Senior Consultant IT ( Andriod Architect )

Summary

Are you interesting in building apps used by people during some of the most important moments in their life? Apps that simply must work because our users are protecting their lives or processing grief from the loose of a loved one. Apps that are reinventing the traditional insurance business by striving for best in class consumer user experience. In the Mobile Center  of Excellence (MCoE), we design and develop all Guardian's native apps for Android & iOS. We also provide guidance and consulting services for any vendor developed apps our affiliates may be providing to their customers. The MCoE team is seeking a talented Senior Android Developer to help design and develop apps for our supported operating systems and deliver new experiences for our customers. Join us to help bring to fruition your ideas and ours!

Key Qualifications

• At least 15+ years of engineering experience
• Strong object-oriented programming, functional programming, and design skills.
• Significant experience with Kotlin, Java, and the Android SDKs.
• Strong knowledge of Android SDK, different versions of Android, and how to deal with different screen sizes
• Significant experience of the open-source Android ecosystem and the libraries available for common tasks
• Significant experience building and deploying apps to the Google Play.
• Significant experience creating user experiences that are pixel perfect, follow clear information architecture, and utilize established platform conventions.
• Significant experience architecting mobile apps from File → New Project to shipped to customers.
• Strong understanding of patterns, MVC, MVVM, functional, and reactive programming.
• Significant experience calling, writing, and debugging REST APIs.
• Significant experience with HTML/JS/CSS apps. You are not expected to build web apps but will have to integrate with web apps.
• Beginning experience with Jetpack Compose.
• Understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of cross platform frameworks, e.g. Flutter, React Native, and Kotlin Multiplatform.
• Strong communication skills Passion for quality and attention to detail
• Experience writing multi-threaded, asynchronous code
• Track record in debugging and optimizing code for performance using instrumentation
• Strong working experience with cross organizations and several teams across the company.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git

Description

In this role you will be working on native apps for Android to build compelling user experiences for all our product line's customers. You will be collaborating with designers, testers, products owners, architects, executives, network engineers, deployment engineers, and software engineers in a fast paced, technically demanding environment.

Daily activities include:

• Reviewing software engineer's pull requests and mentoring them on best practices.
• Reviewing upcoming designs to provide feedback on conformance to mobile platform UX patterns.
• Building apps for release to internal deployment sites and the Google Play, including AppCenter and Non-Prod Release Channels.
• Triaging customer feedback, customer incidents, and crash reports.
• Complete more technically challenging stories.
• Performance test code for bottlenecks.
• Monitor unit & UI test code coverage and drive higher coverage percentages.
• Deliver an automated build pipeline for mobile apps.
• Evaluate cross-platform technologies
• Evaluate latest changes to the Android SDKs and suggest new features

This position can be based in any of the following locations:

Current Guardian Colleagues: Please apply through the internal Jobs Hub in Workday