Android Developer

Experience: 1 – 2.5 years

Job Location: Chennai, Bangalore & Mumbai

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Proven working experience in Android Native development 

• Excellent coding skills in Java or Kotlin or both. 

• Should have knowledge in SQL and SQLite Database.

• Strong knowledge in User Interface designing using latest frameworks.

• Strong knowledge of Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices.

• Improving Application performance.

• Enterprise application development experience

• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements.

• Experience with third-party libraries and APIs 

• Working knowledge of the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies

• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency 

Educational Requirements:

BE/B. Tech, BBA, MBA

General Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, on multiple projects concurrently.

• Track record of timelines, milestones and deliverable.

• Ability to interact effectively with executive level clients.

• Excellent oral/written communication skills. Effective analytical, problem-solving. interpersonal and time management skills. 

• Ability to mitigate pressure and risk.

About The Role

CapitalNow is seeking an Android Developer with notable experience in Java and Kotlin development. The technical team is responsible for developing the supported mobile application and web app for customers and a control panel for the marketing team involved in CapitalNow. You will be responsible for delivering best in a class mobile experience, engineering-complex, secure & high-quality native Android mobile apps for our product.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate efficiently across cross-functional teams such as product managers, UX-/UI-designers, and other software engineers
• Design, build and maintain high-performance reusable, and reliable code
• Continually improve and innovate software development, deployment and testing to ensure high-quality, on-time releases. Conduct and participate in code-reviews
• Provide UAT support & needed assistance for release management activities
• Serve as a leader for team members to learn from regarding mobile technologies, development, and delivery processes

Essential Qualifications

• At least 5 years of experience in Android Kotlin/Java development
• Excellent understanding of Objective Oriented design patterns, Android fundamentals, and Android SDK (versions 5.0 and up)
• ○  Experience with offline persistence, threading, memory management, and performance tuning
• ○ Data structure optimizations, security, IPC, App Modularization
• ○ 3+yrs of Experience in integrating third-party SDKs like Facebook, Gmail/Google, and Payment gateways like CCAvenue, PayU, Razorpay, etc
• ○ Including Android Architecture Components, Navigation Framework, Android Jetpack, Android NDK, View components, JSON, and more
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect Android applications to back-end services
• Published at least two original Android apps
• Knowledge of Google Playstore Policies and experience in handling all types of permissions in Playstore
• Strong analytical, communication, and interpersonal skills

Desired Qualifications

• Having experience working in the Financial Services domain (good if it's in capital markets) is an added advantage
• Familiarity with Unit Testing
• Hands-on experience as a Senior Android developer is a plus
• Having experience in writing complex queries using MySQL is an added advantage
• Immediate joiner is most preferable 

Responsibilities

• Work as part of a small team to build Flutter application.
• Architect, build and maintain an excellent mobile application with clean code.
• Build pixel-perfect, buttery smooth UIs across both mobile platforms.
• Implement clean, modern, smooth animations and transitions that provide an excellent user experience.
• Integrate third-party API's.
• Write unit and integration tests.
• Release applications to the Apple and Google Play stores.
• Ability to take absolute ownership over assigned work.

Requirements

• 2 - 3 years of professional mobile application development experience.
• 2+ years of professional experience working with Flutter.
• Extensive knowledge of Dart language and ecosystem.
• Understanding of Restful API and experience on various client libraries.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.
• Meaningful experience working in a startup environment.

• 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.

• Developing new user-facing features using React Native and React.js
• Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use
• Translating designs and wireframes into high-quality code
• Optimizing components for maximum performance across a vast array of devices and browsers

What is required

• 1+ years of experience
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model
• Strong experience in React Native and/or React JS and their core principles
• Ability to take ownership of code as well as the end to end functionality
• Experience with popular workflows (such as Flux or Redux)
• Experience with middleware for API calling( such as Saga or Thunk)
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs
• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools
• Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, Yarn, NPM, etc.
• Familiarity

• You will be having an impact on our 1.7M users every day.
• You will be rolling out experiments and working closely with our product managers and design team to validate and build new features.
• Monitoring apps and fixing bugs for improving performance.
• Refactoring/Rewriting obsolete code to align with the new architecture.
• Design, build and maintain high performance, reusable, and reliable Kotlin code.
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency Experience: 1- 5 yrs in android development

Expertise:

• Kotlin
• Live Data and other Android Jetpack components
• DI (Dagger/Hilt)
• Design patterns MVVM, MVI
• Multithreading (Coroutines)
• Offline Storage
• Remote data interaction via REST and JSON

Hands-on experience:

• Git
• CI/CD
• Third-party analytics like Amplitude, Clevertap, etc..
• Common third-party libraries and APIs like (Glide, retrofit...)
• Firebase products (FireStore/ RealTimeDB/ FCM..)
• Writing custom views
• Text-based UIs like notes, reader, etc..
• Publishing/Updating apps on Google Play and other stores (Huawei/Xiaomi...)

Good to have:

• Basic understanding of clean architecture.
• Simple data structure and algorithm understanding.
• Basic understanding of AWS services and products
• Strong design intuition and user empathy.
• Should be aware of future technologies in the Android ecosystem.
• You should be quick in understanding the hypothesis, and build the experiment and make it available to a user
• We prefer people who are highly experimental and willing to take risks.
• Experience in training or mentoring team members.

Do not apply if you are not:

• Ownership driven
• Curious in general
• Self-motivated
• Use to work in a chaotic environment
• Highly proactive
• Hate drinking and smoking will have a hard time here

Desired Candidate Profile