# Sr. Associate Director, Software Engineering

**Company**: GCIO
**Location**: Xi'an, Shaanxi
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Sr. Associate Director, Software Engineering.

**Principal Responsibilities**

- Android Application Development: Design, build, and maintain Android applications and reusable components aligned to agreed architecture and engineering best practices.

- Develop customer-centric user experiences using modern Android UI frameworks (Jetpack Compose and/or XML Views) and implement robust application logic using current Android development approaches.

- Integrate applications with backend services and APIs, ensuring reliability, performance, and secure data handling.

- Contribute directly to feature delivery, bug fixing, and technical improvements across the mobile codebase.

- Partner with product and design to translate requirements into scalable, maintainable technical solutions.

**Engineering Quality and Governance**

- Ensure high-quality code through clean architecture, unit testing, and peer code reviews.

- Follow governance processes to ensure long-view technical design is in place for robustness, scalability, and maintainability.

- Drive performance optimisation, stability improvements, and secure coding practices appropriate for banking-grade applications.

- Maintain and improve development standards, including coding guidelines, branching strategies, release readiness checks, and technical documentation.

**Issue Resolution**

- Identify and diagnose complex technical issues across devices, Android OS versions, OEM variations, and integration points.

- Develop and implement effective solutions in a timely manner, collaborating with other engineers where needed.

- Maintain a clear log of issues and resolutions, providing structured updates to stakeholders (including risks, mitigations, and timelines).

**Continuous Improvement**

- Gather feedback from users and internal teams to identify areas for improvement in the Android app and development lifecycle.

- Work closely with platform and engineering teams to implement enhancements and optimisations based on feedback and data (e.g., crash analytics, performance metrics).

- Stay up to date with Android ecosystem changes (SDK updates, Jetpack libraries, Play policies, security guidance), incorporating relevant advancements into the team’s approach.

- Contribute to documentation, including developer guides, FAQs, and troubleshooting tips to support maintainability and onboarding.

**Communication and Collaboration**

- Maintain open lines of communication with product, design, QA, security, and backend teams, providing regular updates on progress and risks.

- Participate in cross-functional meetings to share insights and collaborate on mobile-related initiatives.

- Foster a positive, supportive environment that encourages knowledge sharing, mentoring, and teamwork.

**Requirements**

- Strong problem-solving abilities, with a proven track record of resolving complex technical issues.

- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.

- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, managing multiple projects and priorities.

- Strong experience with version control (Git) and modern branching/release practices.

- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and tools such as Jenkins (or equivalent).

- Good understanding of Android performance optimisation (startup time, rendering, memory, battery) and secure coding best practices.

- Experience integrating mobile apps with cloud services and APIs (REST/GraphQL), including authentication and secure session handling.

- Working knowledge of Agile development methodologies.

- Minimum 3+ years of professional Android development experience, including recent experience delivering production apps.

- Proficiency in Kotlin (and understanding of Java where required).

- Strong understanding of Android app architecture and patterns (e.g., MVVM, Clean Architecture), modularisation, and dependency injection (e.g., Hilt/Dagger/Koin).

- Experience building UI with Jetpack Compose (preferred) and/or Android Views, including state management and complex UI rendering.

- Experience with Android Jetpack libraries (e.g., ViewModel, Navigation, Room/DataStore, WorkManager).

- Solid understanding of concurrency and async programming (Coroutines/Flow, threading).

- Experience with testing practices: unit testing (JUnit), UI testing (Espresso/Compose UI), and testability by design.

- Awareness of security expectations for mobile banking (e.g., secure storage, encryption, certificate pinning/transport security, OWASP MASVS concepts).

## Skills

### Required
- Android Application Development
- Java
- Kotlin
- Jetpack Compose
- XML Views
- Android UI frameworks
- backend services
- APIs
- Git
- CI/CD pipelines
- Jenkins
- Agile development methodologies
- Android performance optimisation
- secure coding best practices
- cloud services
- REST
- GraphQL
- authentication
- secure session handling
- Android app architecture
- MVVM
- Clean Architecture
- modularisation
- dependency injection
- Hilt
- Dagger
- Koin
- Jetpack libraries
- ViewModel
- Navigation
- Room
- DataStore
- WorkManager
- concurrency
- async programming
- Coroutines
- Flow
- threading
- unit testing
- UI testing
- testability by design
- security expectations
- mobile banking

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