Android Developer

Job Profile: React Native Developer (2+ Years Experience)

Location: Kolkata

Work Mode: Work From Office

Experience Required: 2+ Years

Employment Type: Full-Time

Job Description

We are looking for an experienced React Native Developer with 2+ years of hands-on experience to join our mobile development team in Kolkata. The ideal candidate will be responsible for building high-quality, scalable, and performance-optimized mobile applications for Android and iOS platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain cross-platform mobile applications using React Native
• Convert UI/UX designs into pixel-perfect mobile interfaces
• Integrate RESTful APIs and handle asynchronous data
• Optimize mobile applications for performance, stability, and scalability
• Implement state management using Redux, Context API, or other libraries
• Write clean, maintainable, and reusable code
• Debug, troubleshoot, and resolve production and performance issues
• Collaborate with backend developers, designers, QA, and product teams
• Participate in code reviews, sprint planning, and Agile ceremonies
• Publish and maintain apps on Google Play Store and Apple App Store

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in React Native
• Strong knowledge of JavaScript (ES6+) / TypeScript
• Hands-on experience with React Hooks and Functional Components
• Experience with Redux / Context API
• Strong understanding of mobile UI/UX guidelines
• Experience with REST APIs and third-party SDK integration
• Familiarity with Android Studio and Xcode
• Experience using Git for version control

Good to Have

• Experience with Native Modules (Android / iOS)
• Knowledge of Expo
• Experience with Firebase (Auth, Push Notifications, Analytics)
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines for mobile apps
• Understanding of app performance optimization techniques

Behavioral & Soft Skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Good communication and collaboration abilities
• Ability to work independently and meet deadlines
• Willingness to work from office in Kolkata

What We Offer

• Stable work-from-office role in Kolkata
• Opportunity to work on live production mobile applications
• Career growth and technical learning opportunities
• Supportive and collaborative work environment

Some of the key responsibilities of this candidate are:

• Understand the EdTech context
• Innovate, evaluate, and deploy various android and IOs Features 
• Ability to take ownership over your work.
• An understanding of React Native best practices and a commitment to following them.

• Experience with React Js, React Native, JavaScript including DOM Manipulation and JavaScript object model.
• Thorough understanding of React Native and its core Principles.
• Good Knowledge of HTML5, CSS.
• Familiarity with code versioning tools (Such as Git, SVN or Mercurial)
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs
• Good knowledge of database (MySQL, SQLlite, RealM etc ..)
• 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.

Currently, we are looking for engineers who are skilled, passionate, driven, and a wee bit crazy (yes, crazy works! ) to join our tribe. The small tweaks you make, the processes you alter, the experiments you run, and the business decisions you drive will have reverberating effects on our ability to add value to our customers and keep them coming back for more.

Responsibilities:

• Work on cutting edge technical systems and seek to do things no one else has done before.
• Work with a group of people who believe in the utmost transparency and ethical practices.
• Work with full autonomy and high ownership of outcomes
• Add value to our user's life • Evolve as a professional through a learning and challenging journey.

Requirements:

• 4+ years of overall work experience, and a minimum of 2 years of experience in Android development
• Excellent knowledge of Java, Kotlin and Android eco-system
• Experience in software engineering best practices and design principles
• Prior experience in working on scalable Android App • Capable of handling web service integration - RESTful, JSON, SOAP, XML
• A focus and passion for Mobile UI & UX to make apps exciting for the user
• Excellent debugging and optimisation skills
• Rapid prototyping skills for getting product feedback
• Understanding of product development lifecycle
• Experience in React Native is a bonus

• Translate designs and wireframes into high-quality code
• Design, build and maintain high performance, reusable, and reliable Java
• code
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the
• application
• Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization
• Follow best practices in code implementation
• Willing to work on flexible time zones if required

• Strong knowledge of Android SDK, different versions of Android, and how to deal with different screen sizes
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect Android applications to back-end
• services
• Strong knowledge of Android UI design principles, patterns, and best
• practices
• Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning
• Ability to design applications around natural user interfaces, such as touch
• Familiarity with the use of additional sensors, such as gyroscopes and
• accelerometers (preferred)
• Knowledge of the open-source Android ecosystem and the libraries available for common tasks
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical
• requirements
• Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications –
• A knack for benchmarking and optimization
• Understanding of Google's Android design principles and interface guidelines
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• Familiarity with continuous integration
• Must have experience in Chat (one to one, group chat, file sharing)
• Knowledge in Google Maps APIs is preferred

• Designing the Mobile Application for our product offering
• Communicating effectively in a cross-functional product development team and present ideas and designs effectively.
• Identifying and correcting bottlenecks and fixing bugs
• Helping maintain code quality, organization, and automatization

• Experience / strong knowledge in both iOS & Android Mobile Application technologies
• Proficient in SwiftUI, Swift, Xcode, Java, Kotlin and Android Studio, Flutter, React Native
• Experience with version control: Maven, Gradle, Git, Cocopods
• Experience in application submission / provisioning process
• Experience in performance and memory tuning
• Good understanding of computer science concepts, design patterns, algorithms and data structures

Bonus Points:

• Experience / knowledge in any of the Back-End technologies

- Strong knowledge of Android SDK, different versions of Android, and how to deal with different screen sizes

- Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect Android applications to back-end services

- Strong knowledge of Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices

- Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning

- Strong knowledge in SQLite Database

- Experience in designing and developing custom controls for Android.

- Solid foundation in data structures, algorithms, and object orientation design.

- Capabilities to write and execute unit test cases.

- Independent researching, solution finding, analysis and problem solving skills and capabilities.

- Should have a strong knowledge of OOPS and intermediate knowledge of front-end GUI design and development.

- Should have knowledge of Kotlin

- Should have experience in  MVC / MVVM Architecture.

- Good in Analytics and Communication