News Perform Hiring for Android Developer Job at Australia, Australia Full Time

Job Type: Permanent – Full Time Location: Remote Job Category: Information Technology

The Company

News Perform is a lively and innovative digital media business with an ambition to gain global recognition for helping people to make their best ‘bets’.

News Perform is part of the News Sports Network at News Corp Australia. It is a business that was formed by amalgamating market leading companies. Up to 2 million Australians a month visit our leading Australian brands, Punters, Racenet and The Greyhound Recorder.

We promote the racing and sports industries through innovative products and experiences. We bring together content, lead generation, marketing and technology capabilities to help people across the world make their best ‘bets’.

Our ambition is to cement our position as Australia’s biggest racing/sports network and take our products global.

We are our people, we are proud to have recently been awarded the Great Place to Work Certification and pride ourselves in scoring over 80% for our engagement score for 2 years in a row. Our company culture is our top priority!

The Team

We work on great well-known brands. We collaborate on Jira and Slack, we trust our staff and we understand everyone needs flexibility with their work.

Our systems are auto-scaled on AWS & Azure. Our workflow is agile. Our staff are talented, focused and friendly. We’re in horse racing and sport. The tech brings the data to life for our customers.

Job Description

The Role

As an Android Developer at News Perform you’ll be joining a team of highly skilled, driven & passionate app developers. You will actively develop new app features, contribute to user experience discussions and help drive the direction of our app platform. The responsibilities of the role include:

• Development of new product features
• Maintenance, optimization and debugging of existing features
• Maintain high standards of software quality by adhering to coding practices and habits
• Collaboration with backend teams in API development
• Ability to write comprehensive test suite
• Ability to work on site at least 2 days per week

The Perks

• Genuine flexible – Hybrid working environment with remote working and extended hours.
• Employee support & well-being programs, giving back to the community initiatives
• Learning and development programs, on the job training and mentoring
• Inclusive dress code, dress as me
• We value family! Generous paid parental leave
• We celebrate excellence and hard work company wide via gifts, discounts, social outings and awards
• Competitive bonus schemes for all roles within the company
• We encourage Innovation through our innovation Cool Down initiatives
• Fun collaborative, purpose fit offices
• Fully stocked kitchen with daily snacks, coffee, tea and afternoon beverages
• Loads of amazing team connection activities within work, outside of work, within work hours and outside work hours
• Awesome company celebration
• We sincerely embrace diversity, equality and inclusion
• Centrally located, 5 mins walk to Flinders Street station, central to food, shopping and entertainment
• We are Great Place to Work Certified.

Desired Skills and Experience

The Skills and Experience

Skills

• Kotlin development

• Unit test creation and maintenance

• Comfortable with GIT and version control
• Excellent communication skills & stakeholder engagement
• Experience in Agile Ceremonies and actively participates in product/backlog refinement

Experience

• 2+ years experience as an Android developer
• CI/CD app development methodologies
• Testing frameworks

• Clean architecture and MVP/MVVM patterns
• An understanding of Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices

Mindsets

• A continuous learning mindset

• Customer & performance focused

• A passion for code, development, technology and self-improvement.

• Importantly, align with our values: Team Players, Innovative, Customer Focused, Driven and Accountable

Highly desirable

• Apollo GraphQL

• Android Jetpack

• Kotlin Coroutines

Interested? Apply today to join us by clicking on the link below or you may reach out to Shreya (****@) for more information.

News Perform is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages indigenous Australians to apply.

We also welcome applicants with diverse identities and from all culture backgrounds. Please kindly note that we can only accept applications from those with full working rights in Australia.