Required Android Developer @ Boston, MA

Job Title: Android Developer

Work Location: Boston, MA

Exp Required: 8+Years

 

Skills Required:

 

·         Experience building apps that communicate with some kind of backend over the internet i.e. HTTP, REST, JSON, XML, protobufs. Experience building at least one commercial-quality Android app and experience working on at least one very widely used app (say, > 1M installs) is preferred.

·         Must have Experience in Dagger and Rx-Java.

·         Experience working as part of a larger team.

·         Strong knowledge about APIs and data serialization formats.

·         Must have implemented some nontrivial piece of app functionality that runs in the background. Must know the differences between Threads, AsyncTasks, Services, and IntentServices, and when to use each.

·         Experience writing and running tests on/and for Android apps. Should know some advantages and disadvantages of different types of testing. Skills like TDD, unit testing, JUnit, Robolectric, Robotium, UIAutomator, and Appium are needed.

·         Knowledge of how Android apps and libraries are built and packaged, and must be able to debug and optimize an Android build, (with gradle-based builds, or familiarity with ant, maven, or make-based builds). Must understand what's going on in the build and be able to explain it to another developer.

 

Nice To Have but not mandatory:

·         Non-Android experience with backend, enterprise Java, iOS or other mobile, web or desktop UI, etc.

·         Must be capable of taking the lead on designing and implementing a new feature after 3 months on board. It may involve new UI, securely interacting with other processes on the device, or diving into Android's system APIs.

 

 

Thanks & Regards,

 Ankur Mohan,

Senior Consultant – IT Recruitments,

Quantronix, Inc.,

2969 Whitney Avenue

Hamden, CT 06518

Tel : 203-718-2011

Skype: ankur.quantronix

Email: ankur@quantronix.com

 

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