Android Developer

Responsibilities

1. Cross-Platform Mobile Development

• Build, maintain, and scale production-grade React Native applications for both Android and iOS platforms from a single codebase.
• Translate product requirements and UX designs into clean, modular, and reusable React Native components.
• Develop rich, intuitive user interfaces for AI/ML dashboards, real-time analytics, and consumer-facing applications.
• Own features end-to-end — from technical design through to deployment on Play Store and App Store.

2. Native Integration & Bridging

• Write custom native modules and bridges in Kotlin/Java (Android) or Swift/Objective-C (iOS) to extend React Native's capabilities where required.
• Integrate third-party SDKs, device hardware APIs, and platform-specific features seamlessly into the React Native layer.
• Ensure consistent functionality and behaviour across a wide range of Android and iOS devices and OS versions.

3. Real-Time & Data-Driven UI

• Build real-time UI components that handle live data streams, WebSocket connections, and high-frequency data updates with minimal latency.
• Develop data-intensive views including charts, dashboards, and monitoring interfaces optimised for mobile performance.
• Ensure smooth, responsive user experiences under high-traffic and data-heavy conditions.

4. Performance & Optimization

• Profile, debug, and optimize application performance using tools such as Flipper, Hermes, React DevTools, and platform-native profilers.
• Minimize app bundle size, reduce render cycles, and improve startup time through best-in-class optimization techniques.
• Ensure accessibility compliance and cross-device UI consistency across varying screen sizes and resolutions.

5. Architecture & Code Quality

• Design and implement scalable mobile architectures supporting modularity, testability, and long-term maintainability.
• Implement robust state management using Redux, Zustand, MobX, or React Context depending on application complexity.
• Establish and uphold mobile coding standards, component libraries, and reusable design systems across the team.

6. Collaboration & Delivery

• Partner closely with backend, AI/ML, data engineering, and design teams to integrate APIs, data pipelines, and workflows.
• Actively participate in code reviews, sprint ceremonies, and technical design discussions.
• Support CI/CD pipelines using Fastlane, Bitrise, or equivalent tools for automated builds and releases.
• Contribute to OTA update strategies using CodePush or equivalent.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience building and shipping production React Native applications on both Android and iOS.
• Proficiency in JavaScript and TypeScript — TypeScript strongly preferred.
• Experience with state management libraries — Redux, Zustand, MobX, or Context API.
• Solid understanding of React Native architecture — Bridge, JSI, Hermes engine, and the New Architecture (Fabric/TurboModules) is a plus.
• Experience writing native modules or bridges in either Kotlin/Java or Swift/Objective-C.
• Hands-on experience with REST APIs, GraphQL, and WebSockets in a mobile context.
• Strong understanding of mobile UI/UX principles, responsive design, and platform-specific design guidelines (Material Design & HIG).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and app store deployment processes.

Preferred Skills

• Experience building data-intensive or dashboard-heavy mobile applications.
• Familiarity with data visualization libraries such as Victory Native, Recharts, or D3.js for mobile.
• Exposure to AR/VR or graphics-intensive mobile experiences (ARKit, ARCore, React Native Vision Camera).
• Experience with OTA updates via CodePush or similar tools.
• Familiarity with monorepo setups (Nx, Turborepo) for managing shared mobile codebases.
• Understanding of accessibility standards (WCAG) and inclusive design on mobile.
• Exposure to AI/ML integration on mobile — on-device inference, TensorFlow Lite, or CoreML.

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

Required:

1. A minimum of 1 years of consulting and/or relevant industry experience
2. Understanding of Android Framework and Android app development.
3. Experience in developing android apps using Kotlin and latest frameworks
4. Knowledge and understanding of Design-Patterns and Data Structures.
5. Ability to develop Android applications using latest Frameworks like Retrofit, RxJava
6. Ability to write Unit test cases using the frameworks.
7. Knowledge about how to consume the REST API's
8. Understanding of Git/BitBucket or any version control system
9. Good written and verbal communication skills.
10. B.E/B.Tech/MCA/MSC/MS

Preferred:

1. Understanding and usage of latest android frameworks like JetPack, Android Architectural components
2. Experience in mentoring the new team members and also the junior folks.
3. Exposure to various mobile architectures (ex: MVC, MVP, MVVM, etc..)
4. Experience in handling the Android app deployment process.
5. Experience in working in Agile methodology

About The Role

CapitalNow is seeking an Android Developer with notable experience in Java and Kotlin development. The technical team is responsible for developing the supported mobile application and web app for customers and a control panel for the marketing team involved in CapitalNow. You will be responsible for delivering best in a class mobile experience, engineering-complex, secure & high-quality native Android mobile apps for our product.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate efficiently across cross-functional teams such as product managers, UX-/UI-designers, and other software engineers
• Design, build and maintain high-performance reusable, and reliable code
• Continually improve and innovate software development, deployment and testing to ensure high-quality, on-time releases. Conduct and participate in code-reviews
• Provide UAT support & needed assistance for release management activities
• Serve as a leader for team members to learn from regarding mobile technologies, development, and delivery processes

Essential Qualifications

• At least 5 years of experience in Android Kotlin/Java development
• Excellent understanding of Objective Oriented design patterns, Android fundamentals, and Android SDK (versions 5.0 and up)
• ○  Experience with offline persistence, threading, memory management, and performance tuning
• ○ Data structure optimizations, security, IPC, App Modularization
• ○ 3+yrs of Experience in integrating third-party SDKs like Facebook, Gmail/Google, and Payment gateways like CCAvenue, PayU, Razorpay, etc
• ○ Including Android Architecture Components, Navigation Framework, Android Jetpack, Android NDK, View components, JSON, and more
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect Android applications to back-end services
• Published at least two original Android apps
• Knowledge of Google Playstore Policies and experience in handling all types of permissions in Playstore
• Strong analytical, communication, and interpersonal skills

Desired Qualifications

• Having experience working in the Financial Services domain (good if it's in capital markets) is an added advantage
• Familiarity with Unit Testing
• Hands-on experience as a Senior Android developer is a plus
• Having experience in writing complex queries using MySQL is an added advantage
• Immediate joiner is most preferable 

• You have prior experience in Java
• You have a deep understanding of Android SDK, app fundamentals & different development frameworks, integration with backend / API
• Excellent attention to detail and an eye for visuals. Design skills are not required but you should be able to critique and modify existing designs
• You have a deep interest in technology
• You're ready to learn and use new technology

About the Role

As an Android Developer, you will own the Android app and strive to deliver the best learning experience out there to our learners that upGrad is known for. You will be responsible for developing features, taking those features to production and maintaining the existing code. Innovative nature and pro-active involvement in the product is taken very seriously at upGrad, therefore, a major part of your role would involve thinking about new features and new ways to deliver quality learning experience to our learners

Skills/Experience

1. Minimum 6+ years of hands-on Android development experience.
2. Strong Java and object-oriented concepts.
3. Solid understanding of Android architectural patterns especially MVVM and their importance in scalable software development process.
4. Strong understanding of Android fundamentals.
5. Experience in Android UI creation.
6. Experience of Android Live Data, Kotlin and Constraint layout would be a huge plus point.

Years of Exp –  Minimum 6-8