Android Architect

Location: Austin, TX, us

Company Description

Computer Futures is a leading IT recruitment consultancy, specializing in placing IT experts in permanent and contract roles across Asia, Europe and the US. 

With a proven track record in IT recruitment, we enjoy success within all sectors and business types, placing a candidate every 38 minutes. From single job vacancies to large-scale projects, our proficiency in providing exceptional professionals across the board has carved our reputation as a secure and significant supplier partner. 

A robust and financially strong business we have grown organically from our first office in London in 1986, to 18 offices in Europe; including Amsterdam, Brussels, Dublin, Edinburgh, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich and Paris as well as one office in San Francisco and Tokyo. 

Gaining market share, year-on-year, we have the largest client base of any IT recruitment business across Europe. We work with a range of clients, from SMEs to large multi-nationals and high-profile names. 

Passionate about recruitment, our 350+ specialist IT recruitment consultants’ priority is to secure the right person for the right role, within a specified time frame and budget. Through Computer Futures’ methodology, our consultants – who focus on a specific IT technical market and geographical area - create a bespoke service to meet our individual clients’ recruitment needs.

Job Description

As an Android Architect at Mutual Mobile, you will be a liaison between the engineering teams and customer facing teams (like PMs, Sales, Accounts, etc) and will set technical direction for the department by researching and recommending best practices and frameworks to keep the department current on Android with the marketplace. You will guide project teams by creating technical designs, writing user stories, and grooming the backlog. You will promote and champion best technical practices with both our clients and the development team, with a focus on both tactical and strategic development of the team. You will perform code reviews, triage bugs, and manage releases. You will absolutely play a role in managing the customer relationship. And, you get to code.

Qualifications

You will excel in this position if:

• You have at least 8-10 years of professional development experience.
• You’re an active coder and you love to code plus your code elicits highest compliments from others and displays continuous improvement.
• You have a great eye for User Interface and Visual Design
• You can design, mock-up and code deliverables such as APIs and back-end (like GPS, REST, or DB services) and front-end (like highly polished UIs, animations, and transitions).
• You’re a kind, pragmatic communicator with an decent knowledge of an Agile and Scrum environment.
• You are a stellar team player who can own a project (or more!) and have proven experience leading other cross-functional project team members when needed.
• You collaborate with non-technical folks (PMs, Sales, Design, QA) as easily as you do with engineers.
• You are familiar with the technology events landscape, have demonstrated social and professional technology engagement via blogs, public speaking events, Twitter or Stack Overflow.
• You have a strong track record of contributing to open source code on GitHub or any other.
• You understand at least 2-3 complex technologies like OpenGL, BLE, Location based tech, Speech recognition, Augmented Reality, etc and are willing to constantly develop new expertise areas.

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Look for: Danielle

Phone: 346 231 7544

Email: d.garan@computerfutures. com