Information

You can not apply for this job. Deadline date has passed.

Senior Android Developer Job at Carbon Nigeria

Carbon is a pan-African digital bank with a mission to provide friction-free finance to its customers. Carbon promises to play a fundamental role in its customers’ lives wherever they are, with flexible solutions. We pride ourselves on our efficiency and with just $10mm of equity raised in 2015, we have disbursed over $100m in loans and earned more than $30mm in revenue over the last 2 years. Carbon has operations in Ghana, Kenya, and Nigeria, supported by a talented team spread between Lagos, Nairobi, London, Argentina, and Palo Alto so we operate with a remote-first mindset. 

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Senior Android Developer


Job Location: Lagos
Job type: Full-time
Category: Engineering-Software Development

Job Description

  • We are looking for a passionate, career driven Senior Android Developer to join our team. This is a great opportunity to gain significant and substantial experience.

Key Responsibilities

  • Drive the direction of the mobile applications in the company to deliver robust, secure and efficient experiences to make our customers happy.
  • Design, develop and improve our Android applications across all popular devices.
  • Produce technical designs and lead developers during development.
  • Build up best-practices around Android development, code reviews and training.
  • Work with the Quality Assurance team to troubleshoot and resolve issues.

Requirements

  • BS/MS Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject
  • At least 4 years of  software development experience and Android skills development
  • Must have published at least one original Android app to the Play Store
  • Experience with Android and Firebase SDKs
  • Experience building native apps in Android using Java (mandatory) and Kotlin
  • Demonstrate strong analytical and problem solving skills.
  • Experience working with remote data via REST and JSON
  • Working knowledge of the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies
  • Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle.
  • Sound knowledge on android components (Content providers, Broadcast receivers, services, activities, fragments, UI layouts, Intents ..)
  • Fast paced and able to work to deadlines.

The following are optional but will enhance your chances of being selected:

  • Knowledge of at least one backend programming language
  • Ability to work with UX prototyping tools like Figma, Adobe XD, InvisionApp etc
  • Knowledge of GIT
  • Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration and/or other automated testing skills.
  • Overall software development experience of 5+ years
  • Agile Development experience.
  • Prior experience working with financial applications