Android Developer (1-3 years)

About Poshmark

Poshmark is a leading fashion resale marketplace powered by a vibrant, highly engaged community of buyers and sellers and real-time social experiences. Designed to make online selling fun, more social and easier than ever, Poshmark empowers its sellers to turn their closet into a thriving business and share their style with the world. Since its founding in 2011, Poshmark has grown its community to over 130 million users and generated over $10 billion in GMV, helping sellers realize billions in earnings, delighting buyers with deals and one-of-a-kind items, and building a more sustainable future for fashion. For more information, please visit www.poshmark.com, and for company news, visit newsroom.poshmark.com.

Poshmark is looking for a talented and creative Senior Software Engineer, Android. If you are someone who loves creating mobile applications that have a simple user interface and solid code, and are passionate about developing new user experiences, solving difficult problems, and creating delightful solutions, this is a perfect job for you! You have the unique opportunity to play a critical part in defining and building the perfect experience for millions, developing scalable, well-designed software that enhances people’s lives globally. Join our world-class team and help build the future of Poshmark.

Role Specification

This position is a full-time role located in Chennai, India.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, iterate, and manage our Android mobile application.
• Able to own and deliver a feature independently.
• Partner closely with our design, product, and engineering teams to produce a feature that flows seamlessly and works intuitively.
• Able to understand the requirements and come up with estimates, write high quality, maintainable and unit-testable code.
• Own important pieces of the product that have high visibility both internally and externally.

6-Month Accomplishments

• Get familiar with Poshmark’s ecosystem and tools
• Contributing to Poshmark’s Android feature development
• Have a good collaboration within the team. Also, with other teams like Product, Design, QA, DevOps
• Should participate in technical discussions, code reviews, and provide valuable inputs to other Team members.

12+ Month Accomplishments

• Drive feature development independently
• Provide ideas/changes to improve Android application code.
• Mentor a fellow developer.

Desired Skills & Experience

• Strong foundation in the fundamentals of programming, data structures, algorithms, and software design optimized for mobile systems.
• 4+ years of relevant SWE experience with experience developing Android apps (Preferably, apps released into the Play Store)
• Experience in Kotlin, Java and using Android Studio.
• Experience in using software design patterns. (MVVM)
• Proficiency in Multi-threading and performance & memory optimization
• Experience in writing unit test cases.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally.
• Experience in using RESTful APIs
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git

Key Responsibility Areas:

• Design, build and deliver enterprise level mobile applications
• Write code with standards and conventions and follow best practices
• Encourage and lead innovation and solid lifecycle processes
• Collaborate with team on work definition, estimation and prioritization
• Lead and grow as a professional software engineer.
• Full ownership of product deliveries and mentoring junior team members.
• Strong client interactions to provide excellent Quality of Service.
• Owning the code base and making sure all code is reviewed and is of very high quality.
• Write and modify coding conventions and standards documents for all development

Required Skills:

• 2-4 years experience in developing Android applications using Java and Kotlin

Technologies/Frameworks – 

• Java, Kotlin
• Maven, Git, Bitbucket
• Knowledge Data Structures
• SQLite, Room Database 

• Must have strong knowledge and experience in Agile based software development methodologies. Knowledge of an Agile tool like Jira.
• Must have a very strong knowledge of integrating various system and APIs (both REST and SOAP)
• Good to have: Experience of Payment Gateway Integration, Third Party SDK integrations
• Domain Preference
• FinTech, Banking, IoT

What does the core role include?

• Designing and developing high-volume, low-latency applications for mission-critical systems and delivering high-availability and performance
• Designing stateless components in React Native
• Contributing in all phases of the development lifecycle
• Working with the developers to create and maintain a robust framework to support the apps
• Working with the developers to build the interface with a focus on usability features
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What else can you expect in the role?

• Prepare and produce releases of software components
• Optimizing performance for the apps
• Problem-solving skills, analytical mind, and positive attitude
• Ability to think from end users perspective and focused on improving the overall product experience.
• Deliver across the entire app life cycle concept, design, build, deploy, test, release to app stores and support
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What can fetch you brownie points?

• Hands on experience with React Native is required
• Hands-on experience in React Native APIs, ReactJS, Javascript, ECMAScript (OOJS) and JSX.
• Strong understanding of JavaScript ecosystem
• Hands on experience on Android in creating Hybrid / Native applications
• Demonstrable UI/UX experience on a large-scale app.
• Thorough understanding of React Native development tools like IDEs (Nuclide, Atom, Sublime Text, or Visual
• Good knowledge of JS frameworks like ReactJS is a plus.

Desired Skills and Experience

Hybrid Apps,React Native, Native iOS and Android Architecture understanding

• Proven software development experience and ANDROID skills development
• Proven working experience in ANDROID app development and
• Have published at least one original ANDROID app
• Experience with ANDROID SDK
• Experience working with remote data via REST and JSON
• Experience with third-party libraries and APIs
• Working knowledge of the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies
• Experienced in SWIFT Language

• Design and build advanced applications for the Android platform
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features
• Work with outside data sources and APIs
• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability
• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency

• A minimum of 3yrs of coding as an iOS Developer.
• In-depth experience with Swift and Xcode.
• Up to date with the latest Cocoa and iOS trends.
• Understanding of UI Kit, Core Animation, Interactions, GCD & Networking.
• Excellent understanding of design patterns & Object Oriented Programming.
• Understanding of analytics, remote reporting and measurements.
• Experience of working with Continuous Integration (CI) and Unit Testing on iOS.
• Experience with API’s and core data.
• Excellent debugging skills.
• Experience working with Git.
• Knowledge of socket based networking desirable.
• Understanding of the iOS ecosystem (APNs, Code signing, iTunes Connect, TestFlight).

• Primary Skills: Xamarin and  WPF
• Mandatory skill: Xamarin. Forms & WPF
• Experience in designing and developing Xamarin applications (mainly xamarin forms).
• Good knowledge of C#.Net.
• Understanding and implementation of MVVM design pattern.
• Good to have knowledge in other design patterns as well.
• Experience with Agile/ mobile dev-ops methodologies.
• Passionate about advancements in technologies
• Looking Candidate who has H1 & B1  valid Visa only, candidate need to travel to US immediately if shortlisted 

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Build and technically lead Android apps in terms of scale, performance, security, and design
• Actively participate in feature design
• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability
• Take ownership of the features right from estimating timelines to Production release
• Carry out code reviews and mentor junior engineers
• Instill best practices from following MVP/MVVM patterns to using required Java design patterns within the application
• Understand the latest Android features and practices and lead the efforts towards its adoption within the team and across all mobile pods
• Follow SOPs of Agile methodologies & Sprint deliverables and drive the same within the team

Requisites / Prerequisites:

• Android Work Experience of between 3 to 5 years.
• BE/B.Tech from Tier 1 or Tier 2 institutions
• Strong understanding of Object Oriented Programming, data structures and design patterns
• Experience in developing B2C / B2B mobile applications
• Experience in memory management and in designing high-performance applications
• Strong Java, Design Patterns and OOPS knowledge and hands-on experience
• Experience in shipping applications through the Google play store
• Experienced in Android Material Design
• Basic SQL knowledge
• Experience in working with JUnits and other Unit Testing framework is a plus
• Experience in OpenGL and animations is a plus