Senior Android Engineer, Software Development at NewGlobe Full Time

Job Title: Senior Android Engineer, Software Development

Location: Lagos, Nigeria

Description
Technology Group:

• Technology plays a critical role enabling us to provide transformative education at massive scale in highly resource constrained environments. This is one of the key elements that gives us the ability to deliver radically impactful programmes, creating brighter futures for a generation of children across the world each day.
• Technology spans several key functions, including product management, business intelligence, software development and IT operations. Working with us, passionate technologists have a chance to directly change the world.

Software Development Department:

• The software development department handles all aspects of delivery related to our custom software applications and services – everything that it takes to turn an idea into working software and delivering value to our users.
• The department is structured into cross-functional, self-organising teams that work together on projects, short and long, alongside product designers and key business stakeholders.

About the Role

• We are looking for an experienced full time Senior Android Engineer, Software Development to join our new Lagos-based cross-functional software development team, which will build the software that powers and improves our ability to deliver massive learning gains – at scale.
• The Lagos team will have a special focus on the learning management platform and the rest of the technology running in our academies (which is all Android based).
• This person will join an elite, interdisciplinary team that will be building the technology that will take NewGlobe to the next level. It’s a great opportunity to grow and learn, while working on developing software with a mission that few, if any, can compete with.
• We believe in innovation, fast feedback, and high impact. We have an existing portfolio of native Android applications that undergird our ability to support self-sufficient academy management, engage the local community, and deliver high-quality education to our pupils.
• However, we need someone that can drive the next generation of these platforms, ensuring high availability even in challenging conditions and generally driving innovation in the mobile space.
• It’s all about rolling up one’s sleeves to introduce best practices, deliver key functionality, and pave the way for exciting future possibilities, like adaptive curriculums and automated grading of tests (to name just a few).

What You Will Do 

• Gather requirements, build, test, and ship new Android functionality for our academy tech platform
• Collaborate with the server-side developers to design the APIs for specifically for the Android application (not just consuming APIs that were already developed for a web app)
• Engage on all dimensions of the app, from UI and UX, to business logic, to storage and networking
• Introduce architectural patterns to improve scalability, stability, and maintainability

What You Should Have

• Bachelor’s Degree in related field with superior academic performance
• At least 5 years of professional Android development experience. Senior Android Engineer, especially published apps on Google Play
• Full lifecycle experience, from conceptualisation to deployment to feedback from production
• Experience with writing library projects that get reused across multiple android apps
• Knowledge of Gradle and DI helpful
• Experience architecting whole Android applications, not just adding features or porting existing apps
• Belief in the importance of automated unit, integration, and functional tests for Android apps
• Exposure to continuous integration and continuous delivery practices, especially in an environment of weekly (or even more frequent) releases to production
• Love for collaboration and working with driven stakeholders, including presenting work with confidence when interacting with business owners and users
• Openness and eagerness for learning new paradigms and practices
• Passion for NewGlobe’s vision of democratising the right for all children to succeed

What We Offer

• The opportunity to make a difference for children every day at a proven, internationally recognized, mission-driven company.
• Flexible hybrid working arrangement.
• Take the lead and help us grow our engineering team
• The opportunity to work on challenging and innovative projects.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.