Android Developer

Role & Responsibilities

What You'll Rock Daily:

• Build & Polish iOS Magic: Dive deep into SwiftUI for sleek, modern UIs and UIKit for rock-solid legacy love. Make our app swipe-right smooth!
•  Cross-Platform Adventures: Tinker with Flutter basics to bridge iOS & Android – because love knows no platform boundaries. 
• Ship Features Fast: From profile boosts to match notifications, own end-to-end development, testing, and launches that wow 50M+ users.
• Debug Like a Detective: Squash bugs, optimize performance, and ensure our app runs buttery on every iPhone in Bharat.
• Team Up: Collaborate with product peeps, designers, and fellow devs in high-energy sprints. Bonus: Brainstorm "shaadi specials" over chai!

Ideal Candidate

• Strong iOS Developer profile (B2C background)
• Mandatory (Experience): Must have 3+ years of hands-on experience in iOS development with atleast 1+ years in a B2C product company
• Mandatory (Skill 1): Must be proficient in both SwiftUI (modern UIs) and UIKit (legacy surfaces), and must have personally shipped 1+ iOS apps live to the App Store (verifiable links expected)
• Mandatory (Skill 2): Must have a solid grasp of iOS App architecture (MVVM or similar), REST API integration, Git, and CI/CD pipelines for mobile builds and releases
• Mandatory (Skill 3): Must have basic, hands-on Flutter exposure
• Mandatory (Company): B2C product companies. Recent B2C experience with prior exposure to B2B also acceptable
• Mandatory (Note): This role is for the Astrochat product of shaadi.com
• Preferred (Education): B.Tech / M.Tech from a top-tier college
• Preferred (Bonus iOS Stack): Hands-on with RxSwift, Core Data, or push notifications

• Leads more than one projects end-to-end and collaborates across functions. Drives planning, estimation and execution.
• Manages stakeholder expectations and offers scalable, reliable, performant and easy to maintain solutions.
• Consistently takes well thought technical/design decisions.
• Develops expertise in more than one area and shares knowledge with others. Able to mentor/train people in areas which are new to them.
• Drives people to solve engineering challenges.
• Enjoys high respect of Tech and other cross functional teams.
• Demonstrates effective communication with project team, management and internal/external clients as necessary.
• Surfaces both technical and non-technical team challenges and helps resolve them.
• Champion for SDLC best practices and high-quality standards.
• Significantly contributes in hiring high performance candidates.

• Expert in JAVA, Kotlin, Reactive programming, Asynchronous programming and Dependency Injection. Experience with unit-tests and automation frameworks.
• Familiarity with any architectures like MV*(MVP/MVVM/MVI).
• Strong focus on high-quality mobile UI experiences.
• Operates independently with almost no oversight.
• Is able to apply domain expertise to think critically and make wise decisions for the team, taking into account tradeoffs and constraints.
• Communicates tech decisions through design docs and tech talks.
• Has delivered multiple projects with end-to-end engineering ownership.
• Keeps track of new technology/tools and embraces them as necessary
• 12+ years of experience in a product-driven organization.

Technologies we're working with

• MVP, JAVA and Kotlin, Realm, Firebase Real-time Database, RxJava,Kotlin Coroutines, Dagger and Retrofit.

Joining: Immediate

Designation: Android Developer

No of Vacancy: 1

Job Brief: 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.

Roles and Responsibility:

• Designing and developing advanced applications for the Android platform
• Unit-testing code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general

reliability

• Bug fixing and improving application performance
• 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

Requirements:

• Knowledge of Objective C, Swift, React Native can be considered as add on.
• BS/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● Have published at least one original Android app
• Strong knowledge of Android SDK, different versions of Android, and how to deal

with different screen sizes Familiarity with RESTful / JSON 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

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

• PIs and push notifications Understanding of Google's Android design principles and

interface guidelines Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as SVN /

GIT Familiarity with continuous integration

• Experience with Android SDK
• 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

• Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle.

Key Skills: Android SDK, SOA, XML, MySQL, JSON, Android, SQLite, Git, Objective C,

Swift, GIT 

• You will be having an impact on our 1.7M users every day.
• You will be rolling out experiments and working closely with our product managers and design team to validate and build new features.
• Monitoring apps and fixing bugs for improving performance.
• Refactoring/Rewriting obsolete code to align with the new architecture.
• Design, build and maintain high performance, reusable, and reliable Kotlin code.
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency Experience: 1- 5 yrs in android development

Expertise:

• Kotlin
• Live Data and other Android Jetpack components
• DI (Dagger/Hilt)
• Design patterns MVVM, MVI
• Multithreading (Coroutines)
• Offline Storage
• Remote data interaction via REST and JSON

Hands-on experience:

• Git
• CI/CD
• Third-party analytics like Amplitude, Clevertap, etc..
• Common third-party libraries and APIs like (Glide, retrofit...)
• Firebase products (FireStore/ RealTimeDB/ FCM..)
• Writing custom views
• Text-based UIs like notes, reader, etc..
• Publishing/Updating apps on Google Play and other stores (Huawei/Xiaomi...)

Good to have:

• Basic understanding of clean architecture.
• Simple data structure and algorithm understanding.
• Basic understanding of AWS services and products
• Strong design intuition and user empathy.
• Should be aware of future technologies in the Android ecosystem.
• You should be quick in understanding the hypothesis, and build the experiment and make it available to a user
• We prefer people who are highly experimental and willing to take risks.
• Experience in training or mentoring team members.

Do not apply if you are not:

• Ownership driven
• Curious in general
• Self-motivated
• Use to work in a chaotic environment
• Highly proactive
• Hate drinking and smoking will have a hard time here

Purpose: We are looking for React Native Application Developer who possesses a passion for mobile technologies.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Ideal candidate should have Working knowledge of React Native and React JS is a must.
• Over 3+ years of React Native experience with strong basics.
• At least have done 4/5 projects using React Native.

• Strong passion for Programming in general and Android and IOS App development.

• Strong problem solving skills.
• Strong system design and architecture skills.
• Curiosity to tinker around, explore new paradigms and strong zest for continuous improvement.
• Over 3+ years of Mobile development experience with strong basics.
• E2E App development and/or experience of developing SDKs is good to have.

Expected Start Date: 1/4/2021

Job Type: Full-time