Android Developer

We are looking for an Android developer responsible for the development and maintenance of applications aimed at a vast number of diverse Android devices. Your primary focus will be the development of Android applications and their integration with back-end services. You will be working along-side other engineers and developers working on different layers of the infrastructure. Therefore, commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and creating quality products is essential.

• Translate designs and wireframes into high quality code
• Design, build, and maintain high performance, reusable, and reliable Java code
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the application
• Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization

• Strong knowledge of Android SDK, different versions of Android, and how to deal with different screen sizes
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect Android applications to back-end services
• Strong knowledge of Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices
• Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning
• Ability to design applications around natural user interfaces, such as “touch”
• Familiarity with the use of additional sensors, such as gyroscopes and accelerometers
• Knowledge of the open-source Android ecosystem and the libraries available for common tasks
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications
• A knack for benchmarking and optimization
• Understanding of Google’s Android design principles and interface guidelines
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• Familiarity with continuous integration

What does the core role include?

• Designing and developing high-volume, low-latency applications for mission-critical systems and delivering high-availability and performance
• Designing stateless components in React Native
• Contributing in all phases of the development lifecycle
• Working with the developers to create and maintain a robust framework to support the apps
• Working with the developers to build the interface with a focus on usability features
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What else can you expect in the role?

• Prepare and produce releases of software components
• Optimizing performance for the apps
• Problem-solving skills, analytical mind, and positive attitude
• Ability to think from end users perspective and focused on improving the overall product experience.
• Deliver across the entire app life cycle concept, design, build, deploy, test, release to app stores and support
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What can fetch you brownie points?

• Hands on experience with React Native is required
• Hands-on experience in React Native APIs, ReactJS, Javascript, ECMAScript (OOJS) and JSX.
• Strong understanding of JavaScript ecosystem
• Hands on experience on Android in creating Hybrid / Native applications
• Demonstrable UI/UX experience on a large-scale app.
• Thorough understanding of React Native development tools like IDEs (Nuclide, Atom, Sublime Text, or Visual
• Good knowledge of JS frameworks like ReactJS is a plus.

Desired Skills and Experience

Hybrid Apps,React Native, Native iOS and Android Architecture understanding

Hello 

Designation: Android Developer (SDE – II)

Department: Software Engineering Team

Location: Bangalore

Qualification: B.Tech in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant field

Experience: 3+ years of relevant experience in Designing and building advanced applications for the Android platform (with Android SDK and Kotlin).

Responsibilities:

1. Design and build advanced applications for the Android platform
2. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features
3. Work with outside data sources and APIs
4. Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability
5. Work on bug fixing and improving application performance
6. Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency

Skills Required:

1. Experience in developing Android native projects
2. Experience with Android SDK and Kotlin
3. Experience working with remote data via REST and JSON
4. Experience with third-party libraries and APIs
5. Working knowledge of the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies
6. Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle.
7. Good understanding of computer science fundamentals - data structures, algorithms, memory management, performance.
8. Enjoys coding and problem solving
9. Ability to showcase applications which has been built in past
10. Good communication skills.
11. Ability to express ideas clearly and concisely
12. Familiarity with code versioning tools (such as Git, SVN, and Mercurial)
13. Good problem-solving skills
14. Team spirit

Salary: Upto 12LPA (Negotiable)

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• Translating designs and wireframes into high quality code
• Designing and maintaining high performance, reusable, and reliable Java code
• Ensuring the best possible performance and quality of the application
• Identifying and fixing bugs
• Helping maintain code quality and automatization

Desired Candidate Profile

• The main roles and responsibilities would be:
• Deliver high quality mobile apps on Android platforms.
• Create best practice, drive initiatives to build reusable frameworks, components and solutions.
• Engage with the team to create a knowledge centre on Android.
• Minimum experience of 1 years needed. Ideally more than 2 years.
• Maps based apps.
• Payment gateway integration: (PayPal, Stripe, Paytm etc).
• Integration of webservices
• Marketplace apps
• Live Streaming
• Offline application development.
• Strong OO design and programming skills in Java
• Android SDK
• JSON/REST API
• Social Media APIs
• UML/Design Pattern
• Knowledge of Retrofit,Volley,Dagger2,Realm,RxJava,Espresso
• Knowledge of android architecture component(LiveData etc).
• Working Experience on MMVM and MVP architecture
• Experience in SQL and NOSQL databases.
• Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications 
• Understanding of Googles Android design principles and interface guidelines 
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.
• Work closely with the leadership team to define roadmap and development plans
• Help define and implement standards and promote best practices for the Android development team
• Tackle daily challenges with your creative problem solving recommendations
• Mentor and contribute knowledge to the rest of the team and the organization
• Strong knowledge of Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices
• Experience with threading, and performance tuning
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements

• Cross-platform mobile app developers who have developed mobile apps with a familiarity of Ionic/Flutter
• Develop and Manage Mobile Application in Hybrid - Android / iOS Platform
• Mobile app architecture planning
• Mobile app design and optimization, able to provide a solution to improve mobile app quality, understand emerging technologies, standards and best practices to bring mobile app product to the next level
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies and frameworks to maximize development efficiency
• Estimate timelines and deliver as per schedule
• Solid knowledge of mobile app development practices, along with mobile testing tools and techniques
• Expertise in optimizing the app for performance
• Experience using agile principles and methodologies
• Deep understanding of the mobile landscape and behavior patterns is mandatory