Android Developer

Job Title Android Developer Job Description Job Title: Android Developer Your Role: We are looking for a strong, hands-on Android Developer to build and evolve high-quality native mobile applications. You will work across the full development lifecycle from designing scalable solutions and delivering features to ensuring performance, reliability, and a polished user experience. Key Responsibilities: • Design, develop, test, and maintain native Android applications using Kotlin and Java. • Build scalable, maintainable application architecture using sound object-oriented design principles and established design patterns. • Develop intuitive, responsive, and accessible user interfaces that provide a simple and engaging customer experience. • Integrate and maintain APIs, third-party libraries, SDKs, analytics platforms, and backend services. • Improve application performance, including network efficiency, battery usage, memory management, storage, and app responsiveness. • Debug production issues, address defects, and continuously improve app stability, quality, and feature set. • Keep applications current with Android platform changes, security updates, and evolving libraries and development practices. • Collaborate closely with product, UX, QA, backend, and cross-functional engineering teams to deliver reliable releases. • Contribute to technical discussions, code reviews, estimation, and continuous improvement of development practices. • Evaluate relevant new technologies and tools that can improve engineering efficiency, app quality, or user experience. You're the right fit if: • You have a Bachelor's or Master's degree with 5+ years of hands-on experience in native Android application development. • Strong proficiency in Kotlin and solid experience with Java for Android development. • Strong understanding of the Android SDK and core Android components, including activities, fragments, intents, services, broadcast receivers, content providers, layouts, widgets, touch handling, drawing, media, location, networking, storage, and security. • Good understanding of Android application architecture, design patterns, object-oriented design, and computer science fundamentals. • Experience with concurrency, multithreading, memory management, file I/O, and performance optimization. • Experience integrating RESTful web services and working with JSON, XML, serialization, and API framing. Familiarity with SOAP is a plus. • Experience with local data storage and database technologies such as SQLite/SQL and contemporary backend-integrated data solutions. • Strong knowledge of unit, integration, and UI testing practices, including TDD where applicable. • Hands-on experience with testing frameworks such as JUnit, Mockito, and Espresso. • Experience with Git, issue tracking, CI/CD pipelines, and engineering productivity tools such as Jira and Azure DevOps/TFS. • Experience working in Agile development teams. • Experience publishing and maintaining applications through the Google Play Store, including release and rollout processes. • Strong problem-solving skills, ownership mindset, and ability to communicate effectively within a collaborative team. Preferred Skills: • Experience with Bluetooth and connectivity technologies, particularly Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE). • Familiarity with network and battery optimization techniques for mobile applications. • Experience working with analytics, visualizations, animations, and rich mobile UI experiences. • Exposure to React Native or other cross-platform mobile development frameworks. • Experience working with consumer-facing, connected-device, or IoT mobile applications. About Philips We are a health technology company. We built our entire company around the belief that e