Senior Mobile Developer

At Nextiva, we create connected communication tools that help businesses stay in touch with their customers and teams. Over 100,000 companies rely on Nextiva for phone service and customer management tools. We're not your parent's phone company. Founded in 2008, Nextiva took on the trillion-dollar telecom industry and succeeded in changing the game by making technology more accessible and affordable for everyone. Companies solve their toughest challenges using our VoIP innovations and signature Amazing Service®. Today, Nextiva is the fastest-growing, privately held provider of cloud communications. We don't study industry trends; we create them. Business leaders look to Nextiva to equip their teams in the office and while working from home. Nextiva is not just a tech company — we're the backbone of the economy. By joining our global team, you're saying yes to an opportunity to be part of a tech company with massive growth potential and exciting opportunities ahead. **We're actively looking for amazing people like you to join our team** Nextiva is currently seeking bright and talented individuals for a **Senior** **Software Engineer (Mobile - Android)** position to join our expanding development team. This position is responsible for supporting existing apps, new app development, app testing, and user support. This developer will work with a growing team and help with development of Nextiva's flagship mobile apps. A commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and quality product is essential. As a** Senior Software Engineer (Mobile - Android)** you will assist in the development, implementation and management of technology-based business solutions to improve our product offerings. You will assist in the design, coding, testing, and implementation of mobile apps to meet both functional and technical requirements. **Key Responsibilities**: **What you will do** - Use the latest technology and techniques to build distributed, scalable, and fault-tolerant software systems that power our business communication offerings - Take a customer-focused approach in working with our product team to prioritize and deliver new features - Deliver testable and maintainable code - Learn on the job new technologies and techniques to support our continuous improvement culture - Help drive the technical roadmap **Delivery First** - Production release factored in during refinement and coding of an issue - Follows their changes all the way through the production environment deployment - Changes are always done in a way that considers the impacts to production and long-term maintenance - Can design a phased delivery approach for a major change - Understands versioning and the "why" of the approach - Understands branching and merging - deep knowledge of how git works **Automation and Tooling** - Aggressively "lazy" (puts in extra time and effort to not repeat a manual step) - Always looking to continuously improve - Expert at leveraging development tools (IDE, browser tools, git, etc...) - Understands in general techniques and tools used in leveraged automation - Can identify trends and recommend remediations to negative trends **Team Commitment** - Actively seeks to help the team to stay on track and reach their goals - Participates and is introspective at retrospectives in an effort to continuously improve - Not afraid to try something new or to fill a different role when needed - Provides technical and professional mentorship to other members of the team - Not afraid to call out and coach other team members that aren't pulling their weight in order to help the team and the individual **Review Changes** - Participates in learning/knowledge transfer - Ensures changes accomplish what is being requested - Ensures standards and code quality expectations are being met - Detects logic and flow bugs - Identifies if there are better solutions available - Notes possible performance Improvements - Identifies major security flaws **Qualifications**: **Education** - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience **Experience** - 6+ years of software development experience - Experience with native mobile development - Experience with automated testing frameworks - Experience designing and using deployment systems - Experience with messaging systems (Firebase) - Experience with build and packaging systems (gradle) - Experience working with REST API's - Understands design patterns and as deployed systems using them - Understands and leverages CI/CD - Understands secure coding best practices **Preferred Experience** - SIP - XMPP **Language Specific Qualifications** - Firebase - Gradle - Java/Kotlin - RXJava - Room - Retrofit and Dagger **Competencies**: **Solutions Oriented** - Considers each change for its maintainability - Tries to make the correct choice between doing it "right" and doing it "fast" (defaulting toward doing it right when possible) - Participates in