Mobile App Developer at R4Kenya

Our client is one of the fastest growing technology hubs in East and Central Africa region offering software services and products.They are seeking to hire a Mobile App Developer to join their team.

Job Summary:

The job holder is responsible for Development, Maintenance and Support of the KRA mobile Apps

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and build iOS and Android mobile applications
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to analyse, design, and ship new features
• Build and publish applications containing high security and privacy standards for app stores
• Implement new technologies to maximize application performance
• Design, build, or maintain Mobile application, using authoring or scripting languages
• Ensures that the approved coding standards are consistently applied in every component developed
• Conducts unit testing of developed components based on agreed quality criteria.
• Prepare documentations (User manuals, Technical manuals, deployment instructions, roll back instructions, etc) to ensure that they meet set quality criteria for each component.
• Participates in quality review meetings for the system
• Provide guidance on to the technical teams.
• Adhere to change control procedures for the systems
• Provide support for post deployment issue
• Fix systems issues reported through a control process.
• Resolves issues arising from Quality Assurance (QA) tests.
• Prepares progress status reports as guided.
• Participate in software testing to quality assure the product.
• Any assignment given as and when directed by management

Academic Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Information Technology, Electrical / Electronic Engineering, Telecommunications or any other related field.

Professional Qualifications

• Working skills and knowledge
• Hands on experience in Payment Gateway integration in mobile apps is a big plus
• Hands on experience in integrations with mobile wallets
• 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
• Proven experience in Implementing geospatial applications
• Proven experience in Developing apps for people with disabilities
• Has experience in an Open source server-side scripting language like but not limited to PHP, Python

Trainings

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

JAVA, PHP:

• Training in Application Development languages i.e. Java, PHP

JBOSS/TOMCAT:

• Training in Application and Web servers namely : JBOSS & Tomcat

Relevant Work Experience Required

• At least three (3) years’ work experience in Mobile App Development in a busy environment.
• Has experience in integrating Business Systems
• Has experience working on real-time applications
• Has experience in development of single sign on solutions
• Has experience in implementation  of different authentication schemes
• Knowledge on network security

Skills Required

• Team player
• Results oriented
• Innovative
• Interpersonal skills
• Communication skills