Android Developer

• 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

• Leads a project end-to-end and collaborates across functions. Drives planning, estimation and execution.
• Understands requirements well and comes up with efficient design
• Develops complex, well backed and bug-free products. Estimates accurately.
• Takes well-reasoned tech decisions keeping in mind goals and trade-offs
• Becomes a go-to person in more than one area. Provide technical mentoring to team
• Communicates clearly, gets clarifications and establishes expectations for all parties
• Helps establish SDLC best practices and high standards of code quality
• Demonstrates excellent problem solving & debugging skills
• Proactively identifies and resolves issues in requirements, design and code
• Perform peer code reviews and help us all get better.

• Strong grasp of computer science fundamentals and excellent problem solving skills.
• Good understanding of software engineering practices, Data Structures & Algorithms.
• Solid programming skills in Java/Kotlin.
• Good communication skills.
• Strong sense of ownership and accountability.
• Experience in Reactive programming, Asynchronous programming and Unit Testing will be an added advantage.

 Proven working experience of minimum 3+ Years in Android app development (Min 2Yrs. experience in Kotlin)

- Have strong knowledge in Kotlin and Java.

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

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

- 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.

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.

Responsibilities and qualifications

• 5+ years of Android development experience
• Will own several parts of our tech stack, but primarily our Android app
• Build new functionality to the Android app and regularly re-architect it to keep up with latest technologies (e.g., Kotlin)
• Work on new tech that we are already a leading user of (e.g., Google Firebase)
• Work closely with the backend team to construct creative solutions
• Optimize, improve efficiency, scalability, stability of application
• MUST BE reliable, and be able to communicate clearly
• MUST BE able to own and deliver their own work within deadlines, professionally
• Should be passionate about building a strong engineering culture

Bonus Points for experience building high-scale applications, SDKs and other web technologies (like JavaScript).

Who we are

• Fast growing Chennai-based startup (with venture funding)
• Led by strong engineers with significant experience at top tier firms like McKinsey, Oracle, Morgan Stanley, and authors of multiple Java Standards
• Building an awesome product already used by Swigg etc.
• Raised investment, so this role will not vanish in a few months
• Mentors include the Vice Chairman of HCL, Chairman of Singapore Airlines, Senior leaders from LinkedIn etc.

Other background information

• Looking for strong, passionate developers who want to join our team and grow
• We move fast, and will make you an offer in a few days for the right person
• The job location will be in Chennai (it is the SaaS capital of India)
• Please only apply if you are open to moving to Chennai (or are already here)
• This won't be a 10 - 6 job, but you will be given amazing responsibilities
• You will learn a ton, have a lot of flexibility, and have fun while doing it!

Job Perks

• Daily breakfast
• Friday team lunches
• Macbook 
• Office near beach (for when people return after COVID)
• Potential for stock options (in lakhs)
• Stipend to attend conferences
• Potential travel to Singapore and other client locations

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Build and technically lead Android apps in terms of scale, performance, security, and design
• Actively participate in feature design
• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability
• Take ownership of the features right from estimating timelines to Production release
• Carry out code reviews and mentor junior engineers
• Instill best practices from following MVP/MVVM patterns to using required Java design patterns within the application
• Understand the latest Android features and practices and lead the efforts towards its adoption within the team and across all mobile pods
• Follow SOPs of Agile methodologies & Sprint deliverables and drive the same within the team

Requisites / Prerequisites:

• Android Work Experience of between 3 to 5 years.
• BE/B.Tech from Tier 1 or Tier 2 institutions
• Strong understanding of Object Oriented Programming, data structures and design patterns
• Experience in developing B2C / B2B mobile applications
• Experience in memory management and in designing high-performance applications
• Strong Java, Design Patterns and OOPS knowledge and hands-on experience
• Experience in shipping applications through the Google play store
• Experienced in Android Material Design
• Basic SQL knowledge
• Experience in working with JUnits and other Unit Testing framework is a plus
• Experience in OpenGL and animations is a plus