Android Developer

Company Description

Sciflare Technologies Pvt. Ltd. is a 10+ years dynamic and innovative IT and software development company located in Chennai. With a strong presence in the US, Europe, and UAE, we specialize in various domains, including AI, Gaming, Banking, Fintech, Fantasy Sports, IT, E-commerce, Logistics, Healthcare, and On-Demand Services. Our team of over 40 talented professionals is dedicated to delivering cutting-edge solutions that drive our clients' success. Our top clients include Provident Bank, Century Financial, HDFC Life, The New Indian Express, Cisco, and EROS Group.

Join us and be a part of a company that thrives on creativity, technology, and excellence.

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Role Description

• You are a champion at Code reviews and Unit/Mock/integration Tests
• You have a strong sense of ownership of what you design and deploy
• You provide strong technical mentorship to team members
• You are an excellent team player
• You continuously learn and improve

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior React Native Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will lead and manage software development projects across diverse domains such as Gaming, Banking, Fintech, Fantasy Sports, IT, E-commerce, Logistics, Healthcare, and On-Demand Services. You will be responsible for ensuring the successful delivery of projects, meeting deadlines, and exceeding client expectations.

Skill Sets

• Startup Experience: Proven track record of taking ownership of projects and delivering impactful results in a startup environment.
• Relevant Experience: 3-9 years of experience in mobile app development, with a strong focus on building high-performance, scalable, and maintainable React Native applications.
• React Native Expertise: Extensive experience with React Native, including deep knowledge of its ecosystem, libraries, and tools.
• JavaScript & TypeScript: Proficiency in JavaScript and TypeScript, with experience in writing clean, maintainable, and efficient code.
• Mobile Development: Hands-on experience in developing cross-platform mobile applications for both iOS and Android, with a strong understanding of platform-specific guidelines and best practices.
• State Management: Proficiency with state management solutions such as Redux, MobX, or Context API.
• APIs & Integration: Experience integrating with RESTful APIs and GraphQL endpoints, with a strong understanding of asynchronous data fetching and state management.
• UI/UX Design: Strong understanding of UI/UX principles and experience working with designers to implement user-friendly interfaces and improve app usability.
• Testing & Debugging: Experience with mobile testing frameworks and tools such as Jest, Detox, or Appium. Skilled in debugging and performance optimization for mobile applications.
• Version Control & CI/CD: Experience with Git, pull requests, and CI/CD pipelines. Familiarity with tools like GitLab, GitHub, or Bitbucket.
• Agile Practices: Experience working in Agile environments, with a solid understanding of SCRUM and related methodologies.
• Collaboration & Communication: Excellent teamwork and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively in a remote or distributed team setting.
• Solutions-Oriented: Ability to tackle complex problems with a solutions-oriented mindset, adapting to the fast pace and challenges of startup life.

Responsibilities

• Scalable Architecture: Lead the design and implementation of scalable mobile architectures that ensure performance, reliability, and maintainability of React Native applications.
• Informed Decisions: Make architectural and technical decisions that align with the companys business objectives and technical strategy.
• Code Quality & Standards: Maintain high standards of code quality through regular code reviews, adhering to best practices and industry standards.
• User Experience: Work closely with UX/UI designers to ensure that applications provide a seamless and engaging user experience.
• Performance Optimization: Optimize mobile applications for speed, responsiveness, and efficiency, ensuring a smooth user experience across both iOS and Android platforms.
• Testing & Debugging: Implement comprehensive testing strategies to identify and address issues early in the development cycle, ensuring reliable and high-quality releases.
• Collaboration: Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other developers to understand user requirements and deliver features that meet user needs and project goals.
• Continuous Learning: Stay current with the latest trends, technologies, and best practices in React Native and mobile development to drive innovation and improvement.
• Autonomy: Take ownership of projects and tasks, working independently and effectively without the need for constant supervision.
• Simplicity: Strive for simplicity and elegance in your code and solutions, avoiding unnecessary complexity.
• Proactive Problem Solving: Anticipate and address potential issues before they arise, contributing to the overall success of the team and project.
• Solution-Oriented: Focus on delivering practical solutions to problems, going beyond just writing code to contribute to the overall success of the product.

Life@Sciflare:

• An exciting & lively workplace gives you the chance to work in an environment where you may unleash your creativity and inventiveness to the best extent possible.
• Work in a collaborative setting where your cooperative team contributes new perspectives to your objectives and forges strong bonds.
• Growth mindset: You are nurtured through each stage of your professional advancement by learning and unlearning new things.

The role is office-based, working from Monday to Friday 9:00 AM to 06:00 PM & all Saturdays & Sundays are off.

With millions of transactions each month, Animall is one of the world’s fastest-growing agritech companies. We continue to re-imagine and re-engineer the dairy ecosystem in India, and each team member will have significant ownership of the key components that go into this mission

• Work with product managers to find solutions to critical problems, face internal customers, and create requirements.
• Triage and fix critical issues that arise in the field that affect our core product.
• Manage git repositories, pull requests, and review code.
• Communicate properly & promptly with all stakeholders.
• Build a proof-of-concept for new products from scratch.
• Optimize, clean up, and comment on the existing codebase.

• Experience working on the Android platform
• Experienced with MVVM, Kotlin Coroutines, Room and Koin or Dagger
• Experience in designing, development and REST API Integration of Android Applications using Java or Kotlin
• Strong knowledge of Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices
• Knowledge of Android APIs and platform capabilities (location-based capabilities within apps)
• Experience with performance tuning of Android Applications

• Experience working with web views and knowledge about best practices for web view based apps

• Solving real business needs of our internal customers using your software engineering and analytical problem-solving skills.
• You love architecting and building a robust, scalable, and highly available distributed infrastructure.
• Live and grow the Animall https://www.notion.so/Our-Culture-2ec96ec0e96b427b9187cc94cdd61b28">Culture

• A fast paced environment to learn and grow. You’ll get opportunities to represent the company in events like Devoxx, Google Developer Days India etc.
• Very high autonomy; freedom to take risks, to experiment and to fail.You’ll collaborate with product managers and designers, data scientists and algorithm experts, even dairy farmers, to build exciting new features
• An opportunity to work on something that really matters. Check out the reviews for our app.
• Very high transparency.
• We pay top of market with excellent benefits
• Personal CFO Services with IndMoney.
• Employee assistance program- Counselling and consultation services for work and home- life topic
• Group medical insurance family floater for Employee, spouse and kids

Must Good to Have Details :

- Must have at least 1 year of experience on React Native along with architecture experience in Mobile Applications.

- Have strong knowledge of App UI design principles, patterns, and best practices

- Familiarity with native build tools, like XCode, Gradle, Android Studio IntelliJ, VsCode

- In-Depth Knowledge of React, React Native, TypeScript or JavaScript Redux, Hooks, ECMAScript (ES6, ES7 etc.), Node, NPM and iOS & Android Build systems

Must have :

- Understanding of REST APIs, the document request model, and offline storage and must have on React Native chart Library

- Working knowledge on Sending Notifications with APNs & FCM

- Experience working with Backend Web Services (like REST etc), Fetch API, and Axios and knowledge of Databases (Relational, Distributed etc.)

- Experience in integrating libraries like React Navigation, React Native, Firebase, Social Logins (Facebook, Google, Apple etc.), Push Notifications etc.

- Responsive layouts in both platforms in reactive native using Media Query & Flexbox

- Sound knowledge of Design Patterns like Creational, Structural, and Behavioral

Good to have :

- Working experience on third-party dependencies and debugging - dependency conflicts

- Must be able to integrate native code in react-native and expo Modules

- Able to generate builds for both IOS(.IPA) and Android (APK) Platforms and experience in hosting apps on respective Stores(AppStore, PlayStore).

- Professional Communication (written, verbal presenting)

- Open to learn and adapt to new technologies

- Go-getter, Result oriented Creative & Innovative approach

- Excellent Communication Skills

• The main roles and responsibilities would be:
• Deliver high quality mobile apps on Android platforms.
• Create best practice, drive initiatives to build reusable frameworks, components and solutions.
• Engage with the team to create a knowledge centre on Android.
• Minimum experience of 1 years needed. Ideally more than 2 years.
• Maps based apps.
• Payment gateway integration: (PayPal, Stripe, Paytm etc).
• Integration of webservices
• Marketplace apps
• Live Streaming
• Offline application development.
• Strong OO design and programming skills in Java
• Android SDK
• JSON/REST API
• Social Media APIs
• UML/Design Pattern
• Knowledge of Retrofit,Volley,Dagger2,Realm,RxJava,Espresso
• Knowledge of android architecture component(LiveData etc).
• Working Experience on MMVM and MVP architecture
• Experience in SQL and NOSQL databases.
• Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications 
• Understanding of Googles Android design principles and interface guidelines 
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.
• Work closely with the leadership team to define roadmap and development plans
• Help define and implement standards and promote best practices for the Android development team
• Tackle daily challenges with your creative problem solving recommendations
• Mentor and contribute knowledge to the rest of the team and the organization
• Strong knowledge of Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices
• Experience with threading, and performance tuning
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements