Roles · Android Developer · Junior

What a Junior } should know

1 core skills, 53 in total. Expectations per skill, and what changes at the next level.

This page lists what a Junior } is expected to know and do, skill by skill. Core skills are the ones a manager and peers assess in a review cycle; the rest count only in self-assessment. Main areas: Security.

1core skills
52additional skills
1skill areas
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Core skills for a Junior

Grouped by area. The label on the right is the expected depth: Awareness, Working, Advanced or Expert.

Security · 1

Knows the main mobile application vulnerabilities from OWASP Mobile Top 10: insecure data storage, weak authentication, unprotected data transmission. Understands the importance of HTTPS, does not store passwords in SharedPreferences in plain text, uses EncryptedSharedPreferences for sensitive data, checks permissions before accessing camera and contacts.

Additional skills

Not assessed by the team, but part of the self-assessment and the development plan.

Algorithms & ComplexityAndroid Architecture ComponentsApache KafkaAPI DocumentationApp Store Optimization (ASO)Async ProgrammingAWSChatGPT / ClaudeClean ArchitectureCode Quality & RefactoringCode ReviewCursor IDEData FetchingData StructuresDatabase IndexingDesign PatternsDockerE2E TestingGit AdvancedGitHub Actions / GitLab CIGitHub CopilotGraphQL DesignIntegration TestingJWT / OAuth2 / OIDCKotlin & Jetpack ComposeKotlin Coroutines & FlowKubernetes CoreMemory ManagementMobile CI/CDMobile PerformanceMobile SecurityMobile TestingMultithreadingNavigation & Deep LinksNetwork FundamentalsOOP & SOLID PrinciplesOpenTelemetryPerformance BudgetsPostgreSQLPrometheus & GrafanaPrompt Engineering for CodeQuery OptimizationRedisREST API DesignSecure Coding PracticesSLI / SLO / SLAStructured LoggingSystem Design FundamentalsTerraformType Safety & Type SystemsUnit TestingWebSocket API Design

What changes at Mid-level

53 skills get a higher expectation or become core when moving from Junior to Mid-level. The biggest jumps first.

See the Mid-level page →
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