Android Engineer

Are you an Android Engineer with a strong desire to work on industry-leading apps used by millions of visitors a day?

Branding Brand is searching for a fully remote Android Engineer Contractor to help create mobile apps for an international portfolio of high-profile clients. Members of our team have a passion and commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and quality. This contract will run from late November - early February.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to a set of native Android tools that help us reduce duplicate work
• Research, experiment, and implement new Android technologies and contribute to third party frameworks
• Maintain and extend app functionality for the world's largest retailers
• Optimize UI/UX elements within apps to provide the fastest, smoothest user experience
• Advise on Java and Kotlin best practices, organization, and automation
• Take part in knowledge sharing with the mobile development team
• Collaborate with large scale retail clients and their API developers
• Implement secure coding best practices and participate in ongoing security training and awareness

Qualifications:

• 4+ years of professional experience with Android development, frameworks, and the app publishing process
• Strong knowledge of Kotlin, Java, experience with Swift is a plus
• Solid foundation in object-oriented programming and MVC and MVVM paradigms
• Demonstrable knowledge of HTTP/S and how apps interact with RESTful APIs & GraphQL
• Attention to detail and familiarity with Material Design as well as other common app UI/UX standards
• Exposure to Google services, such as FCM, Android Pay, and the processes involved to configure, test, and launch in those environments
• Demonstrable experience meeting with internal & external project stakeholders
• Flexibility to work remote and/or travel to meet with clients
• Familiarity with JitPack, Gradle or other dependency/package management systems
• Familiarity with Jetpack Compose
• Proficient understanding of source code management tools (Git is preferred)
• Exposure to common SDLC processes, experience with Agile methodologies preferred
• Strong written and/or verbal communication skills, bonus points if you can convey technical information to non-technical peers
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced and collaborative environment
• Experience working with iOS, React Native, or other tools is a plus

About Us:

Branding Brand launched in 2008 as an interactive marketing firm and quickly evolved into the largest and fastest-growing provider of mobile commerce apps and sites for retailers.

Branding Brand is a supporter of the Whitehouse Equal Pay Pledge, and a Top Workplaces award winner.

Branding Brand is also an equal opportunity employer. We seek applicants of diverse backgrounds and hire without regard to race, color, gender, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, individuals with disabilities, age, sexual orientation, protected veterans, or any other characteristic protected by law.

The hourly rate for this position is $40/hr - $60/hr.