Android Developer

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About The Role

You will be working closely with the Software Development Manager, UX and UI Designers, Product Owners and other developers to create new and improve existing features in our native Android app rebuild as well as liaising with our System Administrators and Customer Experience Team to investigate and resolve issues.

About You

Passion is the most important quality you can have. You take pride in your work, and are driven to deliver great software.

Mobile technology excites and motivates you. You understand the opportunities that the mobile space affords and are inspired by the almost endless possibilities that the technology can offer for the future. You will have a vision of how technology can be applied within the App to add value and drive engagement.

You push for positive change within yourself, your team, your department and your business. We want to be challenged by you and to challenge you in order to improve us both. Everything is open for review and we take continuous improvement seriously.

You have a good sense of humour and excellent communication skills. You have the ability to listen and take critical feedback as well as contribute to group discussions and can articulate your opinions concisely. It’s obvious to everyone around you that you have fun with your work and with your co-workers - because they are doing the same.

You love to teach and learn from your co-workers and we love to teach you too. Tell us what you have been reading recently and what has been piquing your interest at the moment.

Key Skills And Experience

-Android Studio

-Gradle

-Android 4.4 KitKat and above

-Demonstrable, high quality examples of your work

-Have a passion for the core principles of Android development and Java, including a good understanding of Activities, Fragments, Views and Services - including Life Cycle events

-Working with Web Services and integrating them

-Experience of RxJava, Dagger, Retrofit and Realm (desirable)

-Testing with JUnit, Mockito and Espresso (desirable)

About UNiDAYS

Focused

We aren’t an agency with external clients imposing impossible time/budget deadlines, our code IS our business and so ensuring a consistently high level of quality is paramount.

If a job is going to take twice as long as its estimate to complete in order to achieve the level of quality we desire, then so be it (although we’ll expect an explanation); We won’t make you keep a timesheet.

Agile Pragmatism

Everyone is equal and encouraged to work with each other as best suited to solve problems. If you’ve got an idea or a request then there’s no red tape. If you can demonstrate its worth then it's likely to happen - be it the use of a new technology, a piece of equipment or a change to our entire development approach.

We try our best to apply Occam’s Razor to everything we do. Our product owners and stakeholders truly understand the value of iterative development and embrace the process of continual improvement. We continually strive to reduce waste by keeping paperwork and meetings to a minimum. The development team is physically centered around a giant glass Kanban board which we use to track the progress of high level priorities and individual tasks. This goes most of the way to eliminating problems with communication before they even occur.

Keep Your Tools Sharp

We don’t scrimp on tech, you’ll get a beast of a machine with more RAM than you can shake a compiler at, SSDs as standard and at least as many monitors as you have eyes. Most importantly, you can choose your own peripherals.

We’ll buy you any licenses you need to be productive. We’ll send you to any interesting conferences you can find, as well as support you if you want to be a speaker. We regularly attend, sponsor and speak at our local meetups and believe in supporting and giving back to the community. We’ve run free training workshops in the past and are looking into Code Club sponsorship.

We have a fun, fast paced and social working environment. We use Slack for internal comms (i.e. GIFs), use Git properly, have a formidable Unreal Tournament team, a regularly stocked snack/soft drinks/beer fridge, games room with a Wii U, N64 and PS4 and bake cakes on Thursdays (compulsory).

We offer a competitive base salary, company bonus scheme, 31 days flexible holiday (including bank holidays), tram to work scheme, childcare vouchers and even 4.30pm finishes on a Friday during summer!

Come join us, you'll love it as much as we do.