Job Title: Android Developer
Location Address: Hybrid - 333 King Street E - Possibility for up to 3x/week– need candidates in GTA.
Contract Duration: ASAP to Oct 31, 2023 – approx. 9 months
Possibility of extension based on other project needs and candidate performance.
Schedule Hours: 9am-5pm Monday-Friday
Story Behind the Need
Business group: CCA (Caribbean and Central America) Digital Factory – Team for Caribbean that works on digital side for online and mobile banking and provide digital flows to the customer to conduct online banking – platform maintained by this team for Caribbean countries.
Project: Wave Project - CCA Digital Banking Engineering team is seeking a Senior Android developer to join Wave Mobile team and help develop and implement changes for future releases for Wave Android App (Caribbean). This developer will be working with a SME (Toronto), and team of offshore developers (Dominican Republic) to develop and implement these changes.
Candidate Value Proposition:
The successful candidate will have the opportunity to gain valuable experience at a top 5 Canadian bank, get exposure to the banks emerging technology, working with not only individuals in Toronto, but across South America as well to develop and implement the latest Wave application updates.
Typical Day in Role:
- Design, develop, and implement applications using emerging technologies (e.g., DevOps, cloud, mobile, content management, RPA) to support business requirements.
- Analyze highly complex business requirements; generate technical specifications to design or redesign complex software components and applications
- Act as an expert technical resource for modeling, simulation, and analysis efforts
- Leverage industry best practices to design, test, implement and support a solution
- Assure quality security and compliance requirements are met for supported area
- Be flexible and thrive in an evolving environment
- Adapt to change quickly and adjust work accordingly in a positive manner
- Majority of time focused on the Wave app project but there could be some occasional ad hoc work
- Tech stack: Working in Java and Kotlin (new in Kotlin) – and migrating code from Java to Kotlin - mobile development – front-end
Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:
1) 8+ years of experience in Android development
2) 5+ years of combined experience in Java, Kotlin development (need Kotlin as new development will be using it, and Java for migration)
3) 5+ years of experience with MVP and MVVM architectures
4) 3+ years of experience in accessibility and testing
Nice-To-Have Skills:
- 3+ years of experience with RxJava + OkHttp + Retrofit – demonstrated in recent project work
- 3+ years of experience with GitFlow, Bitbucket
- Fortify, Black duck, NowSecure security scans experience
- Google Play Store app launch experience
- Prior FI / Banking experience preferred
- Prior work experience with Banking companies.
Soft Skills Required:
- Hit the ground running
- Strong communication skills (written & verbal), Interacting with Product, Design, Front-end and Back-end Teams
- Self-starter that actively engages issues seeking resolution, ability to meet dynamic changes on prioritization
Education:
- Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related field required
Best VS. Average Candidate:
Focusing on strong native Android developers (working on React and Node in front end not necessary, need strong Kotlin and Java Android experience)
Candidate Review & Selection:
- Codility test from the Android perspective as first round – Java, Kotlin – 60-90 minutes live codility
- 1-hour technical panel interview if successful on codility – possible code snippet test in interview
