Description
Mobile Developer
Whitehall Resources are currently looking for a Mobile Developer located in Worthing for an initial 6 Month Contract.
The Mobile Developer will be responsible for the following:
- Providing technical leadership within their team
- Consistently delivering to challenging business objectives and adhere to Service Level Agreements with commercial implications for success and failure
- Demonstrating strong problem-solving skills
- Utilising their XP knowledge; TDD, Continuous Integration
- Working predominantly using pair programming, imparting skills and knowledge in a small team
- Introducing Open Source products/tools as appropriate to optimise the delivery timescale and quality of the software product
The following skills and experience are required:
- Minimum 5+ Years experience developing native applications for Android in Java
- A test-first development mentality using TDD and knowledge of unit and UI testing
- Demonstrable understanding of S.O.L.I.D. principles and Object Oriented patterns.
- Knowledge of Clean Architecture patterns such as MVVM, MVP etc
- Continuous Delivery with CI systems eg Bitrise, Jenkins etc
- Able to provide examples of clean, self documenting, readable code.
- Version Control using GIT
- Experience of Agile software delivery methods and a strong understanding of agile principles and mindset
- Excellent communication and mentoring skills, good verbal and written communication
- nterest in keeping up to date with current industry trends and changes with the ability to evaluate and propose new ideas and solutions
The following are an advantage:
- Experience in Kotlin desirable
- Experience using dependency injection libraries and knowledge of RXJava
- Good accessibility practises.
Project:
- Our App which is to give customers access to data
- App usage is growing 300% yearly
- Is a large part and focus of the our account currently
- Currently 2 teams, 10 people in each & all different skillsets. BA, Scala etc
Role:
- Need someone to come in and coach the more junior developers
- Used to following agile practices
- Work very collaboratively
- Can challenge the business but also happy to take direction
- Will advocate best practice across the team
- Needs to be an all rounder not just focussed on tech side
- Someone who has and is interested in the design/animation side if the app also.
- Senior lead person with a passion for training up more junior people
All of our opportunities require that applicants are eligible to work in the specified country/location, unless otherwise stated in the job description.