Stryker Hiring for Senior Engineer, Android at Bangalore, India Full Time

Position Description:

Vocera (Now part of Stryker) is seeking a passionate and innovative staff engineer and Android developer with a passion for creating powerful smartphone enterprise applications with intuitive user interfaces. Familiarity with the application development frameworks on Android is a must. This position requires someone who has excellent written and spoken communication skills, enjoys working within a distributed team environment, and is passionate about designing and implementing scalable Android mobile applications. This position reports to the Manager– R&D.

Responsibilities:

• Plan, design, and develop Android applications that are highly scalable, secure, reliable, and deployed over a large customer base.

• Follow SOLID design principles, and design patterns (MVP, MVVM, etc.) for scalable and maintainable code.

• Implement features related to real-time communication (WebRTC, XMPP).

• Participate in and seek continuous learning through peer review.

• Advanced experience with Android Studio, Gradle, Git, Bitbucket, and CI.

• Apply current or emerging frameworks to meet the needs of the Android client architecture.

• Excellent troubleshooting and debugging, communications, and documentation skills

• Collaborate effectively with QA, Release Engineering, DevOps, IT, Tech Support, and Professional Services

• Ensure quick resolutions to issues, maintaining a high standard of customer satisfaction.

Competencies:

• Understanding of various non-functional aspects of Android application design and the ability to provide a solution to optimize performance and scalability.

• Ability to rapidly learn and take advantage of new concepts and technologies.

• Strong understanding of mobile security protocols, analytics, and social channel integration.

• Knowledge of the open-source ecosystem and the libraries available for common tasks.

• A passion for the end-to-end development of quality software products.

• Resourceful and able to solve complex problems through adapting technology and a deep understanding of product architecture.

• Excellent analytical, verbal, and written communication skills.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or related field or equivalent.

• 4+ years of experience in designing and developing enterprise software applications including the experience in architecting and developing applications on the Android platform.

• Experience in Java, Kotlin, and dependency injection for Android app development.

• Experience with Media, Telecom, FCM, Network, JSON, XML, Web Services, and SQLite.

• Advanced experience with Android Studio, Gradle, Git, and continuous integration.

• Strong knowledge of the Android mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies.

• Expertise in mobile and Java frameworks/accelerators.

• Knowledge of WebRTC, XMPP, DAO, Firebase, RESTAPIs, Crashlytics, and JetPack libraries.

• In-depth understanding of the Agile software development lifecycle.

• Fully conversant with SOLID principles, software development frameworks, design patterns, and enterprise in mobile application integration

• Experience with XMPP and Smack libraries and with RxJava, Dagger2 is desirable.

• Knowledge of SQLite libraries and crash reporting tools.

Stryker is a global leader in medical technologies and, together with its customers, is driven to make healthcare better. The company offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually.

Stryker Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. Stryker is an EO employer – M/F/Veteran/Disability.