Senior/Principal Mobile Application Developer

Company Description

Company Description

Hitachi Solutions is a global Microsoft solutions integrator passionate about developing and delivering industry-focused solutions that support our clients to deliver on their business transformation goals. Our industry focus, expertise, and intellectual property is what truly sets us apart. We have earned, and continue to maintain, a strategic relationship with Microsoft. Recognized for our achievements - teaming with our clients to deliver innovative digital solutions and services - is how we have achieved year after year recognition.

As their trusted advisor, we support our clients to deliver on their strategic business initiatives as they unify, automate, and modernize their data and operations to increase efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance their customer’s experience. Our over 3,000 team members across 14 countries, and our 18 years of 100% focus on Microsoft technologies and business applications, is how we deliver excellence through expert services and industry-focused cloud solutions.

A part of Hitachi, Ltd., our company has a long and rich history of innovation, financial strength, and international presence of one of the world’s largest companies. Since 1910, Hitachi, Ltd. has been a leader in manufacturing innovative products and solutions that support industry and social infrastructure around the globe supported by 303,000 employees in over 100 countries and across 864 companies.

Job Description

Hitachi Solutions provides high quality solutions with predictable delivery. We do this with clear process, standards, and an unrivaled commitment to quality.

As a member of the Modern Applications Mobile Team, you will be the working on developing, testing, and distributing new and existing mobile applications for mobile application development engagements.

Our Mobile Team works on client projects definition through delivery. You will collaborate with customers and Hitachi Solutions teams to help scope the engagement, define requirements, create applications, add new features to existing applications, test and prepare applications for App Store, Play Store, and enterprise distributions. You’ll have a chance not only to develop your current expertise, be it Android or iOS, but also other platforms, including cross platform such as a React Native, Cordova, Angular+Iconic and Maui.

Responsibilities

Individual will be a member of the team participating in all phases of the development life cycle on mobile customer projects. Responsible for development with focus on new innovative software, in the design, development, and delivery of mobile solutions across various platforms including iOS and Android. This person will be experienced in using common mobile frameworks using package managers such as Cocoapods, Swift Package Manager and Gradle, implement standard development processes, drive implementation of guidelines, and develop key consumer and enterprise applications.

Prototyping, designing, and developing mobile applications. You’ll be familiar with both classic UIKit and Android application layout managers and the new declarative languages such as SwiftUI and Jetpack Compose.

Also ideal: you’ve got a curiosity about all things mobile and a willingness to learn about other languages and platforms besides your initial development experience. You’ve built a lot of apps in one language, but you’ve built sample apps in most of the others. For example: if you’re an iOS developer, you’ve also built an Android app or two, ditto React Native. Extra points if you’ve built a Maui app.

You’ll know something about hybrid apps such as Cordova even if you haven’t built them. You’ll be acquainted with low-code and no-code solutions and how declarative languages are being used for prototypes and designs.

Quickly define and deliver working software prototypes and be able to take them to finished product.

Collaborate with cross functional teams such as architecture, backend integration, visual design, UX teams, QA, etc.

The ideal candidate will hold a Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field combined with 4+ years of experience in software product development and delivery using software development languages and frameworks such as Objective C, Swift, Kotlin, Java, or .NET. The ideal candidate will have experience in building scalable and highly available distributed systems and will possess strong knowledge of Object-Oriented Analysis and Design, Software Design Patterns, and Java coding principles.

Qualifications

Requirements

8+ years hands-on experience developing mobile applications running on iOS and Android platform

6+ of hands-on experience developing RESTful micro-service-based applications.

6+ years of hands-on experience with Agile (Scrum or XP),