Senior Android Developer at Brave Venture Labs

About Our Client.

The company is revolutionising energy access for clean cooking in Africa. The company is a subsidiary of a company, which is organised as a holding company in the UK, with operational units in Kenya, Tanzania and product development and manufacturing in Hong Kong and China. They provide a reliable and low-cost supply of LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas) fuel for clean cooking to low-income households by using innovative smart metering and advanced distribution logistics. 

About the Role.

Lead the design, development and maintenance of the mobile apps that enable the company to deliver a reliable, cost effective service to our customers. Role reports to the CTO.

Responsibilities

• Work with colleagues to understand the needs of our field staff and design user friendly, reliable mobile apps to improve the business operations.
• Design, build, own, and maintain android applications
• Develop unit-testing code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability
• Draft design documents, perform code reviews, and lead the resolution of implementation decisions.
• Set and maintain high standards of software standards and specifications.
• Support and collaborate with cross-functional teams (Product, Operations and Services) to ship excellent mobile apps.
• Work with and guide external suppliers and consultants.
• Maintain and improve understanding of development relevant software languages and technologies and use that knowledge to improve our software.
• Continually improve our codebase with clean and efficient code as well as solving problems using the most appropriate technology.
• Enhance development processes and tool chain to move towards CI/CD (continuous integration and delivery)

SKILL SETS & QUALIFICATIONS:

• 5+ years of mobile application experience and have published at least two original Android apps connected to corporate systems
• Experience with Android Kotlin and Java
• Experience working with remote data via REST and JSON and specifying APIs
• Expert proficiency in Agile development process
• Ability to meet deadlines
• Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle
• Ability to work and lead a distributed team
• Experience deploying solutions with AWS (Amazon Web Services) and Firebase
• Good understanding of Information Security
• Enthusiasm to continually improve skills and learn new technologies
• Fluent in English and Kiswahili
• Diploma in Information Technology or equivalent
• Professional qualifications in Java an advantage

Female candidates are specially encouraged to apply