Android Developer

Job Description

Sun Life’s Mobile chapter is looking for an Android Developer to join our dynamic and diverse team. Our mission is to create, develop and maintain first-class native mobile apps on Android and iOS for our clients, helping them achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives.

We are a multi-site team (Montréal, Toronto, Waterloo, and Gurgaon in India) that values communication, collaboration, transparency, and integrity.

As an Android Developer , you will be joining one of our agile teams.

• Develop new features and improvements on Android and ensure quality throughout the development process.
• Collaborate with Scrum Masters, Mobile Developers, Business System Analysts, User Experience architects and Testing Specialists to deliver high quality solutions.
• Be involved in scrum ceremonies to plan, estimate, design, develop and test features for deployment into production.
• Work on projects involving 3rd party and offshore teams.
• Participate in the discovery and evaluation of new technologies.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education / experience.
• 1+ years of experience with native mobile development on Android , including continuous integration and automation.
• 2+ years of software development experience.
• Ability to write clean and scalable code in Kotlin and Java, respecting SOLID principles.
• Capability of building, debugging, profiling and optimizing Android Apps.
• Experience with REST / SOAP or any other Web API standards, knowledge of JSON / XML formats.
• Familiar with Test Driven Development (TDD) and ability to write Unit, Integration and UI tests.
• As this position is posted in several locations, we specify that bilingualism (French, English, both oral and written) is required for Quebec only for the frequent interactions with English and French-speaking colleagues or internal partners across Canada or worldwide.
• Experience in Agile / Scrum framework.
• Knowledge of common Android design patterns (VIPER, MVVM).
• Knowledge of RxJava / RXKotlin, Coroutines, Fragment-to-Fragment through interfaces.
• Knowledge of DevOps tools : Jenkins, Splunk, Artifactory.
• Great analytical skills, able to assess alternatives, risks, and benefits; attention to detail.
• Teamwork with ability to work in collaboration with others (technical and non-technical).
• Good communication, motivation and client-focus.
• Good organizational and time management skills.
• English is a requirement for this role and working knowledge of French.

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