Android Developer

Job Summary:

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Android Developer with over 5 years of experience to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of Android development, strong problem-solving skills, and a track record of delivering high-quality mobile applications. You will lead development efforts, mentor junior developers, and work closely with cross-functional teams to build and maintain exceptional Android applications.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain high-performance Android applications.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to define and implement application features.
• Lead code reviews and provide mentorship to junior developers.
• Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications.
• Identify and troubleshoot issues, and implement solutions to improve application performance.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies to ensure our applications remain competitive.
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code, following best practices and coding standards.
• Contribute to the architecture and design of new features and improvements.
• Work with APIs and integrate third-party libraries and services.
• Participate in Agile development processes, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• Over 5 years of experience in Android development, with a strong portfolio of released applications on the Google Play Store.
• Proficiency in Java and Kotlin, with a deep understanding of Android SDK and Android Studio.
• Experience with modern architectural patterns (e.g., MVVM, MVP) and libraries (e.g., Retrofit, Dagger, Room).
• Strong understanding of RESTful APIs and third-party libraries and APIs.
• Experience with version control systems such as Git.
• Knowledge of continuous integration and deployment processes.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work independently as well as part of a team.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to articulate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with Flutter or other cross-platform frameworks.
• Knowledge of Android Jetpack components and libraries.
• Familiarity with mobile application security best practices.
• Experience with cloud services and backend integration.
• Contributions to open-source projects or involvement in the Android developer community.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and performance bonuses.
• Comprehensive health and dental insurance.
• Flexible working hours and remote work options.
• Professional development opportunities and career growth.
• A supportive and inclusive work environment.

Responsibilities:

• Design and build advanced hybrid mobile applications using React Native
• Lead the application development effort by being the SPOC
• Build hybrid apps using React Native for Android/iOS
• Publish apps to corresponding App store/Play store
• Implement new technologies to maximize application performance and optimize load time
• Collaborate with the back-end developer to build the RESTful APIs
• Research on emerging technologies and trends
• Participate in the planning and design of future software and technical architectures

Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands on experience in the full life cycle of Hybrid mobile application development including publishing one or more apps to the play store & app store
• Must have developed Hybrid Mobile application using React. Hands on Working experience of React Native is a must.
• Experience developing back-end services preferably with NodeJS.
• Experience in developing apps on native Android/iOS platforms is a plus
• Experience in designing and working with n-tier architectures (UI, Business Logic Layer, Data Access Layer) along with some experience with service-oriented architectures (SOA)
• Strong skills in RESTful web services
• Experience with Agile methodologies would be helpful

We enable humans & machines with internet connectivity at a price that they can afford.

The inspiration for Wifi Dabba came from the founders working together for the last decade in the mobile application industry and realising the biggest reason for user churn being access to cheap and affordable internet access. From having worked on ground onboarding users and facing poor connectivity issues all the time, we took it on ourselves to fix the internet access problem for the common citizen.

At Wifi Dabba (YC W17), we are building a low cost, scalable & distributed Wi-Fi infrastructure to connect next billion users online. We do this by deploying a grid of lasers (Free Space Optics) over the cities & town and bring cheap and fast internet for everyone. We enable anyone to buy 1 gig of data access at a time at a price they can afford. Sachetization of internet access is the foundation to rebuilding internet for all. We do this by leveraging crypto and blockchain to truly make internet infrastructure ownership distributed — our vision is to be connectivity layer for the Web3 world.

• You will get the chance to be an early team member at a fast-growth YC startup.
• You get to define the future of telecom infrastructure ownership and operations.
• We’re a tight-knit team where you'll learn a ton and have ownership.
• Opportunity to build for the next billion users.

• Strong engineering background preferably in Computer Science
• Experience architecting, developing, and testing iOS application code end-to-end
• Strong knowledge of iOS UI design principles, patterns, and best practices
• Experience with AWS services
• Experience working with remote data via REST and JSON
• Experience working with mobile analytics
• Knowledge of Apple’s design principals and application
• Knowledge of code versioning tools like GIT, SVN.
• Experience in building user interfaces for mobile apps.
• Participate in design discussions with business users, web producers and engineering teams.
• Perform requirements analysis, high-level design, effort estimation for new business requirements and feature enhancements.
• Write clean, concise, and sustainable code.
• Team player who enjoys collaborative effort.

• Entrepreneurial mindset (we encourage all employees to be future founders and this can be a great stepping stone towards that)
• Customer-centric and passionate about working in a small & focused team
• Previous experience building/working in telecom software or infrastructure
• Previous experience building web3 project - DeFi / Blockchain infrastructure
• Previous experience at a high-growth, fast-paced startup

About Plum

We are making health insurance - simple, accessible and affordable. Hundreds of businesses of all sizes from startups to large corporates trust Plum for their employee's health protection.

Healthcare in India is seeing a phenomenal shift. Healthcare cost is seeing an inflation that is three times the general inflation. Treatments of diseases including Covid-19 can wipe out entire household savings. Majority of Indians won't be able to afford a health insurance on their own. As many as 600mn Indians would depend on employer-sponsored insurance.

Enter Plum. Plum is re-imagining the health insurance stack, and accelerating the penetration of health insurance in India to 100%. Plum has forged new underwriting and fraud detection algorithms to enable companies as small as 2 to benefit from a group insurance. The platform enables realtime insurance design & pricing to enable companies to buy insurance in 3-clicks. And offers employees a hassle-free claims experience through an integrated digital process.

Plum is backed by leading global investors including Tiger Global, Sequoia Capital, Tanglin Ventures and Incubate Fund (read more https://www.plumhq.com/blog/plum-series-a-funding">here)

• Design, build, and maintain high performance, reusable, and reliable Java code. 
• Translate designs and wireframes into high quality components and modular code, ensuring the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the application
• Strong advocate of Google’s Android design principles and interface guidelines
• Strong sense of ownership and integrity demonstrated through clear communication and collaboration.Having experience with building and maintaining an open source project or design library is a plus.

• 3 + years of experience of Android SDK, different versions of Android, and how to deal with different screen sizes. 
• Experience with local databases, offline storage, threading, and performance tuningExperience with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose is desirable.
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect Android applications to back-end services
• Familiarity with the use of additional sensors, such as camera, 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

Eximius is a micro-VC which invests into early-stage startups. One of our portfolio startup iTribe is looking for "Hustlers", "First Principle Thinkers", "Crazy and trips on creating products out of the box from scratch", "Outspoken", "unafraid of users ripping your product".

Responsibilities:

• Craft clean, manageable code, maintain proper documentation and code integrity
• Design advanced applications in mobile which is the main user facing product
• Maintain quality and ensure responsiveness, cross platform optimisation of applications
• Create, test and deploy the applications on production servers
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies and frameworks to maximize development efficiency

• Responsible for security and data protection.
  
  Communication & Collaboration

• Collaborate with engineering and cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features
• Unblock peers and keep all the internal and external teams informed about the progress of development

Requirements

• 2-5 years working as a full-time professional developer (Mobile) and 1 Year experience in a flutter is a must
• Should be familiar with REST Api's, websockets and Databases in mobile integration.
• Pixel perfectionist in UI engineering, should have a nack of telling desinger about the do's and dont's
• Well-versed with Software Development Life Cycle
• Demonstrate the ability to be a self-starter, learn and implement new technologies/ frameworks
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Understanding and implementation of security and data protection.

Why join iTribe?

• Opportunity to be part of the founding team and work directly with the founders
• Build a product which is not done in decades
• Competitive Salary
• ESOPs - ownership in the company
• Medical Insurances
• Subscriptions to premium platforms for learning
• Books that you ask for
• Friendly leave policy

• Translate designs and wireframes into high quality code for TV, tablets and mobile
• Design, build, and maintain high performance, reusable, and reliable Kotlin 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

Android Developer Requirements:

• Proven experience as an app developer (2 - 4 years).
• 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