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You will be part of the team that will be responsible for developing and maintaining
features for the Android variant of an undisclosed App.
Working in a multi-disciplinary team of tech, design, business, product, infrastructure
and test, you will help to design, develop, test and deliver new features while also
maintaining existing features.
You will be involved throughout the entire product lifecycle being chiefly responsible for
producing high-quality, performant, well-documented and tested features that deliver a
first-class experience to millions of users across England.
Responsibilities
- Work with a multi-disciplinary team to design, document and develop high quality,
scalable solutions for the App's Android application using Kotlin.
- Create appropriate unit and integration tests for your work.
- Write clean, maintainable and eNicient code, which follows best practices and
coding standards.
- Optimise solutions for performance and speed to provide an excellent user
experience.
- Ensure the application meets the Google Play store requirements.
- Work closely with UI/ UX designers to ensure the application implements a
consistent visual intuitive design.
- Support what you deliver in production.
The ideal candidate must:
- Have 5+ years' experience of Android development using Kotlin and Android
Studio.
- Be passionate about mobile development, keeping up to date with the latest
Android development trends and best practices.
- Have a good understanding of Android design principles and interface guidelines.
- Be someone who embraces collaboration when building solutions.
- Have a good understanding of MVVM Architecture and associated design
patterns.
- Be able to apply SOLID principles to improve the code structure, quality and
maintainability.
- Have a DevOps mindset, understanding how software and infrastructure work
together.
- Have a good understanding of continuous integration, continuous delivery and
how these are implemented via the use of pipelines.
- Proactively look for solutions to any issues that arise in your domain.
- Have experience with troubleshooting/ debugging application bugs and making
performance improvements.
- Have experience with using Gradle.
- Have an understanding of mobile app analytics and its use to maintain stable,
crash free applications.
- Have knowledge of using Jetpack Compose.
- Have experience with using native OS features such as push notifications, Health
Connect and Intents.
- Have experience of integrating with RESTful APIs.
- Experience in handling concurrency (e.g. background tasks/ network activity
without blocking the UI thread)
Nice to have
- Understanding the compilation process and how the code gets converted into an
executable.
- Knowledge or experience of using FHIR.
- Understanding of good memory management practices, handling reference
counting and/ or garbage collection
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