Android Developer

At BigThinkCode, our technology solves complex problems. We are looking for a talented mobile (Android with Kotlin skills) development specialist to join our technology team at Chennai.

Below job description for your reference, if interested share your profile to connect and discuss.

Company: BigThinkCode Technologies

URL: https://www.bigthinkcode.com/

Role: Senior / Lead Engineer (Android , Kotlin)

Experience required: 5–8 years

Work location: Chennai

Joining time: Immediate – 4 weeks

Work Mode: Work from office (Hybrid)

About the Role

An experienced Android Native Application specialize with 5-8 years of experience emphasizes technical leadership, architectural design, and proficiency in modern Kotlin-based Android development practices. The ideal candidate is a strong communicator, self-driven, and capable of leading a distributed development team. You’ll play a key role in building high-quality iOS applications that deliver great user experiences and align with business goals.

Job Summary

This pivotal role involves leading a team of engineers, defining technical direction, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality software products from concept through deployment. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in the Android ecosystem and a proven track record of technical leadership and mentorship.

Key Responsibilities

Key responsibilities include defining technical architecture and development standards, leading application development using Kotlin, and collaborating with other teams. The role also involves conducting code reviews and enforcing coding standards, mentoring team members, troubleshooting performance issues, managing app releases, and staying current with new technologies like Jetpack Compose.

Required skills:

·      Candidates should have 5-8 years of Android development experience with leadership experience.

·      Strong proficiency in Kotlin, and deep knowledge of the Android SDK and design principles.

·      Experience with Android Jetpack components, modern UI development, APIs and networking libraries, version control.

·      Strong problem-solving and communication skills are essential.

·      Preferred a portfolio of published apps, and experience with performance monitoring tools.

• Experience integrating RESTful APIs, third-party libraries.
• Proven ability to lead Android projects independently and coordinate with remote/global teams.
• Excellent communication skills — able to translate technical concepts into business-friendly language.
• Knowledge of the full mobile development lifecycle, from concept to App Store deployment.

Nice to have:

• Experience with CI/CD tools (e.g. GitHub Actions).
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies.
• Exposure to cross-platform frameworks or App Store optimization techniques.

Why Join Us

• Opportunity to lead impactful iOS projects with autonomy.
• Collaborative work environment.
• Exposure to modern tools and scalable application architectures.
• Medical cover for employee and eligible dependents.
• Tax beneficial salary structure.
• Comprehensive leave policy
• Competency development training programs.

What does the core role include?

• Designing and developing high-volume, low-latency applications for mission-critical systems and delivering high-availability and performance
• Designing stateless components in React Native
• Contributing in all phases of the development lifecycle
• Working with the developers to create and maintain a robust framework to support the apps
• Working with the developers to build the interface with a focus on usability features
• 
  

What else can you expect in the role?

• Prepare and produce releases of software components
• Optimizing performance for the apps
• Problem-solving skills, analytical mind, and positive attitude
• Ability to think from end users perspective and focused on improving the overall product experience.
• Deliver across the entire app life cycle concept, design, build, deploy, test, release to app stores and support
• 
  

What can fetch you brownie points?

• Hands on experience with React Native is required
• Hands-on experience in React Native APIs, ReactJS, Javascript, ECMAScript (OOJS) and JSX.
• Strong understanding of JavaScript ecosystem
• Hands on experience on Android in creating Hybrid / Native applications
• Demonstrable UI/UX experience on a large-scale app.
• Thorough understanding of React Native development tools like IDEs (Nuclide, Atom, Sublime Text, or Visual
• Good knowledge of JS frameworks like ReactJS is a plus.

Desired Skills and Experience

Hybrid Apps,React Native, Native iOS and Android Architecture understanding

Key Responsibilities:

• Writing clean and efficient codes for Android applications
• Identifying and resolving bottlenecks, rectifying bugs and enhancing application performance.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to define and design new feature.
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.
• Ability to brainstorm and come up with solutions to open ended problems.
• Ability to take ownership and drive initiatives end to end.
• Desire to learn and dive deep into new technologies on the job.
• Solid understanding of CS fundamentals-Operating Systems, Databases and Data Structure.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Prior experience as an Android Developer using Java, Kotlin, Android SDK, Android NDK
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to effectively integrate Android applications
• Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle.
• Passion for products and aspiration to make a big impact.
• Solid engineering principles and clear understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Expertise in implementation of custom UI components along with fabulous animations and write/understand Rest APIs
• Experience working with Google Maps, Social APIs, Geo-locations, Media permissions, SMS fetch, etc.

Joining: Immediate

Designation: Android Developer

No of Vacancy: 1

Job Brief: We are looking for an Android Developer who possesses a passion for pushing

mobile technologies to the limits. This Android app developer will work with our team of

talented engineers to design and build the next generation of our mobile applications.

Android programming works closely with other app development and technical teams.

Roles and Responsibility:

• Designing and developing advanced applications for the Android platform
• Unit-testing code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general

reliability

• Bug fixing and improving application performance
• 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

Requirements:

• Knowledge of Objective C, Swift, React Native can be considered as add on.
• 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● Have published at least one original Android app
• Strong knowledge of Android SDK, different versions of Android, and how to deal

with different screen sizes Familiarity with RESTful / JSON 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

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

• PIs and push notifications Understanding of Google's Android design principles and

interface guidelines Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as SVN /

GIT Familiarity with continuous integration

• 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.

Key Skills: Android SDK, SOA, XML, MySQL, JSON, Android, SQLite, Git, Objective C,

Swift, GIT 

OVERVIEW OF REACH52 AND OUR WORK

reach52 (R52) is a fast growing, social enterprise start-up working to bring sustainable, universal basic healthcare services to users in low-access, developing regions. We do this through an innovative service model, an off-line technology platform and embedding support within communities to help residents access care, knowledge and other services we deliver.

Our mission is divided in to two parts: community access, navigation and healthcare support on the one side; and ultra-low-cost fill-in services to sustain the solution on the other. This allows core healthcare services and treatments to reach further into communities where state of the art services don’t always get to. Our fill-in services allow treatments for life threatening conditions to be accessed reliably and with continuity, so minimising the risk of relapse or crippling financial problems. At the current time our income comes from grant funding and the value of our data services. This, together with other funding streams, provides a sustainable solution so that the services become embedded in the communities we serve.

OVERVIEW OF THE ROLE

In 2019, reach52 was been awarded funding from a major bank to grow into India. We would like tohire a highly motivated Junior Software Engineer to support the designing and delivery of enterprise solutions, applications and integrations in India. India is a new market for us, and we are rapidly expanding our userbase and need to continue to build our portfolio of integrated applications that work in a challenging, off-line environment. We currently use document databases to replicate data between a master and the off-line applications. We have extended workflows that mean our processes flow through Java/Kotlin applications on android and through web technologies depending on the access channel. We support interactions with communities, commercial, logistics and police offices. We need extend our support for internationalisation and localisation and to integrate external services such as local payment options to our commercial applications, together with access to data from third parties. The role will involve the continuing development of a cross application technology solution with emphasis on cost and productivity and existing investment. The candidate should be able to work well with the dev team based in Manila, Philippines.

Title: Junior Software Developer

Employment: Full time contract with probation period

Start Date: Mar 2020

Location: Bangalore

Reporting to: CTO

ROLE SCOPE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The core role scope and responsibilities will be:

• Understand and analyze user requirements and defects;

• Design and develop R52’s existing Java/Kotlin-based applications;

• Work on new development projects;

• Work with users and stakeholders to scope out new requirements;

• Work as part of a distributed team.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

The ideal candidate will have:

• Strong communication skills;

• 2-4 years software development experience;

• A selection of the following and be prepared to assess and learn new techniques appropriate to system redevelopment:

 o  Cloud platforms

 o  Proficient with Java / Kotlin / Python / Elixir

 o  NoSQL databases and replication

 o  Commercially secure communications

 o  Website / API security

 o  Application integration

 o  Design of off-line services

 o  Containerisation (Docker)

 o  Release Management and Deployment (Kubernetes)

• Knowledge of healthcare systems and/or technology is a strong advantage;

• Strong team working skills, ability to work to deadlines, and flexibility to work as part of a small but-growing team in a dynamic way.