Company Description
Devexperts works with respected financial institutions, delivering products and tailor-made solutions for retail and brokerage houses, exchanges, and buy-side firms. The company focuses on trading platforms and brokerage automation, complex software development projects, market data products, and IT consulting services.
Job Description
We’re looking for an experienced Android developer to help us evolve our mobile application used by thousands of clients on a daily basis. While we primarily use Kotlin for all new code, there are still some portions in Java that require attention. We have a proprietary high-performance mobile transport and share some portions of the code between iOS and Android through cross-compilation. Besides mobile development, our engineers are actively participating in BFF(Backend For Frontend) component development, so we are always sure that we have the most convenient structure and format of the data.
Qualifications
Your typical day as a Senior Android developer:
- Enhance and refine our mobile trading Android platform: our current goal is to incorporate Compose with Kotlin flows into already exciting features.
- Collaboratively architect and deploy innovative features using Kotlin.
- Share your expertise during code review activities and refinement sessions
- Actively participate in platform-wide engineering discussions, offering innovative ideas for improvement. Weekly meetings are held to address current codebase challenges and strategize effective solutions.
- Work together to create new ideas: In our team, everyone's ideas are important. Engage closely with individuals who propose product ideas, design experts, and other developers to make these new ideas real.
- Consistently elevate our developer journey, leading the charge in pioneering technical explorations and prototype developments.
Must-have skills:
- Mastery of Kotlin and Java
- Deep understanding of Android framework
- Analytical and problem-solving skills
- Knowledge of OOP principles and an ability to implement them in practice
- Strong understanding of data structures, OOP, FP, SOLID principles
- Deep understanding of multithreading in android RxJava, RxKotlin and tradeoffs between reactive vs imperative programming, Kotlin Coroutines.
- Extensive knowledge of Android architecture components LiveData, ViewModel, Navigation etc.
- English level B2 or above
- BS or higher technical degree in Computer Science or a closely related field
- 4+ years of experience in Android software development
Nice-to-have skills:
- Financial, brokerage or exchange-related software
- Knowledge about Accessibility best practices in Android
- Experience with Snapshot testing
- Experience working on backend components with Java
- DI - Dagger 2, Hilt or any other tool capable of dependency injection
- Good understanding of Networking and client-server communication
- CI/CD, Gradle and TeamCity
- User Interface design and usability design experience
Top Skills
What We Do
Devexperts was founded in 2002 and specializes in the development of highly complex software solutions and services for the Capital Markets industry.
We develop financial software solutions for retail and institutional brokerages, wealth-management firms, investment funds, exchanges, and insurance companies.
Devexperts market expertise ranges from Equities to Options, to FX and Commodities in geographical locations as diverse as Chicago, New York, London, Tokyo, Istanbul, and Shanghai.
The Devexperts development team of 500 engineers is recognized as one of the best in the world. Since 2002, we have received more than 25 of the global software and financial industry's most prestigious awards.
In order to achieve competitive effectiveness, our project teams adhere to classic software development methodologies and employ elements of Agile software development, such as Scrum, Kanban, eXtreme Programming, Continuous Integration, and Test-Driven Development.
The high performance, scalability and integration capabilities of our products and services, along with 24x7x365 monitoring and support, result in some of the global financial industry’s most recognized and reliable technology applications (for leading US brokerage companies).
Devexperts has 3 key business areas:
• Trading platforms and brokerage automation
• Complex software development projects
• Market data products
Devexperts also provides consulting services for financial institutions in the fields of:
• Real-time transaction processing
• Trading automation
• Risk management
• Highly complex, enterprise-wide trading platform applications.
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