Senior Android Developer

🏢 Sourceworx · company page
📍 South Africa
📅 Posted Oct 4, 2026 · via Himalayas
🏷 Android Developer, Mobile Application Developer, Software Engineer, Android Engineer, Senior Android Engineer, Senior Mobile Developer (android) +3 more
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Job Description:

We are looking for a Senior Android developer responsible for the development and maintenance of applications aimed at Android.

Your primary focus will be the development of such applications and their integration with back-end services. You will be working alongside other engineers and developers working on different layers of the infrastructure.

Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem-solving, sophisticated design, and creating quality products is essential.

Responsibilities:

- Design and build applications for Android

- Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications

- Collaborate with a team to define, design, and ship new features

- Understand Technical Design documentation when developing solutions

- Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs

- Help maintain code quality, organization and automatization

- Exposure to DevOps principles and methodology and tools

Skills:

- Proficient in Java, with a good knowledge of its ecosystems, also deep exposure to Kotlin

•Proficient in Android Studio IDE

- Solid understanding of object-oriented programming

•Experience with Groovy

- Good knowledge of performance limits and characteristics

- Knowledge of memory management and multi-threading

- Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect to back-end services

- Comprehensive understanding and implementation of UI design and a user-oriented focus

- Implementation of automated testing platforms and unit tests

•Knack for benchmarking and optimization

- Understanding of Apple’s design principles and interface guidelines

- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (e.g. Git and/or AzureDevOps)

•Familiarity with continuous integration

- Exposure to working in Agile methodology and relevant tools (e.g. Jira)

- BSc Computer Science qualification or equivalent

•Minimum of 5 years of work experience

Originally posted on Himalayas

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