Mobile Android Developer

Cars.com is one of Chicago’s original tech companies. Our online platform makes it easier for consumers to shop for, sell and service their cars. With our expert content, mobile app features, millions of new and used vehicle listings, a comprehensive set of research tools and the largest database of consumer reviews in the industry, Cars.com offers innovative products to connect consumers with dealers across the country.

Cars.com is seeking an Android Developer with demonstrated experience designing and implementing enterprise scale mobile solutions. The ideal candidate will bring both strategic vision and solid execution skills to create native applications for mobile devices.  This is a hands-on role, primarily focused on the development of our native Android applications.    

Required Skills:

• Work alongside a diverse group of peers strategizing, planning and executing business and IT initiatives

• Clearly and consistently communicate with team members, project managers and other stakeholders

• Demonstrate the ability to effectively maintain, refactor and evolve solutions for existing technological services

• Ability to prototype, present and develop solutions for new technological services and requirements

• Collaborate with members of the design team to help improve existing features, create new features and help problem solve.

• Work closely with the project management team to estimate development efforts, communicate the current status of a project and stay aligned with short and long-term initiatives.

• Provide constructive feedback to team members in the form of code reviews, verbal discussion and peer reviews.

• Demonstrate self-discipline and the ability to solve problems without close supervision

Required Experience:

• Strong experience and skills in Kotlin development and/or mobile applications

• Excellent knowledge of working with the Android SDK

Deep Understanding of Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices

Deep understanding of networking, offline storage, threading, and performance tuning

• Experience with continuous integration with mobile app development

• Highly proficient experience with Git version control

• Previous development background in an Agile/SCRUM development environment

Preferred Experience:

• Experience creating and integrating with existing GraphQL APIs

• Understanding of MVVM and LiveData in Android

• Koin, AndroidX Test

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Salary and compensation

No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Developer, Mobile, Android and Digital Nomad jobs that are similar:

$60,000 — $120,000/year

Location

Chicago, Illinois, United States