Company Background
Shift4 Payments is the leader in secure payment processing solutions. The company’s groundbreaking technologies help power the top software providers in numerous verticals, including hospitality, retail, Famp;B, e-commerce, large venues, lodging, gaming, and many more. Shift4’s family of software brands includes Shift4Shop, VenueNext, Harbortouch, Restaurant Manager, POSitouch amp; Future POS with additional integrations to 300+ POS/PMS systems across every industry. With an expansive global footprint that includes more than a dozen offices across the U.S. and Europe and over 8,000 sales partners, the company securely processes more than a billion transactions annually for nearly 200,000 businesses, representing over $200 billion in payments each year. For additional information, visit www.shift4.com.
Are you a great Android Developer amp; Want to be part of something really big?
We are looking for uber-passionate senior Android developers to join the software product team responsible for designing, developing and deploying Shift4’s new built-for-cloud restaurant platform that delivers on a complete solution for restaurant operators of all sizes that marries point-of-sale, guest engagement, online amp; mobile ordering, payments, analytics, table reservation, loyalty and much more. (We call this platform SkyTab POS.)
The main focal point of the platform consists of beautifully designed and highly functional Kotlin business apps deployed on both custom and consumer hardware. We have huge plans for this platform and need to expand the team with the best and brightest to ensure we continue to out-innovate competition and change the basis of competition.
Responsibilities
- Hardcore coding in Java/Kotlin of high-performant business solutions.
- Be an active participant in a high velocity scaled Agile process.
- Work alongside other Software Engineers on the team to elevate technology and consistently apply best practices as they relate to the project and general software engineering concepts.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Business Analysts, QA, and other team members to achieve elegant solutions which satisfy business needs, goals, and objectives.
- Provide recommendations for continuous improvement of development processes, technical solutions, and SkyTab itself.
- Test your own code via unit, integration and acceptance testing techniques to ensure delivery and quality goals are met.
- Diagnose and resolve issues with deployed systems using a variety of techniques including direct engagement with support personnel and customers.
- Become an acknowledged technical expert and specialist for some parts of the platform. As a team, we know that not everyone can know everything, but as a Lead Engineer, you are expected to develop and expertise in some parts of the platform on behalf of the team.
- Proactive assessment and analysis of existing systems to maximize quality and customer satisfaction, and minimize maintenance costs and other operational issues.
- Aspiration for leadership roles, including potential to be a team or tech lead, are highly appreciated and could foster your future growth as our product team evolves.
Requirements
- An expert in Java/Kotlin programming, the Android 8 amp; 10 SDK and with Google’s Android design principles.
- 6+ years of hands-on experience developing innovative Android apps (Java, Kotlin) targeting both business users and consumers.
- A strong plus: Hands-on experience using RabbitMQ for data synchronization and replication, and RESTful APIs for fetching and upserting of transactions to the cloud back end.
- Strong knowledge of Android UI design and ability to work closely with UI designers.
- Expertise with maintaining transactionality with asynchronous offline mode applications, threading and performance tuning (our apps must be responsive and fast!).
- Strives to ensure that solutions are a great fit and use to the target end user persona.
- Experience working in an agile software development lifecycle (SDLC) by designing, developing, and deploying working software through analysis of functionality as defined by a Product team.
- Expertise and focus around restaurant point-of-service apps (POS, Kiosk, online ordering) is a big plus.
- Comfortable and experienced in identifying and implementing non-functional requirements, writing code that is clean, of good quality
- Proficient with testing work-in-progress deliverables to make sure they meet acceptance criteria and functional requirements as defined by a Product team as well as non-functional requirements defined by the development team.
- Great interpersonal, verbal, and written skills including documentation of complex technical solutions (e.g., whiteboarding, code comments)
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