Senior/Principal Mobile Application Developer

About the postion

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.