Android Developer

Brickendon Consulting is an award-winning global management and technology consultancy specializing in innovative solutions and transforming complex, highly regulated environments. Founded in 2010, Brickendon has a strong focus on financial services and the public sector, helping organizations navigate and implement significant changes.

We are currently seeking an Android Developer for one of our banking clients.

✅Work location: Kraków

✅Work setting: 6-8 days per month from the office

✅Contract: B2B

Key Responsibilities

• Overseeing the development team to achieve project timelines and standards; coordinating efforts and working closely with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Analysts, and UX designers.
• Using technical expertise to create high-quality mobile applications based on specified requirements, ensuring timely delivery to group and local standards.
• Being part of a multi-disciplinary, agile product team designing and building mobile applications with modern technology stacks, with the ability to quickly learn new technologies and implement solutions across the full stack.
• Establishing and maintaining quality benchmarks.
• Producing efficient code that fulfills the completion criteria for business needs, taking into account technical interrelations and non-functional requirements.
• Ensuring the system aligns with business needs in terms of design, managing technical debt, and maintaining cost-effectiveness.
• Performing unit testing of programs and software applications to ensure desired outcomes and correct instructions.
• Assisting in the implementation of releases, building continuous integration and delivery pipelines.
• Evaluating code, design, and implementation to ensure they meet the highest quality standards.
• Contributing to determining the levels of automation test coverage required for the project.
• Maintaining and developing clear communications and relationships with team members and stakeholders.
• Reviewing code by a diverse team and providing feedback in a timely and cooperative manner.
• Demonstrating engineering patterns that enable teams to solve complex problems in simple ways.
• Identifying strategic ways to reduce technical debt and working with teams to ensure continuous improvement.
• Actively participating in the project team to help develop the product, using experience to guide the team through the development lifecycle.
• Engaging in planning, estimating, contributing to architecture, coding, and development.
• Providing architectural guidance and direction to solve complex problems with simple solutions.
• Conveying the overall vision to developers on the team.
• Creating and maintaining up-to-date technical documentation.

Knowledge and Experience

• Proven experience as a senior individual contributor and/or technical lead in a large-scale mobile engineering organization
• Expert-level knowledge of Android development and the Android ecosystem
• Proficiency in Java and Kotlin programming languages
• Strong experience with Android Studio, Android SDK, and related development tools
• Deep understanding of Android architecture components and Jetpack libraries
• Expertise in developing and maintaining large-scale Android applications
• Proficiency in RESTful APIs, JSON parsing, and networking in Android
• Experience with dependency injection frameworks (e.g., Dagger, Hilt)
• Strong knowledge of Android UI design principles, Material Design, and custom view development
• Familiarity with reactive programming (e.g., RxJava, Kotlin Coroutines)
• Experience with local data storage solutions (e.g., Room, SQLite)
• Proficiency in unit testing and UI automation testing for Android
• Knowledge of CI/CD practices and tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI)
• Familiarity with version control systems, particularly Git
• Understanding of Android security best practices and implementation, plus industry standards like OWASP
• Experience with performance optimization and memory management in Android
• Knowledge of Android app publishing process and Google Play Store guidelines
• BS degree or higher in Computer Science with 7+ years of broad engineering experience, including at least 3 years in a similar senior engineering role