Android Developer

React Native (Android developer with Strong knowledge in PHP Web application)

Company Description

iCloudEMS, a market leader in providing cloud-based end-to-end comprehensive education management solutions, empowers learner-centric approaches in India, UAE, and Africa. Since 2011, iCloudEMS has been committed to revamping education through technology, offering integrated digital platforms for educational institutions. Our mission is to automate and streamline academic activities, making education management efficient and hassle-free. We aim to expand our reach in Asia and the Pacific, fulfilling diverse educational needs with innovative solutions.

Role Description

This is a full-time remote role for a Mobile Application Developer specializing in React Native/ Android with NPHP or PHP application framework. The Mobile Application Developer will be responsible for designing and building mobile applications, ensuring high performance, writing reusable and efficient code, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Day-to-day tasks include working on application development, engaging in object-oriented programming, and maintaining high standards of quality for iOS development.

Qualifications

• Mobile Application Development, Mobile Applications, Application Development skills
• Experience with Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), iOS Development
• Proficient in React Native PHP technologies (strong knowledge)
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related fie

Benefits:

• Provident Fund
• Work from home

Job Description

We are looking for a React Native developer interested in building performant mobile apps on both the iOS and Android platforms. You will be responsible for architecting and building these applications, as well as coordinating with the teams responsible for other layers of the product infrastructure. Building a product is a highly collaborative effort, and as such, a strong team player with a commitment to perfection is required.

Responsibilities

• Build pixel-perfect, buttery smooth UIs across both mobile platforms.
• Leverage native APIs for deep integrations with both platforms.
• Diagnose and fix bugs and performance bottlenecks for performance that feels native.
• Reach out to the open source community to encourage and help implement mission-critical software fixes—React Native moves fast and often breaks things.
• Maintain code and write automated tests to ensure the product is of the highest quality.
• Transition existing React web apps to React Native.
• Firebase and cloud function expereince would be huge plus

Skills

• Firm grasp of the JavaScript (and TypeScript ) language and its nuances, including ES6+ syntax
• Knowledge of (functional or object-oriented) programming
• Ability to write well-documented, clean Javascript code
• Rock solid at working with third-party dependencies and debugging dependency conflicts
• Familiarity with native build tools, like XCode, Gradle (Android Studio, IntelliJ)
• Understanding of REST APIs, the document request model, and offline storage
• Experience with automated testing suites, like (Jest or Mocha)

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

- 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

- Strong knowledge in SQLite Database

- Experience in designing and developing custom controls for Android.

- Solid foundation in data structures, algorithms, and object orientation design.

- Capabilities to write and execute unit test cases.

- Independent researching, solution finding, analysis and problem solving skills and capabilities.

- Should have a strong knowledge of OOPS and intermediate knowledge of front-end GUI design and development.

- Should have knowledge of Kotlin

- Should have experience in  MVC / MVVM Architecture.

- Good in Analytics and Communication

At Cityflo, we are solving the problem of commuting to the office which affects employees in big, populated Indian cities every day. Cityflo provides a bus experience like no other - we run premium AC buses for daily commuters.  We’re changing the way urban Indians commute and enabling everyone to reclaim hours of their time every day. Before the imposed lockdown due to coronavirus, we were serving about 7500 commuters per day. We plan to scale to 5,00,000 rides per day in the next 4 years in a profitable and sustainable manner.

We're looking for people who are passionate about creating great Android applications.
You've been around for a few API levels and you know how to delight Android users. You’ve got an eye for the beautiful Android design our users expect and an attention to detail down to the very last dpi. You know your way around the View hierarchy and are eager to partner with Product and Design to craft efficient, performant, and delightful user experiences. You like building for the long term and value patterns and structures that allow for maximum flexibility in a constantly evolving product.

You can read more about our engineering and culture on our blog: https://blog.cityflo.com/tag/engineering/" target="_blank">https://blog.cityflo.com/tag/engineering/

What you should have:

• At least three years of engineering experience, a large portion of which in a team environment
• Bachelors/Masters degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related subject.
• Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms and programming languages
• Experience working closely with product teams, designers, and other developers to create a truly delightful mobile experience
• Familiarity with design concepts and constraints on mobile platforms.
• Extensive understanding of Android framework components and their respective lifecycles
• Experience developing highly performant Kotlin code and view layouts and the ability to diagnose performance bottlenecks
• A disciplined approach to development, testing, documentation and code structure in a team environment
• Familiarity with the Android tool ecosystem for development, testing, debugging, and performance benchmarking
• An excellent understanding of best practices for concurrency and threading
• MVVM design architecture pattern for android.

Preferred skills:

• Open Source contributions & participation in programs like Google Summer of Code are a plus.
• Have published one or more Android apps on the Play Store.
• Dependency injections: Dagger, Koin.
• Multi-threading and coroutines in Kotlin/Rxjava.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Capability to develop highly responsive applications and websites.
• Capability to find and fix bugs.
• Enhance the performance of an application close to a native one by removing the constriction.
• Capability to maintain code that is easy to understand.
• Write tests for automation so that the app can be tested easily.
• Capability to take advantage of native APIs for deep integration of all platforms.
• Capability to completely transcend a React Web App into a React Native one.

Skills

• Knowledge of Object-Oriented Programming.
• Complete familiarity with Javascript and capability to write script that is optimised and works perfectly.
• Capability to write Well-documented code with Javascript that is easily readable.
• Having the knowledge of third-party dependencies and debugging dependency conflicts that might occur.
• Understanding of native build tools like Xcode, Gradle etc.
• Experience in testing with tools like Jest, Detox, Cypress etc.
• Knowledge about Offline Storage, REST APIs, and document request model.