10+ years Android Developer - Dallas, United States - Dice

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Job Title:
Android Developer


Location:
Dallas, TX

Duration: 1 year contract


Client :
Qentelli/Southwest Airlines

Company Promise

Southwest will provide a stable work environment with equal opportunity for learning and personal growth.

Employees will be provided the same concern, respect, and caring attitude within the organization that they are expected to share externally with every Southwest Customer.

Employee Promise

I will demonstrate my Warrior Spirit by striving to be my best and never giving up. I will show my Servant's Heart by delivering Legendary Customer Service and treating others with respect. I will express my Fun-LUVing Attitude by not taking myself too seriously and embracing my Southwest Family.

Southwest Airlines is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Job Description

Job Summary

Advanced experience in designing, writing program code, testing, documenting, and implementing functionally appropriate, technically sound, and well-integrated application systems in accordance with Customer requirements, organizational methodologies, and standards.

Identifies and prevents production problems and implement immediate resolution efforts across technology areas. Mentoring Software Engineers, holistic vision of organization and impact, focusing on shift left activities.

We re looking for an experienced and passionate Android engineer to join the Android platform team.

You will be a core contributor to the code base, and you will also help mentor other engineers and have a large influence on important technical decisions.

Our Mobile team builds products and features that drive the core experience on the Southwest Airlines mobile application. This position will play a key role in building and supporting mobile features. In this role there will be opportunity to work across different development stacks and influence product decisions.

Responsibilities

Design and build intuitive features to improve the experience of the Android platform using Java, Kotlin and Jetpack Compose

Work closely with our Digital Experience Team to conceptualize, develop and launch new and innovative features

Work with the Team to promote best practices and ensure a high quality bar is maintained

Improve the mobile codebase by working on foundational issues and helping to rearchitect, as necessary

Carry out code reviews to guarantee code quality

Promote robust and maintainable code, clear documentation, and deliver high quality work on a tight schedule

Drive the technical direction and feature roadmap of large-scale cloud systems

Serve as a technical lead contributing to and directing the efforts of development teams, including internal and external team members

Determines operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions

Drives detailed definition of feature requirements through discussions with product managers and customers

Supports continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and new technologies

Prepares and installs solutions by determining and designing system specifications, standards, and programming

Evaluates code to ensure that it is valid, is properly structured, meets industry standards, and is compatible with browsers, devices, or operating systems

Mentor Software Engineers to allow for skill/knowledge development through advice, coaching, and training opportunities

Update job knowledge by studying state-of-the-art development tools, programming techniques and computing equipment; participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations

May perform other job duties as directed by Employee's Leaders

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

Extensive knowledge of Android technologies such as Java, Kotlin, Jetpack, Jetpack Compose, and Android Studio

Experience with Mobile Architecture patterns like MVP & MVVM

Experience with Kotlin and latest Android features and technologies

Strong understanding of software development principles, capabilities, and limitations of Android platform

Utilize MVVM design pattern and development best practices

Ability to understand and debug large and complex native application code bases

Experience working on complex systems with a large customer base

Quality-first mindset with an emphasis on designing features with testability as a pre-requisite

Experience with and passion for Unit Testing and Code Coverage tools (Junit, Jacoco + Sonar)

Focus on continuous improvement and ongoing product health for the Android platform

Advanced source control skills (branching and versioning, pull requests, merge conflict resolution, code reviews)

Security and encryption principles (e.g., biometrics, RSA, SqlCypher, SecureAuth or Ping) is a plus

Advanced knowledge of software development methodologies, practices, concepts, and technologies obtained through formal training and / or work experience

Proactively shares knowledge and skills of software development and testing to solve a range of problems

Advanced knowledge of at least one required programming language

Excellent partnering, communication, negotiation skills, and execution in working with various Technology or partner Teams

Ability to articulate (verbally / visually) ideas, approach, concepts, options, risk, impact, and provides guidance to technical, non-technical, and Leadership audiences

Ability to lead multiple assignments, whether administrative or project related, while maintaining a successful level of completion in all responsible work

Ability to mentor others

Ability to lead ideating, presentations, mentoring and group-thinking sessions

Ability to influence without authority

Additional Job Description - Education; Experience; Licensing/Certification; Physical Abilities; Other Qualifications

Education

Required:
High School Diploma or GED

Required:
Bachelor's Degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, or Information Systems, or related field; or equivalent formal training Experience

Required:
Advanced-level experience, seasoned and specialized knowledge in software development and methodologies

Licensing/Certification

N/A

Physical Abilities

Ability to perform work duties from [limited space work station/desk/office area] for extended periods of time

Ability to communicate and interact with others in the English language to meet the demands of the job

Ability to use a computer and other office productivity tools with sufficient speed and accuracy to meet the demands of the job

10+ years Android Developer - Dallas, TX (Onsite)
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