Job Title
Android Developer
Job Description
Job Title: Android Developer
Your Role:
We are looking for a strong, hands-on Android Developer to build and evolve high-quality native mobile applications. You will work across the full development lifecycle from designing scalable solutions and delivering features to ensuring performance, reliability, and a polished user experience.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, test, and maintain native Android applications using Kotlin and Java.
- Build scalable, maintainable application architecture using sound object-oriented design principles and established design patterns.
- Develop intuitive, responsive, and accessible user interfaces that provide a simple and engaging customer experience.
- Integrate and maintain APIs, third-party libraries, SDKs, analytics platforms, and backend services.
- Improve application performance, including network efficiency, battery usage, memory management, storage, and app responsiveness.
- Debug production issues, address defects, and continuously improve app stability, quality, and feature set.
- Keep applications current with Android platform changes, security updates, and evolving libraries and development practices.
- Collaborate closely with product, UX, QA, backend, and cross-functional engineering teams to deliver reliable releases.
- Contribute to technical discussions, code reviews, estimation, and continuous improvement of development practices.
- Evaluate relevant new technologies and tools that can improve engineering efficiency, app quality, or user experience.
You're the right fit if:
- You have a Bachelor's or Master's degree with 5+ years of hands-on experience in native Android application development.
- Strong proficiency in Kotlin and solid experience with Java for Android development.
- Strong understanding of the Android SDK and core Android components, including activities, fragments, intents, services, broadcast receivers, content providers, layouts, widgets, touch handling, drawing, media, location, networking, storage, and security.
- Good understanding of Android application architecture, design patterns, object-oriented design, and computer science fundamentals.
- Experience with concurrency, multithreading, memory management, file I/O, and performance optimization.
- Experience integrating RESTful web services and working with JSON, XML, serialization, and API framing. Familiarity with SOAP is a plus.
- Experience with local data storage and database technologies such as SQLite/SQL and contemporary backend-integrated data solutions.
- Strong knowledge of unit, integration, and UI testing practices, including TDD where applicable.
- Hands-on experience with testing frameworks such as JUnit, Mockito, and Espresso.
- Experience with Git, issue tracking, CI/CD pipelines, and engineering productivity tools such as Jira and Azure DevOps/TFS.
- Experience working in Agile development teams.
- Experience publishing and maintaining applications through the Google Play Store, including release and rollout processes.
- Strong problem-solving skills, ownership mindset, and ability to communicate effectively within a collaborative team.
Preferred Skills:
- Experience with Bluetooth and connectivity technologies, particularly Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE).
- Familiarity with network and battery optimization techniques for mobile applications.
- Experience working with analytics, visualizations, animations, and rich mobile UI experiences.
- Exposure to React Native or other cross-platform mobile development frameworks.
- Experience working with consumer-facing, connected-device, or IoT mobile applications.
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If you’re interested in this role and have many, but not all, of the experiences needed, we encourage you to apply. You may still be the right candidate for this or other opportunities at Philips. Learn more about our commitment to diversity and inclusion here.