Android Developer

Job Title: Mobile Developer (React Native/Flutter)

Location: Hybrid

Employment Type: Full-time

About Us:

We are a startup building a marketplace for maids. Our mission is to connect customers with service providers through a seamless, user-friendly mobile application. We are looking for a passionate Mobile Developer to join our team and help shape the future of our platform.

Role Overview:

As a Mobile Developer, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining our mobile application using React Native or Flutter. You will work closely with designers, backend engineers, and product managers to deliver high-quality, scalable, and user-friendly experiences.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain mobile applications using React Native or Flutter.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
• Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications.
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code following best practices.
• Troubleshoot and debug issues, optimizing application performance.
• Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and share knowledge.
• Stay updated on the latest mobile development trends and technologies.

Requirements:

• 2+ years of professional experience in mobile development with React Native or Flutter.
• Strong understanding of JavaScript (React Native) or Dart (Flutter) and mobile development frameworks.
• Experience integrating RESTful APIs and third-party libraries.
• Familiarity with mobile UI/UX standards and best practices.
• Knowledge of version control systems (e.g., Git).
• Experience with state management (Redux, MobX, Provider, etc.).
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

Nice-to-Have:

• Experience with native development (Android/iOS).
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines for mobile applications.
• Knowledge of Firebase services (e.g., Authentication, Firestore).
• Experience working in Agile environments.

What We Offer:

• Competitive salary and equity options.
• Flexible work environment (hybrid).
• Opportunity to shape the future of a high-growth startup.
• Collaborative and supportive team culture.
• Professional development and learning opportunities.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the development team and ensure projects are completed smoothly and on schedule.
• Stay ahead of the game by finding and using new technologies to boost the business.
• Work hand in hand with the crore team to figure out their needs and keep our products on point with the market trends.
• Keep our products high quality, scalable and secure.
• Develop and maintain a detailed project plan to track progress and ensure that projects are completed on time and within budget.
• Brainstorm and plan the company's tech strategy with the CTO and other important leaders.
• Keep up to date with the latest tech trends and find new growth opportunities.
• Give the development team technical guidance and be a mentor to them.

Requirements:

• Bachelors or Masters's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field.
• 8+ Years of experience leading software development teams with a track record of delivering complex products.
• Technical know-how and experience with the latest software development tech.
• Proven experience in identifying and implementing new technologies to drive business results.
• Experience handling challenges and taking advantage of the opportunities that come with working in a startup environment.
• Ace leadership, communication and teamwork skills.
• Self-starter with loads of drive and a desire to make things happen.
• Understand the Mobile development Landscape, especially Android and IOS.
• Hands-on experience with API-based development.

• Design and develop mobile applications in true service oriented architecture.
• Building mobile applications on Android platform using Java, Kotlin, etc
• Worked on major architectures like MVVM, MVP

Requirements

• Development experience in React Native
• Experience in developing UI in HTML, CSS, and JS and integration with the backend using REST API.
• Experience with Object-Oriented Programming • Ability to multitask and work in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to document their code.
• Understanding accessibility and security compliance.
• To translate storyboards and various use cases to create high-performing apps
• Write, execute, and maintain clean, reusable, and scalable code • Integrate our various data storage solutions
• Ensure the responsiveness and boost the performance of our apps
• Find and address the various bottlenecks and bug-fixes
• Help in code automatization
• Proficient in GIT

Responsibilities

• As a Hybrid Mobile App Developer, you will be responsible for creating compelling concepts for customer products and offerings as well as engage user experience across varied platforms.
• You shall be involved across all stages of the application life cycle, from requirements specification, wireframes, mockups, development, testing to deployment.
• You shall be expected to work in a team, assigning and delegating tasks and responsibilities among your co-developers.
• You will also be engaged in providing regular updates on project status & progress to non-technical stakeholders.

Hiring Process

• After getting shortlisted from here, a member of our team will contact you.
• We will schedule a interview as per mutually convenient time.

About us:

Zapit aims to be a multi-platform single app solution for universal payments using blockchain technology. Our goal is to spread economic freedom by pushing the boundaries of p2p payments by introducing non-custodial decentralised financial services.

We are looking to build smart contracts that can be deployed for real world use cases such as insurances, loans and other useful decentralised financial products. We are also working towards building an economy where concepts like company shares, gift cards, discount coupons, loyalty points and more can be tokenised including NFTs in the form of art, music, gaming items, event tickets, design concepts and more.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with designers to develop a visually appealing, responsive & optimised app for mobile, web & desktop platforms.
• Use Flutter framework to develop great user experiences with effective workflows.
• Build reusable code and robust libraries of UI components.
• Write clean, maintainable and documented code with solid test coverage.
• Participate in the product roadmap discussions.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, scale and improve code base.
• Implement methods to understand user interaction and engagement on the product through metrics.

Requirements:

• Minimum experience of 1.5 years in Dart/Flutter development with a good knowledge of native Android & iOS development.
• Good understanding of Data Structures and Algorithms.
• Passionate and opinionated about beautiful design with an eye for detail.
• Should be updated with latest front end technologies and trends.
• Proficient knowledge of cross-browser compatibility issues and handle graceful degradation.
• Should have delivered multiple products.
• Interest in building things from scratch.
• Willingness and affinity to learn.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Self-motivated, work well independently or as part of the team.

Our Stack:

We tend to work with Javascript, Typescript, Dart, Flutter, gRPC, Express.js, Heroku, NodeJS, MongoDB, AWS, Solidity, Bitcoin Script.

Good-to-Have:

• Open Source contributions.
• Interest in Cryptocurrency/Payments space.
• Familiar with Git and GitHub/GitLab

Incentives:

• Equity in the company
• Get to work in a distributed team.
• Handsome pay. (Competitive)
• Fast opportunities for personal and professional learning and growth, tons of autonomy and responsibility, results-driven environment, international team, exposure to a wide array of ecosystems and trailblazing technology, flexible work hours.

Please include something beautiful you’ve implemented in the past if possible!

If you have examples of a project where you iterated after learning new things from potential users, please talk about that!

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

About the Role:

Are you a talented & enthusiastic Android development expert with a love for mobile based technology and Open-Source communities? Would you like to work on a project with large social impact? Are you experienced with Databases on Android, creating developer APIs and complete Android applications? Are you comfortable leading a small team and interacting with stakeholders from customers and outside stakeholders? Then we would like to hear from you!

Key Responsibilities:

• Take part in the development and enhancement of an Open-Source SDK
• Be both an individual contributor with hands-on development responsibility, as well as a mentor and lead for a small developer team
• Contribute to the Open-Source community interaction, including participation in the discussion forums
• Review code contributions, review pull requests
• Create and maintain the documentation for the SDK
• Design and development a usable and functional Android reference app
• Hands-on Android development, including feature development, troubleshooting, debugging, problem solving and bug fixing
• Design and run your own unit test cases, integration test cases and test automation
• Analyze new requirements, investigate feasibility, suggest implementation options and estimate efforts timeline, dependencies and risks
• Collaborate closely with other development team members, including some being located at other parts of the world

Required Skills:

• 9+ years of experience in the software development industry
• 5+ years of experience in Android development
• 5+ years of experience in Java and/or Kotlin, with strong programming and software engineering skills
• Good understanding of Android related programming patterns and OS facilities, including activities, fragments, views, lifecycles and UI components
• Experience with SQLite database development
• Excellent communication skills, especially written
• Experience in creating software architecture and design document, as well as externally-focused technical documentations
• Readiness to work in a global team with contributors from different backgrounds, skills and locations
• Experience in leading small technical teams
• Bachelor’s degree in Software/Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related field, or comparable relevant experience

Preferred Bonus Skills:

• Experience in Design and Implementation of RESTful APIs
• Experience in Database design and implementation
• High proficiency in Kotlin, including multi-threading and synchronization (Kotlin coroutines)
• Experience in Open-Source development
• GitHub experience (Continuous Integration, GitHub routines)
• Real-life experience with mainstream commercial-grade mobile apps used by a broad user base (please provide links to app listings)
• Experience with Jetpack libraries (fragment library, recycler view)
• Familiarity with Java 8 libraries such as Java Time
• Hands-on experience in the Agile/Scrum development process
• Good understanding of OOPS concepts, design patterns, algorithms and data structures
• Good understanding of Material Design Language and human interface guidelines
• Experience with integrating mobile applications with cloud services

• Cross-platform mobile app developers who have developed mobile apps with a familiarity of Ionic/Flutter
• Develop and Manage Mobile Application in Hybrid - Android / iOS Platform
• Mobile app architecture planning
• Mobile app design and optimization, able to provide a solution to improve mobile app quality, understand emerging technologies, standards and best practices to bring mobile app product to the next level
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies and frameworks to maximize development efficiency
• Estimate timelines and deliver as per schedule
• Solid knowledge of mobile app development practices, along with mobile testing tools and techniques
• Expertise in optimizing the app for performance
• Experience using agile principles and methodologies
• Deep understanding of the mobile landscape and behavior patterns is mandatory