Android Developer Job at Mevron

Mevron is a ride-hailing taxi app which provides affordable rides in Nigeria. We are a ridesharing taxi app booking that raises the bar for fast affordable rides. Day or night, Mevron’s cab drivers are incentivized to deliver higher quality, safer transportation for everyone. The app makes it easy to book taxi online, pay with a credit card, and offers the option to pay with cash.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Android Developer

Job Code: ENG1010
Job Location: Lagos, Nigeria

Job Description

• We are looking for an Android Developer who is passionate about pushing mobile technologies to the limits and will work with our team of talented engineers to design and build the next generation of our mobile applications.
• Whenever you see a map on a Mevron product or search for a place, it is powered by our mobile development team.
• The team works on the experiences that Mevron products use to convey the physical world in a screenful of pixels.
• We are responsible for ensuring that we have oriented the riders, drivers, suppliers, and anyone else on the Mevron systems to where they are in the physical world, how to rendezvous with each other, and how to get to their destination.
• On the mobile team, we build the user experience for Maps, including the selection of pickup and dropoff points, the frameworks that display maps, show markers and icons on a map, and the systems that understand the user location to determine if everything for a pickup or drop off is going well so that we can reassure the users throughout their journey.
• The Android Developer will be based in Ibadan, Nigeria, and work from our Regional Office in Ibadan.

Responsibilities

• Writes high-quality code (i.e., reliable, readable, efficient, testable), provides quality code reviews, and creates comprehensive tests and quality documentation to solve complex problems that are not well-defined and span multiple areas or projects
• Define & build the frameworks that power the core Rider and Driver App experience
• Fully own features from ideation with design and product to working with data science to design experiments that continuously improve our products.
• Build relationships with engineers across Mevron, from product teams like Repair, GraburBite, and Micro mobility to core infrastructure teams like Mobile and Backend Platform
• Implement user-facing and platform features with the latest Android technologies
• Design platforms for server-driven UI and personalization that enable teams like Match and Delivery to build phenomenal experiences in the Android app
• Work with outside data sources and APIs
• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability
• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency
• Write code that ignites opportunities for millions of people every day
• Focus on making Mevron's core ridesharing products faster, safer, and more reliable by building scalable software solutions for riders and drivers on our platform

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience
• Experience writing mobile applications for the Android ecosystem (Java and Kotlin)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong experience in either Kotlin and Java
• 2+ years of professional experience building in either mobile platform/SDK/dev tools or mobile consumer-facing features
• At least two (2) years of software engineering experience
• Strong focus on high-quality mobile UI experiences and feature developments
• Previous contributions to creating significant efficiencies or led cultural initiatives within your team or across several teams
• Previously worked on mobile apps that scale to millions of users
• Driven large-scale initiatives that span multiple projects, teams, or groups of engineers
• Proven expertise in mobile foundations and SDK/framework developments
• Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle
• Experience with third-party libraries and APIs
• Working knowledge of the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies
• Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle