Junior Android Developer

Gulf Business Solutions (GBS) is the leading information and technology solutions provider in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Since we started as a business more than thirty years ago, we have grown to an enterprise supported by over five hundred employees, with a rich portfolio of products and services ranging from printing systems to end-to-end digital transformation solutions. GBS enables organizations and businesses in their journey to a digitalized business environment with cutting edge Information and Technology Solutions. We source and select only the most advanced products and solutions through the many strategic partnership we’ve developed over the years with some of the world’s leading technology companies. GBS represents GCG-Enterprise Solutions and CNS Middle East, operating as an umbrella company for both brands in KSA.

Job Description

• Alongside other engineers and members of your team (product, data), participate in continuous discovery of your customer/business needs/desires/problems to drive desired outcomes
• With guidance from other engineers, design, write and release software as a solution to an end-to-end problem in your business domain and deliver value in small batches in accordance with our engineering standards
• Participate in optimization of your team’s practices to develop it into a self-organized, continuously improving unit
• Seek mentorship to become a product engineer capable of solving a business problem, end-to-end.
• Empathetic and able to easily build relationships with other engineers
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Humble, curious, and open-minded with a growth mindset, thriving on continuous feedback
• Good knowledge of foundational software engineering with some software development experience
• Exposed to testing with focus on automated end to end quality
• Familiar with general mobile landscape, architectures, trends/emerging tech

• Demonstrated expertise in MS .NET, C#, MS SQL Server , XML, Object Oriented development/UML
• Experienced in web technologies - ASP.NET, MVC, REST, HTML 5, Ajax, JavaScript, CSS3, JQuery, etc.
• Must have a good understanding of SQL fundamentals, T-SQL, stored procedures and optimizing database   applications for high scale, low latency.
• Core Java programming, JSP, Java Applet etc.
• Experience in IIS Web Server Configuration and Deployment
• Ability to adapt quickly to an existing, complex environment. Ability to quickly learn new concepts and software is necessary.
• Candidate should be a self-motivated, independent, detail oriented, responsible team-player and exhibit exceptional relationship management skills.
• Passionate about building high-quality systems with software implementation best practices.
• Strong communications (written and verbal) and problem solving skills
• Extensive knowledge in browser compatibility issues and solutions
• Experience integrating frontend code with backend services (web services, RESTful services etc.)
• Experience working through the full product cycle from initial design to rapid production deployment.
• Able to handle both windows and web - based applications.

• Experience in Apache Tomcat, Web Sphere,  JBOSS Web Server Configuration and Deployment
• Experience in SSL Certificate Implementation
• Experience in Financial Software & Payment Related Software Implementation
• Experience in Telerik Web Controls or Other third party control integration.
• Experience in VB.NET and Windows Service Development
• Worked in ISO Messages and IBM-MQ Servers.
• Experience in Hardware Device integrations
• Experience in using Crystal Reports or other tools to develop reports (Charts and Graphical Reports)