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Mobile Developer/Android (Hybrid)

Cognizant’s Digital Engineering

Our practice is seeking a highly qualified Lead frontend Developer with experience in developing and building impactful, scalable, enterprise applications. Our Developers have a passion for high-quality, reliable, and maintainable code. You will work side by side with product managers, designers, and clients, making decisions together to quickly deliver valuable working software to clients and their users. Our developers are agile and retrospective, and not afraid to identify what we’re doing wrong, so we can fix it, so we can improve on it. Above all, we judge success by the success of our team and the happiness of our customers.

Role: Mobile Developer (Android)

Experience: Minimum 8 to 12 years of solid experience.

Job Location: Candidates need to be willing to work in an Hybrid model from the Client’s office in Plano - TX.

Must Have Qualifications

+ Proficient and hands-on with Android development.

+ Solid hands on technical knowledge/experience in Kotlin, Java, web tech stack.

+ Proficiency in Android application development. - Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

+ Solid understanding of web development and web technologies.

+ Excellent knowledge and capability to use OS frameworks for multi-threading, data persistence, and adapting user interface across multiple screen sizes.

+ Experience with developing custom UIs and animations.

+ Knowledge of implementing APIs for Ad integration, push notifications and cloud messaging.

+ Knowledge to apply Test Driven development throughout the lifecycle of the application. Hands-on knowledge to define functional and integrational test strategies and to provide support and guidance for troubleshooting.

+ Advanced knowledge of unit testing best practices and continuous Integration processes (CI/CD).

+ Well versed with code versioning tools such as Git and continuous integration (Jenkins).

+ Understanding of design strategies for effectively leveraging CDNs.

+ In depth understanding of agile development methodologies.

+ Experience delivering large programs in a complete agile model.

+ Strong experience in JavaScript and Angular framework.

+ Experience in integrating with Restful and JSON based services.

Responsibilities

+ Conceptualize, design, program, test, implement and deploy software applications using the appropriate documentation, processes, and quality standards.

+ Provide business and project expertise when collaborating with clients, IT resources, vendors, consultants, and other stakeholders to identify the user requirements, assess technologies, recommend, and implement technical solutions.

+ Performs formal code reviews to ensure specifications and standards are met.

+ Applies defined code management, build, and deployment standards and practices.

+ Independently applies problem solving skills to investigate and research complex system problems to establish root cause and resolution.

+ Ensure accuracy of coding, create technical documentation; utilize software configuration, version, and quality management processes.

+ Work independently with minimal direct supervision; exercise independent judgment to obtain results.

+ Independently applies problem solving skills to investigate and research complex system problems to establish root cause and resolution.

Work Authorization: Cognizant will only consider applicants who are legally authorized to work in the United States.

Salary and Other Compensation: The annual salary for this position will depend on the experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

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

Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.

Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.