Senior Android Developer

Company: sourceworx
Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
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Posted: Oct 2, 2026
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Job Description:

We are looking for a Senior Android developer responsible for the development and maintenance of applications aimed at Android.

Your primary focus will be the development of such applications and their integration with back-end services. You will be working alongside other engineers and developers working on different layers of the infrastructure.

Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem-solving, sophisticated design, and creating quality products is essential.

Responsibilities:

• Design and build applications for Android

• Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications

• Collaborate with a team to define, design, and ship new features

• Understand Technical Design documentation when developing solutions

• Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs

• Help maintain code quality, organization and automatization

• Exposure to DevOps principles and methodology and tools

Skills:

• Proficient in Java, with a good knowledge of its ecosystems, also deep exposure to Kotlin

• Proficient in Android Studio IDE

• Solid understanding of object-oriented programming

• Experience with Groovy

• Good knowledge of performance limits and characteristics

• Knowledge of memory management and multi-threading

• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect to back-end services

• Comprehensive understanding and implementation of UI design and a user-oriented focus

• Implementation of automated testing platforms and unit tests

• Knack for benchmarking and optimization

• Understanding of Apple’s design principles and interface guidelines

• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (e.g. Git and/or AzureDevOps)

• Familiarity with continuous integration

• Exposure to working in Agile methodology and relevant tools (e.g. Jira)

• BSc Computer Science qualification or equivalent

• Minimum of 5 years of work experience

About the Company

Name: sourceworx
Location: South Africa

Sourceworx is a South African managed IT, network, cybersecurity and software company keeping critical systems running for clients in financial services, government and education. We are a Level 1 B-BBEE contributor certified to ISO 9001, ISO 27001 and ISO 20000.

What we offer somebody starting a technical career is exposure, because a junior here is on real client systems within weeks. We hire across service and support, networks and infrastructure, cybersecurity operations, software development, and the business functions behind all of it, and we support certification where it is relevant to the role.