Android Developer

About the Role

• We’re hiring a Principal Android Engineer to be the mini-CTO for Android at Zobaze POS. You’ll own the architecture, shared business logic, Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) layer, and technical health of a mobile-first POS app used by hundreds of thousands of merchants globally.
• You’ll work with the founder for business direction—but system design, trade-offs, and technical decisions are yours. Your job: keep us fast and sane while protecting the platform from shortcuts and leading high-impact refactors.
• Zobaze POS is business-critical software used daily by retailers and food outlets for billing, inventory, staff management, and reporting—optimized for low-end devices, flaky networks, and real-world chaos.

What You’ll Own

• Android architecture end-to-end: Modules, patterns, KMP integration, state management, threading, error handling
• KMP strategy: Lead shared code architecture for cross-platform business logic; decide migration paths and avoid technical debt
• System design for harsh conditions: Offline-first, multi-device sync, graceful degradation under poor networks and low-spec hardware
• Full delivery lifecycle: Design → Build → Ship → Debug → Refactor key initiatives
• Refactors & modernization: Lead V1 → V2 rebuilds, module splits, and major migrations without breaking production
• Code detective & RCA owner: Drop into any codebase section, understand it fast, fix what’s broken, prevent recurrence
• Mentorship: Guide junior/mid-level developers and raise the team’s technical bar

Must-Have Skills

• 6–8 years Android dev (4+ years in fast-moving product companies, startups preferred)
• Strong in Kotlin, modern Android APIs, multi-module architectures
• 1–2 years Jetpack Compose in production (not toy projects)
• Large-scale refactor experience: V1 → V2, architecture rewrites, migrations—you handled risk and rollout
• Deep knowledge: MVVM, clean architecture, DI (Hilt/Dagger2), offline handling, sync strategies, coroutines, performance tuning
• Firebase comfort: Firestore, Functions, Auth, Messaging, Analytics, Crashlytics
• Elite debugging: Track down flaky production issues and design systemic fixes
• Code-reading detective: Navigate unfamiliar code and make safe, surgical changes
• Ownership mentality: High-expectation, low-handholding environment

Bonus Points

• POS/retail/operational systems experience
• Hands-on KMP in production (not toy projects)
• Hardware integrations (Bluetooth printers, scanners, cash drawers)
• Analytics tools (Amplitude, Intercom)
• Leading technical decisions in small, high-performance team

How You Use AI

• Proficient with Cursor, Copilot, Claude CLI, etc.
• Use AI as a high-context pair programmer for boilerplate, edge cases, refactor reasoning
• You don’t rely on AI to think for you—architectural understanding and judgment are yours
• Over-reliance without deep understanding is a red flag

Why Join

• Zero red tape: Build, ship, iterate—no committees
• Real impact: Your decisions affect thousands of small businesses daily
• Founder proximity: Influence product direction, protect the platform long-term
• AI-native team: Tooling and workflows that amplify great engineers
• High bar, supportive culture: Compete against mediocre software, not each other

Compensation

• Competitive salary based on capability and leverage created
• ESOPs for long-term owners
• Learning budgets, hardware, AI tooling access
• Health insurance for you & family
• Office perks (lunch, Zobaze Mix, fitness, etc.)

You’re a Fit If

• You see yourself as a mini-CTO for Android, not “just” an app developer
• You’ve built and broken real systems, then fixed them properly
• You want autonomy with accountability
• You care equally about quality, speed, and customer outcomes
• You’re excited about KMP and architecture
• You’re based in Hyderabad (or ready to relocate)

We know what it feels like to build an iOS app, you must be proud of yourself if you're one.

Telyport is looking out for you

Here are the requirements:

• You've worked on building iOS apps from scratch
• You've got the skills of actively maintaining it and testing it
• Your apps are production-ready and are actively used
• Your apps are bug-free
• You've never given a reason saying it is Apple who did it

If you feel you're the one, put your favorite operating system in the note and apply it.

• Design and Build Advanced Applications for the Android Platform
• Collaborate with Cross-Functional Teams to Define, Design and Ship New Features
• Troubleshoot and Fix Bugs in New and Existing Applications
• Continuously Discover, Evaluate and Implement New Development Tools
• Work With Outside Data Sources and APIs
• Knowledge of Android SDK, Java programming, Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Realm
• Version Control, Clean Architecture

Frameworks - Android, Kotlin

Core Java

Data structure

Sqlite, Rest API, Android UI development, API Integration 

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

Job Description:

• Strong working experience in IOS application development is a must. First-hand experience of native mobile apps using Swift must.
• Experience with Swift, RxSwift, Swift UI, Unit test.
• Strong system design and architecture skills - specifically for IOS. Curiosity to tinker around, explore new paradigms and strongest for continuous improvement. Strong problem-solving skills.
• Understanding of network connections, Rest API'sand scheduling. Strong knowledge about security standards (e.g. HTTPS) and privacy standards.
• Idea/experience of the unit and instrumentation testing in IOS. Optimizing app performance and memory consumption.
• Leveraging community libraries to efficiently complete development tasks.
• Debugging apps using simulators and related tooling.
• Persisting data for offline-first apps using databases such as Realm.
• Localizing apps to support multiple languages and regions, vernacular libraries and fonts.
• Familiar with Version control system such as GIT.

• Own Android SDKs, working hand-in-hand with the founding team
• Design and build delightful user interfaces for native apps on Android
• You will be (co-) responsible for our software development kit (SDK) for Android
• Building mobile apps in both Swift and Kotlin.
• You work independently on your own code, but you also spend time collaborating with others.
• You are involved in all stages of app development and contribute to the roadmap.
• You get the freedom to experiment with new Android technology.
• Ownership — advocate for projects and solutions that need to be launched ground up.

• Min 2 to 4 years in developing Android applications in Java / Kotlin / C++ /
• Gradle/Groovy.
• Worked on SDKs/Frameworks.
• Strong understanding of software design patterns as well as Android specifics.
• Experience with authenticated sessions using authentication tokens and have at-least
• fundamental knowledge of app security.
• Good to have:-
• Experience with Cross-platform frameworks is a plus (React Native, Flutter, Cordova,
• Xamarin).
• Have implemented security standards and guides.
• Experience building applications at scale.
• Experience with third-party libraries and APIs like Mobile Vision, MLKit and/or
• Camera API.
• Good understanding of garbage collection, design patterns and continuously
• discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximise development
• efficiency.
• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general
• reliability

We are looking for a Passionate Android Developer to join our award-winning, talented team, building the next generation automated drone applications for our global customers. You will be responsible for the development of Android applications and their integration with back-end services.

About FlytBase

FlytBase is a 4-year old, venture-funded, high growth startup –  a global pioneer in software-led automation of commercial drone applications. The team has a cumulative professional experience of several decades, with engineering graduates from IIT-B, IIT-KGP, University of Texas & Georgia Tech.

FlytBase develops intelligent software that leverages reliable, off-the-shelf drone hardware to automate and scale drone deployments for commercial use-cases. FlytBase platform is hardware-agnostic, has intelligent plugins for autonomy, manages drone fleets via 4G/5G, and uses APIs to integrate into enterprise workflows. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, USA and has R&D offices in Pune, India. Widely recognized as a pioneer in the commercial drone ecosystem, FlytBase continues to win awards globally, the most recent one being the ‘NTT Data Open Innovation Global Champion 2019’.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Design, build and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable android code.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, ship new features, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the application.
• Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs.

Qualifications and Requirements:

• 1+ years of experience in designing and building Android applications.
• Good knowledge in programming concepts – OOPs, design & coding patterns.
• Experience in developing Android applications using Kotlin/Java.
• Strong knowledge of Android UI design principles, MVC, MVP and MVVM patterns.
• Strong knowledge of MAPS, Sqlite, GPS functionality etc.
• Strong experience in Material Design.
• Experience in writing Unit Tests and UI tests, must be familiar with Junit, Mockito and Espresso.
• Experience in integrating SSO and auth modules or libraries.
• Experience in Git or Bitbucket Repository.
• Experience in REST API integration.
• Familiarity with Android local connectivity API (Bluetooth, WiFi, USB).
• Familiarity with RxKotlin / RxJava (operator, thread management, eventBus).
• Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications.

What Will I Earn?

This role comes with an annual CTC that is market competitive and depends on the quality of your work experience, degree of professionalism, culture fit and alignment with FlytBase’s long-term business strategy.