Consulting Member of Technical Staff, Android Architect and Developer

Do you have a passion for designing and developing new frameworks/services and working with Oracle's most critical customers? As an Android expert and software developer in our team, you will provide technical leadership and work with a team of software engineers responsible for the software design, development, and cloud operations of our new frameworks and services. You are familiar with architecting complex solutions running on the mobile devices. While your focus will be on mobile, you should be able to dive into any part of the stack. You should have extensive knowledge and experience with advanced networking in the mobile environment. Designing for performance and stability should be second nature. You work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment, and are excited to tackle new challenges.

Who are we? 

We are a world class team of high calibre mobile engineers. We are an inclusive and diverse team with a full spectrum of experience distributed globally. We have the resources of a large enterprise and the energy of a start-up, working on a critical greenfield software assurance project collaboratively with our cloud and site reliability teams. The Software Assurance organization has the mission to make application security and software assurance, at scale, a reality. We are a dedicated team, leveraging each other’s insights and abilities to produce cutting-edge large-scale services. Join us to grow your career and create the future of software assurance systems at scale together.

As a member of our global team, you will:

• Work independently and provide technical leadership to the team.
• Design architectures and create new services that operate reliably at extremely large scale
• Technically strong and productive; someone who knows how to balance speed and quality with iterative and incremental improvements.
• Understand operational excellence and know-how to infuse a culture of being proactive within your team.
• Recommend and justify major changes to new and existing products and establish consensus with data-driven approaches.

What you'll bring:

General Qualifications

• BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience with Android Development
• 10+ years of software development experience
• Android: Proficiency in Kotlin, Java, Android NDK, and Jetpack. Debugging skills in C/C++ and Java using debugging tools like GNU tools / Android Studio.
• Understanding of Android design and architecture. Significant experience with Android Studio
• Experience with Test Driven Development (TDD) and writing unit tests
• Eligibility to work in Australia or New Zealand without sponsorship is essential

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with offline storage (SQLite) on mobile devices
• Experience with JavaScript development in browsers
• Expert level experience designing and developing network centric mobile applications or frameworks
• Extensive knowledge and experience with embedded WebViews
• Analyze and optimize code for efficiency, reliability, and performance
• Comfortable with cloud computing architecture
• Experience with encryption, signing
• Experience with RESTful APIs, including high performance client implementations
• Proficient with code versioning tools, particularly git
• Good knowledge of scripting languages
• Experience profiling apps using Android Profiler

What we'll give you:

• Exposure to mind blowing large-scale cutting-edge systems
• Resources of a large, global operation while still having the small, start-up feel of a smaller team day to day
• New skills and competencies working with our vast cloud product offerings
• Ongoing extensive training and skills development to further your career aspirations
• Incredible benefits and company perks
• An organization filled with smart, enthusiastic, and motivated colleagues
• Opportunity to impact and improve our systems and delight our customers

Design, develop, troubleshoot and debug software programs for databases, applications, tools, networks etc.

As a member of the software engineering division, you will take an active role in the definition and evolution of standard practices and procedures. Define specifications for significant new projects and specify, design and develop software according to those specifications. You will perform professional software development tasks associated with the developing, designing and debugging of software applications or operating systems.

Provide leadership and expertise in the development of new products/services/processes, frequently operating at the leading edge of technology. Recommends and justifies major changes to existing products/services/processes. BS or MS degree or equivalent experience relevant to functional area. 8 or more years of software engineering or related experience.