Senior or Lead Android Developer (Hybrid)
Cognizant is looking for an expert top-notch Android Lead Developer to grow with our dev team! As an Android Lead Developer, should have experience of working within a financial organization and display an understanding and appreciation for the complexities therein. Experience with digital platforms, distributed systems, and Cloud technologies is also critical.
Experience within a constantly evolving environment that influences the banking experience for clients and employees, including driving consistent frameworks and methodologies to support consistency is critical for this role. Attention to detail and an ability to convey relevant information at summary and detailed levels are key factors to success in this role. Requires experience in both waterfall and agile methodologies.
Location: NYC
Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship (H-1B, L-1B, L-1A, etc.)
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Executes creative software solutions design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
- Work with product managers, architects, and other engineers to follow in translating requirements to solution options and recommendations.
- Drive solution designs inclusive of clear annotations on key components and flows, considerations and options, recommendations, and justifications
- Develops secure and high-quality production code and review and debugs code written by others.
- Ensure commitments are met while providing high-quality and cost-effective systems that meet client expectations.
- Adapt digital Agile approach and work with mobile vendor to implement the mobile solution.
- Keep up to date on modern technology, standards, protocols, and tools in areas relevant to the rapidly changing digital environment.
- Troubleshoot and fix issues in production and non-production environments.
- Work with server engineers to design API (Application Programming Interfaces) specs.
Propose and implement process improvements to make our engineering team even better.
Required Qualifications:
- BS/BA degree or equivalent experience
- Familiarity with Agile development including daily scrum and weekly iteration reviews and planning
- 10+ years’ experience in designing and implementing Android applications using Kotlin
- Java, MVVM, Dagger, RxJava, Kotlin, JUnit, Mockito, Git
- Experience working with API integration
- Experience in RxJava, LiveData, and Restful API integration is expected
- Experience in Unit testing libraries like Mockito
- Strong understanding of java and android ecosystem
- Excellent understanding of all mobile UI fundamentals, from layout to animations
- Understanding of architectural patterns such as MVP and MVVM
- Understanding of application design patterns – Gang of Four patterns
- Experience with Unit Testing frameworks
- Android jetpack, Kotlin Coroutines
Benefits: Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:
- Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
- Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
- 401(k) plan and contributions
- Long-term/Short-term Disability
- Paid Parental Leave
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Applications will be accepted until 11/2/ 2024.
The Salary rate for this position is between $102,600K – 162,500K, depending on the experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.
This position is also eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant’s applicable plans.
Disclaimer: The salary rate, other compensation, and benefits information are accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.
Why Choose Cognizant?
It takes a lot to succeed in today’s fast-paced market, and Cognizant Technology Solutions has become a leader in the industry. We love big ideas and even bigger dreams! We stand out because we put human experiences at the core. Our associates enjoy robust benefits and training opportunities from our industry-recognized, award-winning Academy team. You will have access to hundreds of technical training to keep your skills fresh and have opportunities to acquire certifications in the newest technologies.
Everything we do at Cognizant we do with passion—for our clients (fortune 100 companies), our communities, and our organization. It’s the defining attribute that we look for in our people.
If you love ambiguity, are excited by change, and excel through autonomy, we’d love to hear from you!
About Cognizant Digital Engineering
Well-designed software transcends digital technology, going beyond the fulfillment of basic requirements to focus instead on human needs. Within Cognizant Digital Engineering, we help clients develop software products that transform human insights into tangible, production-ready digital solutions. We also work with our clients to scale their native cloud applications. Using insights from the lived experiences of our consumers, we seamlessly replace traditional service strategies with engaging, precise, and direct digital applications. Designing phenomenal software is vital to success in the digital economy—and we understand that a human-centric approach is key to this design.
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