Android Developer

Job Title: Senior Android Developer (Java/Kotlin)

Experience: 8–15 Years

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Android Developer with extensive experience in building robust, scalable, and high-performance mobile applications. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in Android development using Java and Kotlin, strong problem-solving abilities, and a passion for delivering high-quality user experiences.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain advanced Android applications for mobile devices.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
• Integrate mobile applications with backend systems using RESTful APIs.
• Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications.
• Identify and fix bugs, optimize performance, and improve application scalability.
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code following best practices.
• Participate in code reviews and mentor junior developers.
• Stay updated with the latest trends and technologies in Android development.

Required Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 8+ years of experience in Android development using Java and Kotlin.
• Minimum 4 years of hands-on experience with Kotlin.

Technical Skills

• Strong understanding of the Android platform and Android SDK across multiple OS versions.
• Proficiency in consuming RESTful web services and API integration.
• Solid knowledge of Android UI/UX principles, design patterns, and best practices.
• Experience with popular Android libraries and open-source frameworks.
• Hands-on experience with build tools such as Gradle or Maven.

Testing & Quality Assurance

• Experience with testing frameworks such as JUnit, Espresso, or Robolectric.
• Familiarity with Test-Driven Development (TDD) or Behavior-Driven Development (BDD).
• Experience testing across multiple devices, screen sizes, and configurations.
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines, automation, and static code analysis.

Performance & Optimization

• Experience in handling local data storage solutions.
• Strong understanding of multithreading and performance tuning.
• Ability to optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability.

Tools & Technologies

• Version control systems such as Git.
• Experience with Azure DevOps or similar lifecycle management tools.
• Knowledge of continuous integration and continuous delivery practices.

Soft Skills

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work effectively in distributed/global teams.
• Self-motivated and proactive with a strong learning mindset.
• Comfortable in fast-paced and dynamic environments.

A bit about us

WeatherBug is a popular weather site and mobile app providing hyperlocal, live weather data and proactive alerting to consumer users. With over 15 million unique users per month, across all platforms, WeatherBug’s vision is to provide environmental intelligence for all aspects of people’s lives. The WeatherBug app is a top-rated weather app in the app stores. In 2019, WeatherBug was named the best weather app by MediaPost’s Appy Awards. WeatherBug is owned and operated by GroundTruth, a media company that turns real-world behavior into marketing that delivers real business results.

Learn more at WeatherBug.com

At GroundTruth, we believe that innovative technology starts with the best talent and we have been ranked one of Ad Age’s Best Places to Work for three years in a row (2021, 2022 & 2023). Learn more about the perks of joining our team here.

A bit about you

A recognized expert in their professional discipline, with significant impact and influence on organizational policy and program development. Establishes critical strategic and operational goals, and develops and implements new products, processes, standards, or operational plans to achieve organizational objectives. Regularly leads projects of critical importance to the organization—projects that carry substantial consequences for success or failure. Requires strong influence and communication with executive leadership. Problems encountered are often complex and multidimensional, requiring broad-based consideration of variables that affect multiple areas of the organization.

You will:

• Develop production-ready code to meet scope of requirements.
• With guidance, update and create documentation as needed for new and existing solutions.
• Participate in code-reviews with comments to improve code quality, stability, and maintainability.
• Create and maintain unit and integration testing solutions. Be able to run your code in lower environments.
• Run tests on the mobile device to ensure code meets requirements
• Watch mobile releases for Android or iOS for features you developed
• Teardown your solutions across multiple environments and platforms.
•  Provide operational support of your deployed code
• Determine issues within your areas of expertise.
• Work with teams across the engineering organization to understand and incorporate client requirements into final solutions.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.

You have:

• Bachelor’s degree (4 years) in Computer Science or a related field, OR 5+ years of relevant software development experience.
• 3+ years of professional experience in software engineering.
• 2+ years of hands-on Android application development using Kotlin and Android Studio.
• Experience with modern Android libraries and frameworks, including Jetpack components (e.g., Navigation, Room, ViewModel, LiveData), Retrofit for networking, and image loading libraries (e.g., Glide, Coil).
• Proficiency with asynchronous programming using Kotlin Coroutines and Flow.
• Familiarity with dependency injection frameworks such as Dagger/Hilt or Koin.
• Experience with app architecture patterns such as MVVM or MVI, and clean architecture principles.
• 2+ years of experience working in Agile teams and participating in iterative development cycles.
• Strong understanding of object-oriented design principles, design patterns, best practices, performance optimization, and memory management.
• Experience with unit and UI testing frameworks (JUnit, Mockito, Espresso).
• Familiarity with Git and collaborative version control workflows.
• Exposure to CI/CD tools and automated build/deployment pipelines.
• Ability to independently take ownership of tasks and deliver robust solutions.
• Commitment to writing clean, maintainable, and well-documented code.

Would be great if you have:

• Experience with React Native, including building function components, using hooks, and working with JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Knowledge of Play Store processes, including app signing, publishing, and release management.
• Familiarity with ingesting and exposing large datasets in the weather industry.
• Experience in the advertising industry.
• Proficiency with tools like GitHub, Jenkins, Artifactory.

You are:

• A team player who is organized, flexible and willing to adapt
• Not afraid of new technologies and driven to learn
• A detail-oriented person, who catches problems early and adjusts
• A strong communicator who is able to collaborate with multiple business and engineering stakeholders and work through conflicting needs
• A problem solver who likes to dive deep into a problem, diagnose root causes and work with multiple teams to come up with a solution
• Organized with demonstrated ability to prioritize and deliver timely work
• A team player and not afraid to roll up your sleeves and help when needed
• Self-sufficient and not afraid to take the lead and manage tasks independently
• Coachable and open to feedback
• Respectful–-we treat each other with respect and assume the best of one another
• Not afraid to have fun!

What we offer

At GroundTruth, we want our employees to be comfortable with their benefits so they can focus on doing the work they love.

● Parental leave- Maternity and Paternity

● Flexible Time Offs (Earned Leaves, Sick Leaves, Birthday leave, Bereavement leave & Company Holidays)

● In Office Daily Catered Lunch

● Fully stocked snacks/beverages

● Health cover for any hospitalization. Covers both nuclear family and parents

● Covid home quarantine cover

● Tele-med for free doctor consultation, discounts on health checkups and medicines

● Wellness/Gym Reimbursement

●  Pet Expense Reimbursement

●  Childcare Expenses and reimbursements

●  Employee assistance program

●  Employee referral program

●  Education reimbursement program

●  Skill development program

●  Cell phone reimbursement (Mobile Subsidy program)

●  Internet reimbursement

●  Birthday treat reimbursement

●  Home office set up

●  Employee Provident Fund Scheme offering different tax saving options such as VPF and employee and employer contribution up to 12% Basic

●  Creche reimbursement

●   Co-working space reimbursement

●   NPS employer match

●   Meal card for tax benefit

●   Special benefits on salary account

●   New joiner relocation

• Advise and discuss with the team on the architecture and requirements.
• Bring your experience for mobile User Experience.
• Set up actions to ensure high level of quality and satisfaction
• Build and maintain efficient and reliable code.
• Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Informatics Engineering or similar
• Minimum of 4+ years work experience in similar roles
• Strong knowledge in Front-end frameworks (React Native)
• Strong knowledge in the mobile language (swift, objective-c, java, kotlin)
• Experience in unit testing and TDD.
• Advance knowledge in using testing frameworks ( Karma, Jest, Appium, Cypress ).
• Experience with Agile Methodologies (Scrum, Kanban)
• Experience in CI/CD
• Having a coaching profile, good communication skills is crucial to ensure good exchange and sharing of information within and outside of the train
• Being able to provide based on the audience synthetic or detailed information is mandatory
• Being curious to continuously learn and being a leader in your domain of expertise
• Immediate or very low availability
• Fluent in English - written and spoken (mandatory)

About the Role

A highly motivated and passionate individual who has experience in executing end to end web based products and applications; bringing them to production quickly and with high quality. Passionate about building flexible and scalable solutions with an eye for detail and can weigh pros and cons to find best possible solutions. 

Role and Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product Managers to plan, implement and deliver tasks and modules on a timely basis with best practices and adherence to SOPs.
• Understand the product requirements, ask questions, and gather information and feedback to design and deliver features both on Android and iOS.
• Create a roadmap of tasks to be delivered for both iOS and Android applications in sync, such that new features go to the end-user at same time. 
• Lead the design of Android and iOS applications in a modular fashion with reusable components.
• Proactively identify issues related to memory consumption, battery drain and multi-threading in the application by planning regular tests and analysis.
• Deliver 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.
• Manage a highly skilled and efficient team by hiring, keeping the team motivated, and managing performance.
• 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.

Skills/Experience

• A highly talented developer with 10+ years of hands-on experience in building apps that have been released to the Play Store(Android) and Appstore(iOS). 
• Demonstrated experience managing teams of 5-10 or more engineers in mobile application teams.
• Strong knowledge of Android, Kotlin, iOS, Swift, Objective C and working with MVVM, MVP, MVC patterns.
• Experience building mobile applications which lean heavily on connecting to cloud services to gather data and stream videos/content. 
• Working knowledge of Xamarin or Flutter (cross platform frameworks) is highly preferred. 
• Practitioner of test driven development practices. Experience in creating and adhering to best practices for development.

We are looking for an Android developer responsible for the development and maintenance of applications aimed at a vast number of diverse Android devices. Your primary focus will be the development of Android applications and their integration with back-end services. You will be working along-side other engineers and developers working on different layers of the infrastructure. Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and creating quality products is essential.

Responsibilities:

1. Translate designs and wireframes into high-quality code

2. Design, build and maintain high performance, reusable, and reliable Java code

3. Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the application

4. Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs

5. Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization

Skills:

1. Strong knowledge of Android SDK, different versions of Android, and how to deal with different screen sizes

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

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

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

5. Ability to design applications around natural user interfaces, such as “touch”

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

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

8. Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements

9. Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications

10. A knack for benchmarking and optimization

11. Understanding of Google’s Android design principles and interface guidelines

12. Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git

13. Familiarity with continuous integration