Job Description :
Position Details:
Position: Mobile Application Developer
Location: Chicago, IL 60606
Duration: 05+ Months
Summary
The Digital Innovation Mobile Contractor will partner with the eCommerce Digital Innovation team and IT to develop, program, and test various “proof of concept” projects. In the evolving Digital eCommerce space, new technologies appear in the market at a frequent pace. This changing landscape requires a versatile team that is in touch with the market, passion about new technology, while at the same time able to understand the needs of our customers and how emerging technology can improve the customer experience.
Responsibilities & activities:
1. Develop:
Partner with the eCommerce team and iT to prepare and program various “proof of concepts” for testing
Understand back-end system/services to access when building out fronts for testing
Ability to creatively architect and design programs to meet the goals and requirements of various projects
2. Test and Iterate
Partner with the eCommerce Innovation and iT teams to rest and iterate on developed software and programs
Ability to quickly adapt to changes and learning from field testing
Quickly integrate and update projects
3. Hand-off:
Prepare projects for hand-off and deployments as “proof concepts” move to production
Qualification
Experience with Android Application Development Environments (ideally 2+ years of experience)
Experience working with remote data via REST and JSON, third party libraries and APIs
Experience developing native Android platforms: Android SDK, Android Visual studio, and Proguard