Android Developer

Android Developer, Gurgaon

About Hive  

Hive is the leading provider of cloud-based enterprise AI solutions to power the next wave of intelligent  automation. We offer a portfolio of best-in-class deep learning models, built with consensus-validated  training data sourced and annotated by our distributed workforce of more than 2 million contributors  globally. Hive's APIs enable use cases including automated content moderation, contextual advertising,  advertising and sponsorship measurement, document parsing, and more. We process billions of API requests  per month for many of the world's largest and most innovative companies.  

Hive has raised over $120M in capital from leading investors, including General Catalyst, 8VC, Glynn  Capital, Jericho Capital, Bain & Company, Visa Ventures, and others. We have over 220 employees globally in our San Francisco and Delhi offices. 

About Role  

In order to execute our vision, we need to grow our team of best-in-class engineers. We are looking for  talented Android developers who will thrive in an autonomous engineering-driven environment. You will  take ownership of a product and have the ability to shape product direction.  

Responsibilities  

• Design and develop a delightful Android application for our users, with a focus on simplicity of use and high-performance  
• Write product-independent code and design modular APIs to be used across all of our products  
• Work across disciplines with team members from front-end, backend, design, and product  
• Help ensure we’re bug-free by writing unit-tests, and regularly communicating with our QA team  
• Actively participate in product decisions, ensuring we set reasonable development deadlines  

Requirements  

• Strong development skills with Kotlin/Java and the Android SDK  
• You have an understanding of MVP and / or MVVM  
• You understand the ins and outs of RESTful web services  
• You have experience developing, releasing, and maintaining Android applications on top of RESTful  APIs 
• You have fundamentals in OO-design, data structures, and problem solving 
• You have great communication skills and ability to work with others  
• You have experience shipping quickly and often, while still maintaining test coverage 
• You are a team player-no job is too small or too big!  

Job description
● Contribute towards Designing and Developing functionality for our mobile app based on Cordova and
Angular.
● Rapidly build prototypes from mockups that can be directly implemented
● Create decoupled, interactive mobile UIs using applicable Frameworks
● Improve rendering performance and memory optimizations to create a performant UX
● Support, maintenance and ongoing development for existing applications and projects
● Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability

Responsibilities
-Design and build applications for the iOS platform
-Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
-Collaborate with a team to define, design, and ship new features
-Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs
-Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization
Skills
-Proficient with Swift, and Cocoa Touch
-Experience with iOS frameworks such as Core Data, Core Animation,
 etc.
-Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning
-Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect iOS applications to back-end
 services
-Understanding of Apple’s design principles and interface guidelines
-Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications
-Knack for benchmarking and optimization
-Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Gift

Job Requirement
• Min 9+ Years in Android Application Development, know how’s of iOS development is an advantage.
• Experience with cross platform technologies - React Native, Flutter is a big plus
• Managing systems in production and understands the release process, monitoring, and debugging
• 1-2 years of experience managing and growing engineering teams
• Proven results-oriented person with a focus on delivering quality products
• Experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining high performance, high availability, large-scale
applications
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, agile development environment.

Pocket FM is an audiobook platform for Indian Languages. We believe Listening is the new Reading and is on a mission to enrich the lives of people through the power of stories and knowledge in the books. (Audio is a $15B+ industry globally with unicorns like Audible, Ximalaya FM, China Literature,Spotify etc) Founded by IIT Kharagpur and Kanpur alumni, Pocket FM has grown to 2M+ users with deep engagement of 90 minutes time spent per user per day. We are a Series A funded start-up backed by some of the marquee investors like Tencent, Lightspeed, and others. Who you are
 2 + years of experience in android development.
 Hands-on experience in Testing & Release lifecycle
 Good knowledge in Kotlin, Android SDK.
 Knowledge of Android Platform Internals in a plus
 Proficient in Data structures and Algorithms.
 Proficient in Design patterns and principles.
 Exposure to Libraries/APIs like RxJava, Coroutines etc
 Familiar with common Architectures like MVVM, MVP, MVI etc..
 Up to date with Jetpack components Libraries and other standard libraries.
 Ability to create custom UI from given Prototypes
 Experience with Android Media Framework and Audio Engineering is a Plus.
 Experience with Streaming technology, in depth knowledge of streaming protocols and standards is a plus.
 Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability.
 Experience working with remote data via REST and JSON.
 Excellent programming and debugging skills in Mobile Java (Android)
 UI development in mobile framework (Android) environment including using native UI controls and developing of new custom UI Controls and handling Fragmentation.
 Candidates should meet at least 90% of criteria.

Description :

- We are looking for a qualified React Native developer to join our Engineering team.

- You will be working with our engineers to develop and maintain high quality mobile applications for both platforms as Android and iOS.

- Ultimately, you should be able to design and build the next generation of our mobile applications.

Job Responsibilities and Required Skills :

• 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.
• 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.
•  Experience with React Js, React Native, JavaScript including DOM Manipulation and tha JavaScript object model.
• Thorough understanding of React Native and its core Principles.
• Hands on experience on React Native Framework at least 3 years.
• Familiarity with code versioning tools (Such as Gitl)
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs
• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools.
• Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Web pack, NPM etc.
• Experience with Native Mobile app deployment on App store and google play store.
• Knowledge of native Android and iOS is required 
• Knowledge of TV App Development is a plus

 

- Great Understanding of Android development SDK
- Expertise in Core Java with solid OOD principles and design patterns 
- Good grasp of algorithms, design patterns, memory management and multithreaded programming
- Conversant with JSON, XML, Web services API
- Experience with saas platforms for mobile development like Analytics, Push Notifications, Cloud Storage , Ad Networks , etc
- Hands on experience with Android's deggugging, unit- testing , memory and performance optimization tools 
- Hands on google maps aps and third party aps 
- Hands on experience of new android architectures and components like MVVM, Room Persistence , Dagger 2, Observables , Rx Java
- Must have experience on Kotlin

Mandatory: Hands on experience working with Swift 3 , Swift 4. Very strong logical skills. Good hold on operating system concepts and data structure. Experience with web services , core-data , camera kit , image caching concepts, keychain , past experience working with one of the design patterns like MVC / MVVM / Viper , network check.

Good to have: Rx-Swift experience , video / image filter experience , media player usage , complex UX effects , couch-db , RealM.Knowledge of GIT management , Continuous Integration and Continuous Development practices.

1. Experienced iOS Developer with full-time work experience in developing iOS apps for iPhone, iPad, iPod.
2. Should be proficient in Swift and Objective C and use Xcode, Cocoa libraries, and other third-party libraries to develop apps.

3. Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect iOS applications to back-end services