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ADIB - Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank

Senior Android Developer

ADIB - Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank
United Arab Emirates · Full-time · Not Applicable



Role: Senior Android Developer

Location: Abu Dhabi   

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


Key Accountabilities of the role:         

  • Use Agile engineering practices and various software and mobile development technologies to rapidly develop creative and efficient solutions that enhance the client customer and employee experience
  • Work in a team to craft clear user stories, design tests for prototypes and products, and continuously deliver product enhancements
  • Liaise with other teams within and outside the Digital unit to negotiate timelines, deliverables and dependencies
  • Collaborate closely with Product Owners, Designers and team members to identify and socialize product and delivery risks
  • Drive forward and role-model best practice engineering processes and Agile behavior and ensuring teams members follow suit
  • Communicate with business stakeholders about Agile processes to set and manage expectations about delivery methods and timelines
  • Own and drive best practice in terms of automation such as continuous integration and deployment    


Specialist Skills / Technical Knowledge, Technical Competencies Required for this role:

  • Real passion for development and a demonstrated appetite for continual learning
  • Knowledge of pair programming, continuous integration and test-driven development
  • Familiarity with the concepts of Functional Programming and Microservices is a plus
  • Community contributions (e.g., open source work, GitHub, StackOverflow, publishing / speaking on technical ideas) is a plus
  • Should be a change agent that always challenges status quo
  • Fluent in English


Previous 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

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Posted
Oct 28, 2025
Type
Full-time
Level
Not Applicable
Location
Abu Dhabi

Industries

Banking

Categories

Engineering Information Technology

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