Android Developer

Job Overview:

We are looking for a passionate and experienced Android Developer with strong expertise in Kotlin to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have a firm understanding of mobile development principles and will be responsible for delivering high-quality, accessible, and scalable Android applications.

Key Responsibilities:

·         Design, develop, and maintain Android applications using Kotlin

·         Collaborate with cross-functional teams throughout the software development life cycle

·         Integrate RESTful APIs and third-party libraries into mobile applications

·         Ensure mobile applications meet accessibility and usability standards

·         Participate in agile ceremonies and contribute to continuous improvement

·         Engage in the full software development lifecycle including design, coding, testing, build, deployment, and maintenance

·         Follow DevOps practices for CI/CD and automation

·         Apply methodologies such as BDD (Behavior-Driven Development), ATDD (Acceptance Test-Driven Development), and TDD (Test-Driven Development) in day-to-day development

·         Actively participate in code reviews, design discussions, and team meetings

·         Lead and influence key stakeholders when required

Required Qualifications & Skills:

·         5+ years of hands-on commercial software development experience in Android using Kotlin

·         BS/MS in Computer Science or related discipline

·         Solid understanding of software development principles and mobile platform limitations

·         Proven experience in building and publishing Android applications

·         Strong knowledge of RESTful APIs and integration techniques

·         Deep understanding of mobile accessibility standards and implementation

·         Experience working in Agile/Lean environments

·         Exposure to DevOps models and CI/CD pipelines

·         Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

·         Strong team player with leadership potential

tl;dr

🤓 An early employee of an experienced team. A lot of impact and opportunities to learn or deepen new technologies like GPT3, Amazon Rekognition, FFmpeg and more.

💰 Fixed Salary + Stock-Options

About

Blend is an AI-driven graphic design tool for entrepreneurs that removes decision making to create professional-grade product catalogs. Entrepreneurs can now create product marketing material in a few seconds to stand out and sell better online. Instead of manipulating pixels, users edit objects. Deep learning models ensure the translation of pixels into objects.

What you'll do

Blend app, an AI-driven design tool, will help its users create stunning designs within seconds.

To help us get to our vision faster, we are looking for an Engineer to join us on our app development front. This developer:

• 👩‍💻 Would work on our Flutter codebase writing cross platform code for both Android and iOS.
• 🎨 Work closely with product and design to create amazing user experiences.
• 🐜 Watch out and fix production issues, and target on running a smooth experience.
• 📈 With the help of the rest of the team, you maintain a great app with few bugs and trustable analytics: KPIs, logs, crash logs, boards.

Above all, you would be the owner of the app side of things. Drive it to success. That will be the goal.

We are tech/langugage agnostic when it comes to developers, so the only hard requirement is to be smart and passionate. That being said, having the skills below will be an advantage:

• Experience working with Flutter and/or Dart
• Experience with React/React Native (makes it easier to pick up flutter)
• Experience with Native app development (sooner or later you might get to a point where you need to write native modules as well)

How we work:

• Team: you are humble, open to challenge, and like to help others grow. The most important is the progress of the team and the product.
• Impact: you can prioritize your time to build what will give users superpowers or wow them.
• Learning: learning and sharing knowledge makes you happy. At Blend, this holds true as a team, with machine learning, and with our users.

Hiring process:

3-steps process:

• Screening call
• Technical Interview
• Cultural fit interview with the founders

• Strong grasp of computer science fundamentals and excellent problem solving skills.
• Good understanding of software engineering practices, Data Structures & Algorithms.
• Solid programming skills in Java/Kotlin.
• Good communication skills.
• Strong sense of ownership and accountability.
• Experience in Reactive programming, Asynchronous programming and Unit Testing will be an added advantage.

• 4+ years of mobile software development (iOS & Android).
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• Deep understanding and proficiency in building mobile apps from scratch using at least one mobile language (Swift, Java, Objective-C, etc.). Experience with multiple platforms is preferred.
• Desire and ability to expand expertise into additional mobile languages.
• Expertise in designing testable software and building large scale, complex applications.
• Self-motivated with strong problem-solving skills.
• Passionate about writing clean, well organized, and production-ready code.
• A portfolio of Apps or SDKs already built and in the App Store and Google Play.
• Desire to build a larger in-house team and manage a group of developers over time.
• Some management experience preferred.