Senior Android Developer

Key areas of responsibility

• Designing, developing, and maintaining Android applications using Kotlin.
• Leading technical design discussions and contributing to architectural decisions.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams including Test, Infrastructure, and Product.
• Ensuring compliance with secure company coding standards.
• Writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code with an emphasis on reliability and performance.
• Providing mentorship and guidance to junior and mid-level engineers.
• Participating in code reviews, system design, and technical documentation
• Promoting a culture of good software engineering practices across the team.
• Maintaining knowledge of new and evolving features of the Android OS. 

Key skills, experience and behaviours

• 5+ years of professional Android development experience with Kotlin/Java.
• Experience with GitHub and GitHub Actions for CI/CD (or equivalent). 
• Good experience of software development in an agile environment (including agile management, version control, issue tracking, code review and continuous integration methods and tools).
• Experience creating clean, maintainable, low complexity, self-describing code. 
• An understanding of software security principles and implementation. 
• Knowledge of industry-wide technology trends and best practices.   

• Exposure to Android Team Awareness Kit (ATAK), plugin development.
• Hardware integration via RS232, Bluetooth, REST APIs etc.
• Network Analysis with WireShark.
• Reverse engineering with tools such as JADX and APK Studio.
• Experience with multiple languages including Python, C++, Rust and Go.

• Be an enthusiast for solving challenging, real-world technical problems.
• Be passionate about learning new things and helping others to do the same.
• Have good interpersonal and communication skills.
• Be willing to voice up when you disagree with a technical approach or find areas for improvement. 

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