Overview

Carbon is a pan-African digital bank with a mission to provide friction-free finance to its customers. Carbon promises to play a fundamental role in its customers’ lives wherever they are, with flexible solutions. We pride ourselves on our efficiency and with just $10mm of equity raised in 2015, we have disbursed over $100m in loans and earned more than $30mm in revenue over the last 2 years. Carbon has operations in Ghana, Kenya, and Nigeria, supported by a talented team spread between Lagos, Nairobi, London, Argentina, and Palo Alto so we operate with a remote-first mindset.

Job Position: Senior Android Developer

Job Location: Lagos

Job Description

  • We are looking for a passionate, career driven Senior Android Developer to join our team. This is a great opportunity to gain significant and substantial experience.

Job Responsibilities

  1. Drive the direction of the mobile applications in the company to deliver robust, secure and efficient experiences to make our customers happy.
  2. Design, develop and improve our Android applications across all popular devices.
  3. Produce technical designs and lead developers during development.
  4. Build up best-practices around Android development, code reviews and training.
  5. Work with the Quality Assurance team to troubleshoot and resolve issues.

Job Requirements

  1. BS/MS Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject
  2. Experience building native apps in Android using Java (mandatory) and Kotlin
  3. Demonstrate strong analytical and problem solving skills.
  4. At least 4 years of  software development experience and Android skills development
  5. Must have published at least one original Android app to the Play Store
  6. Experience with Android and Firebase SDKs
  7. Experience working with remote data via REST and JSON
  8. Working knowledge of the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies
  9. Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle.
  10. Sound knowledge on android components (Content providers, Broadcast receivers, services, activities, fragments, UI layouts, Intents ..)
  11. Fast paced and able to work to deadlines.

The following are optional but will enhance your chances of being selected:

  1. Knowledge of at least one backend programming language
  2. Ability to work with UX prototyping tools like Figma, Adobe XD, InvisionApp etc
  3. Knowledge of GIT
  4. Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration and/or other automated testing skills.
  5. Overall software development experience of 5+ years
  6. Agile Development experience.
  7. Prior experience working with financial applications

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

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