What are the responsibilities and job description for the Android Developer position at Charles Schwab Inc.?
Your Opportunity
At Schwab, you are empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us “challenge the status quo” and transform the finance industry together.
Schwab has been doing in-house, native mobile development for several years but every business channel in Schwab is increasing their presence on the mobile platform. We are looking to grow a high performing, engaged mobile development team that is passionate about delivering an excellent mobile experience for our users, from checking account balances to complex trading, Schwab’s ever growing mobile user base is asking for more features and more and interesting visualizations and interactions. Come join the team and make your mark on a highly distributed, visible, and valued product.
What you are good at:
- Prepare specifications, design, develop and support mobile applications and prepare documentation per Schwab mobile best practices
- Assess and optimize designs through review, evaluation tools and analysis to ensure appropriate user experiences for phones and tablets
- Create and perform unit testing for the spectrum of mobile devices
- Build native mobile apps, support the mobile systems in production and resolve and troubleshoot technical problems
- Prepare documentation for new development work while maintaining Schwab development standards
- Must have a depth of knowledge in Kotlin and ability to ramp up on new languages quickly
- Experience with enterprise level branching/merging with GitHub
- Knowledgeable of security best practices for mobile application development/integration
- In-depth knowledge of current technological trends, developments, and best practices in information security, wireless network architecture, mobile technologies, and associated concepts
What you have
Required Qualifications:
- BS degree in Computer Science or related field
- 5 years of Android development experience developing large scale Android applications
- Expert in-depth working experience in Kotlin
- Experience working with Jetpack Compose is a plus
- Experience with REST, JSON, XML and interfacing Android applications to server-side APIs
- Experience writing Unit Test and Automated UI tests
- Experience integrating with REST APIs is a required
- Experience working with CI/CD and debugging issues that arises
- Experience performing code reviews and mentoring junior developers is required
- Experience with building native features as a module is a plus
- Experience/understanding of the SOLID design principles
- Experience working with Architects and Stakeholders to craft appropriate solution
- Experience debugging memory and performance issues
- Experience working with native accessibility features
