Android Architect

01 Jul 2024

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Greetings From Photon,We hope you are staying safe. We are hiring

Android Architect to join our Digital Engineering team.Please enroll your application here or send me an email to karthick.m @ photon. com

Who are we?For the past 20 years, we have powered many Digital Experiences for the Fortune 500. Since 1999, we have grown from a few people to more than 4000 team members across the globe that are engaged in various Digital Modernization.

Android Architect | Chicago, IL (REMOTE) | Long-term contract or Fulltime

What will you do?
  • Architect, with focus on Android (Kotlin and Java).
  • Must be Hands-on, that can involve and do development as well, design suggestions etc
  • Architect, design, and develop scalable, resilient and fast mobile applications.
  • Lead and participate in producing deliverables (including architecture, technical design, code development, and QA) to high quality standards.
  • Work closely with Product Management and development teams to satisfy business requirements for new features. Take ownership of the solution from end to end and be responsible for translating functional requirements into a mobile solution.
  • Drive Test Driven Development throughout the lifecycle of the application. Write and execute unit, functional and integration tests. Perform and support system-level troubleshooting.
  • Execute all projects in compliance with company development guidelines. Provide leadership guide and improve team efficiency: assessments, code reviews, coaching other engineers, detailing and evolving coding standards and best practices, performing data modelling, participate in advanced troubleshooting of production and pre-production systems, authoring frameworks and utilities
  • Act as a technical advisor to application development teams to plan, implement, and support new and existing mobile applications.
Technical Skills:
  • Proficient with software development using Java for both cloud & mobile applications.
  • Strong understanding & experience with Design patterns, Data Structures
  • Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect mobile applications with back-end services
  • Demonstrable capability to use OS frameworks for multi-threading, data persistence, and adapting user interface across multiple screen size
  • Experience with developing custom UIs and animations
  • Familiarity with integration, cloud message APIs and push notifications
  • Experience with performance and memory usage tuning
  • Developed a culture of benchmarking and optimization
  • Well versed with code versioning tools such as Git and Continuous Integration (Jenkins/Fastlane/Bitrise)
  • Comfortable working in agile product development environment, building from scratch and continuously improving it
Leadership/Soft Skills:
  • Drive architecture and technology choices for the mobile products.
  • Ability to lead mobile projects through the complete development lifecycle.
  • Ability to lead and mentor a group of engineers.
  • Passionate about delivering high quality user experience.
  • Self-starter, strong sense of ownership, gets things done.
  • Capable of making timely decisions while dealing with uncertainties & inadequate information

What are we looking for?
  • Minimum of 10+ years of experience developing complex applications
  • Minimum of 3+ years of experience in a technical leadership role including architecting end-end mobile applications
  • Been part of complete development life cycles
  • Experienced with mobile analytics & demonstrated the capability to use analytics to make product direction decisions.
  • Excellent analysis skills and the ability to develop processes and methodologies\
  • BS in Computer Science or any Degree

  • ID: #43739298
  • State: Illinois Chicago 60290 Chicago USA
  • City: Chicago
  • Salary: Depends on Experience
  • Job type: Contract
  • Showed: 2022-07-01
  • Deadline: 2022-08-29
  • Category: Et cetera