Senior Android Developer

About Cognizant Interactive: Cognizant Interactive helps clients reinvent products, experiences and business models to create new value, differentiation and drive revenue in the digital economy. We take an Experience centered approach which uses human insights to take ideas from vision to outcome and building end to end experience led solutions that enables brands to transform their customer and employee experiences using design, marketing and commerce capabilities

 Job Summary

Cognizant is looking for an experienced top-notch Android developer to grow with our dev team! As an Android Developer, you will be involved from conception to completion with projects that are technologically sound and aesthetically impressive. An ideal candidate is someone who enjoys working in a fast paced, collaborative team. Someone that values the “team” and maximizes the opinions and expertise of their teammates to deliver quality.

 Day-to-Day Responsibilities:

• Design and development projects for existing android app.
• Build prototypes at tech scoping stage of projects depending on the project.
• Create compelling device specific user interfaces and experiences and UI prototypes
• Optimizing performance for the app
• Communicate effectively with teams and management
• Understanding requirements and coordinating with offshore teams
• Be up to date on the latest industry trends in mobile technologies
• Ability to integrate any backend system for web service integration
• Ability to handle production issues in timely manner

 Key Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
• 5-7 years of software development experience
• 3-5 years Android experience (preferably client side)
• Proficient in Android, Kotlin & Java
• Must have implemented end to end application and have gone through market place release process.
• Well versed with building UI using XML and custom UI components
• Comfortable and should have used on Unit test framework
• Experience in consuming web services using JSON/ XML
• Experience in leading a small group of team members
• Knowledge and understanding of software design and various patterns like – MVM, MVVM, MVP, MVC, Delegation, Singleton, Factory, Adapter
• Familiarity with agile development/waterfall processes and methodologies
• Expertise in app memory management, multithreading, networking & Security
• Excellent debugging and optimization skills
• Source code control understanding (experience with Git preferred)
• Experience with Java Collections and Threading
• Experience working with functional language