Senior Android Developer

Royal Bank of Canada is Canada’s largest bank, and one of the largest banks in the world, based on market capitalization. We are one of North America’s leading diversified financial services companies, and provide personal and commercial banking, wealth management, insurance, investor services and capital markets products and services on a global basis.

The RBC Digital team is innovative and rapidly growing. We are looking for top-tier Senior Android Developers who are passionate about technology and bring a depth of mobile application development experience.

• As a Senior Android Developer, you will provide your technical analysis and expertise, design and consulting skills to rewrite, maintain and add functionality to RBC’s mobile banking application
• All coding will be completed in native Android code
• You will be responsible for creating the native UI, based on the design specifications given to you from the interface team
• Building reusable components in the UI and service framework that would be consumable by other teams

Must-have:

• 3+ years of Android SDK, Android Studio, Patterns including MVC, Mobile payments, Wallet, NFC, Object Orientation and Android application architecture experience
• Strong understanding of interactive application development paradigms: memory management, file I/O, network programming and multi-threading.
• Experience designing and building user interfaces for both Phones and Tablets using XML Layouts as well as via SDK
• Experience creating and executing automated unit tests via Junit or 3rd party testing tools, e.g. Robotium, MonkeyRunner, User Interface (UI) Automator, etc.
• Experience using Subversion (SVN) and/or GIT
• Experience with Middleware technologies such as: MQSeries, WebSphere, HTTP, Webservices (SOAP and REST)
• Understanding of IT Standards, User Experience (UX) Design, Accessibility, Agile Methodologies, CMM & Audit requirements
• Experienced with android architecture as well as design specifications
• Well versed with the latest Android design specs and the latest Android features
• Understand business rules, transactions

Nice-to-have:

• Experience in the banking environment
• Mobile payments experience