Android Development

The Java and Kotlin programming languages are the basis for developing applications for Android. Therefore, it is very important that the Android developers have the dominance of these languages, mainly focused on Object Orientation, data types, and asynchronous executions, because all this knowledge will be transferred to the Android platform.

In addition, it is important that Android developers know the libraries and the ecosystem of the Android platform. After all, if the features are not performing accordingly, the application could have several problems.

When we speak about Android development, the need for testing is huge because of the application environment's variations, such as the various versions of Android and different screen sizes. Because of that, there are several techniques such as unit tests, integration tests, and interface tests that our Android developers will be required to execute.

In order to progress in our development path and Level Up or Step Up, our Android Developers must:

• Meet the criteria of the Level & Step Chart for the Individual Contributors Path
• Score at least 4 in the KAI of the position

KAI of the position

General Knowledge

Concepts	Balanced Scorecard
Frameworks	Scrum
Languages	CSS
	HTML
	JavaScript
Softwares/Tools/Platforms - Usage	Atlassian Bamboo
	Atlassian Bitbucket
	Atlassian Confluence
	Atlassian Jira
	BambooHR
	Combain
	Countly
	Crowdin
	Elastic Kibana
	Elastic Logstash
	Gerrit
	Ingnite Realtime Openfire
	Instabug
	Kamailio
	Kubernetes
	Libib
	OpenSTF
	Small Improvements
	Unwired Labs
	Thycotic Passwordbox
Softwares/Tools/Platforms - Configuration	Atlassian Bitbucket
	Elastic Kibana
	Elasticsearch
	Gerrit
	Ignite Realtime Openfire
	Kamailio
Languages (Idioms)	Advanced English

Specific Knowledge

Concepts	Activities, Services, Content Providers and Broadcast Receivers, EventBus
	Algorithm design
	API concepts
	Database
	Design Patterns: MVP, MVVM, MVC
	Responsive Designs
	RxJava/RxAndroid
	Data store
	TDD
	Unit testing
	User input
	Version Control via Git
Frameworks	Android Components
	JUnit
	The Android SDK
Languages	Command Line
	Gradle
	Kotlin
	Python
	SQL
	XML
Libraries	Dagger
	Jake Wharton Butter Knife
	Linphone
	Microsoft Exchange web services (EWS)
	Mockito, Espresso
	Picasso, Glide, Fresco, Imageloader
	Retrofitting
	SMACK
	WoodSolutions Timber
	Zetetic SQL Cipher
Protocols	SIP protocol
	XMPP
Softwares/Tools/Platforms - Configuration	Atlassian Bamboo
	Android Studio
	Apache Tomcat
Softwares/Tools/Platforms - Usage	Atlassian Bamboo
	Android Studio
	Appium
	SCRCPY
Softwares/Tools/Platforms - Server Administration	Android Studio

IT Knowledge

System Administration
System Administration - Day to Day Ops
Networking concepts

Secure Group Knowledge

The first item we require proficiency regarding our company is the Secure Group Management Model (yes, the content in this wiki!). Besides that, we also need our employees to understand our products in all aspects as described in the following table:

Secure Group Knowledge	What's Expected	Impact	Product	Minimum Grade
User Documentation	Good, user-level knowledge regarding the product and its functionalities. From the user documentation, all employees across the company are required to be well aware of our solutions’ core features and functions such as the Password Advisor or how to send an automatic crash report.	This knowledge helps us facilitate a user-centric approach internally, which we believe is essential to develop our business and solutions. The user documentation helps team members understand user behavior and needs more thoroughly and feel the impact of their everyday efforts.	Secure OS	4
			SAS	4
			Secure Chat	4
			Secure Email	4
			Secure Vault	4
			Secure Manager	4
Sales Documentation	Employees should gain significant knowledge regarding the business side of Secure Group. They need to be aware of commonly used concepts in our day-to-day activities such as our business and distribution model, value proposition, selling prices, key selling points, and target audience.	The information in the Sales Documentation supports employees in their daily routine. It conveys the overall business vision within the company. This documentation contributes to making employees aware of how our solutions are distributed, who are our key partners and target market to know exactly the people towards whom team members’ efforts should be aimed. Alignment on company-wide priorities is also achieved through clear communication of our value proposition and key selling points, helping everyone understand the things that matter most.	Secure OS	3
			SAS	3
			Secure Chat	3
			Secure Email	3
			Secure Vault	3
			Secure Manager	3
Support Documentation	People within the company need to be aware of commonly occurring problems with our solutions. From the Support Documentation, employees should also extract general level knowledge regarding support processes, the issues that we’re currently having product-wise, and the approach to troubleshooting them.	o The Support Documentation helps employees understand short-term priorities more clearly and communicate more openly why they’re needed. It also gives them general knowledge of how to spot and report a problem, which helps us facilitate a company-wide contribution to product development. Last but by no means least, it helps team members understand customers pains and behavioral patterns to strengthen our user-centric approach.	Secure OS	3
			SAS	3
			Secure Chat	3
			Secure Email	3
			Secure Vault	3
			Secure Manager	3
Functional Documentation	Through the Functional Documentation, employees should get a thorough understanding of the solutions and their multiple features. People that work closely with the products must understand exactly how they function, how users interact with them, how to configure different settings, and what’s the expected behavior of different software solutions.	o The information in the Functional Documentation helps employees whose work is closely connected with our solutions, to gain significant in-depth knowledge into their functionalities that far exceeds users‘ understanding. Such thorough product expertise helps us remain objective, evaluate market data more adequately, and constantly increase our internal expertise.	Secure OS	4
			SAS	4
			Secure Chat	4
			Secure Email	4
			Secure Vault	4
			Secure Manager	4
Technical Documentation	Employees concerned with the Technical Documentation and more concretely - software development, must gain complete mastery over all solutions. Such people are regarded as technical experts and need to be well aware of data structures, relational databases, algorithms, programming languages, models, etc.	The Technical Documentation is used to make sure people that are technically involved in product development have the required knowledge to perform their day-to-day tasks, optimize our solutions more easily, and support other teams with their in-depth expertise.	Secure OS	4
			SAS	4
			Secure Chat	4
			Secure Email	4
			Secure Vault	4
			Secure Manager	4

Salary Grid

Android Development		Step
Level
	Individual Contributor Path	1	2	3	4
	Android Soft. Engineer Level 1	6.000	6.150	6.300	6.450
	Sr. Android Soft. Engineer Level 2	7.000	7.150	7.300	7.450
	Sr. Android Soft. Engineer Level 3	8.000	8.150	8.300	8.450
	Sr. Android Soft. Engineer Level 4	9.000	9.150	9.300	9.450
	Sr. Android Soft. Architect Level 5	10.000	10.150	10.300	10.450
	Sr. Android Soft. Architect Level 6	11.000	11.150	11.300	11.450