Android Developer

Required Skills: Advanced Flutter & Dart Expertise, Scalable Mobile Architecture Design, Performance Optimization & Profiling, OTT & Media App Engineering, Code Quality, Leadership & Cross-Functional Collaboration

Criteria:

• 6+ years of total software development experience with minimum 3+ years in Flutter
• Product-based company experience is mandatory (B2C scale preferred)
• Proven ability to own end-to-end Flutter mobile architecture for high-scale apps
• Strong expertise in Dart, Flutter SDK internals, and advanced state management (Bloc / Riverpod / Provider)
• Hands-on experience with platform channels and native integrations (Android & iOS)
• Deep knowledge of performance optimization: app startup time, FPS, memory leaks, widget rebuilds, rendering pipeline
• Experience with profiling tools (Dart DevTools, Android Profiler, Xcode Instruments)
• Strong skills in offline-first architecture, caching layers, and API integrations
• Ability to optimize video playback, downloads, DRM, and OTT workflows
• Strong command of clean code, SOLID principles, and scalable mobile system design
• Experience reviewing code and mentoring engineers (Senior IC role)

Description

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced Flutter SDE III who can take complete ownership of architecture, performance optimization, and app scalability for our OTT mobile applications. This is a senior individual contributor role requiring deep technical expertise and the ability to influence design decisions at a product level.

Key Responsibilities

1. Architecture & Design (High-Impact IC Role)

• Own the end-to-end architecture of company’s Flutter mobile applications.

• Design scalable, modular, testable app ecosystems aligned with OTT-specific performance constraints.

• Lead decisions around state management, navigation hierarchy, API structure, offline capabilities, and security.

2. Performance & Device Optimization

• Diagnose and resolve mobile performance bottlenecks, including:

  o App startup time, FPS drops, memory leaks.

  o Heating issues, over-rendering, and expensive widget rebuilds.

  o Battery optimization, efficient network calls, caching strategy.

• Run in-depth profiling using tools like Dart DevTools, Android Profiler, and Xcode Instruments.

3. OTT-Specific Engineering

• Optimize video playback workflows for low-latency streaming.

• Implement efficient background processes for downloads, DRM, content sync, and push notifications.

4. Product & User Experience Ownership

• Collaborate closely with Product, Backend, and Video Engineering teams.

• Convert business/product requirements into high-performance technical solutions.

• Ensure UI/UX consistency across platforms while maintaining performance budgets.

5. Code Quality & Leadership

• Write clean, extensible, and maintainable code with strong adherence to SOLID and reactive programming principles.

• Review code for mid-level and junior engineers; act as a mentor across teams.

• Establish engineering standards, internal frameworks, and reusable components for long-term scalability.

Required Skills & Experience

Technical Must-Haves

• 6+ years of total experience with 3+ years in Flutter for large-scale products.

• Mandatory product-based company background (B2C scale preferred).

• Strong expertise in:

  o Dart, Flutter SDK internals

  o Bloc, Riverpod, Provider, or other state management approaches

  o Custom animations, rendering pipeline, shader-based optimization

  o Platform channels (Android/iOS) and native integrations

  o API integration, caching layers, offline-first architecture

• Strong understanding of mobile system design, scalable architecture, and low-level performance engineering.

Good to Have

• Experience with video streaming apps, OTT platforms, or media-heavy applications.

• Understanding of analytics frameworks (Firebase, Segment, Mixpanel).

• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and fastlane.

Personality & Mindset

• Product thinking, not just feature-building.

• Ownership-driven with strong ability to take strategic technical decisions.

• Comfortable working in a fast-paced 0→1 and scale-up environment.

Why Join company?

• Work on a high-growth OTT app with millions of users.

• Opportunity to own the core mobile experience end-to-end.

• Build impact-heavy features at scale with a lean, highly skilled engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Build efficient, testable and reusable codes.
• Collaborate with engineers, PMs and designers to quickly ship new requirements.
• Take on tough design and product problems while working cross-functionally across design and engineering to polish the product experience.
• Solve complex performance problems and architectural challenges.
• Thrive in a culture of continuous improvement by optimizing web products and related components to achieve and maintain high performance of business applications.
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Requirements

• 2-3 years experience with hands on experience in both iOS  platform with an attitude to learn the other platform.
• Strong passion for Programming in general and iOS App development in specific.
• Experience in source revision control systems such as git, svn.
• Knowledgeable about MVC and MVVM architecture.
• Experience working with remote data via REST and JSON.
• Experience with SQL Lite and other databases.
• Experience with UI development.
• Experience with publishing apps.
• Positive attitude towards work (Dynamic) and good communication skills.

Required iOS skill

• Good knowledge of SWIFT, Xcode and iOS widgets.
• Experience with Core data.
• Experience in integrating 3rd party libraries.
• Experience in building multiple Xcode schemes.

About Plum

We are making health insurance - simple, accessible and affordable. Hundreds of businesses of all sizes from startups to large corporates trust Plum for their employee's health protection.

Healthcare in India is seeing a phenomenal shift. Healthcare cost is seeing an inflation that is three times the general inflation. Treatments of diseases including Covid-19 can wipe out entire household savings. The majority of Indians won't be able to afford health insurance on their own. As many as 600mn Indians would depend on employer-sponsored insurance.

Enter Plum. Plum is re-imagining the health insurance stack and accelerating the penetration of health insurance in India to 100%. Plum has forged new underwriting and fraud detection algorithms to enable companies as small as 2 to benefit from group insurance. The platform enables realtime insurance design & pricing to enable companies to buy insurance in 3-clicks. And offers employees hassle-free claims experience through an integrated digital process.

Plum is backed by leading global investors including Tiger Global, Sequoia Capital, Tanglin Ventures and Incubate Fund (read more https://www.plumhq.com/blog/plum-series-a-funding">here)

• Design, build, and maintain high-performance, reusable, and reliable Java code. 
• Translate designs and wireframes into high-quality components and modular code, ensuring the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the application
• Strong advocate of Google’s iOS design principles and interface guidelines
• Strong sense of ownership and integrity demonstrated through clear communication and collaboration.
• Having experience with building and maintaining an open source project or design library is a plus. 

• 3 + years of experience of iOS SDK, Swift and how to deal with different screen sizes. 
• Experience with local databases, offline storage, threading, and performance tuningFamiliarity with RESTful APIs to connect iOS applications to back-end services
• Familiarity with the use of additional sensors, such as camera, gyroscopes and accelerometers
• Knowledge of the open-source iOS ecosystem and the libraries available for common tasksAbility to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements

• Very good knowledge of building iOS Apps. 
• Experience in developing iOS SDKs will be preferred 
• Very good knowledge of Swift is mandatory
• Knowledge of Objective C will be an added advantage.
• Good knowledge of interface builder, Core animation, and Object-oriented concepts.
• Working knowledge of the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies.
• Experience with third-party libraries and APIs.
• The familiarity with frameworks & web technologies.
• Android experience is an added advantage.
• Team handling experience is an added advantage 

• To design and build advanced SDK for cross-platform.
• Client Interaction
• To collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
• To RnD for new features
• To generate wireframes
• To design, develop, test, and implement a custom iOS framework as well as continuous production of new versions of the application.
• To design solutions independently.
• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability.
• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance.
• Operates effectively in a fast-paced, deadline-driven, collaborative and iterative programming environment.
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.

• Pleasant in communication
• Very good in interdepartmental coordination
• Innovative and out of box thinking
• Self-motivated and creative problem-solving skills

Benefits

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• Work from anywhere(remote)
• Internet Allowance
• Medical Insurance Cover

Job description

Roles and Responsibilities

• Design and build advanced applications for the IOS platform
• Maintain quality and ensure responsiveness of applications.
• Collaborate with the rest of the engineering team to design and launch new features.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design & deploy.
• Work with outside data sources and APIs
• Unit-test code for robustness.
• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance
• Maintain code integrity and organization.

Desired Candidate Profile

• 2+ Years should be required in iOS development.
• Should be well aware about iPhone/iPad application development
• Should be well versed with Core data concepts
• Should be well versed with Swift-UI
• Should be well versed with Network load optimisations & other core networking concepts
• Must be very good with designing pixel perfect UI
• Good to have Core Audio, Graphics & video frameworks.
• Good knowledge of app deployment process & good to have knowledge on build automation.
• Should have decent communication skills to be able to interact with Clients.

• Experience in developing enterprise grade Android Mobile Apps, NDK, and SDKs.
• Experience in Rest i.e SQLite, Faragments, Activities, Intents, Google API’s (FCM, MAP, Analytics, AdMob etc.).
• Experience in apps development with Payment gateway Integration and POS terminal like VeriFone/Ingenico/Pax.
• Experience on client-server application involving web service calling.
• Knowledge of Android Life Cycle and Threading Concepts.
• Knowledge of the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies.
• Strong understanding of material design, memory management, files I/O, network protocols, concurrency, multi-threading etc.
• Strong understanding of OOPs fundamentals, Java, Kotlin, JSON, Android 5 and above.
• Knowledge in architecting large solutions using patterns, like MVVM, VIPER.
• Knowledge of different screen sizes,andandroid version classes compatibility.
• Knowledge of Third party libraries like Volly, Retrofit, ButterKnife, Picasso.
• Knowledge of XML, JSON parsing, GPS and Google Maps integration.
• Knowledge of Firebase Services Other Third-party Services.
• Understanding of code versioning tool, like Git.
• Familiarity with deploying Android apps to the Google Play Store and should have published at least five Android app.
• Knowledge of OPENGL.

• To Design and Develop Customer Focused Friendly Native Mobile App with good data security, good optimization, good ui ux, good performance