Android Developer

Android Developer | Hyderabad | ZOBAZE

Location: Hyderabad (Mandatory)

Experience: 4–6 years

Type: Full-time, In-office

🚀 About Us

We’re on a mission to empower small businesses with enterprise-grade tools they’ve never had before.

Our POS app handles live sales, inventory, and billing for thousands of shops every day—keeping mom-and-pop stores running like clockwork.

Here, you won’t be another cog in the machine. You’ll work side-by-side with our founder, owning critical modules of a large-scale app and making production-impacting decisions from day one.

If you thrive on trust, responsibility, and rapid career growth, let’s chat.

🎯 What You’ll Do

• End-to-End Ownership: Design, build, and ship modules that power real-world businesses.
• Uptime Champion: Hunt down crashes and ANRs, ensuring thousands of shops stay online seamlessly.
• Modernize & Refactor: Convert legacy Java code to Kotlin, streamline architecture, and slay technical debt.
• Feature Delivery: Partner with product and leadership to scope, develop, and launch high-impact features.
• Root-Cause Excellence: Dive into live issues, write rock-solid RCAs, and deploy fixes that stick.
• Mentorship & Growth: Level up your Android chops—Jetpack Compose, KMP, multi-module apps—straight from the source.

✅ Must-Have Skills

• 4–5 years building production Android apps (≥10k installs or equivalent real-user experience)
• Kotlin powerhouse: Strong MVVM, Coroutines/Flow, Retrofit/OkHttp skills
• Debug pro: Hands-on with Crashlytics (or similar), can walk us through a past RCA
• API & Firebase know-how: REST, Firestore, Auth, Analytics
• AI-forward mindset: Eager to leverage Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor for smarter dev

🤩 Nice-to-Haves

• Jetpack Compose experience
• Multi-module architecture & CI/CD background
• Hardware integration (Bluetooth/USB printers, scanners, payment devices)
• Prior POS/retail or startup exposure

💼 Why You’ll Love It Here

• Market-leading salary for reliability & delivery
• Health insurance for you & your family
• Office Perks (Lunch, Zobaze Mix, Fitness etc)
• Learning budget for courses, conferences & self-development
• Clear career path: Module Lead → Team Lead as we scale
• Hands-on AI: Shape how AI assists our entire dev workflow

If you’re high-agency, impact-driven, and startup-ready—let’s build something meaningful together. Apply now and help small businesses thrive!

Y Media Labs is a creative technology company that helps brands re-imagine their customer  experiences. Our mission is to export the Silicon Valley mindset to the rest of the world.  

We create digital products with purpose that have a lasting impact on users' lives and clients'  businesses. We are a team of dreamers and doers united by a simple idea: If we make a  difference for your customers, we will make a difference for your business too. And it works.  Since 2009, we have led early-stage startups and top-tier brands to "wow" their customers  with best-in-class digital products and experiences. The Wall Street Journal calls us “YML is  one of the most innovative companies in Silicon Valley.”  

Through next-generation technologies and world-class design, we help brands like Apple,  PayPal, L'Oreal, Home Depot, Kaiser Permanente, State Farm, First Republic Bank develop  solutions that drive major business outcomes. Founded in 2009, Y Media Labs is  headquartered in Silicon Valley with four offices worldwide including Atlanta, Indianapolis,  Bangalore & Sao Paulo.  

We came of age with the invention of the app store. We have mobile in our DNA. We create  solutions across the digital ecosystem. Unlike agencies who are born desktop, we are deeply  connected to how consumer perception has shifted thanks to the mobile lifestyle. We have  

built and launched 207 products, delighted over 407 million users, built over 200+ apps, work  with 30 Fortune 500 clients, been responsible for over 400 billion transactions through our  work and generated over $200 billion in transactions for our clients, and been featured on the  app store over 700+ times!  

• Portfolio of our work can be found @ ymedialabs.com/work  
• Live look into our engineering team @ medium.com/ymedialabs-innovation  • Live look into our design team @ dribbble.com/ymedialabs  

Our team in Bangalore is close to 250 strong, and we are growing in a variety of ways. Our  goals include a culture of excellence and we are looking to transform the team to be one of  the best tech teams in Bangalore.  

We are looking to hire Engineering Manager for our team in Bangalore. If you are excited about building products that will be used by millions of consumers worldwide, building products for brands that you can be proud to show to your family and friends - you need to join us!

Responsibilities:

• Lead and coach a group of engineers in delivering scalable, flexible and secure features to our customers
• Leading engineering teams composed of backend, frontend, iOS, Android developers and QA.
• Deep dive into work of your team, review the code submitted by your team, and resolve the root cause of problems
• Coach your team members how to increase the quality of their code based on real examples
• Involve in hiring for your teams
• Drive a continuous improvement process - introduce new tools & automations based on real data analysis
• Represent the team to engineering groups internally, to executive leaders in various functional groups within YML, to current and future customers, and to our partner organizations.
• Build a diverse team while fostering a collaborative and inclusive environment.
• Project and Program management
• Collaborate with Product/Project Managers to plan, implement and deliver tasks and modules on a timely basis with best practices and adherence to SOPs.
• Manage the development pipeline to deliver features on schedule while maintaining high bar for quality.
• Closely Interact with other functions such as PM/Product, Design, UI/UX, Architecture, QA, and deliver planned features
• Deliver Web, Android and iOS applications with integration to backend services deployed on the cloud with high quality and responsiveness.
• Create strong practices around test driven development, automating delivery of apps to the marketplace with strong CI/CD practices.
• Play the role of an unblocker in a tight scrum environment.
• Should be able to help other developers with challenges, problem solving, and help achieve milestones as per plan.
• Prioritize to manage ad-hoc requests in parallel with ongoing projects.
• Hands on with programming with 50%+ of bandwidth going into modules owned.

Requirements:

• A highly talented developer with 10+ years of hands-on experience.
• Primarily in web application development experience using, JAVA, Angular, ReactJS, Python, GO.
• Working with MVVM, MVP, MVC patterns.
• Additional Mobile development experience Android, Kotlin, iOS, Swift, Objective C will be a bonus.
• Must have at least 3+ years of experience in an engineering management role, and a clear record of success prior to that as a senior/staff engineer.
• Must be compelling and clear communicator, able to represent your team to internal and external audiences with differing levels of technical fluency.
• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities/projects in a fast-paced environment.
• Good Analytical, Problem solving and Debugging skills.
• Hands on experience in Designing, Coding and release management.
• Continuously increasing your team's work quality & performance.
• Experience with writing and maintaining unit-tests, functional tests, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Ability to think from a product mindset.
• B. Tech/M. Tech/MCA (IT/Computer Science).

Nice to Have:

• Hands-on cloud development experience

# Proficiency in Java, Kotlin, or C++

# Ability to use the Android Studio, including the Android SDK, with ease

# Prior experience as an Android Developer will be advantageous

# Excellent coding and proofreading skills

• Strong knowledge of Android SDK. 

• Experience with Android Studio and Gradle Build System. 

• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect Android applications to back-end services.

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

• Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning.

• Knowledge of the open-source Android ecosystem and the libraries available for common tasks.

• Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications.

• Experience working in Git, Jira and other productivity tools. 

• Familiarity with Kotlin is helpful.