Android Developer

Technical Experience:

-Translate designs and wireframes into high-quality code

-Design, build and maintain high performance, reusable, and reliable Java code

-Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the application

-Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs

-Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization

-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

-Familiarity with the use of additional sensors, such as gyroscopes and accelerometers

-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 Googles Android design principles and interface guidelines

-Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git

 

• B.E. / B.Tech. / MCA in Computer Science, Engineering, or related fields is required.
• 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
• Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle.

Office Location: Goregaon Mumbai

Position description:

2+ years of development experience with mobile application development for Android.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Work closely with the core team for coming up with new features and implementing them
• Work on new products and services
• Provide support to existing applications
• Integrate REST services into mobile applications

Required Skills:

Mandatory: Passionate about sports, Problem solving, Team player, Target & Result oriented.

Functional Skills: Kotlin, Retrofit, Room Db, GSON, (Room/SQLite), MVVM, MVP, MVC, Work Manager, Rx java, Dagger 2, Recyclerview, Custom Solutions & Custom Views, GIT & JIRA.

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

+1 year of proven experience in android development. Solid understanding of full mobile development life cycle. Should have published one or more Android Apps to play store. Solid understanding of Oops and strong programming skills in Java and Kotlin. Extensive experience with android SDK Experience in working with network operations using Retrofit,Volley etc. Experience with third party libraries and APIs Comfortable with version control (e.g. Git) Ability to work independently and take ownership of product/module development. Strong problem solving ability Ability to troubleshoot and debug application. Should have working experience of implementing push notification. Have experience in firebase,Room Database,OpenCv will be an added advantage.

We are looking for freelance support for Mobile app (iOS, Android) + Web app development. We have roles for people who are skilled at a) U.I. development (high quality implementation of design) or b) front-end development work (logic and data processing layers on front-end).

This is for a 1-2 month project, and can be extended for up to 6 months.

Ready to start ASAP with the right candidate.

Job Description:

• 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. 

Skills Solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms and databases. Java, of course! Special attention to kotlin fanatics. The tech stack already includes - dropwizard(java), tensorflow (python), mysql, rabbitmq, android(java), react, angular and nginx. Knack for solving complex and interesting problems. Worked in startup like environment with high levels of ownership and commitment. Of course excellent coding skills! – ability to convert design into code. Thinking TDD is a plus. Experience in building highly scalable business applications, which involve implementing large complex business flows and dealing with huge amount of data. Experience with multithreading and concurrency programming. Eagerness to always keep learning latest technologies. Responsibilities Design and build our android applications for patients as well as doctors: Conceptualize, design and develop SDKs - end to end chat platform with support for rich multimedia, futuristic interactions specific to doctor-patient conversation (audio, video, AR and much more), a gamified system which drives behavior changes and our very own healthcare expert-cum-friend chatbot, always assisting doctors and the patients. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features. Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability. Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency. Write clean, maintainable code while rapidly iterating and shipping. Participate in all phases of development, from design to implementation, unit testing, and release.