Senior Android Developer

Cvent is a leading meetings, events, and hospitality technology provider with more than 4,800 employees and ~22,000 customers worldwide, including 53% of the Fortune 500. Founded in 1999, Cvent delivers a comprehensive event marketing and management platform for marketers and event professionals and offers software solutions to hotels, special event venues and destinations to help them grow their group/MICE and corporate travel business. Our technology brings millions of people together at events around the world. In short, we're transforming the meetings and events industry through innovative technology that powers the human connection.

The DNA of Cvent is our people, and our culture has an emphasis on fostering intrapreneurship – a system that encourages Cventers to think and act like individual entrepreneurs and empowers them to take action, embrace risk, and make decisions as if they had founded the company themselves. At Cvent, we value the diverse perspectives that each individual brings. Whether working with a team of colleagues or with clients, we ensure that we foster a culture that celebrates differences and builds on shared connections.

What you'll get to do:

- Support our Android apps, helping find ways to architect and build new features in extensible, testable, efficient, and maintainable ways.
- Work with a large team of developers and architects across a range of languages and platforms on cross-functional Agile sprint teams.
- Push the boundaries of what's possible with creative solutions to hard, mobile-centric problems like synchronization, asynchronous APIs, and leveraging offline device capabilities.
- Create intuitive, custom UI controls and interfaces that match our great user experience.
- Help mentor and coach other developers on best practices, standards, design patterns, and other Git and the Android SDK toolchain.
- Experience collaborating with other senior developers and architects across multiple platforms in an Agile environment.
- Extensive hands-on experience items.
- Research the latest technologies, test, implement and report back to the team on what you've discovered.

About You:

- 5+ years of overall development experience within a commercial enterprise/product environment
- 2+ years' experience with Android development- and a passion for it
- BSc in Computer Science or comparable degree or work experience
- Mastery of Kotlin, Java, design patterns creating custom UI controls, consuming RESTful APIs, designing protocols, implementing delegate interfaces, animations, and performance optimization.
- Understanding the nuances of fragments and Android XML layouts, how they interact throughout the Android Activity Lifecycle, and how to leverage best practices to create adaptive interfaces for both phone and tablet.
- Familiarity with common 3rd party libraries for testing and development such as Retrofit, Mockito, HockeyApp/Crashlytics, Picasso, EventBus etc.
- Experience mentoring and coaching other developers and teams with best practices.
- Strong communicator with experience working on globally distributed teams across multiple time zones.
- You know how to get the most out of the Android platform.

Nice to Have:

- Familiarity with iOS development in Swift or Objective-C
- Experience working with Java and related technologies on the server
- Experience with React Native would be a strong plus
- Direct Experience deploying Android applications to the Google Play Store

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