Android Developer

Ampstek LLC; Burgess Hill; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology solutions firm located in Burgess Hill, England, seeks a highly motivated engineer to develop the mobile application service layer for their iOS and Android applications. The ideal candidate should have over 6 years of software development experience and be proficient in Kotlin or Java, microservices architecture, and CI/CD tools. This role involves leading an agile team, setting up infrastructure, and collaborating across departments to deliver high-quality software solutions. Ideal for those who thrive in fast-paced environments.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software development in a professional environment.
• Experience architecting and designing microservices.
• Ability to lead and mentor junior engineers.

Responsibilities

• Build the mobile application service layer for iOS and Android.
• Set up infrastructure and development environments.
• Prepare and present solutions to leadership.

Skills

Software development experience

Kotlin or Java 17+

Spring Framework

CI/CD technologies

Agile methodologies

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Maven

Gradle

GitHub Actions

Circle CI

Job description

Location: Burgess Hill, England, UK (Onsite)

Long-Term Contract.

Job Description:

We are looking for a highly motivated, independent, and skilled engineer to build the mobile application service layer (backend for front end) for the upcoming iOS and Android travel mobile application.

• 6+ years of software development experience in a professional environment such as:
• Experienced in designing, programming, testing, and application design for microservices or backend for front ends for mobile applications using Kotlin or Java 17 and above, Spring and build automation with Maven or Gradle.
• Observability – Sentry, ELK, Dynatrace.
• Experienced technically leading an agile engineering team and contributing to agile ceremonies.
• Deep Knowledge of cloud and CI/CD technologies, and how to get code into production quickly and reliably with Github Actions, Circle CI.
• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, computer science engineering, or related experience required, advanced degree preferred.
• Architect and design the rails based on domain driven design in collaboration with solution architect, staff engineer, business architects and consumer partners.
• Present solutions on an ongoing basis in wider forums including senior leaders to seek feedback, make continuous adjustments and drive sign offs.
• Document architecture, technical requirements, high-level and low-level designs to include component design, data models, integration views, infrastructure design and software technology stack.
• Conduct quantitative comparative analysis on solution options.

Software Development

• Sets up the infrastructure and the development environments.
• Writes and delivery high quality code in latest versions of Kotlin
• Leads review of colleague’s work
• Builds monitoring dashboards and logging & alerting strategies.
• Monitors system performance and availability and improves software quality through root cause analysis.
• Deep understanding of infrastructure technologies and components
• Has deep understanding of the core tools used in the planning, analysing, crafting, building, testing, configuring, and maintaining of assigned application(s)

Leadership

• Prepares and presents solutions and progress updates to product and technology leadership
• Collaborates and communicates effectively across engineering and enterprise teams.
• Mentors and coaches junior team members
• Influences team members with creative changes and improvements by challenging status quo and demonstrating risk taking.
• Demonstrates increased self-reliance to achieve team goals.