Software Engineer – Android (Riyadh)

About Nana:

Nana is an internet marketplace connecting customers with their favorite grocery stores, pharmacies and specialty stores. Our mission is to deliver the highest quality of online grocery customer experience with a sense of affection, care, and pride. Nana was established in 2016 and is headquartered in Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia.

Highlights:

Nana funding: 188M SAR

Current funding stage: Series C

Nana backed by: STV, MEVP, Wamda Capital, Saudi Venture Capital, Impact46, Watar Partners

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Design and build advanced applications for the Android platform.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
• Work with outside data sources and APIs.
• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability.
• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance.
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximise development efficiency.
• Translate designs and wireframes into high quality code
• Design, build, and maintain high performance, reusable, and reliable Java code
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the application
• Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs
• Help maintain code quality, organisation, and automatization
• Being involved in all stages of application development including design, modifications, development, and implementation of Android applications to ensure the application quality and efficiency.
• Documenting all codes of the development processes to record and facilitate the work for other mobile developers.
• Keeping up to date with the latest industry trends in mobile technologies to enhance the application functionality.
• Writing clean code.
• Working with graphic designers and software developers to realize, build, and test the applications and to implement server APIs (Application Programming Interface) and services to support planned mobile functionality

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
• +2 years of proven experience in Android application development with very good knowledge of the Android build system and application frameworks (e.g. app components like Fragments, Services, Location, SQLite etc.).
• Excellent knowledge of Object-Oriented Programming “OOP”, data structures, problem-solving.
• Ability to write clean code with architectural pattern Model-view-presenter (MVP).
• Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle.
• Excellent knowledge of Android SDK, IDE Android Studio, Debugging, XML, JSON.
• Experience with RESTful APIs to connect android applications to back-end services and third-party libraries.
• Knowledge of the available libraries for common tasks (e.g. Retrofit, RxAndroid/RxJava, Butter Knife, Dagger, etc.).
• Familiarity with Google API services and firebase (e.g. Maps, Directions, Places, FCM, Runtime DB, Storage, etc).
• Strong knowledge of Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices (Ability to apply a complex UI design).
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.
• Have published at least three original Android apps.