Job ID: 6344-1
Job Title: Android Developer
Job Location: Seattle, WA 98109
Job Duration: 6 Months
Business Overview: Mobile apps team is a newly created team and office in Seattle, charged with owning all the mobile apps from Best Buy, including apps on emerging non-PC platforms (Smart TV, Consoles, etc). Our primary focus is on smart phone and tablet apps to enable the multi-channel consumer electronics shopper to make better, more confident buying decisions, connect with product information, bridge the online and in-store experience, and activate support and service.
Project Description: Mobile app native development for Android - adding features to the core Best Buy Shopping app, Geek Squad app, and Best Buy Games app.
Responsibilities:
We currently have multiple Android engineering opportunities. Everyone will bring their own unique experiences and perspectives to the team, but below is an overview of the essential skills we are looking for.
Best Buy is one of the largest multi-channel consumer electronics retailers in the world with technology at its center. Best Buy is opening a new Technology Development Center in Seattle to further fuel growth and innovation of exceptional customer experience. Best Buy is driven by strong values that foster an extraordinary culture of engagement, collaboration and innovation. Best Buy employees have fun while being the Best. Best Buy employees enjoy a comprehensive rewards/compensation package.
The new Technology Development Center is conveniently located in South Lake Union with easy access to I-5. Our work, in a word, is extraordinary. In Seattle office, we are developing our own cloud and mobile applications; which means you will have the opportunity to focus on mobile development, cloud engineering and evolving the omni-channel customer experience.
Do you want to directly impact how millions of customers shop and use their devices on a daily basis? Do you enjoy interesting and challenging projects? If so, we want to talk to you!
What we need:
- Passionate Android engineer who is comfortable designing, building, testing, releasing and maintaining Android applications
- Excited by the potential of mobile technology to transform the way that Best Buy interacts and services its customer base
- An eye for amazing design and user experience
- Someone that values ownership and stepping outside a job description
- Must have ability to contribute to both design and development on Best Buy's flagship Android development pipeline for new and existing products
- Prototype and develop new v1 products that leverage Best Buy's consumer and enterprise business
Must Have Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field10+years of development experience, 5 of which must be mobile
- Deep understanding of mobile, client-server development
- Knowledge of Material Design
- Experience with Android test automation & CI frameworks;
- Experience developing consumer apps
- Released apps into the Play store (or open source)
- Design and architecture knowledge
- Experience with Agile software development
- Great understanding/knowledge of Java and object oriented design
Must Have Technologies
- Java
- Material design
- Android dev studio
Pre-Screening Questions
- You have created an activity that uses a ListView to display a list of albums. Each row includes some album info and a thumbnail of the album cover. All the data is locally stored in a SQLite database. The list is performing poorly when scrolling: slow rendering, jumpiness, etc.
- Describe some possible causes for the poor performance.
- Describe at least two ways to improve the performance of the list.
- What are your preferred 3rd party libraries to incorporate into new applications to ease coding?
- You discover that a network call to your service is causing your UI to hang. How should you correct this?
- What new feature in Android 7 (Nougat) do you think is most impactful to an Android developer?
- You have an application with two activities: Main and Sub. Main needs to start the Sub activity. The Sub activity needs to take some action and return a simple result of that action (fail, succeed, etc.) to Main. How would you accomplish this?
- What are the different ways to incorporate fragments as part of an activity? What are the benefits of each approach?
Interview Process:
- For local candidates – Codility, 45 minute phone interview, in person loop
- For non-local candidates – Codility, 45 minute Skype interview, in person loop
Thank you and Best regards,
Jenny Smith | Sr.Recruiter
jenny.smith@itbtalent.com | #609-935-3773(Ext.101)
ITBrainiac Inc. | www.itbrainiac.com
116 Village Blvd, Suite 200 - Princeton, NJ 08540
Jenny Smith | Sr.Recruiter
jenny.smith@itbtalent.com | #609-935-3773(Ext.101)
ITBrainiac Inc. | www.itbrainiac.com
116 Village Blvd, Suite 200 - Princeton, NJ 08540
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