Vacature

Android Developer

Brussel

Solliciteer

As a skilled Android Developer, you will join fantastic teams of Software development specialists and work in an Agile squad where you’ll be responsible of:

  • Translating requirements into high quality code

  • Design, build, and maintain high performance, reusable, and reliable Kotlin code for the Android platform

  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ship new features

  • Work with outside data sources and APIs

  • Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the application

  • Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability

  • Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs

  • Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization

Ideal Profile

  • Language requirements: Sound knowledge of English as well as (at least) one local language

  • Education: Bachelor/Master or equivalent by experience

Agile requirements       

  • An Android Developer involved in Agile projects must have the "Agile mindset" which implies:

  • A positive attitude and pragmatism

  • Thirst for knowledge: Agile is about learning and adapting. Knowledge sharing is key to success.

  • The goal of team success: Agile is about the success of the team, no individual success or heroic behavior. It is more important for the team to succeed than for the individual to have completed his/her tasks.

  • There is no failure, only feedback: Agile is about taking everything as lessons, adjusting actions based on the feedback, resulting in continuous improvement.

  • Beyond the roles:  Agile teams are cross-functional.  All required disciplines are represented in the team (analysis, development, testing, … ). However, although team members have a primary role representing a discipline, they are expected to take on other roles and contribute to other disciplines  whenever it helps towards reaching the sprint goal.

Required experience / knowledge            

  • At least 6 years of relevant experience

Technical experience 

Mandatory             

  • You know the principles of clean code and apply them effectively.

  • Understanding of Google’s Android design principles and interface guidelines, DDD and best practices o You write readable code and do refactoring where necessary.

  • Proven knowledge of Kotlin

  • Proven knowledge in jetpack compose and material 3 design

  • You are familiar with test driven development (TDD) and you have practical experience with it

  • Proven knowledge in Android app development (different version of Android SDK and the libraries available for common tasks

  • Knowledge of SVN/Git (Gitlab or alternative), Jenkins, SonarQube, Fortify, Confluence, JIRA

  • Knowledge of Continuous Integration/Deployment principles

  • Experience with RESTful APIs to connect Android applications to back-end services and 3rd-party libraries or API’s

Preferable 

  • Knowledge of Docker, Container and Groovy

Business experience  

Preferable 

  • Specific requirement for agile: practical experience with Scrum

  • Practical experience in a team of many developers

Soft skills  

  • Agile Mindset – You embrace the SCRUM values (Focus, Commitment, Openness, Respect and Courage).

  • You know what Pair Programming means, and you are prepared to apply it actively

  • Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirement.

  • You actively share your knowledge with your team

  • You dare to challenge the requirements you receive based on your expertise

  • Continuous learning: you contribute to the constant improvement of the functioning of the team