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)

Roles and Responsibilities

Key Performance Indicators:

Translate designs and wireframes into high-quality code.

1. Design, build and maintain high performance, reusable and reliable Java code.
2. Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the application.
3. Help in maintaining code quality, organization, and automatization.
4. Participating with the technical team in the execution of projects
5. Preparing the project documentation on its completion.
6. Analyzing defects and fixing it.
7. Maintaining On-time delivery of the projects.

Mandatory Skills:

1. Java, Kotlin, Android Studio, OOP Design, JSON, Retrofit, Firebase
2. Strong knowledge of Android SDK & different versions of Android.
3. Application development paradigms, memory management, and multi-threading
4. Comprehensive understanding of Android application architecture, Activities, Services, Intents, Content Providers and Notifications, Fragments, Application Development life-cycle, Web Apps, and Web View.
5. Excellent communication skills and the ability to communicate with clients at all levels and understand requirements carefully.
6. Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect Android applications to back-end services.
7. Strong knowledge of Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices.
8. Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning.
9. Understanding of Google's Android design principles and interface guidelines.
10. A knack for writing clean, readable, and easily maintainable code.
11. Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.
12. Excellent attention to detail.
13. Good troubleshooting skills.
14. Basic knowledge of MVVM architecture

Role: ANDROID DEVELOPER

What you’ll do?

• 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 API's
• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability
• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance

What Makes You A Great Fit?

• Have published one or more android apps on the Play store
• At least 3 years of experience in Android app development
• Strong knowledge of Android SDK/ NDK, different versions of Android, and how to deal with different screen sizes
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect Android applications to back-end services
• Solid understanding of Object Oriented programming, data structures, algorithms and relational database
• Strong knowledge of Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices
• Experience with offline storage, threading, performance tuning and firebase services
• 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
• Proficient with Java and Kotlin (including coroutines)
• Preference for good experience in the gaming industry, but experience in the B2C app is a must
• Knowledge of code versioning tools, such as Git, Bit bucket
• Familiarity with continuous integration
• Excellent work ethic and attention to detail
• Collaborative mind set

Experience: 3-5 Years 1 candidate & 1-3 Years 2 candidate

Skills:

Core JAVA(Native), Core Kotlin, Sqlite, MySQL, XML

Only Male Candidate

25% HIKE on Current Salary 

CLIENT:MNC WFO

ROLE: Android Developer

EXPERIENCE:2 YEARS TO 8 YEARS

CTC:7LPA TO 26 LPA

NOTE:Candidates from bangalore,HYDERABAD,GURGAON should only apply.

Serving notice periods (30days)/ Immediate Joiner.

If you have an interesting portfolio of apps and have excellent communication and team skills and you fit

the description below - you are the one we are looking for

- Knowledge of Leanback, Dagger, Retrofit, RxJava, Butterknife, Glide/Picasso

- Excellent working knowledge of Android Studio

- Expertise in code profiling, debugging, and optimization

- Familiar with Unit Testing and Automation

- Excellent in Java and Knowledge of Kotlin language

- Deep Knowledge of Exoplayer

- Should have worked or knowledge of creating Libraries/SDK

- Cares about testing and writing testable code eg. Unit Testing.

- Familiar with MVP

- Should have worked or familiar with Firebase, FCM, IMA, Google Services and Facebook SDK

- Experience in working with Android AOSP or Android TV Application is a plus

- NDK Knowledge or experience is a plus

Required Candidate profile

You are a go-getter with excellent learning, communication and team skills. You revel in working with

cutting edge technology and has an eye for detail.

Perks and Benefits

Perks include stock options and Flexi hours

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.

• 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

• BE/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 and have published at least 5 original Android apps
• Experience with integrating various Android SDKs
• Knowledge of developing own Android SDKs for distribution to other developers
• 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

• Know how to build android applications and integrate APIs/SDKs
• Know how to create android SDKs
• Have built and launched atleast 5 android apps
• Ability to build complex apps on Android