Mobile Android Developer Jobs in Massachusetts (NOW HIRING)

This is a new Android Developer role within PI Technology. This person will be working on adding a new feature to the Spire Mobile app which is a major product focus for CLIENT. This app essentially allows you to plan for your financial future by setting financial goals and tracking them against your financial portfolio. This project is essentially a new expansion to build out a function to help customers track student loan debt and repayment.

We're looking for product-aware engineers who are passionate, inquisitive, and responsible individuals to help deliver the best mobile experience to our customers. The ideal candidate is deeply entrenched in mobile development, with a passion for leveraging the right tools and frameworks to guide the development of stable, robust, and resilient apps that best serve our customer base.

We build amazing experiences for millions of Personal Investing customers. We focus on creating rich and compelling native experiences demonstrating the best Android UI guidelines by way of robust tooling to provide deep, financial insights enabling ‘on the go’ financial management. We work in a collaborative and fast-paced environment, with a culture of learning, coaching and mentoring. We advance mobile-first strategies to delight our current and future customers.

The expertise you have:

• 4+ years of professional experience developing publicly available Android apps using Kotlin and/or Java
• Verifiable experience as an Android developer using Kotlin, Java, Android SDK, Gradle, and Android Studio in an agile environment
• Fluency in Kotlin and/or Java, from industry working experience
• Participated in the release of at least 1 publicly available app to Google Play participating from feature inception to launch using automated tooling like Jenkins, Gradle, and Google Developer APIs.
• Experience working in a team of Android developers participating in code reviews, pull requests, and pair programming.
• Demonstrable experience mentoring and coaching other Android developers in a team-based organization.

The skills you bring:

• Your passion creating amazing experiences on Android using Google’s Material Design guidelines using your strong understanding of functional programming and reactive patterns
• Your deep knowledge of Android design patterns including Clean Architecture. Experience building multi-module Android apps is a big plus. Experience with MVVM/MVI is also a plus.
• Your knowledge of the mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies used in creating performant, resilient, and robust Android apps
• Excellent understanding of computer science fundamentals, data structures, and algorithms to ensure adherence to software engineering standard methodologies including object-oriented and functional programming
• Excellent understanding of testing concepts and frameworks using Junit, Espresso, and Mockito
• Strong understanding of modern development principles such as trunk-based development, feature toggles, and branch by abstraction to support performant and collaborative engineering teams.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Artifactory, and SonarQube to continuously and autonomously deliver high-quality apps to guarantee stable and performant experiences.
• Good understanding of Android Jetpack as well as open-source libraries like Retrofit, and OkHttp to build modern, architecturally compliant, and future-ready apps
• Good understanding of Android’s accessibility features and experience building accessible experiences on Android
• Experience with Coroutines, Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile (KMM), and Jetpack Compose is a plus
• Strong understanding of modern development principles such as trunk-based development, feature toggles, and branch by abstraction to support performant.
• Good understanding of Android Architecture Components as well as open-source libraries like Retrofit, Picasso, and OkHttp to build modern, architecturally compliant, and future-ready apps

The value you deliver:

• Collaborating with architecture, security, and UXD to build architecturally compliant apps
• Collaborating with platform squads to define mobile engineering standards, best practices, and tooling
• Providing mobile thought leadership to advance PI's mobile outcomes and facilitate a mobile-first approach
• Serving as Mobile advocates for the adoption of experiences that solve the needs of our digitally minded customers
• Staying ahead of the curve by aligning architecture, user experience, and security with chapters and COEs
• Supporting a mobile-first world through upskilling and augmenting squads with deep mobile expertise

COVID Work Policy: Safety is our top priority. Once we can be together in person with fewer safety measures, this role will follow our dynamic working approach. You’ll be spending some of your time onsite depending on the nature and needs of your role.

Dynamic Working – Post Pandemic:

• Our aim is to combine the best of working offsite with coming together in person. For most teams this means a consistent balance of working from home and office that supports the needs of your role, experience level, and working style.
• Your success and growth is important to us, so you’ll want to enjoy the benefits of coming together in person – face to face learning and training, quality time with your manager and teammates, building your career network, making friends, and taking full advantage of cultural and social experiences CLIENT provides for you.