At Airtel Africa, we act with passion, energy, and a can-do attitude. Innovation with an entrepreneurial spirit drive us. If you like “ordinary”, then we are not for you.
We champion diversity. We anticipate, adapt, and deliver solutions that enrich the lives of communities we serve. we roll up our sleeves to win with our customers.
By choosing Airtel, you choose to be part of a winning team. All this in addition to a brilliant opportunity to build a career in your field of expertise, across our different operating companies in Africa.
Your Job Description at Airtel Africa
Faster time-to-market and continuous product improvement: Exposed to entire development lifecycle as you prototype, create, optimise, test, launch, and refine the Airtel Android Apps.
Future-proof, maintainable codebase with high reusability: Play a critical role in ensuring modular and scalable design and architecture of Android Apps. Keeping up to date with best industry practices and lead adopting new technologies.
Increased customer satisfaction and app engagement: Set high standards for monitoring and getting to know challenges faced by customers and improving the experience.
Measurable growth in active users and feature adoption: Build features that will reach millions of users.
High team velocity and seamless cross-functional collaboration: Work with fellow designers and developers in an iterative environment with short and impactful development cycles.
Efficient code reuse and reduced development time for new apps: Develop cutting edge functional modules that will be integrated across all our Android apps.
Strategic partnerships enabled through robust technical infrastructure: Build proprietary SDKs to enable partnerships with other industry leaders.
Culture of creativity and problem-solving within the team: Brainstorm, contribute new ideas, conceive innovative strategies, and implement solutions to difficult problems.
The Job Requirements at Airtel Africa
Educational Qualifications:
5+ years’ experience developing large scale Android applications
Demonstrable knowledge of relational databases i.e. Oracle, SQL, MySQL
Knowledge of popular Android frameworks – Espresso, RxJava, Retrofit, Dagger, Jetpack, Firebase
Command of memory management, view hierarchy, battery optimization and in-depth experience with multithreaded and networked applications
Relevant Experience:
Worked with RESTful APIs, third-party SDK integrations and common technologies like HTTPS, JSON, OAuth and SQL
Proficiency in Kotlin (preferred) and Java
Experience developing backend services – RESTful APIs, GraphQL will be a big plus
Experience working with A/B testing, Event frameworks will be a plus
Ability to collaborate and drive results cross-team, in a complex working environment
Experience working in a cross-functional Agile team
Care for quality with an obsession for performance and willingness to spend time testing the team's work, as well as yours
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