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Development Lead (Android)

AT IBM
IBM

Development Lead (Android)

Toronto, Canada

Introduction
A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe.

You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including Software and Red Hat.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

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Your Role and Responsibilities

We are seeking an experienced Senior Android Development Lead to join our team. As a senior development lead, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining high-quality Android applications using native Android Development. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure the success of our products.
  • Lead development team of senior and junior developers through native Android development.
  • Design and develop high-quality Android applications using native Android Development (with proficiencies in Kotlin, Coroutines, and RxJava).
  • Demonstrate knowledge in Android application architecture and integration with backend systems.
  • Refactor code to keep up to date with the latest technologies and best practices.
  • Experience on large codebases with attention to detail and adherence to best practices.
  • Collaborate with the team to identify, lead conversations, prioritize, document and communicate technical requirements.
  • Work closely with the design and product teams to understand requirements and implement features.
  • Review and provide feedback on code submissions from team members to ensure adherence to coding standards and best practices.
  • Mentor junior developers to ensure knowledge sharing and growth while maintaining your own workload.
  • Debug and troubleshoot complex problems in large codebases and provide solutions along with recommendations.
  • Develop unit tests and ensure proper testing of code.
  • Collaborate with QA engineers to ensure thorough testing and debugging.
  • Experience with Git and version control best practices including branching strategies, merging and release processes.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

  • 3+ years leading development teams.
  • 5+ years of experience with native Android Development.
  • Strong understanding of MVVM and Clean architecture to ensure scalable and maintainable code.
  • User interface frameworks (XML and mainly Jetpack Compose UI).
  • Excellent coding skills in Kotlin, Coroutines, and Dependency injection.
  • Experience working on large codebases with the ability to migrate and refactor to modern best practices.
  • Knowledge of white-label applications.
  • Ability to triage API integration issues through native applications and API tools such as Postman.
  • Strong debugging and problem-solving skills.
  • Excellent communication skills.
  • Experience with unit testing.
  • Proficiency in Git and version control best practices.
  • Knowledge of automated testing and CI/CD pipelines.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

  • Familiarity with other architectures beyond MVVM.
  • Knowledge of accessibility guidelines.
  • Declarative programming skills.
  • Functional programming skills.
  • Familiarity with app modularization.
  • Familiarity with data binding with user interface frameworks (XML, jetpack compose UI)
  • Experience with code scanning tools (such as Sonarqube)

Client-provided location(s): Toronto, ON, Canada
Job ID: IBM-21053714
Employment Type: Full Time

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