Associate Android Developer

Role: Associate Android Developer

Location: Abu Dhabi   

Role Purpose:

• Associate Android software engineers will have a range of responsibilities from understanding the delivery process, increasing and improving the knowledge in software development and being able to accomplish small complexity tasks by themselves. 
• Our engineers contribute across the full technology stack, from database and DevOps infrastructure that supports continuous deployment, over native apps, to front end development. 
• As an Associate Developer you will work in a cross-functional team with the Product Owner, Designers and engineers to co-develop the digital products.

Key Accountabilities of the role:

• To understand what Agile and Scrum means and what is the involvement of the developer in the delivery model.
• To understand the concept of a story, estimations and the different ceremonies that come as a part of Scrum.
• To understand what teamwork is and how to collaborate with members to accomplish tasks that have been assigned to the developer.
• To understand the different roles in the delivery model and identify where to go when questions may come up.
• To clearly communicate effectively with team members and other stakeholders.
• To understand the developing cycle of an Android application from the beginning to the end.
• To adhere to principles and good practices as a developer and be able to take small challenges to resolve them autonomously.
• To start applying the best practices for development based on the principles and standards created within the bank and supervised by the Squad Lead in the team.         

Specialist Skills / Technical Knowledge, Technical Competencies Required for this role:

• A passion and an attitude to learn continuously and try new technologies with an open mind.
• Understanding of pair programming, continuous integration and test-driven development.
• Familiarity with the concepts of Functional Programming and Microservices is a nice to have.
• Community contributions as Github, OpenSource project, etc. is a nice to have.
• Should be a change agent that always challenges status quo.
• Fluent in English and being able to communicate effectively.

Previous experience:   

• Basic understanding of agile and scrum and other methodologies.
• Software development experience in one objects-oriented programming language as Java or C++.
• Mobile development experience using Android, Android Studio and Gradle to develop both phone and tablet apps is a nice to have.
• Understanding of the SDLC end-to-end.
• Understanding of the stakeholders that are involved in the SDLC process.
• Basic experience in data formatting and manipulation, APIs and databases.
• Basic understanding of security applied to software development.
• Understanding of the main software development patterns and the implementation of them.
• Basic understanding of the mobile application delivery process in iOS or Android is a nice to have.
• Understanding of iOS development is a nice to have.
• Basic experience with Git, such as branching, merging, tagging and Pull Requests.
• Basic experience with development processes and tools e.g. crash reporting, debugging, Atlassian JIRA/Confluence, etc.
• Basic experience with mobile CI-CD (Jenkins or similar).
• Knowledge in infrastructure knowledge including RESTful APIs, Single Sign On, LDAP, Search Technologies is a nice to have.
• Principles with code refactoring, design patterns, design-driven development, continuous deployment, highly scalable applications and application security.
• This position is for UAE Nationals only.