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Android Developer

July 24, 2024 by

Location Address: Hybrid – Toronto – WFH for now but may change down the road due to Bank mandates; can consider fully remote candidates, but will give priority to those in GTA
Contract Duration: ASAP to Oct 31, 2024 – approx. 2 months
Strong possibility of extension
Number of Positions: 1
Schedule Hours: 9am-5pm Monday-Friday; standard 37.5 hrs/week
Reason: Additional Workload

Typical Day in Role:
Contributes to development of world-class digital products and experiences on the Android platform that touch millions of customers every day. Contributes to the overall success of the Digital Banking Unit in Canada, ensuring specific individual goals, plans, initiatives are executed / delivered in support of the team’s business strategies and objectives. Ensures all activities conducted follow governing regulations, internal policies and procedures.
• Work with product owners and business system analysts to refine ticket requirements in JIRA and Confluence, review pull requests, and implement documented designs.
• Develop high-quality code by reviewing work with designer and product owners and resolving any issues quality assurance testers.
• Collaborate closely with a team of Android, IOS, and backend developers to work on both new features and incremental improvements to the bank’s flagship mobile app
• Adheres to and demonstrates good coding conventions and best practices, and helps to maintain the architecture of the project
• Stays on top of reviewing others’ code, actively contributing suggestions and catching potential issues
• Always works to balance user experience, performance (client and backend), and security

Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:
1) 8+ years’ experience as an Android developer
2) 3+ years’ combined experience with both Kotlin and Java programming languages
3) 3+ years with Android Studio and other tools used in Android Development
4) 3+ years’ experience with coding patterns such as MVVM and clean code best practices
5) 3+ years’ experience building applications that consume RESTful APIs

Nice-To-Have Skills:
1) Experience with tools such as: JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket
2) Experience with unit-testing
3) Experience with code versioning tools, such as Git
4) Experience in integrating Third Party libraries and SDKs
5) Experience with accessibility and analytics
6) Experience with RxJava, Dagger
7) Experience with Jetpack Compose, Navigation Components and other modern Android Development tools and libraries

Soft Skills Required:
• Good problem-solving skills and excellent communication
• Ability to work well under pressure, with tight deadlines

Education:
Preferably have at least a Bachelor’s degree in a technical field – or equivalent work experience

Best VS. Average Candidate:
Ideal candidate has a strong technical background and is a great problem solver, works well under pressure, takes initiative.

Candidate Review & Selection
1st – Take home assignment – give 3 days to complete
2nd – Technical Panel Video Interview with team – 1 hour – broken down: 30 minutes live coding challenge (Kotlin or Java); 30 minutes of technical questions
3rd – HM Video Interview – 30 minutes

Hiring Manager’s availability to interview: ASAP

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