Android Developer

What does the core role include?

• Designing and developing high-volume, low-latency applications for mission-critical systems and delivering high-availability and performance
• Designing stateless components in React Native
• Contributing in all phases of the development lifecycle
• Working with the developers to create and maintain a robust framework to support the apps
• Working with the developers to build the interface with a focus on usability features
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What else can you expect in the role?

• Prepare and produce releases of software components
• Optimizing performance for the apps
• Problem-solving skills, analytical mind, and positive attitude
• Ability to think from end users perspective and focused on improving the overall product experience.
• Deliver across the entire app life cycle concept, design, build, deploy, test, release to app stores and support
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What can fetch you brownie points?

• Hands on experience with React Native is required
• Hands-on experience in React Native APIs, ReactJS, Javascript, ECMAScript (OOJS) and JSX.
• Strong understanding of JavaScript ecosystem
• Hands on experience on Android in creating Hybrid / Native applications
• Demonstrable UI/UX experience on a large-scale app.
• Thorough understanding of React Native development tools like IDEs (Nuclide, Atom, Sublime Text, or Visual
• Good knowledge of JS frameworks like ReactJS is a plus.

Desired Skills and Experience

Hybrid Apps,React Native, Native iOS and Android Architecture understanding

Responsibilities:

• Design and build advanced hybrid mobile applications using React Native
• Lead the application development effort by being the SPOC
• Build hybrid apps using React Native for Android/iOS
• Publish apps to corresponding App store/Play store
• Implement new technologies to maximize application performance and optimize load time
• Collaborate with the back-end developer to build the RESTful APIs
• Research on emerging technologies and trends
• Participate in the planning and design of future software and technical architectures

Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands on experience in the full life cycle of Hybrid mobile application development including publishing one or more apps to the play store & app store
• Must have developed Hybrid Mobile application using React. Hands on Working experience of React Native is a must.
• Experience developing back-end services preferably with NodeJS.
• Experience in developing apps on native Android/iOS platforms is a plus
• Experience in designing and working with n-tier architectures (UI, Business Logic Layer, Data Access Layer) along with some experience with service-oriented architectures (SOA)
• Strong skills in RESTful web services
• Experience with Agile methodologies would be helpful

Job Description

About:

Market network for digital creators. The platform provides a marketplace for YouTubers, twitch streamers, Instagrammers. It provides tools to creators to build their brand, business, and unlock new revenue streams while growing existing revenue streams.

Creators today find themselves at the mercy of social media platforms to get their content out in front of their fans. Its is a seed funded startup building a platform to encourage more creators to take full control of their growth, become self-sufficient, and not get exploited.Softwares have streamlined other industries to great benefit in the last 25 years. We think it’s inevitable that it will also happen in our ecosystem. In the last decade, we saw Shopify do that for e-commerce entrepreneurs and AngelList empower tech entrepreneurs. We want to do the same for media entrepreneurs. How do we plan on doing this? By helping creators globally to engage deeply with their fans and communities; monetize much earlier into their journeys of being successful independent businesses and empower them to effectively manage their business. The founding team of CreatorStack is a diverse mixture of seasoned technology entrepreneurs, musicians, content creators, and artists. We love solving problems. And we love solving them as a team. If you believe that chasing your creativity should be financially rewarding, then come join us.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Work on a disruptive product that’s still in its early stages
• Be responsible for the development and maintenance of the CreatorStack mobile app aimed at iOS and Android
• Translate designs and wireframes into high-quality code
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the CreatorStack app
• Mentor other engineers, define our technical culture and help to build a fast-growing team.

Must Have:

• Have experience in product development, architecture, and design for a 2 to 5 years
• Are proficient in Flutter language
• Have the ability to learn and look for ways to improve yourself and the processes around you
• Have strong knowledge of iOS and Android frameworks and the ability to deal with different screen sizes
• Are proficient with RESTful api's to connect mobile applications to back-end services
• Experience with storage, threading, and performance tuning
• The ability to mentor and support other team members by doing code reviews and applying your experience in process and technical leadership
• Experience working with agile team environments and if you are a self-starter, conscientious member of the team
• Good knowledge in pixel-perfect implementation of designs

Nice to have:

• If you have worked in a fast product-driven culture and have the ability to build an experience that solves users' problems - we like to work with team members who have a solid hold on product and design thinking
• If you have led teams in your past experiences
• If you also have experience in working with languages like React and Swift

Benefits :

• It is a market network platform for internet native digital content creators turns their passion into a profitable venture. Our products help them accelerate growth and increase direct monetization for creators around the globe

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.

Mandatory: Hands on experience working with Java or Kotlin. Very strong logical skills. Good hold on operating system concepts and data structure. Experience with web services , SQL Lite , camera kit , image caching concepts, keychain , past experience working with one of the design patterns like MVC / MVVM / MVP , network check implementation.

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.

Soft Skills: Strong communication skills , high spirited , eager to learn , able to perform in a high pressure environment