Android Developer

Devexperts is a steadily and permanently growing company, specializing in financial software development, professional implementation and support for investment and brokerage companies dealing in global futures, options, stocks and crypto trading.

Devexperts provides a wide range of fully integrated trading platforms for both retail and institutional brokers. Our trading software features comprehensive front-, middle-, and back-office applications, advanced risk- and order- management systems, as well as powerful charting software for accurate market analysis.

Working in our team you will be part of an extremely efficient, relatively small, multicultural, and distributed mobile team consisting of not more than 10 mobile developers, but will also be part of a larger Mobile department that consists of more than 50 people already and is constantly growing. In our teams, we also have QA, UX/UI experts, BA, and PMs so you will never feel alone, confused, or abandoned.

Our product is based on DXtrade XT(https://devexperts.com/dxtrade-xt/) and has multiple custom-made features enlarging even further our brokerage platform capabilities. Mobile clients are a critical part of the project because they enable users to easily and quickly carry out complex trading operations on international trading exchanges.

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.

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.

Requirements:

• 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

Also the following knowledge or experience will be to your advantage:

• 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