Staff Android Engineer at Ulesson Education Limited (UEL)

At uLesson, we are building an app to help African students be the absolute best they can be. Our team of talented people is passionate about media, technology, education, and the African continent. Together, we seek to build a learning experience unprecedented in its richness, scope, interactivity, and effectiveness. Our company is built by successful and experienced entrepreneurs who founded businesses such as Konga.com and E-Motion Advertising.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Staff Android Engineer

Location: Abuja
Job type: Full-time
Duration: 40 hours per week

About the Role

• We are looking for an experienced Android Engineer to lead our team of Android Engineers.
• You will be responsible for developing and maintaining all our Android applications, aimed at a range of Android devices including TV, mobile phones and tablets.
• Your primary focus will be the architecture and development of our Android applications and their integration with back-end services.
• You will be working alongside other disciplines working on different layers of the infrastructure.
• A commitment to collaborative problem-solving, sophisticated design and the creation of quality products is essential.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a team of Android Android Engineers to build well-tested and highly scalable native Android applications.
• Collaborate with the product, design and backend teams to implement new features and build on existing ones.

Qualifications and Skills

• 10+ years of experience in Android development
• 5+ years of writing Kotlin
• Solid understanding of multithreading on Android and familiarity with libraries like kotlinx-coroutines and RxJava
• Solid understanding of how to make network calls using Retrofit and Okhttp
• Must have a working knowledge of DI with Dagger or Hilt
• In-depth understanding of Jetpack Libraries (Room, Navigation components)
• Ability to write Unit, Integration and E2E tests on Android
• Familiarity with AndroidX testing libraries
• Game development is a plus
• Experience leading and mentoring other developers

Nice to Haves:

• In-depth knowledge of Exoplayer
• Practical understanding of modular applications and DFM
• Experience building on top of Android OS
• Experience building Android TV apps.

Benefits
Competitive Remuneration package with benefits.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.