JOB DESCRIPTION
ANDROID DEVELOPER
We are looking for an Android developer responsible for the development and maintenance of applications aimed at a vast number of diverse Android devices. Your primary focus will be the development of Android applications and their integration with back-end services. You will be working along-side other engineers and developers working on different layers of the infrastructure. Therefore, commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and creating quality products is essential.
Responsibilities
* 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
Skills
- 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
- 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

About Oxysquad Technologies Pvt Ltd
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Developing, releasing, and maintaining native Android Applications and oversee mobile application development efforts
Deliver across the entire app life cycle, design, build, deploy, test, release to app stores, and support
Working directly with product and backend developers to conceptualize, build, test, and realize products
Work on bug fixing and improving application performance
Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency
Optimizing performance for the apps and keeping up to date on the latest industry trends in the mobile technologies
Responsibilities:
- Writing clean and efficient codes for Android applications
- Monitoring the performance of live apps and work on optimizing them at the code level
- Identifying and resolving bottlenecks, rectifying bugs and enhancing application performance
- Performing unit and instrumentation tests on code
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams to define and design new features
- Staying up to date with new mobile technology trends, applications, and protocols
Key Requirements:
- You have experience in publishing an application on the Google Play store
- Familiarity with RESTful APIs to effectively integrate Android applications
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git
- Familiarity with various testing tools
- You are a problem solver with good analytical skills
Skills: Java, Android SDK & NDK, MVVM/MVC/MVP
We are looking for someone to build and lead the team of Android developers for a B2C product. Someone with deep experience in building consumer apps is desirable. You should have lead a team of android developers. Person who can recruit, lead and manage teams will be given preference.
What does the core role include?
- Experience in leading a team
- Design and build advanced app features for the Android platform.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features
- Build and introduce new features to our Android App
- Work on MVP & MVVM architecture for building apps in Android Studio
- Experience in Dagger framework
- Translate designs and wireframes into high-quality code.
- Design, build and maintain high performance, reusable, and reliable Java code
- Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect Android applications to back-end services
- Unit test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability
- Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.
What else can you expect in the role?
- Handling coroutines with Kotlin
- Work with REST API(JSON) endpoints using Retrofit
- Knowledge of Material Design and how to implement it in code
- Working on interfaces, data binding, and application lifecycle
What are we looking for?
- Expert in Java, RxJava, ReactJS, Kotlin
- Good working knowledge of design patterns & OOAD
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Hands on experience in writing Android applications
- Built and managed apps with over 1 million users
- Working knowledge of the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies
1. Understanding of the Mobile Application Development lifecycle
2. Hands-on experience with React Native
3. Experience with Redux or Flux or MobX
4. Understanding of Advanced JavaScript – ES6
5. Understanding of Flexbox
6. Preferable experience with iOS (Swift) or Android (Java) development
7. Understanding of iOS/Android module integration
8. Deploying iOS and Android apps on Apple Appstore and Android Play Store.
9. Ability to work in an Agile environment
KRAs includes :
1. Understanding the scope of work
2. Working with the design, programming & testing team on project estimates & timelines
3. Coordinate with team to build assets to be used within the mobile application
4. Build Application static flows using React Native with Redux or MobX
5. Integrate JSON web services
6. Working with the tester to fix bugs reported by the testers
7. Building and deploying the application to the app store
We are looking to grow our Mobile Development Team for which an Android Developer
has a critical role. You will be responsible for:
• Designing and developing multiple android apps, pushing the android apps to market, testing etc.
• Interacting with the client, project manager and inter-team members.
Required Candidate Skills:
• Excellent understanding of OOPs, Core Java and Kotlin.
• Experience working with remote data via REST and JSON.
• Experience with third-party libraries and APIs.
• In-depth understanding of the android components: Activities, Fragments, background services, and
Services.
• Good understanding of coroutines.
• Hands-on with Jetpack Architecture Components: LiveData, WorkMaanger, View Binding, Coroutines
and Lifecycle Aware Components.
• Experience with Room persistence library.
• Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle.
• Experience in MVVM, Live Data and Room DB.
• Able to work on different architecture (MVC, MVP, and MVVM) and design patterns.
• Experience with Agile development methodology (preferably scrum), continuous integration and tools
(GIT, JIRA, etc.).
• Strong knowledge of Android SDK, different versions of Android & advanced concepts.
• Strong knowledge of Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices.
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect Android applications to back-end services.
• Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning.
• Familiarity with Agile frameworks is a plus.
• Familiarity with tools like postman, swagger and mobile app development tools.
• Working knowledge of the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging
technologies.
• The candidate must have experience of at least 1 year in using Kotlin.
• The candidate must understand the MVVM architecture pattern along with design patterns such as
Builder, Singleton etc.
• The candidate must a clear understanding of the REST Protocol.
• Develop compelling mobile application functionality on high-traffic mobile apps and RESTful services.
• Participate in architecture and design of mobile applications and services with developer mentors.
• Ensure cross-platform application compatibility with dominant mobile platforms and versions.
• Apply strong analytical and development skills to troubleshoot and performance tune mobile apps and services.
• Create and update automated unit and acceptance tests to ensure software quality.
• Work closely on an agile team in a collaborative environment.
• Readily able to monitor environments and troubleshoot unforeseen problems.
Skills:
• Advanced understanding of React
• Typescript/ES6 JavaScript
• Experience with React Native strongly preferred
• Understanding of Redux and Redux-Saga
• Good technical skills & SOLID design principles (e.g., design patterns)
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English.
About the job
Responsibilities and qualifications
- 5+ years of Android development experience
- Will own several parts of our tech stack, but primarily our Android app
- Build new functionality to the Android app and regularly re-architect it to keep up with latest technologies (e.g., Kotlin)
- Work on new tech that we are already a leading user of (e.g., Google Firebase)
- Work closely with the backend team to construct creative solutions
- Optimize, improve efficiency, scalability, stability of application
- MUST BE reliable, and be able to communicate clearly
- MUST BE able to own and deliver their own work within deadlines, professionally
- Should be passionate about building a strong engineering culture
Bonus Points for experience building high-scale applications, SDKs and other web technologies (like JavaScript).
Who we are
- Fast growing Chennai-based startup (with venture funding)
- Led by strong engineers with significant experience at top tier firms like McKinsey, Oracle, Morgan Stanley, and authors of multiple Java Standards
- Building an awesome product already used by Swigg etc.
- Raised investment, so this role will not vanish in a few months
- Mentors include the Vice Chairman of HCL, Chairman of Singapore Airlines, Senior leaders from LinkedIn etc.
Other background information
- Looking for strong, passionate developers who want to join our team and grow
- We move fast, and will make you an offer in a few days for the right person
- The job location will be in Chennai (it is the SaaS capital of India)
- Please only apply if you are open to moving to Chennai (or are already here)
- This won't be a 10 - 6 job, but you will be given amazing responsibilities
- You will learn a ton, have a lot of flexibility, and have fun while doing it!
Job Perks
- Daily breakfast
- Friday team lunches
- Macbook
- Office near beach (for when people return after COVID)
- Potential for stock options (in lakhs)
- Stipend to attend conferences
- Potential travel to Singapore and other client locations
- 5-7 years of experience on Android Java-based mobile applications and systems development
- Strong command of Android Java. Exposure towards Android SDK
- Strong knowledge of the various packages on the Android App development stack layouts, intents, widgets, content providers, touch handling, drawing, location services, media interfaces, network, storage, security/cryptography, SQLite, etc.
- Knowledge of web services and serialization techniques like REST, SOAP, XML, JSON & framing
- A strong penchant for Object-Oriented Design and CS fundamentals
- Experience in working with version control, bug tracking, continuous integration, and other productivity enhancement software like TFS, Bugzilla, Jira, etc.
- Prior experience in working in Agile software methodologies
- Taking responsibility and ownership in the team's work, team player, and good communication skills
- Hands-on experience in developing native Android applications.
- Understanding of Android design patterns, memory management, file I/O, concurrency, and multithreading.
- Knowledge of working with network & battery optimizations, APIs, external libs, SDKs, Analytics, UI, visualizations & animations
- Preferred knowledge on Connectivity, Bluetooth protocols/ BLE.
- Working knowledge and hands-on with Database management such as SQL and contemporary technologies at their backend
- Experience in Unit Testing and TDD practices. Usage of Junit/Mockito/Espresso kind of test frameworks
- Eclipse or any IDE usage
- Published one or more applications in an Android marketplace and knowledge on the process of making the app live.
- Experience in working on applications with react native is a plus.
- Able to create a UI and UX that would make the app simple to use and delight users.
- Able to fix the occurring bugs and iteratively improve the app, include newer features, and keep the app up to date with all the Android updates/ libraries that will be released.
- Have an eye for new upcoming technologies and be able to evaluate and implement the same to enhance development efficiency.
- To succeed in this role, you should have the following skills and experience
- B.E/B.Tech/M.Tech/MCA or equivalent qualification









