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 the 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.

So if you are interested in coding in an Agile environment while developing hard skills and soft skills, your progress in our Career Journey would be:

Level 1: Android Developer
Level 2: Senior Android Developer
Level 3: Android Software Engineer
Level 4: Senior Android Software Engineer
Level 5: Android System Architect
Level 6: Senior Android System Architect

Introduction

In order to achieve the best of their performance, we will introduce the list of requirements and concepts our Android Developers should focus on to succeed in our business, as well as their remuneration.
In order to progress in our Career Journey, they need to:

• Meet the criterias of the General ICs Job Level Chart & General ICs Job Step Chart
• Meet the specific criterias of the Android Development framework regarding:

- General Knowledge a list of indispensable softwares, tools, platforms and more, for Secure Group, that they need to know (it can be a little bit out of the scope of their position).
- Specific Knowledge: a list of concepts, tools, software and etc, that are indispensable for them to develop under the scope of their position.
- Secure Group Knowledge: a list of products, company profile and features that they need to know in order to succeed in Secure Group.
- Basic IT Concepts: a list of essential concepts that we consider to be basic for our Frameworks and that we expect employees to master.

Observation: if there's any requirement that is repeated in the following tables but with different grades, the higher requested proficiency will prevail in the Performance Evaluation.

General Knowledge

To be able to reach Level 3 in our Career Journey there is some General knowledge regarding a variety of subjects that we request from our Android Developers. This means that considering the KAI grades of proficiency, they will need to score from 4 to 6 in the following items:

General Knowledge
Concepts	Balanced Scorecard
	Scrum
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

To be able to reach Level 3 in our Career Journey there is some technical knowledge we request from our Android Developers. This means that, considering the KAI grades of proficiency,they will need to score from 4 to 6 in the following items:

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
	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
Softwares/Tools/Platforms - Server Administration	Android Studio

Secure Group Knowledge

To be able to reach Level 3 in our Career Journey there is some specific knowledge from our company that we request from our Android Developers. This means that considering the KAI grades, they will need to score a minimum proficiency considering Secure Group Knowledge in a Documentation level in the following perspectives:

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

Basic IT Concepts

To be able to reach Level 3 in our Career Journey there are some basic IT concepts we expect the Android Developers to master. This means that considering the KAI grades of proficiency, they will need to score from 4 to 6 in the following items:

Basic IT Concepts
Category	Concept	Description
System Administration	Linux server set up	How to install a Linux server/workstation distribution How to prepare a coding environment on a workstation
	Remote servers with SSH connection	How to set up SSH How to connect to a server How to use a key to connect to SSH
	Users management	How to create, remove and modify users on a Unix system How groups work
	File permissions	How to grant/remove different levels of access to different parts of the file system with chmod and chown. How to read files permission
	Init systems	How to configure Init system to start/stop processes at specified run levels How to start and stop services
	Firewall configuration	Understand the need for a firewall How to limit inbound network traffic to specific ports
	Basic monitoring	Understand the free memory, disk usage, load average and other metrics for server performance
	Package manager	How to install software packages and how to update them
	Web Server	How to set up a static web server How to Set up a LAMP server
	Static file deployment	Understand some automated method of updating: using rsync to keep the files up to date or similar
	Basic Docker management	What is Docker engine and what is a docker controller How to set up a basic docker environment on a workstation How to create, RUN, Pause, Unpause, Start, Stop Restart, Kill container
	Active Directory	What are the major features in Active Directory Domain Services (trees, trust, forest) How to create a user, add a mailbox, etc How to create a Group policy and how to enforce it How to troubleshoot and configure Windows 2008 R2 - 2012 R2 How to use the administration tools (Active Directory, DNS etc)
	Storage	What is NFS, ISCSI, Samba How to share folders in windows What is a Security Descriptor What is Access Control List (ACL) What is a parent directory and a child directory
	Email Server	What's the difference between a transaction e-mail and an email API What's the relation between Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), Mail Transfer Agent (MTA), Domain Name System (DNS), Mail Exchanger (MX), Post Office Protocol (POP), Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) What are the SPAM rules and how to use SPAM engines
	PKI	What's a PGP universal server What is a Certificate and a Certificate Authority What's the difference between a Public Key and a Private Key and what are they used for How to configure a web server certificate with SSL (port443) How digital signatures work and how it's related to the authentication What's SSL, TLS, PGP, OTR, OMEMO
	Reading logs	What are the basic network events: Intrusion detection, packet blocked or allowed, access log How to read the MSexchange tracking log and understand an event How to read the PGP server log and understand an event How to read Apache PHP log and understand an event How to read, request and identify the problem in the Web Server or API server log
	Virtualization	What is VMware Server/Desktop application and how it works How to replicate VMs How to restart VMs
System Administration - Day to Day Ops
	Day to Day Ops	How to set up a network printer and put it in the correct driver into a print server How to set up a working station and advanced drivers configuration How to set up a network printer and put it and the correct driver into a print server
	Commands	What are the universal keyboard commands for operating systems What is a command line What are the most common CMD commands and what are they used for (Ipconfig, Ping, Dir, Nslookup, Tracert) What are the most common PowerShell commands and what are they used for
	Hardware	Understand advanced hardware: terminology, troubleshoot and the relation between them
Networking concepts	Network concepts	What's the OSI model and how to use it What is DHCP What is DNS and the type of records as well as how to edit and check them What are the differences and relations between Internal DNS and External DNS What is a VLAN (from a VERY high level) What is TCP and IP What are the differences between UDP and TCP and when to use each one of them
	Basic firewall concept	What are the NAT rules What is Port forwarding used for How to set up port forwarding
	Basic Traffic Sniffing	How to set up Wireshark on a workstation and connect to a device How to use a proxy to intercept traffic
	Basic Networking Command	What are the most common CMD commands and what are they used for (Ipconfig, Ping, Dir, Nslookup, Tracert) How to use web tools: mxtools, visual trace route, dnstools, etc…

Salary Grid

Android Development			Step
Level
	Individual Contributor Path	Management Path	1	2	3	4
	1: Android Developer	-	4.500 lv	4.650 lv	4.800 lv	4.950 lv
	2: Sr. Android Developer	-	5.500 lv	5.650 lv	5.800 lv	5.950 lv
	3: Android Software Engineer	Manager	6.500 lv	6.550 lv	6.800 lv	6.950 lv
	4: Sr. Android Software Engineer	Sr. Manager	7.500 lv	7.650 lv	7.800 lv	7.950 lv
	5: Android System Architect	Head of	8.500 lv	8.650 lv	8.800 lv	8.950 lv
	6: Sr. Android System Architect	Director	9.500 lv	9.650 lv	9.800 lv	9.950 lv
	-	Sr. Director	10.500 lv	10.900 lv	11.300 lv	11.700 lv
	-	Chief of	12.700 lv	13.100 lv	13.500 lv	13.900 lv
	-	VP	14.900 lv	15.300 lv	15.700 lv	16.100 lv