Android Developer

Your main focus will be on building the mobile and tablet applications for Android for our new multi-product and multi-countryportal which gives clients integrated access. The app will be available to commercial customers world-wide.

Streamlining our development process all the way from code check-ins, peer code reviews, static code analysis, to running automated functional regressions test against the backend APIs (using the best tools that we can find: e.g. Jira, Git, Crucible, Jenkins, Gradle, Espresso, …).

Improving our continuous integration, increasing our automated test coverage, and helping us get to the next level of maturity with respect to Continuous Delivery.

Your work environment

You will work in the dynamic and challenging environment of the IT organization.

We operate according to a Scrum Agile development process and strongly believe in the DevOps approach to delivering IT solutions. The focus is on high-quality mission-critical software delivered in time using iterative development with regular milestone demos to the business, so that at the end there are no surprises about what we build and how far we are.

Profile (desired skills & experience)

- Master of Science in Computer Science or an equivalent field.
- You love technology and naturally stay up-to-date on relevant new developments.
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, preferably in creating high scalability mission-critical applications.
- You are able to develop efficient and maintainable code with the right balance between solving the problem at hand and not over-engineering your solution.
- You have real world OO design experience and knowledge of design patterns, combined with an ability to succinctly convey design information using suitable tools (e.g. the UML, BPMN).
- Excellent knowledge of Java and Android SDK and a minimum of 3 years of solid experience with the Android platform.
- Knowledge of other modern OO languages especially Swift, Objective-C and ability to develop for iOS, while not mandatory, will be greatly valued.
- Good knowledge OS fundamentals with the ability to apply it in the context of modern operating systems (e.g. Linux, OS X, Windows Server 2008/2012).
- A working knowledge of JavaScript and WEB 2.0 applied in the context of Hybrid mobile development using frameworks such as PhoneGap or Titanium is big nice-to-have.
- Even though not mandatory, experience with at least one modern scripting language (e.g. python, ruby, etc.)
- You have sound knowledge of relational databases (e.g. Oracle, MS SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc). Knowledge of NoSQL datastores, while not mandatory, is a strong nice-to-have.
- Great English communication skills, verbal as well as written.
- You value a multi-cultured environment where English is the working language and you easily get on with people from different cultural backgrounds.