Senior Android Engineer (Hybrid)

Cognizant’s Digital Engineering

Our practice is seeking a highly qualified Android Senior Developer with experience in Android Software Development Kit. You will work side by side with product managers, designers, and clients, making decisions together to quickly deliver valuable working software to clients and their users. Our developers are agile and retrospective, and not afraid to identify what we’re doing wrong, so we can fix it, so we can improve on it. Above all, we judge success by the success of our team and the happiness of our customers.

Responsibilities and Qualifications

Candidates for this role should have experience of working within a financial organization and display an understanding and appreciation for the complexities therein. Experience with digital platforms, distributed systems, and Cloud technologies is also critical.

Experience within a continuously changing environment that influences the banking experience for clients and employees, including driving consistent frameworks and methodologies to support consistency is critical for this role. Attention to detail and an ability to convey relevant information at summary and detailed levels are key factors to success in this role. Requires experience in both waterfall and agile methodologies.

· Executes creative software solutions design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems,

· Work with product managers, architects, and other engineers to follow in translating requirements to solution options and recommendations.

· Drive solution designs inclusive of clear annotations on key components and flows, considerations and options, recommendations, and justifications.

· Develops secure and high-quality production code and review and debugs code written by others.

· Ensure commitments are met while providing high-quality and cost-effective systems that meet client expectations.

· Adapt digital Agile approach and work with mobile vendor to implement the mobile solution.

· Keep up to date on modern technology, standards, protocols, and tools in areas relevant to the rapidly changing digital environment.

· Troubleshoot and fix issues in production and non-production environments.

· Work with server engineers to design API (Application Programming Interfaces) specs.

· Propose and implement process improvements to make our engineering team even better.

Required Skills

· Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science or related field

· 8 years of experience with strong app development skills and relevant practice in a technology environment

· Experience in Native Mobile app development (Android devices); hands on Kotlin/RxJava

· MVVM/Clean Architecture

· OOP

· Networking HTTP, SOAP, and REST

· Advanced Android Platform Skills - Strong knowledge of Android frameworks, familiar with Android design principles and material design

· Experience securing applications via device registration, biometrics, platform integrity and keychain.

· Experience in mobile app encryption, data protection, and addressing security vulnerabilities.

· Familiar with test driven development and testing frameworks.

· A knack for benchmarking and optimization

· Familiarity with cloud message APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) and push notifications

· Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

· Experience in developing hybrid mobile application using frameworks like Ionic React, React Native, Flutter

· Experience in releasing apps to App Store or Enterprise App Stores using CI/CD pipeline.

· Experience in working on large and complex mobile apps.

· Strong People leadership skills

· Excellent written and oral communication skills

Why Choose Cognizant?

Our associates enjoy robust benefits and training opportunities from our industry recognized, award winning Academy team. You will have access to hundreds of technical trainings to keep your abilities fresh and have opportunities to acquire certifications on the newest technologies.

If you became comfortable with ambiguity, delight by change, and excel through autonomy, we’d love to hear from you!

Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer provider and committed to creating a diverse environment. We consider all applicants without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, age, marital and family status, disabilities, sexual orientation or preference, veteran status or any other classification protected by state, federal or local law.

About Cognizant:

Headquartered in the U.S, Cognizant leverages a highly flexible business model, a flawless global delivery network, and deep domain expertise to deliver to a long list of world-class companies that are leaders in their own space.

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