Android Developer

• Roles & Responsibilities
• AS OUR NEW SENIOR ANDROID ENGINEER, YOU’LL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO:
• Designing and developing our cutting-edge products, delivered to millions of sports fans around the world.
• Be an essential part of a team working in a fast B2C paste product delivery pipeline.
• Work with the most talented individual on features that cross platforms, languages, and protocols to deliver social engagement to sports fans.
• Learn from the best in the field, and teach others.
• Own the full product feature cycle from being a part of the product brainstorming through all dev cycles and up to take the responsibility for the feature when rolled to production.
• YOU’LL BE SET UP FOR SUCCESS IF YOU HAVE:
• B.Sc. in Computer Science or equivalent.
• At least 4 years of experience in Android Kotlin/Java development.
• Experience with RxJava development.
• Senior-level understanding of design patterns and architectures.
• Extensive knowledge in UI/UX development.
• Verse in 3rd party libraries and solutions.
• Senior-level understanding of server-client fundamentals.
• Senior-level understanding of multithreading.
• Experience in writing unit tests.
• Conduct design and code reviews.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Can-do attitude!

Key Responsibility Areas:

• Design, build and deliver enterprise level mobile applications
• Write code with standards and conventions and follow best practices
• Encourage and lead innovation and solid lifecycle processes
• Collaborate with team on work definition, estimation and prioritization
• Lead and grow as a professional software engineer.
• Full ownership of product deliveries and mentoring junior team members.
• Strong client interactions to provide excellent Quality of Service.
• Owning the code base and making sure all code is reviewed and is of very high quality.
• Write and modify coding conventions and standards documents for all development

Required Skills:

• 2-4 years experience in developing Android applications using Java and Kotlin

Technologies/Frameworks – 

• Java, Kotlin
• Maven, Git, Bitbucket
• Knowledge Data Structures
• SQLite, Room Database 

• Must have strong knowledge and experience in Agile based software development methodologies. Knowledge of an Agile tool like Jira.
• Must have a very strong knowledge of integrating various system and APIs (both REST and SOAP)
• Good to have: Experience of Payment Gateway Integration, Third Party SDK integrations
• Domain Preference
• FinTech, Banking, IoT

We are a well-funded B2B travel tech startup. We have raised ~USD 5 mn Pre Series A investment round despite the global pandemic and are looking to grow our Product & Tech team. We are growing rapidly. We have crossed our pre-covid numbers. We want to become the world’s biggest B2B travel company by enabling over million travel agents, travel entrepreneurs, and influencers to grow their business, and achieve Annualized GMV of $25 billion by 2026.

What’s on Offer:

• Best Combination of salary (₹12 to 21 LPA)
• Work on Best Tech Stack - iOS and Swift, Android, Java, Python/Django, NodeJS
• Learn from Best Mentors with Cumulative 50+ years of experience in Tech who previously worked in 4 unicorns.
• Fast Career Growth with fast appraisals and fast salary increase.
• A super passionate team with deep conviction which has stayed together during covid.
• Build world-class tech products and leverage technology to drive growth globally!
• Very high ownership role in a fast-paced environment.
• Great Culture -> No hierarchy/politics nonsense guaranteed!
  
  

About us: The founding & engineering team has worked in senior leadership roles at successful internet startups in India and Overseas

• Arun - Cofounder, leads Product & Growth Ex Cars24, TravelTriangle, TripFactory, IIM Bangalore
• Chirag - Cofounder, leads Business Operations Ex Oyo, TravelTriangle, IIM Ahmedabad, IIT Roorkee
• Ashish - Cofounder, leads Technology Ex CTO Cars24, CTO FabFurnish, Gaadi, Ex-Entrepreneur
• Amit: Tech Leader, 15+ yrs Tech exp, Ex Ola, Foodpanda, Shopclues, Cvent,
• Shrawan: Tech Leader, 17+ yrs Tech exp, Ex CTO Millenium Entertainment, One Kosmos
• Akshat: Tech Owner, 14+ yrs Tech exp, Ex Cars24, L&T, Samsung US, Motorola US.
• Rajesh: Tech Owner, 11+ yrs Tech exp, Ex Hike, Foodpanda
  
  

Must have technical skills

• Swift programming language (Control flows, Optionals, View Controllers etc).
• Good understanding of Interface Builder, Storyboards.
• Good understanding of Cocoa Pods
• Good understanding of AutoLayouts and building responsive apps for multiple iOS devices
• Understanding of Commonly used data structures like Dictionaries etc.
• Understanding of CoreData and NS UserDefaults.
• Understanding of working with APIs using Alamofire, concepts like Pagination of Lists.
• Good knowledge of MVC for iOS, writing Modular code, creating reusable components.
• Working with Push Notifications on APNS.
• Good understanding of Git.
  
  

Good to have:

• Working with Firebase SDK namely Crashlytics, Remote Config, Analytics
• Working with TestFlight or Firebase for Beta Testing
• Working independently and closely with the Product teams
• Has worked in an Agile environment and understands what building an MVP is like
• Worked with Jenkins for iOS
  
  

Desired Candidate Profile

• 2.5 to 5 years of experience in developing iOS apps.
• Ethical, hardworking, and 'passionate about startups' mindset
• Is a self-starter, and loves working in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent structured problem-solving ability
  
  

Additional Details

• Office Location- Connaught Place, Delhi

tl;dr

🤓 An early employee of an experienced team. A lot of impact and opportunities to learn or deepen new technologies like GPT3, Amazon Rekognition, FFmpeg and more.

💰 Fixed Salary + Stock-Options

About

Blend is an AI-driven graphic design tool for entrepreneurs that removes decision making to create professional-grade product catalogs. Entrepreneurs can now create product marketing material in a few seconds to stand out and sell better online. Instead of manipulating pixels, users edit objects. Deep learning models ensure the translation of pixels into objects.

What you'll do

Blend app, an AI-driven design tool, will help its users create stunning designs within seconds.

To help us get to our vision faster, we are looking for an Engineer to join us on our app development front. This developer:

• 👩‍💻 Would work on our Flutter codebase writing cross platform code for both Android and iOS.
• 🎨 Work closely with product and design to create amazing user experiences.
• 🐜 Watch out and fix production issues, and target on running a smooth experience.
• 📈 With the help of the rest of the team, you maintain a great app with few bugs and trustable analytics: KPIs, logs, crash logs, boards.

Above all, you would be the owner of the app side of things. Drive it to success. That will be the goal.

We are tech/langugage agnostic when it comes to developers, so the only hard requirement is to be smart and passionate. That being said, having the skills below will be an advantage:

• Experience working with Flutter and/or Dart
• Experience with React/React Native (makes it easier to pick up flutter)
• Experience with Native app development (sooner or later you might get to a point where you need to write native modules as well)

How we work:

• Team: you are humble, open to challenge, and like to help others grow. The most important is the progress of the team and the product.
• Impact: you can prioritize your time to build what will give users superpowers or wow them.
• Learning: learning and sharing knowledge makes you happy. At Blend, this holds true as a team, with machine learning, and with our users.

Hiring process:

3-steps process:

• Screening call
• Technical Interview
• Cultural fit interview with the founders

• Translate designs and wireframes into high quality code for TV, tablets and mobile
• Design, build, and maintain high performance, reusable, and reliable Kotlin 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

Android Developer Requirements:

• Proven experience as an app developer (2 - 4 years).
• 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 Google’s Android design principles and interface guidelines
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• Familiarity with continuous integration