Android Mobile Developer; Java​/Kotlin

Ready to Ignite your career and work alongside some of the most innovative and brightest professionals in innovative technology? Join us and unleash your potential working in an Agile environment while modernizing enterprise systems and applications needed to support the men and women charged with safeguarding the American people and enhancing the Nation's safety, security, and prosperity. As an Android Mobile Developer (Java/Kotlin) you operate as part of a dynamic and passionate team of industry‑leading individuals supporting the best practices in Agile Software Development for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

You will be focused on the delivery of software solutions associated with customer‑defined systems and software projects by working in close collaboration with software developers/engineers, stakeholders, and end users within Agile processes.

• Designing, developing, and implementing custom software and database application capabilities for a variety of legacy and modernized systems with limited oversight
• Acting as a member of a product team supporting teammates and collaborating with a do what it takes attitude to ensure product and team success
• Providing improvements to the product(s) being supported
• Actively participate in release and sprint planning, artifact creation, sprint testing, regression testing, demonstrations and retrospectives and solution releases
• Supporting release planning with conceptual design and development / refinement of software engineering guidelines
• Analyzing complex project‑related problems and creating innovative solutions involving, scheduling, technology, methodology, tools and solution components
• Ensuring product quality and timeliness of work, providing advice and guidance, resolving problems to meet objectives, and providing periodic performance reports
• Providing mentoring to junior members

• A least seven (7) years related technical professional experience, with software design, development and implementation in a Windows Environment
• Experience using Kotlin or Java to develop applications for Android devices
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining high quality, reusable, and reliable Java and Kotlin code
• Experience integrating Android applications with back‑end services using various protocols and technologies such as REST, Graph
  
  QL, and websockets
• Experience creating plugins within a framework of existing Android applications
• Experience with source code control systems and concurrent development workflows (Git preferred)
• Experience with SQL and RDBMS such as Oracle, MySQL, or PostgreSQL
• Ability to diagnose performance bottlenecks and implement optimizations
• Experience implementing and maintaining unit tests to ensure robustness, usability, and reliability
• Bridge the gap between user interface design and technical implementation
• Passion for user experience and user‑centric development
• Continuously research new and best coding practices
• Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability
• Strong communication skills that include leading design‑related conversations, ability to build and nurture good relationships and foster an environment for collaboration
• Object oriented design and development (OODD) expertise, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
• Understanding of all elements of the software development life cycle, including planning, development, requirements management, CM, quality assurance, and release management

• Technical Certifications, such as AWS Certified Developer, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, OCP Java, etc
• Understanding of system architecture concepts and experience with system design (defining service building blocks, data flow, building systems with scalability, reliability, and maintainability in mind)
• Additionally, familiarity with any of the following highly desirable: ETL tools, messaging tech such as Kafka, application security, automated testing, UML, state‑management angular libraries such as NGRX or NGXS
• Dev Ops experience/CI/CD pipeline

• 401(k) with matching and 100% Vested
• Health Insurance – 3 plans to select from
• Dental insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Health savings account
• Life…