Android Developer

Position Details: Mobile Application Developer (Native Android & iOS)

Experience: 3 to 5 Years

What You Will Do:

• Mobile Application Development: Design, develop, and maintain high-performance Native Android and iOS applications.

• Feature Development: Implement new features, enhancements, and bug fixes across mobile platforms.

• UI/UX Implementation: Build responsive, intuitive, and user-friendly mobile interfaces following platform-specific guidelines.

• API Integration: Integrate RESTful APIs, third-party SDKs, and backend services into mobile applications.

• Performance Optimization: Optimize applications for speed, scalability, memory usage, and battery efficiency.

• Testing & Debugging: Troubleshoot application issues, perform debugging, and ensure application stability and reliability.

• Release Management: Support application deployment, testing, and release processes on Google Play Store and Apple App Store.

• Collaboration: Work closely with Product Managers, Designers, QA, and Backend teams to deliver high-quality mobile solutions.

• Documentation: Maintain technical documentation, code standards, and development best practices.

What You Will Bring:

• Experience: 3 to 5 years of hands-on experience in Native Mobile Application Development.

• iOS Expertise: Strong experience with Swift, UIKit, SwiftUI, iOS SDK, and Xcode.

• Android Expertise: Strong experience with Kotlin/Java, Android SDK, Jetpack Components, and Android Studio.

• Architecture Knowledge: Understanding of MVVM, MVC, Clean Architecture, and mobile design patterns.

• Mobile Fundamentals: Knowledge of multithreading, concurrency, memory management, and local storage mechanisms.

• API Integration: Experience integrating RESTful APIs, JSON parsing, and third-party libraries.

• Version Control: Hands-on experience with Git and collaborative development workflows.

• Problem Solving: Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and analytical skills.

• Communication: Ability to collaborate effectively in Agile development environments.

What Will Make You Stand Out:

• Reactive Programming: Experience with Combine, RxSwift, Kotlin Coroutines, or Flow.

• Modern UI Development: Hands-on experience with SwiftUI and Jetpack Compose.

• App Store Experience: Experience publishing and maintaining applications on App Store and Google Play Store.

• Mobile Security: Understanding of authentication, secure storage, and mobile security best practices.

• CI/CD Exposure: Familiarity with mobile CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment processes.

• Performance Engineering: Experience optimizing application performance and user experience.

Technical Skills and Qualification:

• Key Skills: Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit, iOS SDK, Xcode, Kotlin, Java, Android SDK, Android Studio, Jetpack Components, MVVM, MVC, Clean Architecture, REST APIs, Core Data, SQLite, Room Database, GCD, Coroutines, Git, App Store Connect, Google Play Console, Mobile Security, Agile/Scrum.

• Minimum Qualification: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent practical experience.

Role & Responsibilities:

• Design and build advanced applications for the iOS platform
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features
• Work with outside data sources and APIs
• Integrate features with wearables and other IoT devices
• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability
• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency

Education & Qualification Requirement:

• Bachelor of Engineering, preferably in Computer Science of Information Technology

Desired Skills and Experience:

• You have 3+ years of iOS app development experience using Swift.
• Published apps in the App store
• Have a good sense of how networked applications (Web services/REST APIs and JSON) work
• Well versed with server side syncing, database handling etc.
• Sharp analytical skills - find out edge cases both in code and usability/product.
• Ability to learn and adapt fast.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
• 2+ years experience in any UNIX environment
• Experience implementing and maintaining unit tests
• Interest in privacy and the protection of personal information
• Good grasp of the fundamentals of UI layout designing, mobile UI components, using common themes and styles.
• Working knowledge of the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies.
• Strong understanding of design patterns, or an opinion on why they're overrated.

We are looking for a Passionate Android Developer to join our award-winning, talented team, building the next generation automated drone applications for our global customers. You will be responsible for the development of Android applications and their integration with back-end services.

About FlytBase

FlytBase is a 4-year old, venture-funded, high growth startup –  a global pioneer in software-led automation of commercial drone applications. The team has a cumulative professional experience of several decades, with engineering graduates from IIT-B, IIT-KGP, University of Texas & Georgia Tech.

FlytBase develops intelligent software that leverages reliable, off-the-shelf drone hardware to automate and scale drone deployments for commercial use-cases. FlytBase platform is hardware-agnostic, has intelligent plugins for autonomy, manages drone fleets via 4G/5G, and uses APIs to integrate into enterprise workflows. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, USA and has R&D offices in Pune, India. Widely recognized as a pioneer in the commercial drone ecosystem, FlytBase continues to win awards globally, the most recent one being the ‘NTT Data Open Innovation Global Champion 2019’.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Design, build and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable android code.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, ship new features, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the application.
• Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs.

Qualifications and Requirements:

• 1+ years of experience in designing and building Android applications.
• Good knowledge in programming concepts – OOPs, design & coding patterns.
• Experience in developing Android applications using Kotlin/Java.
• Strong knowledge of Android UI design principles, MVC, MVP and MVVM patterns.
• Strong knowledge of MAPS, Sqlite, GPS functionality etc.
• Strong experience in Material Design.
• Experience in writing Unit Tests and UI tests, must be familiar with Junit, Mockito and Espresso.
• Experience in integrating SSO and auth modules or libraries.
• Experience in Git or Bitbucket Repository.
• Experience in REST API integration.
• Familiarity with Android local connectivity API (Bluetooth, WiFi, USB).
• Familiarity with RxKotlin / RxJava (operator, thread management, eventBus).
• Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications.

What Will I Earn?

This role comes with an annual CTC that is market competitive and depends on the quality of your work experience, degree of professionalism, culture fit and alignment with FlytBase’s long-term business strategy.

We are looking for an Android developer who has hands-on experience in coding, building technology blocks, help answer choice of certain platform/tech over others, help the team visualize the product with the available resources and assets. 

What you’ll do:

• Design, develop, and test functionality for the latest app design.
• Support the entire application lifecycle (concept, design, test, release, and support).
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and develop new features.
• Take requirements and specs from design to development and be the first line of quality assurance.
• Understand user requirements—these apps have to meet real-world scenarios.
• Support the Supersub Mobile application in its entirety, including working on bug fixes and improving application performance, reliability and stability.
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.

What you bring:

• 3+ years of mobile software development experience.
• 3+ years of Kotlin Android development preferred.
• Solid Firebase & Firestore experience.
• Excellent decision-making skills with the ability to balance timeline vs features, while not sacrificing quality, and all within a fast-paced environment.
• Extensive knowledge in object-oriented software development, various architecture such as MVC/MVVM/MVP, multithreading, networking and memory management.
• Knowledge of standard Android libraries and frameworks.
• Strong analytical, prioritization, and troubleshooting skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Advanced knowledge of Android SDK, including relevant frameworks, such as testing and mocking frameworks, REST clients, dependency injection, etc.

• 5+ years’ experience in developing applications for iOS using Swift 5.
• Hands-on experience in developing and integrating mobile applications for iPhone & iPad (both orientations)
• Knowledge of JSON/REST API, web services and related technologies.
• Experience with design Guidelines, UI and UX design.
• Prior experience in submitting and maintaining iOS Apps on Apple Store & TestFlight would be a plus
• Hands-on experience working with 3rd party SDKs, Libraries and APIs
• Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning.
• Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications.
• Familiar with Apple Human Interface Guidelines
• Dynamic design handling
• Gamification
• Strong problem-solving skills

• Should also be proficient in using Adaptive Layouts

Responsibilities and Duties

• Understand project, strategise development plans and deliver on time with utmost quality.
• Maintaining and supporting multiple projects and deadlines
• Volunteer in creating new apps and improvise existing apps.
• Stay in touch with market trends and new technologies.

Job Type: Full-time