We are looking for a highly talented Software Engineer II - Android to join the team in Riyadh. If you are looking for a place where you can gain hands-on experience and create a direct impact, then this may be the place for you! An ideal candidate will have a track record as a significant individual contributor as well as a strong team player.
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You will be working on:
- Keeping abreast of the latest software development methodologies in order to provide best-in-class software solutions
- Analyzing product requirements to understand engineering requirements, evaluate technical feasibility, estimate efforts, and provide required solutions in collaboration with the Product Team
- Assisting in building development components and managing the programming of different solution components to transform the requirements into actual working software accurately
- Documenting all coding steps to ensure comprehensibility and facilitate future modifications and maintenance
- Writing unit, integration, and UI/Snapshot tests
- Investigating and resolving issues and bugs through patches and other means
- Collaborating with colleagues for code reviews and delivering code review reports accordingly
- Performing functional and module testing to ensure the functionality of delivered solutions
- Monitoring, evaluating, and reporting on product development and recommending improvements where necessary
- Assisting in user trials and acceptance testing
Qualifications
- 2-5 years of experience in developing software, with practical knowledge of design patterns and algorithms, ideally with Kotlin or Swift as a primary development language, but Java would suffice too
- Experience with Flutter is preferred
- Open-minded about technologies but particularly skilled in native Android development
- Hands-on experience writing high-quality, testable code, with proficiency in modern mobile architectures
- In-depth knowledge of the mobile engineering lifecycle for fragments, activities, and practical experience with Agile methodologies (SCRUM or Kanban)
- Engineering excellence - a proven track record of impacting the development of complex non-trivial systems. Open-source contributions and technical publications are welcome!
- Execution - a “getting things done” mentality with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and high prioritization skills. Experience with versioning tools (Git) is essential
- Experienced and current with Modern Android Development approaches skill sets and practices, with practical knowledge of ViewModel, LiveData, Paging, Navigation, SafeArgs, Retrofit2, RxJava2, Dagger2 (multi-module applications)
- Understanding of Modular App Architecture
- Understanding of CI/CD pipeline
Nice-to-Have skills:
- Knowledge of Firebase, Google Maps API, Fastlane scripting, and Checkout.com SDK
