Senior Software Engineer (Android) - Sunderland - 6 Month Contract - £ Negotiable

Senior ANDROID Engineer required by my client a global organisation in the financial services industry based in Sunderland on an initial 6 month contract with a negotiable daily rate depending on experience.

Key Responsibilities:
* You'll be an advocate of extreme programming, keen to test first, deploy often and pair program
* You'll have a high level of coding standards (OO, design patterns, testing approaches, TDD) with a polyglot approach to problem solving
* You'll be a customer focused, natural influencer and negotiator with an enthusiasm for motivating teams
* You'll be an active learner, with a passion for keeping up to date with emerging technologies, and able to pick up new concepts fast
* Proven experience of coaching, mentoring and driving technical excellence from a team of engineers

Key Skills
* Strong knowledge of Android SDK, Kotlin / Java and XML
* Knowledge of thin view architecture (MVP/ MVVM/ MVI or similar)
* Exposure to Gradle build process and Continuous Integration
* Experience in writing Unit Tests (JUnit), UI tests (Espresso) and Mocking (Mockito)
* Experience of multi-threading and working with frameworks such as RxJava and dependency injection such as Dagger
* Experience working with REST APIs and offline caching
* Exposure to deploying applications to cloud environments (AWS, Azure, etc)

If you feel you are suitable for the above position and would like to know more please send your CV for immediate review.