Mobile Engineer - Android Developer

CENTRAL BANCOMPANY, INC.•Jefferson City, MO

7h•Onsite

About The Position

This position is an on-site position in the Jefferson City, Missouri or Overland Park, Kansas office. The role involves full life cycle development of Android mobile applications using Java, Kotlin, XML, and Jetpack Compose. Responsibilities include understanding and implementing coding standards, troubleshooting problems, communicating with users to determine requirements, and working effectively in a team to complete programming projects. The role also requires independent maintenance and enhancement of production banking applications for the Android platform, including troubleshooting Java/XML code while developing Kotlin and Jetpack Compose features. Experience with multi-module Gradle projects, product flavors, build types, signing, versioning, and Google Play distribution is essential. Support for Firebase Messaging, Analytics, Crashlytics, biometric authentication, secure storage, payment integrations, document capture SDKs, and other third-party SDKs is also required. The position supports both Android phone and Wear OS applications, including Kotlin and Compose-based wearable features. Participation in testing, release validation, production diagnosis, incident response, and documentation of customer-impacting issues is expected. Other duties may be assigned by the Manager of Application Development.

Requirements

Experience in Android application development, and programming in an Android Studio environment.
Knowledge of: Java, Kotlin, XML, and Jetpack Compose.
Professional experience maintaining and releasing native Android applications used in a production environment; banking or other security-sensitive experience is preferred.
Experience with Gradle, multi-module Android projects, product flavors, build variants, code shrinking, signing, and release troubleshooting.
Experience with Android security concepts, biometrics, secure credential handling, certificate/security configuration, and payment or identity-verification SDKs.
Experience supporting legacy Android code while introducing current platform capabilities.
Experience writing or maintaining unit, integration, UI, or release-validation tests.
Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate with both the business community and the technical community.
Strong analytical skills, self-motivation, and attention to detail.
Good organizational and time management skills.
High School diploma or equivalent.
BS or BA in Computer Science or related field.

Nice To Haves

Experience with RESTful web services, JSON, and XML is desired.
Experience in building, testing, and distributing Android and iOS applications is desired.
Working knowledge of AI-assisted development tools: using AI coding assistants and design-to-code generation effectively with standard prompts, shared design tokens, the judgment to review, test and correct AI-generated code before it is committed.

Responsibilities

Provide full life cycle development of Android mobile applications using Java, Kotlin, XML, and Jetpack Compose.
Understand coding standards and implement them within code being developed.
Ability to troubleshoot problems and provide solutions.
Ability to communicate with the users to determine problems or design requirements.
Ability to work on a team to complete programming projects in a timely manner.
Ability to document changes and follow the Systems Development Life Cycle process independently.
Ability to multitask and prioritize tasks.
Independently maintain and enhance production banking applications for the Android platform.
Maintain and troubleshoot Java/XML code while developing and supporting Kotlin and Jetpack Compose features.
Work with multi-module Gradle projects, product flavors, environment build types, release signing, versioning, and Google Play distribution.
Support Firebase Messaging, Analytics, Crashlytics, biometric authentication, secure storage, payment integrations, document capture SDKs, and other third-party SDKs.
Support Android phone and Wear OS applications, including Kotlin and Compose-based wearable features.
Participate in testing, release validation, production diagnosis, incident response, and documentation of customer-impacting issues.
Other duties assigned by the Manager of Application Development.