Android Application Engineer

Job Roles and Responsibilities

• Must-have skills/qualifications (technical, soft skills, certifications, tools):
• BS in Computer Science (or equivalent) with 6 years of experience
• Strong object-oriented programming experience: Kotlin, JetPack Compose, Java or similar
• Strong foundation in Computer Science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design
• Excellent technical knowledge of Android mobile application development with a solid understanding of the framework components and their life cycles.
• Experience in software development domain and principles, including design patterns, code structure, programming languages, continuous integration, and deployment architecture
• Experience with mobile test-driven development using Espresso, Roboelectric, Appium or similar technologies
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral
• Ideal experience level (years, leadership, industries): 6 years

Success metrics or KPIs for this role: Ongoing, various projects

How is success measured? Meeting deadlines, goals and objectives

Preferred Experience

• Experience developing mobile applications frameworks and/or SDK solutions for Identity, Payments, Analytics
• Experience working with JetPack Compose
• Experience with AI, ML and GenAI
• Experience with web technologies (NodeJs, JSON, TypeScript, HTML5 and CSS3)
• Shipped an app to the Google Play Store
• Experience with Scrum or similar agile development methodology

Desired personality or work style: Work independent, collaboration, communication skill, problem solver, fast paced environment, quick learner, accountable

Key attributes: Work as a team. Build solutions that are maintainable. Quality driven. Flexible and adaptable.

Responsibilities

• Development, testing, code review, design review
• Provide technical leadership to engineers in fast-paced environment
• Enforce design reviews, code reviews, continuous integration and testing infrastructure
• Drive technical excellence and implementation of best engineering practices
• Lead hands-on implementation work to keep current with technology trends inside and outside Yahoo
• Build and deliver high quality and high-performance features for our users on Android mobile app
• Collaborate with user experience designers, product managers, and other engineers to deliver new features, enhancements, platform improvements and bug fixes
• Collaborate with other engineers to write testable and reliable code, continuously deploying to production systems
• Growing in a culture of learning through design discussions and code reviews
• Deploy, monitor and operate large scale production systems distributed across the globe.
• Analyze and optimize application/platform code and/or APIs for efficiency and performance