Android Developer

We’re building something significant — and we need the right engineer to help us get there.

📋 Role Overview

As an Android Engineer, you will design, build, and maintain high-quality features for our consumer-facing Android application. You’ll collaborate closely with product, design, and backend engineers to deliver experiences that are fast, reliable, and delightful to use.

⚡Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain robust Android features using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose.
• Design clean, scalable UI with both Compose and XML layouts depending on context.
• Architect features following MVVM principles, ensuring separation of concerns and testability.
• Collaborate with product and design teams to translate specs into polished user experiences.
• Write unit and UI tests; participate in code reviews to maintain quality standards.
• Monitor production performance, debug issues, and ship timely fixes.
• Contribute to architectural decisions and help establish best practices on the team.

✅ Required Skills & Qualifications

• 1–2+ years of professional Android development experience.
• Hands-on experience in high-paced, high-growth production Android applications.
• Proficient in Kotlin— idiomatic, clean, and confident.
• Strong command of Jetpack Compose for building modern declarative UIs.
• Solid XML layout skills— comfortable working across legacy and modern UI systems.
• Deep familiarity with MVVM architecture and Android Architecture Components (ViewModel,LiveData/StateFlow).
• Working knowledge of REST APIs, JSON parsing, and async patterns (Coroutines / Flow).
• Experience with Git and standard collaborative workflows (PRs, code review).

✨ Good-to-Have Skills

• 0–1 experience: built an Android app or key feature from scratch.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Bitrise, or similar).
• Experience with analytics SDKs, crash reporting (Firebase, Sentry), or A/B testing tools.
• Published apps on the Google Play Store.

AI Usage Policy:

We encourage AI tools (Cursor, Copilot, GPT-4) as force multipliers — but you must own your code, explain trade-offs, and debug without solely relying on AI

We are a lab building products for the creator economy. Why so, because we are on a mission to empower the individual to realize/unleash their full potential

Job Description:

We are looking for a passionate iOS developer who is keen to work in a startup and wants to Build something on his/her own.

Responsibilities

● Produce fully functional iOS applications by writing clean code

● Gather specific requirements and suggest solutions

● Write unit and UI tests to identify malfunctions

● Developing new features and user interfaces from wireframe models ● Ensuring the best performance and user experience of the application ● Fixing bugs and performance problems

● Writing clean, readable, and testable code

● Cooperating with back-end developers, designers, and the rest of the team to deliver well-architected and high-quality solutions Requirements ● Proven work experience as an iOS developer

● Demonstrable portfolio of released applications on the App Store

● In-depth knowledge of at least one programming language like Swift or Objective-C

● Experience with iOS frameworks such as Core Data, Core Animation, etc.

● Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect iOS applications to back-end services

● Understanding of Apple’s design principles and interface guidelines

● Experience with profiling and debugging mobile applications

● Experience with third-party libraries and APIs

Benefits:

● You will be building a team that will be working on the most innovative technologies in the creator space

● You will get to be a part of the initial team while we build this rocketship

● You get to work directly with the Founders on a completely revolutionary idea and most likely end up defining the course of history.

Why work with us?

You get to work directly with the core team on a completely revolutionary idea and most likely end up defining the course of history. If getting known for your talent, skills & work ethic is what drives you, we make sure that that happens

What's the company culture like?

Extremely passionate.

We’re only looking for people who want to prove to the world how gifted they are or who want to truly democratize access to capital.

Required Skills:

1. Strong hands-on knowledge of Ionic Framework, AngularJS, and Cordova plugins to build great mobile applications
2. The candidate will have an opportunity to grow his/her technical abilities by taking on challenging projects.
3. Very Good analytical, reasoning and logical skill.
4. Good hands-on exposure to JavaScript
5. In-depth understanding of HTML5, HTML4, CSS3 frameworks
6. Have very good debugging skills.
7. Understanding of responsive design principles
8. Able to create applications independently.

Must have skills:

HTMl5, CSS3, JavaScript, Angular JS

Ionic Framework (version 4 to 6)

Preferred Skills:

1. You have good interpersonal and communication skills and are adept at working with multiple projects to drive desired outcomes.
2. You are a creative problem solver with a can-do attitude 
3. Strong team player and Self-starter 
4. You pay strong attention to detail and deliver work that is of a high standard 
5. Interest towards Cricket desired 

About Hive 

Hive is the leading provider of cloud-based AI solutions for content understanding, trusted by the world’s largest, fastest-growing, and most innovative organizations. The company empowers developers with a portfolio of best-in-class, pre-trained AI models, serving billions of customer API requests every month. Hive also offers turnkey software applications powered by proprietary AI models and datasets, enabling breakthrough use cases across industries. Together, Hive’s solutions are transforming content moderation, brand protection, sponsorship measurement, context-based ad targeting, and more.

Hive has raised over $120M in capital from leading investors, including General Catalyst, 8VC, Glynn Capital, Bain & Company, Visa Ventures, and others. We have over 250 employees globally in our San Francisco, Seattle, and Delhi offices. Please reach out if you are interested in joining the future of AI!

About Role 

In order to execute our vision, we need to grow our team of best-in-class engineers. The ideal candidate is an experienced iOS Developer with demonstrated leadership and technical skills. You are receptive to feedback and an open collaborator who prioritizes team success. You are constantly learning, and using new tools and technology to broaden your skill set as a developer. You care deeply about the user experience and refuse to ship a product that is mediocre for our users. 

Responsibilities 

• Maintain a clean and extensible code base 
• Take ownership of whole projects on your own, but also willing to be a contributing member of  your iOS development team as a whole 
• Work across disciplines with team members from front-end, backend, design, and product to ship  features 
• Help maintain our shared internal frameworks and create some of your own 
• Actively participate in product decisions, ensuring we set reasonable development deadlines and  create quality user experiences
• Build components the entire team can use across apps 
• Track and analyze KPIs to improve our products and processes  

Requirements 

• You have an undergraduate degree or graduate degree in computer science or a similar technical  field from a top university  
• You have 2+ years of experience as an iOS Developer or Software Engineer 
• You have mastery of Swift and Objective-C (objective-c experience is plus but not strictly  necessary) 
• You owned or were a primary contributor, to the development of at least one application on the  app store 
• You are very familiar with new technologies, open-source frameworks and commonly used  design patterns 
• You have demonstrated expertise in OO design, data structures, and problem-solving • You can write multi-threaded, asynchronous code and have a good understanding of functional  programming 
• You have experience shipping quickly and often and can debug performance bottlenecks 
• You are a team player - no job is too small, or too big! 

Who We Are 

We are a group of ambitious individuals who are passionate about creating a revolutionary AI company. At Hive, you will have a steep learning curve and an opportunity to contribute to one of the fastest-growing AI  start-ups in San Francisco.  The work you do here will have a noticeable and direct impact on the development of the company. 

Thank you for your interest in Hive and we hope to meet you soon!

As a Mobile Software Developer, your primary objective will be to design and build mobile applications for iOS platforms while actively participating in application design discussions and decisions. You will be an integral part of the development and maintenance of the company's products. You will utilize your expertise and your familiarity with iOS and XCode. Additionally, experience with Agile or XP methodologies or related iterative development processes will be necessary to hit the ground running and make an immediate impact. You will also utilize your knowledge of Software Development Lifecycle Tools - source control (Git, SourceTree, SVN), issue tracking, and web service integration (REST, JSON and HTTP).

Our organization moves at light speed, so the ability to work with minimal supervision while delivering excellent results will be a priority. Strong communication and information gathering skills are required to capture and interpret business and functional requirements, fill in the gaps intelligently, interpolate designs and functionality as necessary, and identify opportunities for process improvements/efficiencies.

This is your opportunity to work with our talented team to design and build the next generation of mobile applications.

• Design and build advanced applications for iOS platforms communicating with our servers
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features
• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability
• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance and maintenance
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Design and build applications for the iOS platform
• Implement new features while maintaining overall quality of software
• Contribute to a culture of learning by documenting and sharing technical knowledge as a developer on an agile squad
• Participate in developer communities of practice by following best practices, participating in code reviews, and sharing knowledge
• Remain current on relevant technology trends
• Participate in researching and resolving customer issues
• Other duties as assigned

MINIMUM KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES REQUIRED:

• Proficient in native development with Swift and Objective-C
• Experience building interface components and experiences using Swift UI and WebKit and understanding their limitations
• Knowledge and experience working with the MVVM design pattern
• Prior experience with knowledge of Git and GitHub
• Knowledge of iOS back-end services
• Knowledge of Apple’s design principles and application interface guideline
• Understanding of the full software development lifecycle
• Familiarity with security best practices for software development

1. Designing and developing advanced applications for android platforms.
2. Collaborate with UI/UX designers as well as the software engineers to make sure that each app is presentable.
3. Test the applications, identify any bugs and resolve them
4. Manage tasks within Agile framework and controlled JIRA workflow.
5. Document architecture and implementation for internal and external components.

1. 1+ years of experience in Android Development .
2. Previous experience working in a fast paced start up is a plus.
3. Released at least 1 app or have a project in works that you can tell us about.
4. Experience publishing a high-quality android application to the google store.
5. Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle.
6. Experience working with Android SDK and Android studio.
7. Good in JAVA (j2se) and Kotlin
8. Experience with APIs (OAuth, XML, JSON, REST, etc. )
9. Ability to understand business requirements and convert them into technical requirements.