Android Engineer (Kotlin) - Contract

Red Airship
Expired
HCM, Other, Ho Chi Minh
At office

Job description

We are looking for an experienced, English speaking, Kotlin Mobile Software Engineer who possesses a passion for pushing mobile technologies to the limits and will work with our team of talented engineers to design and build the next generation of our mobile applications.

Roles & responsibilities

Key responsibilities:

  • Design and build advanced applications for the Android platform
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
  • Work on bug fixing and improving application performance.
  • Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability.

Engineers at Red Airship are expected to:

  • Meet programming and quality standards by following production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards; identifying work process improvements; implementing new technology.
  • Integrate applications by studying and implementing APIs and libraries.
  • Troubleshoot development and production problems across multiple environments and operating platforms.
  • Support users by developing documentation and assistive tools.
  • Work with the customer’s architects and developers.
  • Hone your skills, update job knowledge by researching and trying out new technologies and software products; participate in educational opportunities; read professional publications; maintain personal networks; participate in professional organizations.

A typical week at Red Airship in this role may involve:

  • Defining application objectives by envisioning system features and functionality, analyzing and clarifying user requirements with customers.
  • Making technical decisions, researching best practices and technology required for a project, comparing advantages and disadvantages of various technologies either custom-built or off-the-shelf.

You will be invited to take part in defining your own role and responsibilities.

Your skills and experience

Required skills and experience

Good foundational technical skills and some industry experience are a must. We don’t expect you to be experts in our entire tech stack, but we believe the best people can transfer their skills and experience to the language or framework where required.

  • Great interpersonal communications capabilities demonstrated through a history of successful software development projects.
  • Comfortable talking to clients, designers, and end-users.
  • Good presentation skills, effective communication internally and externally.
  • High level of self-motivation and maturity.
  • Capacity to evaluate trade-offs between correctness, robustness, and performance.
  • Strong desire to tackle hard technical problems.
  • Familiar with Kotlin, some knowledge of Java where required.
  • Familiar with respective package management systems, and popular/common libraries
  • UI and e2e testing frameworks
  • Android standard frameworks (Biometrics, security, etc).
  • Understands security and best practices.
  • Experience designing and building production-ready native mobile applications.
  • Bachelor’s level degree in Computer Science, engineering, mathematics, or another related field. In the absence of which, at least 4 years of working experience in related fields.
  • Able to review wireframes and design to give constructive feedback, highlight uncertainties, give suggestions on feasibility.
  • Familiar with Mac/Linux environments and command-line interface.

Extras

Skills that can give you an edge, not necessarily just in technology:

  • Hybrid frameworks like React native or ionic/Cordova
  • Commercial acumen, experience working alongside commercial teams, business units
  • Prior experience working for a technology startup
  • Experience with automated testing / TDD.
  • Experience with Agile mindset, SCRUM methodology, and TDD.
  • Knows when, why, and how to accept technical debt
  • Project management experience, working with any known methodology, and more importantly, being able to scope, manage and deliver on a plan no matter how simple or complex.
  • Experience training and mentoring junior members of the team

Workplace

  • By default, engineers will be working from home unless assigned on-site projects

Contract role

  • This is a contract role for 6-months with the possibility of extension at the end of the contract.
  • We are prioritizing candidates who can start before 1st November 2021

Why you'll love working here

  • Much appreciated for applying via our website
  • Attractive bonus of 3,000 USD upon completion of 6-months contract period
  • Work From Home
  • Training & Development

Red Airship

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Red Airship

Company type
IT Product
Company size
1-50 employees
Country
Singapore
Working days
Monday - Friday
Overtime policy
No OT