Senior Software Engineer (Android) Contract

Role: Software Engineer (Android)

Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Engagement: Contractual

Duration: 12 Months (Extendable, Long-term with Marc Ellis)

Job Summary:

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Android Developer with a strong background in developing and maintaining high-performance enterprise-level Android applications. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in Kotlin, Android architecture components, modern design principles like MVVM and Clean Architecture, and hands-on experience in building scalable and secure applications. You will be instrumental in shaping the technical direction of Android initiatives, influencing best practices, and mentoring junior developers.

Education:

• Degree, Postgraduate in Computer Science or related field

Experience:

• Minimum 5 years of coding experience in Android in creating Enterprise Mobile Applications of high performance and global at scale.
• Minimum 3 years of Hands-On experience in Kotlin and knows about the latest updates in Kotlin.
• Strong understanding of object-oriented software development, Android SDK (Security Modules, Jetpack libraries etc..) and its design patterns.
• Understanding of large and complex code bases, including API design techniques to help keep them clean and maintainable.
• Experience designing clean and maintainable Codes

Technical Skills:

• Must have exposure to Android Architecture Components, full lifecycle of Android Apps: building from early stages, shipping through Google Play Store
• Knowledge of multi-threading and memory management specific to mobile devices and caching mechanisms
• Well versed with CI/CD principles, and actively involved in solving, troubleshooting issues in distributed services ecosystem
• Should be excellent with problem solving (Algorithm and Data Structure).
• Knowledge on MVVM, Clean Architecture
• Knowledge on DI
• Knowledge on Functional Programming
• Experience on Firebase
• Strong source code management tool experiences such as Github etc.

Functional Skills:

• Experience in following best Coding, Security, Unit testing and Documentation standards and practices
• Experience in Agile methodology.
• Ensure quality of technical and application architecture and design of systems across the organization.
• Effectively research and benchmark technology against other best in class technologies.

Soft Skills:

• Able to influence multiple teams on technical considerations, increasing their productivity and effectiveness, by sharing deep knowledge and experience.
• Self-motivator and self-starter, Ability to own and drive things without supervision and works collaboratively with the teams across the organization.
• Have excellent soft skills and interpersonal skills to interact and present ideas to Senior and Executive management