Principal Android Developer

Job Description:

We're looking for product-aware engineers who are passionate, inquisitive, and responsible individuals to help deliver the best mobile experience to our customers. The ideal candidate is deeply entrenched in mobile development, with a passion for leveraging the right tools and frameworks to guide the development of stable, robust, and resilient apps that best serve our customer base.
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The Team

Our team builds amazing experiences for millions of Fidelity customers. We focus on creating rich and compelling native experiences leveraging the best Android UI guidelines by way of robust tooling to provide deep, financial insights enabling \u2018on the go financial management. We work in a collaborative and fast-paced environment, with a culture of learning, coaching and mentoring. We advance mobile-first strategies to delight our current and future customers.
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The Expertise You Have

• Robust critical thinking skills coupled with a desire for growth, to learn and to engage with peers in technical and design discussions.
• 6+ years of professional experience developing publicly available Android apps using Kotlin and/or Java.
• Verifiable experience as an Android developer using Kotlin, Java, Android SDK, Gradle, and Android Studio in an agile environment.
• Fluency in Kotlin and/or Java, from industry working experience.
• Participated in the release of at least 1 publicly available app to Google Play participating from feature inception to launch using automated tooling like Jenkins, Gradle, and Google Developer APIs.
• Experience working in a team of Android developers participating in code reviews, pull requests, and pair programming.
• Demonstrable experience mentoring and coaching other Android developers in a collaborative and team-based organization.
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The Skills You Bring

• Your passion creating amazing experiences on Android using Google s Material Design guidelines using your strong understanding of functional programming and reactive patterns.
• Your deep knowledge of Android design patterns including Clean Architecture. Experience building multi-module Android apps is a big plus. Experience with MVVM/MVI is also a plus.
• Your knowledge of the mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies used in creating performant, resilient, and robust Android apps.
• Excellent understanding of computer science fundamentals, data structures, and algorithms to ensure adherence to software engineering best practices including object-oriented and functional programming.
• Excellent understanding of testing concepts and frameworks using Junit, Espresso, and Mockito
• Strong understanding of modern development principles such as trunk-based development, feature toggles, and branch by abstraction to support performant and collaborative engineering teams.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Artifactory, and SonarQube to continuously and autonomously deliver high-quality apps to guarantee stable and performant experiences.
• Ability to use a long-term mentality to help produce scalable, maintainable solutions.
• Good understanding of Android Jetpack as well as open-source libraries like Retrofit, and OkHttp to build modern, architecturally compliant, and future-ready apps.
• Good understanding of Android s accessibility features and experience building accessible experiences on Android
• Experience with Coroutines, Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile (KMM), and Jetpack Compose is a plus.
• Strong understanding of modern development principles such as trunk-based development, feature toggles, and branch by abstraction to support performant and collaborative engineering teams.
• Good understanding of Android Architecture Components as well as open-source libraries like Retrofit, Picasso, and OkHttp to build modern, architecturally compliant, and future-ready apps
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The Value You Deliver

• Collaborating with architecture, security, and UXD to build architecturally compliant apps.
• Partnering with platform squads to define mobile engineering standards, best practices, and tooling.
• Providing mobile thought leadership to advance PI's mobile outcomes and facilitate a mobile-first approach.
• Serving as Mobile advocates for the adoption of experiences that solve the needs of our digitally minded customers.
• Staying ahead of the curve by aligning architecture, user experience, and security with chapters and COEs
• Supporting a mobile-first world through upskilling and augmenting squads with deep mobile expertise

Company Overview

Fidelity Investments is a privately held company with a mission to strengthen the financial well-being of our clients. We help people invest and plan for their future. We assist companies and non-profit organizations in delivering benefits to their employees. And we provide institutions and independent advisors with investment and technology solutions to help invest their own clients money.

Join Us

At Fidelity, you ll find endless opportunities to build a meaningful career that positively impacts peoples lives, including yours. You can take advantage of flexible benefits that support you through every stage of your career, empowering you to thrive at work and at home. Honored with a

, we have been recognized by our employees as a top 10 Best Place to Work in 2024. And you don t need a finance background to succeed at Fidelity\u2014we offer a range of opportunities for learning so you can build the career you ve always imagined.

blends the best of both onsite and offsite work experiences. Working onsite is important for our business strategy and our culture. We also value the benefits that working offsite offers associates. Most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite all business days of every other week in a Fidelity office.

At Fidelity, we value honesty, integrity, and the safety of our associates and customers within a heavily regulated industry. Certain roles may require candidates to go through a preliminary credit check during the screening process. Candidates who are presented with a Fidelity offer will need to go through a background investigation,

, and may be asked to provide additional documentation as requested. This investigation includes but is not limited to a criminal, civil litigations and regulatory review, employment, education, and credit review (role dependent). These investigations will account for 7 years or more of history, depending on the role. Where permitted by federal or state law, Fidelity will also conduct a pre-employment drug screen, which will review for the following substances: Amphetamines, THC (marijuana), cocaine, opiates, phencyclidine.

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