Android Developer

Job Title: Android Developer

Experience: 3–5 Years

Location: Bangalore, India

Job Overview:

We are looking for a skilled Android Developer with 3–5 years of experience to join our team in Bangalore. The ideal candidate will be responsible for developing, enhancing, and maintaining high-quality Android applications, ensuring performance, quality, and responsiveness.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and build advanced applications for the Android platform
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code
• Identify and fix bugs, improve application performance
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies

Required Skills:

• Strong experience in Java and/or Kotlin
• Experience with Android SDK, Android Studio
• Knowledge of MVVM / MVP architecture patterns
• Experience with RESTful APIs and third-party integrations
• Familiarity with Git or other version control tools
• Experience with SQLite / Room Database
• Understanding of UI/UX principles and Material Design guidelines

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Jetpack components (LiveData, ViewModel, Navigation)
• Knowledge of Dependency Injection (Dagger/Hilt)
• Experience with Firebase services
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies

Soft Skills:

• Strong problem-solving skills
• Good communication and teamwork abilities
• Ability to work independently and meet deadlines

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field 

1) UI Design skill

2) Publishing Knowledge about the app store/ Play Store

3) Google map integration

4) Payment gateway integration

5) Firebase integration (push notification and crash report)

6) API Integration in Restfull API

7) Individual project handling (added advantage)

• 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.

WE EXPECT YOU TO WIN:Everyone at chargeMOD is given the tools and resources they need to succeed at their job. We offer a flexible and positive work environment so you have the autonomy to build amazing software for our customers and add to our team of industry leading visionaries. You will build a compelling and easy to use interface, ensure its maintainability and ease of use, and suggest ways to improve the look and feel of the application. We are lean, which means we reflect on what we learn and use that new knowledge to quickly make better products. Your job is to keep learning, contribute your knowledge back to the rest of the team, and apply what you learn to make chargeMOD and our clients even greater.

YOUR OPPORTUNITY:

chargeMOD’s engineering team is looking for an Android Developer to join our growing team. You are highly motivated, collaborative, and technical, with the passion to help shape the delivery of software products for our customers. You are passionate about web development and interested in helping to shape the future of our web services team.You are always seeking new and diverse challenges to grow your skill set and broaden your experience.

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

• You will join development on a mobile SDK, in use by tens of thousands of users around Pan India.
• You will join the weekly team meetings with the client and communicate progress to the client, as well as work closely with our development team in Slack/Gmeet.
• You will be responsible for development, do a portion of the testing, and be responsible for the release of the application

RESPONSIBILITIES: As a developer, you are responsible for delivering valuable software to your clients while adhering to technical standards, company values, and industry best practices. Your success in this position will require you to set and meet appropriate expectations with customers and delight customers by anticipating their needs. You will be accountable for meeting commitments and producing quality, tested software. High output, driven developer, able to work in a team setting.
Here are some tools we use in our Android development process:

• Slack
• Atlassian Tools (Jira, Confluence, etc)
• Android Studio
• Jenkins
• Github

YOUR QUALIFICATIONS:

• You have ability to write and test SDKs for use by other developers
• Here are some of the skills we expect you to possess:
  • Java and Kotlin
  • Client and team communication
  • Material design
  • Action bar/toolbar
  • Support libraries/Android X/Jetpack
  • Understanding of the activity and fragment lifecycle
  • Efficient layout design
  • Resource/asset management
  • Multi-threading, background processing
  • Networking
  • Functional / UI Testing (Espresso)

WE CONSIDER IT A PLUS IF YOU HAVE EXPERIENCE WITH:

• Significant UI experience (one of the primary SDKs is UI-related – so although you will not be developing a user interface for the application, knowledge on UI is important)
• Significant push notification experience (one of the primary SDKs is push-notification related)

Roles and Responsibilities

• Must be self-driven and motivated
• Proficient in writing quality, efficient and performant code for iOS app, using Swift
• Follow right architecture and design patterns
• Aware of the agile working environment
• Document design/technical guidelines and spread knowledge across teams
• Responsible for self/peer code reviews
• Viable suggestions with clear understanding of iOS fundamentals 

Requirements :
(Must have skills) 

• Swift (1+ years)
• iOS Fundamentals
• MVVM/VIPER (1+ year)
• SOLID principles
• Third party integrations likes google map, firebase, Analytics
• Know about push notification & deep linking

(Good to have Skills) 

• RxSwift
• SwiftUI
• Swiftgen or any other dependency injection framework
• GCD/OperationQueue
• Core Data
• Performance Optimization (Launch time, App Size, Network)
• XCTest or any other UT framework
• Solved a core level problem (at least 1)
• Have built your own library
• Any apps that have been submitted to app store

Design and Build iOS product and Platform

• IOS coding using Objective C and Swift Ensuring quality deliverables, fixing application defects, maintaining code and implementing application updates.
• Designing coding, Documenting design, Defect free deliverables.
• Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of application.

We are looking for an Android Developer who possesses a passion for pushing mobile technologies to the limits and will work with our team of talented engineers to design and build the next generation of our mobile applications.

Responsibilities:

• Own the entire development lifecycle as you prototype, create, optimize, test, launch, and refine Android apps.
• Build features that will reach millions of users.
• Work with fellow designers and developers in an iterative environment with short and impactful development cycles.
• Develop cutting edge functional modules that will be integrated across all our Android apps.
• Brainstorm, contribute new ideas, conceive innovative strategies, and implement solutions to difficult problems.
• Exploit the most advanced Android APIs and platform features to build innovative applications in food and dining space.
• Work closely with our backend team to interface with RESTful API services and contribute to the backend code when needed.
• Work with real-time feedback from our users to make the product better.
• Discover, design, develop, deploy, debug.
• Focus on Material Design principles and pixel-perfect implementation of the design into code.

Requirements:

• Engineers with 3+ years of experience in shipping consumer-facing Android apps with the large user base, ideally currently available on the Google Play Store (Please be sure to include links to all such apps with your resume).
• Top-notch programming skills in Java, Kotlin and Android.
• Command of memory management, view hierarchy, battery optimization and in-depth experience with multithreaded and networked applications.
• Worked with RESTful APIs, third-party SDK Integrations and common technologies like HTTPS, JSON, OAuth, and SQL.
• Thorough working knowledge of Android Studio with the Gradle build system.
• Understanding the quirks of the fragmented ecosystem of Android OS versions and devices.
• Solid experience with Git.
• Care for quality with an obsession for performance and willingness to spend time testing the team's work as well as yours.