Android Developer – 6 month contract – Visa Managed Services

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses and economies to thrive.

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.

Job Description

About the role

Do you want to be a part of Visa’s fastest growing team in AuNZ?  Do you enjoy delivering and getting things done? Do you want to make positive impacts for customers and accelerate the pace of innovation in the payments industry? If so, Visa Managed Services (VMS) is the team for you.

The VMS team is all about delivery, implementation, and execution.  We create squads who are embedded within our clients’ organizations to deliver results, fast.

We are looking for a passionate Android Developer to join our team and work within a key strategic client in New Zealand, helping them bring exceptional mobile banking and payment solutions to the market.

Why join us

• Visa Managed Services is our fastest growing team in AuNZ – we’ve grown 10x in less than 3 years – and always have fun projects on the horizon to sink our teeth into.
• We get to work with incredible people every day.  We’re a team of intraprenuers who work hard, have fun and get stuff done.
• We are a people business where the people are our product.  As a result, all our people leaders are 100% dedicated to ensuring a positive employee experience.  We attract top talent and are manically focused on developing that talent – even for short-term contracts.
• We are committed to building a diverse team with an inclusive culture that reflects the communities we work in.
• We support flexible working options.

What you will be doing

This role will support one of our most strategically important clients in New Zealand and will be a key contributor to improving one of their critical assets – their mobile banking app. You will be responsible for the critical implementation of a much-anticipated feature. In this role you will:

• Develop our client’s native Android application using Kotlin & Java.
• Work with other engineers to turn business requirements and designs into seamless and faultless customer experiences, whilst maintaining the highest code quality.
• Maintain and improve the CI / CD pipelines.
• Participate in defect & incident triage when needed.
• Collaborate with other teams, including iOS developers and backend developers, to ensure cross-platform consistency and compatibility.

Qualifications

What you will bring

Key Competencies:

• Proven experience with mobile development, extensive experience in Android app development.
• Thorough understanding of Android SDK, Kotlin, Java, software development and support lifecycles.
• Experience with AWS APIs using GraphQL.
• Extensive experience in CI-CD practices drives and delivering via declarative deployment practices with automated quality and security built-in.
• Experience with unit and component/integration testing as part of day-to-day development, ideally using TDD and BDD techniques.
• Proven ability to work in an Agile and/or DevOps environment.
• Solid understanding of Android app architecture, performance optimization, and debugging techniques.
• Experience in banking or other regulated environment where quality development is a must.
• Proven ability to work in an Agile environment.
• Performance testing experience is a bonus.     

Behaviors that are important to us:

• A consultative mind-set where you make recommendations to our client on how to create the best experiences for their customers.
• Self-motivated, results-oriented with the ability to progress multiple priorities concurrently.
• Strong team orientation with a collaborative, diplomatic, and flexible style.
• Motivated by delivering great outcomes for our client’s and their customers.

NOTE: Due to the nature of this role, we are only able to interview candidates who are currently located in NZ, and have established working rights in NZ.