Android Developer

Job Title: React Native Developer

Experience: 2+ Years

Location: Bangalore, India

Elocity is a cleantech start-up striving to make the world a better place through technology innovations. We

are building a global infrastructure for making the transition to electric vehicles viable, affordable, and

sustainable by working closely with the utilities, governments, and public.

Headquartered out of Canada, we are a team of highly specialized domain experts and problem solvers

enabling utilities, public and private sector entities to successfully manage the demands of electric vehicle

charging and its infrastructure needs to pave the way for electromobility in future.

To know more visit https://elocitytech.com/

Job Summary

We are looking for a React / React Native senior developer interested in building performant mobile apps on

both the iOS and Android platforms. Your primary focus will be on developing user interface components and

implementing them following well-known React Native frameworks. You will ensure that these components

and the overall application are robust and easy to maintain. You will coordinate with the rest of the team

working on different layers of the infrastructure. Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem solving,

sophisticated design, and a quality product are important.

Key Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

* Build pixel-perfect, buttery smooth UIs across both mobile platforms.

* Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the mobile applications * Good

understanding of Design and Architecture Patterns

* Maintain code and write automated tests to ensure the product is of the highest quality.

* Familiarity with native build tools, like XCode, Gradle (Android Studio, IntelliJ).

* Experience in native Android / iOS app development is preferable.

* Individuals who would connect best with the job requirements are those who:

    - Are excited to be part of a young, dynamic team that is building a disruptive, sustainable business 

    - Are willing to go the extra 100 miles it takes to win in a super competitive market.

    - Are innovative, resourceful and comfortable with dynamic business requirements

* Fulfil below minimum criteria:

    - 2+ years' experience in React-Native based app development

    - 1-2 years' experience in Mobile app development (React-Native + Android/iOS). 

    - Hands on experience in Redux

Qualifications & Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related fields with 3+ years of experience

• 2+ years of native Android/iOS development

• Constantly learning and looking for ways to improve yourself and the processes around you.

• Deep knowledge of scalability, security, and maintainability of high-volume mobile applications

• Should have mobile testing experience with strong basics, understand about the mobile OS and

excellent debugging skills.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, leadership and decision-making skills

• Sharp analytical abilities, proven design skills, excellent communication skills.

• Mentoring and supporting other team members by doing code reviews and applying your experience

in process and technical leadership.

• Must be able to handle the independent execution.

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

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

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

Job Description:

We are looking for an Android developer who possesses a passion for pushing mobile technologies to the limits. This Android app developer will work with our team of talented engineers to design and build the next generation of our mobile application, Android programming works closely with other app development and technical teams.

Join our company if you are willing to work with us and need to learn good technology and healthy work culture.

If you have the desire to be a part of an exciting, challenging and rapidly-growing software development company, and if you are passionate about software development and creating the finest apps in the marketplace.

Freshers with an attitude to learning are welcome to apply.

Roles & responsibilities

Development and maintenance of Android applications

Monitoring app performance and taking necessary steps to fix the bugs in the applications

Documenting version history and changelog for mobile applications

Doing research and coming up with new ideas for app development

Requirements:

• Strong knowledge of Android SDK, different versions of Android, and how to deal with different screen sizes.
• 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.
• Ability to design applications around natural user interfaces, such as touch.
• Knowledge of the open-source Android ecosystem and the libraries available for common tasks.
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements.
• Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications.
• A knack for benchmarking and optimization.
• Understanding of Google's Android design principles and interface guidelines.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools.
• Must know about java, Kotlin, MVC, MVVM, Firebase, SQLite, and payment gateways.

• Create games in Unity for iOS and Android.
• Write super-clean, testable, and well-documented code in C#
• Collaborate effectively with a small, high-energy team of illustrators, designers, and programmers.
• Work with other developers to devise customized solutions to difficult problems.
• Self-motivation with a strong desire to learn and stay up to industry standards.
• Ability to prioritize tasks and contribute to multiple projects.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Capable of working independently and within teams.
• Deadline-oriented contributes to team efforts by accomplishing tasks on time.

Roles & Responsibilities

• You’ll be actively involved with and monitor the development of OS stack and firmware.
• You’ll be architecting and implementing best-in-class ‘real-time’ OS to power mobile phones in the market.
• You’ll be responsible for designing, implementation & maintenance of various embedded components and applications for mobile platforms.
• Communicate often & effectively about the status of new & ongoing development efforts within the company.
• Represent the OS engineering team at high-level meetings.
• Motivate, mentor and lead other team members by rolling up your sleeves and offering technical and project management insights and tips.
• Work closely with the design team to create exciting mobile user experiences as per the modern standard.
• You’ll be continuously keeping an eye on the latest cutting-edge Android technologies and leveraging these in one’s own and the team’s work as necessary.

• Experience in Android and OS firmware-based development for commercial consumer mobile phones.
• Embedded system programming and board bring up.
• System programming & OS internal skills.
• Strong Command over Java, C/C++
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Strong knowledge of the Android build system.
• Android internal frameworks and device driver development expertise.
• Experience of working with core Android libraries like bionic, stagefright, etc.
• Cares about design & Very strong command of efficient layouts, including optimization for various mobile environments.
• Knowledgeable about caching mechanisms & tools like In-Memory cache.
• Experience of working with version control, bug tracking, continuous integration and other productivity enhancements software like Git, SVN, Bugzilla, Jira, etc.
• Passionate about software development & modern-day Android OS technologies like:
• Latest chipsets, GPUs, etc
• Latest releases from chipset companies like Spreadtrum, Mediatek, Qualcomm
• Android Lollipop
• Phonebloks
• LTE
• The ability to effectively manage technical people (internal & external development resources) and projects.
• Taking responsibility and ownership in the team’s work.
• 1+ years of work experience.

• B.Tech/BS/BE/BS/MS/M.Tech/MS in Electronics or Computer Science from a premier institute in India (IITs, BITS, NITs, etc) or abroad.