Android Developer

Job Description

Position Summary:

We are looking for a Mobile application developer responsible for the development and maintenance of applications aimed towards iOS, including mobile phones and tablets. Your primary focus will be the development of such applications and their integration with other services. You will be working alongside other engineers and developers working on different layers of the infrastructure. Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and creating quality products is essential. You will be responsible for the product development with quality and by following the engineering practices. The candidate should be a team player who should be able to code, do the peer code review, defect fixes wherever needed on the existing product.

Responsibilities:

 Design and build applications for iOS

 Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications

 Collaborate with a team to define, design, and ship new features

 Innovative thinking for problems solutions. Solid implementation

 Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs

 Achieving Code, module delivery dates within time

 Help maintain code quality, organization, automatization, and documentation

 Uses Agile Scrum Methodology for software development

 Develops unit tests for all new code

 Has all code changes peer reviewed and must peer review code when required

 Provides input for documentation of new or existing programs

 Well versed with usage of debugging tools to analyze and solve complex problems independently

 Diagnose and resolve complex level issues of application

 Participate in interactions with all levels of personnel with different teams Skills:

 Proficient in all versions of Swift, with a good knowledge of its ecosystems

 Solid understanding of object-oriented programming

 Experience in App Store distribution process and Enterprise distribution of Apple

 Good knowledge of performance limits and characteristics

 Knowledge of memory management and multi-threading, background thread handling and iOS file systems

 Knowledge of private framework in swift and objective C languages

 Experience with embedded databases and other system datastores

 Experience of automated testing platforms and unit tests for Mobile applications

 Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect to back-end services

 Good sense of UI design and a user-oriented focus  Knack for benchmarking and optimization  Proficient understanding of code versioning tools e.g. Git

 Hands on experience in using Jenkins

 Familiarity with continuous integration

 Good Knowledge in design patterns

 Excellent interpersonal and written communication skills in English

 Good time management skills

 Certification of iOS development, swift language will be value added  Experience with Cocoa APIs on iOS and Apple frameworks AR, ML and swift UI is good to have

 2-4 years of work experience in Mobile application development.

Pay/compensation: Benefits: Health Insurance (including for Parents); Personal Accident Cover.

Responsibilities:

• Writing clean and efficient codes for Android applications
• Identifying and resolving bottlenecks, rectifying bugs, and enhancing application performance.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to define and design new features.
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.
• Ability to brainstorm and come up with solutions to open-ended problems.
• Ability to take ownership and drive initiatives end to end.
• Desire to learn and dive deep into new technologies on the job.
• Solid understanding of CS fundamentals-Operating Systems, Databases, and Data Structure.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Prior experience as an Android Developer using Java, Kotlin, Android SDK, Android NDK
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to effectively integrate Android applications
• Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle.
• Passion for products and aspiration to make a big impact.
• Solid engineering principles and a clear understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Expertise in implementation of custom UI components along with fabulous animations and write/understand Rest APIs
• Experience working with Google Maps, Geo-locations, Media permissions, etc.

• Develop advanced and secure applications for Android phones and tablets
• Continuously discover, evaluate and implement new technologies, libraries for application to improve the functionality
• Keep eye on new technologies to maximize development efficiency
  Unit-test based coding for modular coding, reusability;
• Writing readable code; Maintain technical documentation
• Bug fixes and improving performance of existing applications
• Work on new ideas for products, it’s prototypes and estimates
• Collaborate on projects with a closely knit team

• The main roles and responsibilities would be:
• Deliver high quality mobile apps on Android platforms.
• Create best practice, drive initiatives to build reusable frameworks, components and solutions.
• Engage with the team to create a knowledge centre on Android.
• Minimum experience of 1 years needed. Ideally more than 2 years.
• Maps based apps.
• Payment gateway integration: (PayPal, Stripe, Paytm etc).
• Integration of webservices
• Marketplace apps
• Live Streaming
• Offline application development.
• Strong OO design and programming skills in Java
• Android SDK
• JSON/REST API
• Social Media APIs
• UML/Design Pattern
• Knowledge of Retrofit,Volley,Dagger2,Realm,RxJava,Espresso
• Knowledge of android architecture component(LiveData etc).
• Working Experience on MMVM and MVP architecture
• Experience in SQL and NOSQL databases.
• Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications 
• Understanding of Googles Android design principles and interface guidelines 
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.
• Work closely with the leadership team to define roadmap and development plans
• Help define and implement standards and promote best practices for the Android development team
• Tackle daily challenges with your creative problem solving recommendations
• Mentor and contribute knowledge to the rest of the team and the organization
• Strong knowledge of Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices
• Experience with threading, and performance tuning
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements

As part of your day to day job, you’ll

1. Own end-to-end features of the app: networking, persistence, business logic, and

UI

2. Use Kotlin (primary) and Java

3. Do reactive programming using RxJava2

4. Follow Model-View-Intent architecture to build UI of the app

5. Use Android Architecture Components

6. Write tests

7. Invent awesome Android stuff to make your job easier

Qualifications

1. Motivation to design and build reliable, elegant apps

2. 3 - 5.5 years of android application development experience

3. Proficiency in Java and experience in Kotlin

4. Familiarity with RxJava2, Dagger2, OkHttp, Retrofit, Android Architecture

Components

5. Familiarity with material design