Android Developer

Job Description: 

We are seeking an experienced React Native Developer with over 4 years of experience to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in mobile development, particularly with React Native, and a passion for creating high-quality, scalable applications. You will play a key role in the development and maintenance of our cross-platform mobile applications, ensuring seamless integration with our web solutions and a superior user experience.

Key Responsibilities:

• Mobile Development: Develop, maintain, and optimize React Native applications for both iOS and Android platforms.

• Integration: Work closely with back-end developers to integrate mobile applications with APIs and other services.

• Collaboration: Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including UI/UX designers, product managers, and other developers, to deliver a cohesive product experience.

• Performance Optimization: Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications by identifying bottlenecks and implementing solutions.

• Code Reviews: Conduct code reviews and ensure adherence to coding standards, best practices, and company guidelines.

• Testing: Write and maintain unit and integration tests to ensure the reliability and robustness of the application.

• Documentation: Create and maintain technical documentation for code and APIs.

• Stay Updated: Keep up with the latest industry trends and technologies, and continuously improve the development process.

Qualifications:

       •  Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field        (or equivalent work experience) 

• Experience: 4+ years of experience in mobile development, with at least 3 years of hands-on experience with React Native.

• Skills: Proficiency in JavaScript and strong experience with React Native, including working with state management libraries (such as Redux or MobX) and navigation libraries.

• Platform Knowledge: Solid understanding of mobile development for both iOS and Android, including platform-specific considerations.

• Performance: Experience with performance optimization techniques for mobile applications.

• Version Control: Familiarity with version control systems (e.g., Git).

• Collaboration: Ability to work effectively in a team environment and communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

• Problem-Solving: Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

Preferred Skills:

• TypeScript: Experience with TypeScript for type safety and better code maintainability.

• UI/UX Understanding: Familiarity with UI/UX design principles and ability to collaborate effectively with designers.

• Back-End Knowledge: Basic understanding of back-end technologies and APIs to facilitate seamless integration.

• Testing Frameworks: Experience with testing frameworks such as Jest or Mocha.

• CI/CD: Knowledge of continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.

• App Store Deployment: Experience with deploying applications to the Apple App Store and Google Play Store

nurture.farm is looking for an experienced Tech Lead who is eager to have an impact on the future of sustainable agriculture around the globe.

Our Company

At nurture.farm, we are putting the farmer at the center of everything we do. We

are building a more resilient and sustainable farming ecosystem by reducing risks

and improving the quality of life for the farmers and their families through

digitization of the farming life cycle, financial inclusion of the farming community,

and affordable timely access to products, technologies, advisory and services. We

are a technology-led organization, focused on bringing scalable and sustainable

solutions to the farming ecosystem. We are a young entrepreneurial startup that

wants to learn, create and adapt every day. We aspire to create a happy and pro

ductive workplace for our employees, that embodies respect and transparency in

every part of the organization.

The Opportunity

Nurture.farm is looking for builders and tinkerers, who derive pleasure from

creating something from scratch.Dreamers, who are passionate about creating

something that touches of millions of people, and transforms lives. Sculptors, who

take pride in simplicity of design, and have the keenest eye for detail when it

comes to quality,learners, who look forward to continuing to grow everyday.

What you’ll do

• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve software.
• Manage individual project priorities, deadlines and deliverables.
• Enthusiastic to take on problems across the full-stack
• Mentor junior engineers
• Architect large scale systems

What we’re looking for

Builders and tinkerers, who derive pleasure from creating something from scratch,

dreamers, who are passionate about creating something that touches millions of people, and transforms lives,

sculptors, who take pride in simplicity of design, and have the keenest eye for detail when it comes to quality

learners, who look forward to continuing to grow every day

5-8yrs of mobile development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages.

Professional experience in building apps/sdks using Android SDK and/or Flutter

Programming experience in one or more of the following languages: Java, Kotlin, Dart.

Knowledge of React Native/Flutter will be a plus.

Working proficiency and communication skills in verbal and written English.

Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code.

We are looking for an Android Developer who possesses a passion for pushing mobile technologies to the limits. This Android app developer will work with our team of talented engineers to design and build the next generation of our mobile applications. Android programming works closely with other app development and technical teams.

• Design and build advanced applications for the Android platform
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features
• Work with outside data sources and APIs
• 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

• BE/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject 
• Proven software development experience and Android skills development
• Proven working experience in Android app development and have published at least 5 original Android apps
• Experience with integrating various Android SDKs
• Knowledge of developing own Android SDKs for distribution to other developers
• Experience working with remote data via REST and JSON
• Experience with third-party libraries and APIs
• Working knowledge of the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies

• Know how to build android applications and integrate APIs/SDKs
• Know how to create android SDKs
• Have built and launched atleast 5 android apps
• Ability to build complex apps on Android

At Cityflo, we are solving the problem of commuting to the office which affects employees in big, populated Indian cities every day. Cityflo provides a bus experience like no other - we run premium AC buses for daily commuters.  We’re changing the way urban Indians commute and enabling everyone to reclaim hours of their time every day. Before the imposed lockdown due to coronavirus, we were serving about 7500 commuters per day. We plan to scale to 5,00,000 rides per day in the next 4 years in a profitable and sustainable manner.

We're looking for people who are passionate about creating great Android applications.
You've been around for a few API levels and you know how to delight Android users. You’ve got an eye for the beautiful Android design our users expect and an attention to detail down to the very last dpi. You know your way around the View hierarchy and are eager to partner with Product and Design to craft efficient, performant, and delightful user experiences. You like building for the long term and value patterns and structures that allow for maximum flexibility in a constantly evolving product.

You can read more about our engineering and culture on our blog: https://blog.cityflo.com/tag/engineering/" target="_blank">https://blog.cityflo.com/tag/engineering/

What you should have:

• At least three years of engineering experience, a large portion of which in a team environment
• Bachelors/Masters degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related subject.
• Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms and programming languages
• Experience working closely with product teams, designers, and other developers to create a truly delightful mobile experience
• Familiarity with design concepts and constraints on mobile platforms.
• Extensive understanding of Android framework components and their respective lifecycles
• Experience developing highly performant Kotlin code and view layouts and the ability to diagnose performance bottlenecks
• A disciplined approach to development, testing, documentation and code structure in a team environment
• Familiarity with the Android tool ecosystem for development, testing, debugging, and performance benchmarking
• An excellent understanding of best practices for concurrency and threading
• MVVM design architecture pattern for android.

Preferred skills:

• Open Source contributions & participation in programs like Google Summer of Code are a plus.
• Have published one or more Android apps on the Play Store.
• Dependency injections: Dagger, Koin.
• Multi-threading and coroutines in Kotlin/Rxjava.

We are building a new app in vernacular languages in the ed-tech domain. Looking for highly skilled React Native + Android frontend engineers to build the product with A player's team.

We are funded by a leading VC in the country.