Greetings,

We have an immediate vacancy for a Senior Android Developer with 8+ Years of experience at Synechron, based in Abu Dhabi.

Job Role: Senior Android Developer

Job Location: Abu Dhabi

Experience: 8+ Years

Notice Period: Immediate to 2 Weeks

About Company:

At Synechron, we believe in the power of digital to transform businesses for the better. Our global consulting firm combines creativity and innovative technology to deliver industry-leading digital solutions. Synechron’s progressive technologies and optimization strategies span end-to-end Artificial Intelligence, Consulting, Digital, Cloud & DevOps, Data, and Software Engineering, servicing an array of noteworthy financial services and technology firms. Through research and development initiatives in our FinLabs we develop solutions for modernization, from Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain to Data Science models, Digital Underwriting, mobile-first applications and more. Over the last 20+ years, our company has been honored with multiple employer awards, recognizing our commitment to our talented teams. With top clients to boast about, Synechron has a global workforce of 17000+, and has 58 offices in 21 countries within key global markets. For more information on the company, please visit our website or LinkedIn community.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Synechron’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) program, Same Difference, was developed because we believe in a culture of listening, respect, and opportunity.

We each bring unique backgrounds, thoughts, talents, and experiences with us to work every day, and we know that by embracing them, we are creating an even greater Synechron. The best way to build a strong team is to value individual differences. So, it doesn’t matter where you’re from or what you’ve had to do to get here – if you have the skills, enthusiasm, and drive to make your mark, we’ll support you like we support each other. Choose a career with us and let’s pursue innovation, together.

Job Descriptions:

Role purpose:

• Android software engineers will have a range of responsibilities from shaping and implementing digital products to ensuring that we stay on the leading edge of technology
• Our engineers contribute across the full technology stack, from database and DevOps infrastructure that supports continuous deployment, over native apps, to front end development
• As a senior Developer you will work in a cross-functional team with the Product Owner, Designers and engineers to co-develop the digital products.

Experience:

• At least 7 years of software development experience with experience working in Agile teams using SCRUM
• Experience in leading and managing a team of Developers
• Extensive mobile development experience using Android, Android Studio and Gradle to develop both phone and tablet apps.
• Extensive experience with Android SDK, Google Play Services, and Android Compatibility Library.
• Experience in Android development patterns - including Java OOP, MVP, SQLite, JSON/Rest APIs, and multi-threading/background tasks.
• Experience with Android front-end/UI development (with knowledge of Google Material Design), Web services & XML/JSON/REST connectivity/consumption, and local storage/databases/SQLite.
• Experience with common Android libraries such as Dagger2, Retrofit2, etc.
• Experience with build tools such as Fastlane
• Expert knowledge of using and writing Android Libraries
• Extensive experience with Playstore deployments and has deployed apps to the Playstore
• Extensive experience of TDD and writing unit and UI tests using Junit, Mockito, espresso, etc.
• Experience with code coverage and unit testing tools JaCoCo
• Experience with converting High-Fidelity designs to mobile UI, familiarity with tools such InVision and Zeplin.
• Experience with IBM Mobile First Platform is preferred
• Extensive experience with Git, such as branching, merging, tagging and Pull Requests.
• Experience with development processes and tools e.g. crash reporting, debugging, Atlassian JIRA/Confluence, etc.
• Experience with mobile CI-CD (Jenkins or similar) is preferred
• Excellent programming skills in at least 2 modern programming languages/ frameworks, such as Swift, Objective C, Java, Node.JS, JavaScript, C, C++, Python, or others.
• Infrastructure knowledge including RESTful APIs, Single Sign On, LDAP, Search Technologies
• Experiences with code refactoring, design patterns, design-driven development, continuous deployment, highly scalable applications, application security.