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Job Description:

Requirements Elicitation, Understanding, Analysis, & Management

· Understand the project's Vision and requirements, and contribute to the creation of the supplemental requirements, building the low-level technical specifications for a particular platform and/or service solution.

Project Planning, Tracking, & Reporting

· Estimate the tasks and resources required to design, create (build), and test the code for assigned module(s).

· Provide inputs in creating the detailed schedule for the project.

· Support the team in project planning activities, in evaluating risks, and shuffle priorities based on unresolved issues.

· During development and testing, ensure that assigned parts of the project/modules are on track with respect to schedules and quality.

· Note scope changes within the assigned modules and work with the team to shuffle priorities accordingly.

· Communicate regularly with the team about development changes, scheduling, and status.

· Participate in project review meetings.

· Tracking and reporting progress for assigned modules

Design:

· Create a detailed (LLD) design for the assigned piece(s) with possible alternate solutions.

· Ensure that LLD design meets business requirements.

· Submit the LLD design for review.

· Fix the detailed (LLD) design for the assigned piece(s) for the comments received from team.

Development & Support

· Build the code of high-priority and complex systems according to the functional specifications, detailed design, maintainability, and coding and efficiency standards.

· Use code management processes and tools to avoid versioning problems.

· Ensure that the code does not affect the functioning of any external or internal systems.

· Perform peer reviews of code to ensure it meets coding and efficiency standards.

· Act as the primary reviewer to review the application code created by software engineers to ensure compliance to defined standards. Recommend changes to the code as required.

Testing & Debugging

· Attend the Test Design walkthroughs to help verify that the plans and conditions will test all functions and features effectively.

· Perform impact analysis for issues assigned to self and software engineers.

· Actively assist with project- and code-level problem solving, such as suggesting paths to explore when testing engineers or software engineers encounter a debugging problem, and escalate urgent issues.

Documentation

· Review technical documentation for the code for accuracy, completeness, and usability.

· Document and maintain the reviews conducted and the unit test results.

Process Management

· Adhere to the project and support processes.

· Adhere to best practices and comply with approved policies, procedures, and methodologies, such as the SDLC cycle for different project sizes.

· Shows responsibility for corporate funds, materials and resources.

· Ensure adherence to SDLC and audits requirements.

· Adhere to best practices and comply with approved policies, procedures, and methodologies.

Qualifications:

Summary

Are you interesting in building apps used by people during some of the most important moments in their life? Apps that simply must work because our users are protecting their lives or processing grief from the loose of a loved one. Apps that are reinventing the traditional insurance business by striving for best in class consumer user experience. In the Mobile Center of Excellence (MCoE), we design and develop all Guardian's native apps for Android & iOS. We also provide guidance and consulting services for any vendor developed apps our affiliates may be providing to their customers. The MCoE team is seeking a talented Senior Android Developer to help design and develop apps for our supported operating systems and deliver new experiences for our customers. Join us to help bring to fruition your ideas and ours!

Key Qualifications

• At least 6+ years of engineering experience

• Strong object-oriented programming, functional programming, and design skills.

• Significant experience with Kotlin, Java, and the Android SDKs.

• Strong knowledge of Android SDK, different versions of Android, and how to deal with different screen sizes

• Significant experience of the open-source Android ecosystem and the libraries available for common tasks

• Significant experience building and deploying apps to the Google Play.

• Significant experience creating user experiences that are pixel perfect, follow clear information architecture, and utilize established platform conventions.

• Significant experience architecting mobile apps from File → New Project to shipped to customers.

• Strong understanding of patterns, MVC, MVVM, functional, and reactive programming.

• Significant experience calling, writing, and debugging REST APIs.

• Significant experience with HTML/JS/CSS apps. You are not expected to build web apps but will have to integrate with web apps.

• Beginning experience with Jetpack Compose.

• Understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of cross platform frameworks, e.g. Flutter, React Native, and Kotlin Multiplatform.

• Strong communication skills Passion for quality and attention to detail

• Experience writing multi-threaded, asynchronous code

• Track record in debugging and optimizing code for performance using instrumentation

• Strong working experience with cross organizations and several teams across the company.

• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git

Description

In this role you will be working on native apps for Android to build compelling user experiences for all our product line's customers. You will be collaborating with designers, testers, products owners, architects, executives, network engineers, deployment engineers, and software engineers in a fast paced, technically demanding environment.

Daily activities include:

• Reviewing software engineer's pull requests and mentoring them on best practices.

• Reviewing upcoming designs to provide feedback on conformance to mobile platform UX patterns.

• Building apps for release to internal deployment sites and the Google Play, including AppCenter and Non-Prod Release Channels.

• Triaging customer feedback, customer incidents, and crash reports.

• Complete more technically challenging stories.

• Performance test code for bottlenecks.

• Monitor unit & UI test code coverage and drive higher coverage percentages.

• Deliver an automated build pipeline for mobile apps.

• Evaluate cross-platform technologies

• Evaluate latest changes to the Android SDKs and suggest new features

Education & Experience

BS/MS in Computer Science, or related technical field, or proven work experience.

Guardian is an Equal Opportunity Employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We also take affirmative action to offer employment and advancement opportunities to all applicants, including minorities, women, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities. Guardian will not discriminate or retaliate against applicants who inquire about, disclose, or discuss their compensation or that of other applicants.

Location:

This position can be based in any of the following locations:

Gurgaon

Every day, Guardian helps our 29 million customers realize their dreams through a range of insurance and financial products and services. Our Purpose, to inspire well-being, guides our dedication to the colleagues, consumers, and communities we serve. We know that people count, and we go above and beyond to prepare them for the life they want to live, focusing on their overall well-being — mind, body, and wallet. As one of the largest mutual insurance companies, we put our customers first. Behind every bright future is a GuardianTM. Learn more about Guardian at guardianlife.com .