Android Mobile Developer (Java/Kotlin)

Ready to Ignite your career and work alongside some of the most innovative and brightest professionals in innovative technology? Join us and unleash your potential working in an Agile environment while modernizing enterprise systems and applications needed to support the men and women charged with safeguarding the American people and enhancing the Nation’s safety, security, and prosperity. As an Android Mobile Developer (Java/Kotlin) you operate as part of a dynamic and passionate team of industry-leading individuals supporting the best practices in Agile Software Development for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). You will be focused on the delivery of software solutions associated with customer-defined systems and software projects by working in close collaboration with software developers/engineers, stakeholders, and end users within Agile processes.

Responsible for:

• Designing, developing, and implementing custom software and database application capabilities for a variety of legacy and modernized systems with limited oversight
• Acting as a member of a product team supporting teammates and collaborating with a do what it takes attitude to ensure product and team success
• Providing improvements to the product(s) being supported
• Actively participate in release and sprint planning, artifact creation, sprint testing, regression testing, demonstrations and retrospectives and solution releases
• Supporting release planning with conceptual design and development / refinement of software engineering guidelines
• Analyzing complex project-related problems and creating innovative solutions involving, scheduling, technology, methodology, tools and solution components
• Ensuring product quality and timeliness of work, providing advice and guidance, resolving problems to meet objectives, and providing periodic performance reports
• Providing mentoring to junior members of the team

• A least seven (7) years related technical professional experience, with software design, development and implementation in a Windows Environment
• Experience using Kotlin or Java to develop applications for Android devices
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining high quality, reusable, and reliable Java and Kotlin code
• Experience integrating Android applications with back-end services using various protocols and technologies such as REST, GraphQL, and websockets.
• Experience creating plugins within a framework of existing Android applications
• Experience with source code control systems and concurrent development workflows (Git preferred)
• Experience with SQL and RDBMS such as Oracle, MySQL, or PostgreSQL
• Ability to diagnose performance bottlenecks and implement optimizations
• Experience implementing and maintaining unit tests to ensure robustness, usability, and reliability
• Bridge the gap between user interface design and technical implementation
• Passion for user experience and user-centric development

• Continuously research new and best coding practices
• Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability
• Strong communication skills that include leading design-related conversations, ability to build and nurture good relationships and foster an environment for collaboration
• Object oriented design and development (OODD) expertise, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).
• Understanding of all elements of the software development life cycle, including planning, development, requirements management, CM, quality assurance, and release management.

Preferred Experience:

• Technical Certifications, such as AWS Certified Developer, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, OCP Java, etc.
• Understanding of system architecture concepts and experience with system design (defining service building blocks, data flow, building systems with scalability, reliability, and maintainability in mind).
• Additionally, familiarity with any of the following highly desirable: ETL tools, messaging tech such as Kafka, application security, automated testing, UML, state-management angular libraries such as NGRX or NGXS
• DevOps experience/CI/CD pipeline.

• 401(k) with matching and 100% Vested
• Health Insurance - 3 plans to select from
• Dental insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Short Term Disability
• Long Term Disability
• AD&D
• Paid time off
• Professional development assistance
• Training
• Tuition reimbursement
• Flexible schedule
• Flexible spending account
• Referral program
• Paid Legal Plan
• and more....

Ignite IT is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, Veteran status, sexual orientation, or other protected characteristic. In accordance with EO 13665 Final Rule, Ignite IT will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant.

Applicants selected must be able to possess and maintain a government clearance

US CITIZENSHIP REQUIRED'