Android Software Engineer II - Screen Composition App, Marketplace

Salary

Core Qualifications

Key Responsibilities

• •Building software applications by using relevant development languages and applying knowledge of systems, services and tools appropriate for the business area
• •Writing readable and reusable code by applying standard patterns and using standard libraries
• •Refactoring and simplifying code by introducing design patterns when necessary
• •Ensuring the quality of the application by following standard testing techniques and methods that adhere to the test strategy
• •Maintaining data security, integrity and quality by effectively following company standards and best practices
• •Owning a service end to end by actively monitoring application health and performance, setting and monitoring relevant metrics and act accordingly when violated
• •Reducing business continuity risks and bus factor by applying state-of-the-art practices and tools, and writing the appropriate documentation such as runbooks and OpDocs
• •Reducing risk and obtaining customer feedback by using continuous delivery and experimentation frameworks
• •Independently managing an application or service by working through deployment and operations in production
• •Addressing and resolving live production issues by mitigating the customer impact within SLA
• •Improving the overall reliability of systems by producing long term solutions through root cause analysis
• •Keeping track of incidents by contributing to postmortem processes and logging live issues
• •Advising product teams towards a technical solution that meets the functional, nonfunctional & architectural requirements by challenging the rationale for an application design and providing context in the wider architectural landscape
• •Setting a clear direction for a technical capability by evaluating and aligning the target architecture improvements, reframing architectural designs and decisions for varied stakeholder
• •Evaluating possible architecture solutions by taking into account cost, business requirements, technology requirements and emerging technologies
• •Describing the implications of changing an existing system or adding a new system to a specific area, by having a broad, high-level understanding of the infrastructure and architecture of our systems
• •Helping grow the business and/or accelerate software development by applying engineering techniques (e.g. prototyping, spiking and vendor evaluation) and standards
• •Meeting business needs by designing solutions that meet current requirements and are adaptable for future enhancements
• •Systematically identifying patterns and underlying issues in complex situations, and finding solutions by applying logical and analytical thinking
• •Constructively evaluating and developing ideas, plans and solutions by reviewing them, objectively taking into account external knowledge, initiating 'SMART' improvements and articulating their rationale
• •Identifying opportunities for process, system and structural improvements (i.e performance gains) by examining and evaluating current process flows, methods and standards
• •Designing and implementing relevant improvements by defining adapted/new process flows, standards, and practices that enable business performance
• •Maintaining data security, integrity and quality by effectively following company standards and best practices, guiding more junior members of the team in this topic
• •Delivering clear, well-structured, and meaningful information to a target audience by using suitable communication mediums and language tailored to the audience
• •Achieving mutually agreeable solutions by staying adaptable, communicating ideas in clear coherent language and practising active listening
• •Asking relevant (follow-up) questions to properly engage with the speaker and really understand what they are saying, by applying listening and reflection techniques
• •Being on an on-call rotation