 B.S. or equivalent degree in Computer Science is desired.

Soft Skills

 The candidate should have excellent communication skills.

Verbal communication should be clear, as well as written skills using US English.

 The candidate should be capable of quickly grasping high-level concepts and can communicate them to others.

 The candidate can work on a fast-moving development team and be candid about the status of their work with the development team.

 The candidate cares about quality