IT job: Two Urgent Requirement : Android Developer: IL/GA : Confirm Interview

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Two Urgent Requirement : Android Developer: IL/GA : Confirm Interview

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Hope you are doing well,

Please go through the following requirement and let me know on Hardik.patel@riderconsultinginc.com if you have any available resources

Position 1:

Role :Android Developer

Location : Oakbrook, IL.

Duration: 4 months

Start: ASAP

Interview: Phone & Face 2 Face

Job description:

· Solid Android development experience, who's familiar with any number of techniques for designing and building high-quality software, including experience with: developing application specifications, various object and data modeling techniques, database design, quality assurance best-practices and implementation support.

· This role is a demanding, highly dynamic and technically challenging position.

· To be successful you must be a top-notch Android/Java programmer and committed to becoming an integral part of our development team.

· You will need to be self-driven and be able to operate independently with little guidance.

· Works with product management, operations, innovation, new business and customer experience teams to define necessary requirements for new initiatives/products.

· Translates customer requirements into detailed technical requirements and architecture for new or existing products.

· Configures software in a test environment to prototype production environments.

· Defines documents and performs necessary tests to ensure product performance, availability and reliability.

· Defines and documents operational processes to provide consistently high quality customer experience, while streamlining operations and reducing costs at the same time.

· Develops full set of technical requirements for a product which interfaces with existing support systems (including billing, provisioning, authentication/ authorization, etc).

· Implements and maintains new and existing products, including integration with the monitoring and management infrastructure.

· Provide escalated/tier-3 customer support for all supported products and services.

· Works with other IT and other technology teams to refine specifications for technical designs.

Responsibilities:

- Design, develop and test applications from the ground up

- Work with outside data sources and API's

- Develop and deploy Android OS 1.6+ based applications using Java

- Troubleshoot, optimize and performance tune applications

- Work closely with Product Management and design teams to execute solutions

- Actively participates in team process and use of methodologies including Agile.

· Leads very complex engineering analyses on large design projects.

· May guide the work of external consultant groups.

· Participates in contract negotiations with vendors.

· Prepares and presents recommendations to senior management.

· Position is a knowledge leader. Work results have significant impact across the business unit.

Required Skills: - Strong OO (Object Oriented) design and development experience

- Experience with Android SDK

- Able to work with data outside API's

- Ability to understand and parse KML, JSON and serialized data

- Experience with embedded relational databases (SQLite)

- Experience with Http and consuming RESTful API's

- Understanding of Multi-threaded interface design

- Should have at least one or two functioning apps in the Android market place

· Superior communication skills to lead and mentor other team members and present technology to leadership. Clearly express complex concepts and transfers knowledge to others.

· Responsible for analysis, design, and delivery of major new systems.

· Provides guidance to development team in the overall implementation.

· Coordinate with other teams impacted by new system(s). Ex: New merchant service targeted for Canada or new version of kiosk services for digital offering.

· Architect x-functional applications that affect other teams and departments.

· Develop architecture of EPC.

Education/Experience:

· Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science or a related field and minimum of 12 years of related experience is required. Master's degree in a related field is preferred.

Position 2:

Role: Android Developer

Location: Atlanta, GA

Duration: Long term.

Interview: F2f required

· The role is responsible for designing, developing and implementing native Android applications.

· To be successful in this role one must be a subject matter expert in Java, Android, and either Android Studio, Eclipse or similar.

· This role requires good communication skills, both with team members and business contacts.

· In addition, the successful developer must be able to work with minimal supervision on multiple concurrent projects and experience mentoring junior developers.

Responsibilities

· Develop new or maintain existing mobile programs based on specifications

· Develop, implement and maintain unit tests of programs

· Participate in the design of new or changing programs

· Participate in functional test planning and testing for the assigned application(s), functional area(s) or project(s)

· Participate in problem solving and troubleshooting for the assigned application(s), functional area(s) or project(s)

· Share knowledge by effectively documenting work

· Stay current with changes in the technical area of expertise

· Develop and maintain a thorough knowledge of the assigned application(s), functional area(s) or project(s)

· Work with the team to ensure the quality of the assigned application(s), functional area(s) or project(s)

· Respond quickly/effectively to production issues by taking responsibility for seeing those issues through resolution

· Proactively serve as a troubleshooting resource and subject matter expert across the team

· Guide debugging, testing, and performance tuning of other engineer's Android app(s)

· Participate and lead reviews of other engineer's code

Requirements

· (4+ Years) Expertise in Android SDKs, DDMS and frameworks. You know Android inside and out!

· Experience developing, releasing, supporting, and evolving an Android application framework

· Deep OOD/OOP skills coupled with several years building successful Android applications

· Published apps in Google Play, or enterprise Apps available for review

· Heavy UI experience creating custom adaptors, composite views, animation transitions, and XML drawables to build reusable fragments for phones & tablets on multiple screen sizes and resolutions.

· Experience with heavy image processing through lazy loading, Disk LruCache or similar

· Good knowledge of and experience with the Android design guidelines, user interface design patterns, visual design elements, and development methodologies

· Experience debugging, testing, code reviews, and performance tuning other engineer's Android app(s)

· Experience using version control and defect tracking tools (CVS, Subversion or GIT & Test Director)

· Accessing and processing Restful APIs or XML data using background Services, Receivers, Binders, and SQLLite storage

· Experience writing Android unit tests

· Working knowledge of 9-patch, Proguard, PNG Optimizers, Compatibility Library, ABS, SVG, Android Annotations, Renderscript

· Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience

· Open-Source Android debugging and unit testing tools (Roboelectric) is a plus

· Android Studio & Gradle is a plus

· TestFlight is a plus

· Subversion is a plus

· iOS Development and/or mobile web development knowledge is a plus

Thanks