Software Engineer - Mobile at Andela

Our Andelan Software Engineers are masters of consistent execution. They reliably deliver technical and professional value to our teams and our partners.

Specifically, You’ll

• Use your knowledge in your core technology to delight our partners around the world.
• Mentor and onboard junior engineers, by consistently displaying sound judgement, setting expectations, and working effectively, both independently and as part of a global team.
• Collaborate excellently with peers and stakeholders in fast-paced distributed teams, through a love of constructive feedback, dedication and universal respect.

Experience
What You’ll Bring

• A minimum of 3 years of professional experience, during which you’ve built technical expertise and professionalism.

Languages/Frameworks

• Proficient at an intermediate level in either Java/Kotlin for Android and Objective-C/Swift for iOS.
• Good understanding of Object-Oriented Programming concepts i.e Classes and objects, Inheritance, Encapsulation and Polymorphism.
• Working knowledge of core data structures provided by a language, i.e arrays/lists, tuples, dictionaries, hash tables.
• Proficient at an intermediate level in mobile platform frameworks -- UIKit(iOS), MapKit, ARKit, RxJava, RxSwift
• Working knowledge of UI Design libraries/frameworks -- Material Design (Android)

Data Stores

• Intermediate level understanding of fundamental database concepts -- i.e database tables, querying databases, normalization, joins, database management systems
• Good understanding of at least one database for Mobile dev -- i.e SQLite, RealmDB
• Good understanding of cloud mobile database backends -- i.e Firebase
• Working knowledge of ORMs/ODMs -- i.e Room ORM, SqlDelight, CoreData

Testing/Security

• Knowledge of network security and deep knowledge of unit, integration, e2e and UI testing, as well as testing frameworks/libraries -- JUnit(For Java), Espresso, Appium, XCTest(iOS)

Tools

• Working knowledge of software engineering collaboration tools-- Jira, Pivotal Tracker, Git, Mercurial
• Familiarity with language/platforms, build IDEs/tools -- Simulators/Emulators and Gradle(Android), Android Studio, XCode

DevOps

• Aware of at least one cloud mobile backend platform -- i.e Firebase, Fabric
• Working knowledge of at least one CI/CD tool -- i.e Jenkins, Travis CI, Circle CI
• Working knowledge of the app stores for the respective mobile platforms -- i.e Google Play Store, Apple's App Store.
• Working Knowledge of analytics tools -- i.e HockeyApp/App Center,
• Working knowledge of networking concepts -- DNS, OSI model, TCP/IP, UDP, FTP, IP Addressing