Android Technical Lead-Timisoara

ALTEN Romania, part of the international ALTEN Group - with a unique position as Leader in IT & Engineering Consulting, provides support for its clients’ development strategies in the fields of innovation, R&D and IT systems since 1996. The company comprises 2 divisions specialized on its core capabilities: ENGINEERING and IT. These two divisions are: ALTEN TECHNO and ALTEN IT.

- Experience as a team lead or as a technical project lead
- Over 5 years’ experience developing native apps for Android
- Experience writing automated tests, especially unit tests. TDD experience is a major plus;
- Pays special attention to the way the code is written - clean code;
- Experience writing custom UI components and using animations; Usage of all Android layout managers, RecyclerViews, CoordinatorLayout;
- Practical experience writing apps which connects to a restful api using Retrofit while also having offline support;

- Coordinate the developers working on the project in order to meet the client’s needs as efficient as possible;
- Discus weekly with the client: inform him about the evolution of the project, clarify the requirements, etc
- Facilitate discussion and alternatives or different approaches when facing with a challenge on the project;
- Manage the workload and prioritize the team tasks, ensure training of the team;
- Promote good communication inside the team;
- Share expertise and knowledge of latest trends and technologies;
- Collaborate with the application designers for identifying optimal solutions;
- Experience using the following libraries or equivalent: RxJava, Retrofit, Roboguice/ Dagger, ButterKnife, Glide, ExoPlayer, Robolectric, Espresso, Robotium
- Continuous integration experience, preferable with Jenkins;
- Experience writing apps which are to be tested with the Appium framework is a plus;
- He is able to communicate and collaborate with the server side developers for defining the communication interface, collaboration with the product owner and the concepter;
- Experience using git and git workflows;
- Experience performing code reviews;
- Experience developing multi-release applications (as oppose to only develop single version apps);
- Comfortable with the store upload process;
- Open, communicative, and able to transfer knowledge to the less experience colleagues;
- Experience with both Android and iOS is a major plus;
- Good English skills (both verbal and written).