Android Developer

  • Full-time

Company Description

We're a passionate team of 20 people who want to improve the financial lives of hourly and shift workers. Our innovative Android and IOS apps enable people to receive their pay on-demand when they have completed their work instead of making them wait until the end of an aribitrary pay period. If you can call an Uber car in 5 minutes, why should you have to wait two weeks to get your pay? We make our money on tips, not fees and interest, which ensures that we stay focused on delighting our customers. Our founder is a successful repeat entrepreneur with deep financial services expertise and we've lined up some of the best venture capital firms in New York and Silicon Valley behind our vision.
 

Job Description

Build an easy to use, fast, reliable and visually engaging Android app.

Duties & Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product and design to define, design, and ship new features as well as to improve existing ones. 
  • Build reusable Android software components
  • Design, produce, test and debug software from functional specifications
  • Maintain best practices throughout the code base
  • Ensure that unit tests pass









Qualifications

Desired Skills and Experience

  • 3+ years Android and/or iOS programming experience, with apps in the app store.
  • Maintain best practices throughout the code base
  • Deep knowledge of memory management, unit testing, and continuous integration
  • Proficiency with source control (Git)
  • Strong understanding of Android Java. Topics include but not limited to
  • Activities and Fragments
  • Abstraction and Inheritance (abstract classes and interfaces)
  • UI Views (XML layouts and custom views) and various screen size support
  • Processes, Threads, Services, and AsyncTasks
  • HTTP requests and responses
  • Storage such as SQLite, SharedPreferences, File Storage, and Cache Storage
  • Animations, Graphics, Locations, and Sensors packages/libraries
  • Excellent problem solving, critical thinking and communication skills

Additional Information

Company

Activehours is a technology company that is completely reinventing the way people get their paycheck. We’re creating a new class of financial services built upon cutting edge use of technology and a great customer experience.

Our team has great experience building and growing consumer technology brands. We are looking for the most talented individuals to help us build a great company.

Work with a small, nimble and talented group of people transforming a large underserved market.

Fantastic opportunity to building an awesome product, an amazing customer experience and a vibrant brand.

Our Team:

We're a group of passionate and experienced developers split between Cincinnati and Palo Alto. Our Cincinatti team has a strong background in financial services and backend development, while our Palo Alto team is focused on mobile development, growth hacking, and data processing and analytics. We collaborate throughout the day on via Slack, Facetime and Hangouts.

 


 


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