Android Developer - Kotlin

• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Flutter code to develop feature-rich, high-performance mobile applications for Android and iOS platforms.

Collaborate with designers to implement visually stunning and responsive user interfaces, ensuring an excellent user experience across various devices and screen sizes.

• Integrate mobile applications with backend APIs and services to facilitate seamless data exchange and ensure smooth app functionality.

• Identify and resolve bugs, performance issues, and other problems that may arise during the development process or in the live applications.

• Continuously optimize application performance and enhance the user experience by employing efficient algorithms and techniques.

• Stay up-to-date with the latest trends, tools, and technologies related to mobile development, particularly within the Flutter ecosystem, and apply them to improve development processes and outcomes.

Requirements

• Minimum 4 years of professional experience in mobile app development, with a focus on Flutter.

• Proven expertise in developing robust and complex mobile applications using the Flutter framework.

• Solid understanding of mobile app development concepts, including UI/UX design, offline storage, threading, and performance optimization.

• Strong proficiency in Dart programming language, along with a good understanding of object-oriented programming (OOP) principles.

• Familiarity with RESTful APIs and experience in integrating mobile applications with backend services.

• Strong communication skills to collaborate effectively with team members and clients.

Who are we looking for?

1. Someone who is annoyed by the build time it takes for an application to build and has done something to optimize it

1. Has good experience in building Android applications
2. Experience with the flutter ecosystem is a great plus.
3. Who likes to think in terms of software and data architecture before opening an Android studio. Comfortable with managing

1. the development and deployment of applications.
2. Open and more importantly excited about learning the new technologies.

Roles and responsibilities

1. Participate and contribute to the design and development of the core

components of the service.

Vidyakul is looking for a Senior Android Developer to take our product to the next level for Pan India State Board students (A 60mn user opportunity!). We are willing to offer the right pay, and more importantly the right ESOPs for the right candidate! 

* Knowledge of Android SDK, different versions of Android
* Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect mobile applications to back-end services

* Should have hands-on knowledge of Kotlin
* Should have the understanding of working on Firebase & Firebase real-time database
* Experience with third-party libraries like Retrofit2 and APIs
* Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning

Job responsibilities:

• Design and develop high-volume, low-latency applications for mission-critical systems, delivering high availability and performance
• Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle: concept, design, build, deploy, test, release to app stores, and support.
• Diagnose performance issues, fix bugs (including crashes and ANRs) to increase the functionality of the application
• Write well-designed, testable, efficient code
• Ensure designs are in compliance with specifications
• Prepare and produce releases of software components
• Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting these for architectural review
• Collaborate with team members (product managers, developers, designers) to brainstorm about new features and functionalities.

• Knowledge and experience in Flutter Framework and DART programming
• Hands-on experience in using RESTful APIs
• Hands-on experience in designing and developing micro-services architecture and containers
• Object-oriented analysis, UML, and design using common design patterns.
• Hands-on experience in the development IDE Android Studio, Android SDK, Firebase Test Lab
• Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning
• Familiarity with push notifications
• Familiarity with IOS integration with Flutter
• Experience using GitHub or a similar environment
• Experience with Agile development is a plus
• Experience with Material Design and Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices
• Good knowledge of adding third-party libraries
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• Working knowledge of the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies
• A track record of delivering successful complex consumer product apps (finance apps, e-commerce apps)
• Critical thinker
• Knoweldge on Adobe XD/ Figma/ Sketch
• knowledge on GetX will be plus

 Proven working experience of minimum 3+ Years in Android app development (Min 2Yrs. experience in Kotlin)

- Have strong knowledge in Kotlin and Java.

- Strong knowledge of Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices

- Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning.

- 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.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS/ATTRIBUTES:

• Excellent knowledge of Android
• Appreciation for the limitations of handset development
• Attention to detail and subtleties of UI design and implementation
• Understanding of design patterns
• Ability to design for scalability and resilience
• Strong application process flow and problem solving techniques.
• Strong focus on refactoring and code quality
• Understanding of software configuration management and release management
• High levels of software engineering literacy and communication skills
• Friendly and professional manner
• Minimum 3 - 5 years java development
• Third Level Qualifications in computing, mathematics or science

DESIRED SKILLS:

• Experience of working in an agile environment
• Product development and lifecycle experience
• Experience of unit testing
• Scripting (JavaScript, Ruby, Python, Shell, etc.)
• Knowledge of build systems such as Maven and Gradle

TECHNICAL SKILLSET REQUIRED:

• Experience building and maintaining code for:
• Android platform (Eclipse/Android Studio, Java, Android SDK) OR
• Any other platform, with proven track record of picking up new skills
• Hands-on experience with modern technologies.
• Excellent Java programming skills
• Excellent analytical, debugging and troubleshooting skills (battery usage, network usage optimization, etc)
• Passion for usability, simplicity and consistency in software development.
• Excellent communication and collaborative skills.
• Exposure to Agile methodologies
• Bonus points for Knowledge of major mobile platforms (iOS, WP8, etc.)

 POSITION:

• Be part of fastest growing eCommerce platforms in exciting application areas like core commerce, supply chain, logistics and fulfilment, merchant, mobile commerce, analytics, automation and a lot more for the global markets positioned for Asia.
• Develop awesome new features front to back (using Java and Android SDK)
• Responsibilities will include all aspects of software development from design, coding, testing, customer feedback and maintenance.
• Work with a team of amazing developers and designers to build simple, beautiful and consistent user experiences for our mobile apps
• Invent and prototype new features, then build, test and ship them in our products.
• Drive the implementation of new technologies which improve our ability to build great products.

QUALIFICATION

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or equivalent experience)