Android Developer

At https://www.holofy.io/">Holofy,We are building an incredible product and to do that we need incredible people.

If you have ambition and drive and want to own your roadmap in a company that knows how to innovate and scale, we want to talk to you.

We work in small, self-managing, collaborative and agile/Kanban teams and are looking for great technology developers who can work in the same.

Location - Remote/WFH

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Pre-requisites:

• 3-5 years of experience is building robust Android Applications
• Have knowledge of publishing apps on the Play Store
• Excellent command over Data Structures and Algorithms.
• 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
• Knowledge of Kotlin,Retrofit, OkHttp, Glide, Exo-Player, Android Jetpack Kotlin coroutines.
• Have an understanding of OOP, different architectural patterns (esp. MVVM), and their testability
• Knowledge of multi module architecture and product flavours.
• Knowledge of the open-source Android ecosystem and the libraries available for common tasks
• Familiarity with In-App purchases and google billing api.
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications
• A knack for benchmarking and optimisation
• Understanding of Google’s Android design principles and interface guidelines
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• Familiarity with continuous integration

Responsibilities:

• Translate designs and wireframes into high quality Code.
• 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, organisation, and automatisation.
• Take Responsibility of a feature and ensure it's completion.

What else we can offer:

• Limitless growth and encouragement to be innovative and challenge status quo.
• Exceptional compensation & benefits and performance-based recognition & rewards.
• Open door policy and flexible working hours and Medical coverage

• Design and build advanced applications for the Android platform
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features
• Work with outside data sources and APIs
• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability
• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject
• 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.

Responsibilities:

• User-centric development of high-quality code that is maintainable and testable
• Utilize flutter to design and build complex applications
• Create custom packages in flutter by employing the functionalities as well as the APIs accessible in native Android and iOS
• Create and translate the designs as well as the wireframes into high-quality responsive UI code
• Design and develop architecture as well as testable, viable, and functional software by using MVC & MVVM to implement new features and meet product requirement
• Determine and solve any issues present in the system and propose your ideas in terms of new features and improvements needed in the new system
• Propose ideal Data Structure keeping in mind space and time complexity
• Stay up-to-date with the industry trends and best practices
• Keep the Scrum Team up-to-date by updating and managing the code and the project on Git
• Make sure security rules are being followed while building the application
• Ensure, through validation of the cloud system, that new changes are not affecting the security of the backend server
• Maintain software throughout product lifecycle including design, development, verification & bug fixes
• Coordinate with the respective teams for bug fixing and ensure we have a stable product
• Be part of the core team developing new app features while focusing on improving our existing code
• Self-starter with excellent analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):

• At least 2 years of experience in mobile app development
• Experience with Flutter Development (or any other alternative like Kotlin, React native, Xamarin, Cordova, ionic etc) is a must
• Experience shipping two or more Android and/or iOS based applications utilizing hybrid technologies (flutter, ionic framework, react native, Xamarin)
• While focus is on hybrid, a solid native coding background in either Android or iOS is a must
• Experience in developing cross-platform mobile applications for Android (Java/Kotlin) iOS (Swift/Objective C), or other cross platform frameworks like React native or Xamarin
• Experience with Futter. This should include from making responsive UIs to efficiently query data and also manage states in an optimized manner
• Experience working in an Agile Environment

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience)

• Passionate about creating and refining great mobile user experiences
• Knowledge of JavaScript, React.js is a plus
• Knowledge of web technologies, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript is a plus

• Knowledge of mobile application security best practices is a plus
• Programming experience in Microsoft Stack (Strong C#, ASP.NET Web forms, Web API, SQL Server) is a plus
• Expertise in deploying hybrid applications across iOS App Store and Google Play App Store is a plus

About us:

Zapit aims to be a multi-platform single app solution for universal payments using blockchain technology. Our goal is to spread economic freedom by pushing the boundaries of p2p payments by introducing non-custodial decentralised financial services.

We are looking to build smart contracts that can be deployed for real world use cases such as insurances, loans and other useful decentralised financial products. We are also working towards building an economy where concepts like company shares, gift cards, discount coupons, loyalty points and more can be tokenised including NFTs in the form of art, music, gaming items, event tickets, design concepts and more.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with designers to develop a visually appealing, responsive & optimised app for mobile, web & desktop platforms.
• Use Flutter framework to develop great user experiences with effective workflows.
• Build reusable code and robust libraries of UI components.
• Write clean, maintainable and documented code with solid test coverage.
• Participate in the product roadmap discussions.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, scale and improve code base.
• Implement methods to understand user interaction and engagement on the product through metrics.

Requirements:

• Minimum experience of 1.5 years in Dart/Flutter development with a good knowledge of native Android & iOS development.
• Good understanding of Data Structures and Algorithms.
• Passionate and opinionated about beautiful design with an eye for detail.
• Should be updated with latest front end technologies and trends.
• Proficient knowledge of cross-browser compatibility issues and handle graceful degradation.
• Should have delivered multiple products.
• Interest in building things from scratch.
• Willingness and affinity to learn.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Self-motivated, work well independently or as part of the team.

Our Stack:

We tend to work with Javascript, Typescript, Dart, Flutter, gRPC, Express.js, Heroku, NodeJS, MongoDB, AWS, Solidity, Bitcoin Script.

Good-to-Have:

• Open Source contributions.
• Interest in Cryptocurrency/Payments space.
• Familiar with Git and GitHub/GitLab

Incentives:

• Equity in the company
• Get to work in a distributed team.
• Handsome pay. (Competitive)
• Fast opportunities for personal and professional learning and growth, tons of autonomy and responsibility, results-driven environment, international team, exposure to a wide array of ecosystems and trailblazing technology, flexible work hours.

Please include something beautiful you’ve implemented in the past if possible!

If you have examples of a project where you iterated after learning new things from potential users, please talk about that!

• Design and build application for iOS platforms
• Writing well designed, testable, efficient code by using the best software development practices
• Responsible for working on iOS frameworks, Xcode, Swift, Rxswift, Xcode SDK Platform tools
• Responsible to work on bug fixing and improving application performance
• Create and maintain software documentation
• Stay plugged into emerging technologies/industry trends and apply them into operations and activities