Mobile Application Developer at mHealth Kenya

Duties and Responsibilities

• Design and build advanced applications for IOS/Android platforms
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
• Ensuring there is a clear establishment of what can be created within what timeframe
• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability.
• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance.
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.
• Integrate new apps for use, implement new features in existing apps, perform maintenance on Android applications and ensure apps are compatible with various models of mobile devices.
• Translate designs and wireframes into high quality code
• Design, build, and maintain high performance, reusable, and reliable Java code
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the application
• Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization
• Any other duty as assigned

Android:

• Excellent knowledge in core Java
• Hands on experience in the full life cycle of Android application development
• Strong knowledge in RESTful web services
• Good Knowledge of Android SDK's
• Push Notifications & Toast
• Eclipse & ANT based build system
• Android Studio
• Experience in Gradle

iOS:

• Very good experience with Objective-C and iOS SDK
• Good working knowledge in Cocoa Touch
• Experience with memory management and caching mechanisms specific to mobile devices
• Experience working with iOS frameworks such as Core Data, Core Animation, Core Graphics and Core Text

Good to Have:

• Experience in Payment gateway integration in mobile apps is a big plus
• A portfolio of iOS/Android apps in the Play Store/app store is a plus
• Hands on experience with Android studio & gradle build system
• Git & Gerrit
• UI & UX experience
• Locations and Map API's

Skills and Qualifications:

The ideal candidate must possess the following minimum qualifications:

• A minimum of 3 years’ experience in Android and IOS development
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer science, Information technology or a related field
• Have published at least two Android app in the play store
• Have published at least two iOS apps in the app store
• Experience with third-party libraries and APIs
• Experience with Android SDK
• A deep familiarity with Objective-C and Cocoa Touch
• Experience working with iOS frameworks such as Core Data, Core Animation, Core Graphics and Core Text