Android Developer

Job Overview 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. Responsibilities and Duties  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 Qualifications  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”

Roles and Responsibilities

Key Performance Indicators:

Translate designs and wireframes into high-quality code.

1. Design, build and maintain high performance, reusable and reliable Java code.
2. Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the application.
3. Help in maintaining code quality, organization, and automatization.
4. Participating with the technical team in the execution of projects
5. Preparing the project documentation on its completion.
6. Analyzing defects and fixing it.
7. Maintaining On-time delivery of the projects.

 

Mandatory Skills:

1. Java, Kotlin, Android Studio, OOP Design, JSON, Retrofit, Firebase
2. Strong knowledge of Android SDK & different versions of Android.
3. Application development paradigms, memory management, and multi-threading
4. Comprehensive understanding of Android application architecture, Activities, Services, Intents, Content Providers and Notifications, Fragments, Application Development life-cycle, Web Apps, and Web View.
5. Excellent communication skills and the ability to communicate with clients at all levels and understand requirements carefully.
6. Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect Android applications to back-end services.
7. Strong knowledge of Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices.
8. Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning.
9. Understanding of Google's Android design principles and interface guidelines.
10. A knack for writing clean, readable, and easily maintainable code.
11. Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.
12. Excellent attention to detail.
13. Good troubleshooting skills.
14. Basic knowledge of MVVM architecture

 

 

What do we do?

 

About MobileFirst: Mobile design & development studio focusing on great mobile app experiences. We have great exposure working with Startups, Enterprises and Design Studios. MobileFirst has worked with customers from the USA, India, UK, Kenya, and Israel.

We have catered to clients in Automobiles, Paints, Fashion, Sports, Transportation, Food, Music, Coupons, Smart Parking, Uber for X, etc.

 

What are we looking for?

 

• Android Developer with passion working on Android & Android NDK related challenges
• Exposure on Android Application development and deployment 
• Minimum 2+ years experience is required on Android 
• Must have uploaded 3 to 4 Android Applications
• Great command over Android Studio (Gradle-based development) 
• Understanding of Android UI and new UI/ UX trends
• Understanding of Play Store, FCM is required
• Exposure to Kotlin is a plus.

What should you have?

 

• Amazing debugging skills and problem-solving abilities
• Skills of designing and developing advanced applications for the Android platform
• Bug fixing and improving application performance
• Knowledge of Opensource Libraries & Frameworks  
• Command over algorithms, design trends & knowledge about popular applications on App 
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency
• Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle.

Who are we looking for?

 

• Tech Savvy. Fast learner. Leader. 
• Creative self-starter who is comfortable with both taking initiatives and working in collaboration.
• We don't see your college degree or we don't care if you are a dropout. 

Job Perks

• Great Fun Learning exposure
• Training and Seminars on new Technologies
• Startup Experience
• Flexible timings and "work from home" options
• Assignment Incentives
• Training on Vocabulary, Soft Skills, and Personality development
• Team Lunches, Team Outings, Hangouts, and Movies

Writing clean and efficient codes for Android applications. Monitoring the performance of live apps and working on optimizing them at the code level. Identifying and resolving bottlenecks.

This person MUST have:
- B.E Computer Science or equivalent.
- Demonstrable portfolio of released applications on the Android market with experience in
Android development.
- In-depth knowledge of at least one programming language like Kotlin
- Strong knowledge of how to work with RESTful APIs
- Strong Familiarity with OOP design principles
- Integrate with our backend web services to deliver better and faster user experience
- Strong knowledge of version control (i.e. git, svn, etc.)
- Ability to performance tune and scale applications
- Agile development experience
- Experience working at a software product company is a major plus
- Passion to learn and develop new skills continuously
- Strong sense of ownership in every application they build
- Working with highly collaborative and dynamic team environments

Experience:
- Min 3 year experience
- Startup experience is a must.
Location:
- Remotely, anywhere in India
Timings:
- 40 hours a week but with 4 hours a day overlapping with client timezone. Typically
clients are in California PST Timezone.
Position:
- Full time/Direct

Other Benefits
- We have great benefits such as PF, medical insurance, 12 annual company holidays, 12
PTO leaves per year, annual increments, Diwali bonus, spot bonuses and other
incentives etc.
- We dont believe in locking in people with large notice periods. You will stay here
because you love the company. We have only a 15 days notice period.
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Responsibility:

• Building user friendly Android and iOS Apps on React Native platform.
• Designing state-less components in React Native. State management with any of Redux, mobX or Flux.
• Writing modular, reusable, maintainable, well documented and fully tested code.
• Converting designs to mobile applications.
• Integrating with Rest APIs, while collaborating with Backend deve.
• Take complete ownership of the apps and change various elements/ technologies as per business need.
• Ensure optimum speed, performance, quality and responsiveness of application

We are hiring for one of our clients (building an immersive platform for creators, from India, which can be used by creators to create content and engage their audience across the world. And they are looking for smart and motivated 'Mobile Engineers' to help build it.

 

For this, they need someone who has working knowledge in building quality mobile apps in React-Native/Flutter, handling device specific aspects, etc.

 

Being a Mobile Engineer at this organization will be like a feeling to build something that millions of users across the world can interact with. You will be helping in setting forth the mobile-frontend culture and journey.

 

Also, experience the working in the early team, shape a startup from the grounds up and be a part of the high growth journey.

 

 

Key Responsibilities: -

 

1. Build and deploy product features end to end.

 

2. You will build high quality features for a mobile app from grounds up, and can use patterns like composition, inheritance, renderProps, etc.

 

3. Research and implement things wherever needed, think automating via Fastlane CI/CD, testing logically so it works across multi-resolution devices, etc.

 

4. Setting up events for user, performance, and error analytics, think GA, hotjar, sentry, etc.

 

5. Participate in product and design ideation, collaborate with the team to implement high-quality features.

 

 

Requirements: -

 

1. Solid foundation in JS and React Native.

 

2. Passionate about product and drives it with engineering.

 

3. Architectural familiarity of implementation, not just UI features.

 

4. 1+ years of experience in building quality apps in React Native.

 

5. Identify and resolve performance and device specific issues.

 

6. Can adapt to best practices and learn device specific things in Android/iOS.

 

7. Code quickly and test thoroughly - maintain the balance between velocity and code health.

 

8. Great taste in UI and UX

 

 

Perks: -

 

1. Become a part of our early team, and shape products from grounds up

 

2. Attractive compensation and esops.

 

3. Macbook pro

 

4. Empowered to build an amazing startup culture with us

 

5. Full ownership and massive growth opportunities

 

6. and more...

 

The organization is funded by India's top executives and angel investors. 

Experience in developing mobile application with Ionic frame work . Knowledge of cordova plug in and Angular JS.