Android Developer Summer Intern
Job Description
The U-Haul Mobile team is looking for an Android developer intern to learn the ins and outs of both enterprise and customer-facing apps. Our company has multiple lines of business within the moving marketplace including truck rentals, storage, Moving Help, and retail items to name a few. Our challenge? Develop mobile apps that make our customer's experience with our services as remarkable as possible and also support our internal business needs. Do you have the development capabilities to succeed at this task?
Responsibilities
• Participate in the mobile app development lifecycle.
• Develop, test, and deploy user interface, service tier, and data tier components for complex
mobile apps.
• Code, debug, and test apps to meet business requirements.
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of your code.
• Support, troubleshoot, and optimize mobile apps.
• Learn to conduct peer reviews of team members’ code.
Required Skills
• Working knowledge of Kotlin and Android Studio.
• Understanding of Android app architecture, Jetpack Compose, and Material Design.
• Ability to debug issues and reason through problems using Android Studio tools and Logcat.
• Experience committing and managing code using Git.
Preferred Qualifications
• Familiarity with Kotlin language features such as data classes, sealed classes, higher-order
functions, null safety, and basic coroutines.
• Exposure to local data storage solutions (e.g., SharedPreferences, Room, or similar).
• Exposure to Android architecture concepts such as MVVM, Unidirectional Data Flow and
Repository patterns.
• Basic understanding of networking on Android, including consuming RESTful APIs and
working with JSON.
• Experience integrating third-party libraries or SDKs using Maven (or dependency
management via Android build tools).
You will be successful in this role if you:
• Complete daily development assignments that include internal and external mobile apps.
• Analyze and implement solutions to presented problems while satisfying the user’s needs.
• Write code that is easily maintainable and highly reliable.
• Collaborate with a team to successfully complete projects on time.
U-Haul is an equal opportunity employer. All applications for employment will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, physical or mental disability, veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, provincial, state, or local law. Individual accommodations are available on requests for applicants taking part in all aspects of the selection process. Information obtained during this process will only be shared on a need to know basis.