This position is an on-site position in the Jefferson City, Missouri or Overland Park, Kansas office.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Provide full life cycle development of Android mobile applications using Java, Kotlin, XML, and Jetpack Compose.
- Understand coding standards and implement them within code being developed.
- Ability to troubleshoot problems and provide solutions.
- Ability to communicate with the users to determine problems or design requirements.
- Ability to work on a team to complete programming projects in a timely manner.
- Ability to document changes and follow the Systems Development Life Cycle process independently.
- Ability to multitask and prioritize tasks.
- Independently maintain and enhance production banking applications for the Android platform.
- Maintain and troubleshoot Java/XML code while developing and supporting Kotlin and Jetpack Compose features.
- Work with multi-module Gradle projects, product flavors, environment build types, release signing, versioning, and Google Play distribution.
- Support Firebase Messaging, Analytics, Crashlytics, biometric authentication, secure storage, payment integrations, document capture SDKs, and other third-party SDKs.
- Support Android phone and Wear OS applications, including Kotlin and Compose-based wearable features.
- Participate in testing, release validation, production diagnosis, incident response, and documentation of customer-impacting issues.
- Other duties assigned by the Manager of Application Development.
SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experience in Android application development, and programming in an Android Studio environment.
- Knowledge of: Java, Kotlin, XML, and Jetpack Compose.
- Professional experience maintaining and releasing native Android applications used in a production environment; banking or other security-sensitive experience is preferred.
- Experience with Gradle, multi-module Android projects, product flavors, build variants, code shrinking, signing, and release troubleshooting.
- Experience with Android security concepts, biometrics, secure credential handling, certificate/security configuration, and payment or identity-verification SDKs.
- Experience supporting legacy Android code while introducing current platform capabilities.
- Experience writing or maintaining unit, integration, UI, or release-validation tests.
- Experience working with RESTful web services, JSON, and XML is desired.
- Experience in building, testing, and distributing Android and iOS applications is desired.
- Working knowledge of AI-assisted development tools: using AI coding assistants and design-to-code generation effectively with standard prompts, shared design tokens, the judgment to review, test and correct AI-generated code before it is committed.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate with both the business community and the technical community.
- Strong analytical skills, self-motivation, and attention to detail.
- Good organizational and time management skills.
- High School diploma or equivalent.
- BS or BA in Computer Science or related field.