An online discovery platform for premium products and services.
Position: Android Engineer
What shall be expected of you:
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
Work with outside data sources and API's.
Work on bug fixing and improving application performance.
Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies.
Working knowledge of the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies
You must have:
1-3 years of prior hands-on experience in building high-performance android applications.
Exceptional development skills in Kotlin and Java.
Published at least two original Android apps on the
play store.Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle.
Prior experience in building consumer applications.
Would be awesome if you are also good at:
Firebase (Events, notifications, storage)
Integration of attribution tools (Singular/ Appsflyer/ branch)
Integration of customer engagement platforms (Clevertap/ WebEngage/ MoEngage Android Engineer.
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Roles and Responsibilities
Key Performance Indicators:
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.
- Help in maintaining code quality, organization, and automatization.
- Participating with the technical team in the execution of projects
- Preparing the project documentation on its completion.
- Analyzing defects and fixing it.
- Maintaining On-time delivery of the projects.
Mandatory Skills:
- Java, Kotlin, Android Studio, OOP Design, JSON, Retrofit, Firebase
- Strong knowledge of Android SDK & different versions of Android.
- Application development paradigms, memory management, and multi-threading
- Comprehensive understanding of Android application architecture, Activities, Services, Intents, Content Providers and Notifications, Fragments, Application Development life-cycle, Web Apps, and Web View.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to communicate with clients at all levels and understand requirements carefully.
- 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.
- Understanding of Google's Android design principles and interface guidelines.
- A knack for writing clean, readable, and easily maintainable code.
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Good troubleshooting skills.
- Basic knowledge of MVVM architecture
Job Description :
- Number of years 4 to 5+
- Good in JAVA / Kotlin/ OO programming
- Strong grasp of Android SDK and lifecycle
- Strong Android programming and debugging skills
- Good in multi-threading and concurrency
- Strong in Android UI development
- Well-versed in Android app testing
- Problem/puzzle-solving skills
- Automation test frameworks like UI Automator, Expresso, APPIUM, etc.
- Database/ GreenDAO/ SQLLite
- Network Communications experience on Android is highly desired
- QR/ Barcode Reader
- Experience generating reports
- Security permissions, etc.
What you will be Doing
- Design and build applications for the Android platform
- Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
- Collaborate with a team to define, design, and ship new features
- Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs
- Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization
What you need
- Expertise with Java, XML, and Material Design
- Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning
- Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect Android applications to back-end services
- Experience with Firebase is a plus (FCM, analytics) - Understanding of Android’s design principles and interface guidelines
- Strong communication skills, get-things-done attitude, and empathy
- Strong sense of ownership, drive and obsessive attention to detail. - Comfortable with iterative development practices and code reviews
- Previous experience as part of a product-oriented team is a plus
Why you should consider this role seriously?
- We have an audacious vision of helping companies fight counterfeiting and managing their supply
chain more efficiently
- We have built a product and solved problems for some of the largest brands in the country and
tested platform at scale (With our tags present in over 50 Million products already). We have plans to
grow 10x in the next 1 year
- Ownership of key problems. Fast-paced environment
- We are a well-balanced team of experienced entrepreneurs and are backed by top investors across
India and the Silicon Valley (Venture Highway, Startup Buddy etc.) - Competitive market salary
- Opportunity to work directly with the CEO, COO, CTO of the company
- A chance to interact with top-notch executives from multiple industries
- Open vacation policy (and we really mean it!) - Open Pantry
- As a team, we love to travel :). An off-site every quarter
- Design, build, and maintain our current Android mobile applications
- HTML 5 Mobile Website Development
- JSON Web Service Development
- Collaborate with Product and Design teams to ship new features
- Implement new technologies to improve our applications performance
- Application Support
- Java and Android Studio
- My SQL Lite
- Web Services
- Android Core API
- Kotlin with min. 1.5 years of experience
- Should have worked on Transaction Applications e.g. Sales, Purchase, CRM, Inventory , Finance etc…
- Candidate Should have experience of working with jetpack component, Livedata, Room Db, data binding, mvvm architect
Responsibilities:-
- 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
- Follow best practices in code implementation
- Willing to work on flexible time zones if required
Required Skills:-
- 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 (preferred)
- 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, such as Git
- Familiarity with continuous integration
- Must have experience in Chat (one to one, group chat, file sharing)
- Knowledge in Google Maps APIs is preferred
Location: Noida, UP.
• At least 3 years of experience in Kotlin, MVVM, Java, and Retrofit
• Ability to take up ownership of tasks, as well as work in a team
• B.Tech/M.Tech/MS degree in Computer Science, or a related stream, from a premier
institute
• Passion for programming, and learning new tools & technologies
About the Role
As an Android Developer, you will own the Android app and strive to deliver the best learning experience out there to our learners that upGrad is known for. You will be responsible for developing features, taking those features to production and maintaining the existing code. Innovative nature and pro-active involvement in the product is taken very seriously at upGrad, therefore, a major part of your role would involve thinking about new features and new ways to deliver quality learning experience to our learners
Skills/Experience
- Minimum 6+ years of hands-on Android development experience.
- Strong Java and object-oriented concepts.
- Solid understanding of Android architectural patterns especially MVVM and their importance in scalable software development process.
- Strong understanding of Android fundamentals.
- Experience in Android UI creation.
- Experience of Android Live Data, Kotlin and Constraint layout would be a huge plus point.
Years of Exp – Minimum 6-8