Android Developer

Job Description:

We are looking for an Android Developer who possesses a passion for pushing mobile technologies to the limits and will work with our team of talented engineers to design and build the next generation of our mobile applications.

Key Responsibilities

• 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.
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.

Requirements

• B.Tech Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject
• 4+ years of software development experience
• Have published at least one original Android app
• Experience with Android SDK
• Should have minimum 1 year of experience in React Native 
• 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
• Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle.

Roles & Responsibilities:

 3+ years of experience developing mobile apps.  Experiencing fine tuning applications to improve performance and memory utilization.  Thorough understanding of iOS development for iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad devices.  Experience of design and development of iOS applications, preferably in an Enterprise setting  Proficient with Xcode, Objective-C, and Cocoa Touch  Experience with iOS frameworks such as Core Data, SQLite, MapKit, UIKit, Core Location, etc.  String knowledge in Restful, SOAP APIs to connect iOS applications to back-end services  Strong knowledge of Storyboard, Autolayout, ARC.  Experience of design and development of iOS applications, preferably in an Enterprise setting  Proficient with Xcode, Objective-C, and Cocoa Touch.  experience with iOS frameworks such as Core Data, SQLite, MapKit, UIKit, Core Location, etc  Experience with offline storage, threading, multitasking, and performance and memory tuning with  tools  (such as Instruments).  Understanding of Apple’s design principles and interface guidelines  Knowledge of low-level C-based libraries is preferred  Knowledge of Graph APIs is preferred.  Familiarity with cloud message APIs, Local and push notifications  Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (such as Git, TFS or SVN)  Familiarity with continuous integration.

Candidate Required:

 Excellent communication skills  Be an effective Team Leader and should be able to handle and lead a team with effective delegation.  Proficient in mobile app UI development and best practices  Ability to understand that business needs may shift your priorities and adjust accordingly  Exceptional written and oral communication skills.  Exceptional interpersonal skills, with a focus on listening and questioning skills.  Proven analytical and problem-solving abilities.  Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.

Android Development Engineer - Chennai  

Who we are?  

Kaleidofin is a financial platform for the informal sector, which provides solutions tailored to the customer’s goals and are intuitive to use. We are working towards creating fair and transparent financial solutions that can target millions of customers and enterprises in India that don’t have easy access to formal financial planning.  

In a very short time span, global investors such as Omidyar Network, Blume Ventures and well known individual investors have supported Kaleidofin’s well thought out business model with $2.8 million in seed funding.  

With its focus to harness mobile technology to deliver a paperless experience as well as its focus to harness technology and analytics to predict the right product for the right customer, Kaleidofin aims to become a leading FinTech player bringing financial solutions to everyone.  

To know more about Kaleidofin, do visit our site https://kaleidofin.com/  

What You’ll Do?  

We are seeking extremely smart Android developers who are passionate about pushing mobile technologies to the limits. You will:  

• Design and develop products by working closely with business teams
• Design super intuitive experiences in the next generation of our mobile applications  
• Build performant, scalable, yet secure, enterprise ready android applications with architecture that is fast yet lean on the backend servers enabling them to support millions of users in parallel  
• Build enterprise ready back end architectures that can support millions of users in parallel 

• Gain experience with hands on coding and independent ownership of software components 
• Follow strong engineering best practices and champion their adoption 

Who You Need To Be? 

• 2+ years’ experience in android software development and delivery 
• Bachelors or Masters degree in engineering from a reputed institute(preferably IITs, NITs, or other top engineering institutes).  

• Strong grasp of CS fundamentals, algorithms and excellent problem solving abilities. 
• All experience should be from good product development or e-commerce background. 
• Must have shown good stability in all your previous associations. 
• Skill set 

• Knowledge of UI architectural patterns like MVVM(preferable), MVC, MVP, data binding, activity & fragment lifecycle, recycler view, navigation component, layouts (constraint layout preferable), theming etc. 

• Should have actively used retrofit, work managers, android jetpack, Rx java, dagger, retrofit, android sdk, GIT/bitbucket, gradle/ant and very keen on exploring other proven tech stack. 
• Comfortable with test driven development in android with UI testing, instrumented unit testing and unit testing using junits, mockito or other tools. 
• Willingness to learn and write simple backend REST API’s (preferably in Java, spring boot & hibernate) without having to completely depend on backend engineers for delivery 
• Has worked in a fast paced agile organization building stateless and re-entrant/resumable android applications. 

Responsibilities

As a Software Engineer - Cross Platform Mobile Developer you will be expected to develop and maintain Cross platform Android and iOS applications for a range of our clients in different verticals. You will be working alongside other engineers and developers working on different layers of the infrastructure. You will also be helping out junior team members by reviewing their code and providing feedback. Thereby, helping them excel professionally.

Requirements

B.E/B.Tech degree in Computer Science Engineering or any related fields. Even candidates with BCA/MCA degree can apply. But if you feel that you don’t have the necessary degree to apply, don’t worry! If you can prove that you have the necessary skills for this position, we would love to hear from you.

Skills

• Thorough understanding of Flutter and its core principles.

• Proficient in Dart6 Programming.

• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms (such as Auth 2.0 or JSON Web Token)

• Build pixel-perfect, buttery smooth UIs across both mobile platforms. • Familiarity with RESTful APIs.

• Leverage native APIs for deep integrations with both platforms.

• Diagnose and fix bugs and performance bottlenecks for performance that feels native.

• Maintain code and write automated tests to ensure the product is of the highest quality.

• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements

• A knack for benchmarking and optimization

• Familiarity with code versioning tools (such as Git or Perforce)

• Strong knowledge of UI design principles, architecture patterns, and best practices for development.

• Familiarity with native build tools, like Xcode, Gradle (Android Studio, IntelliJ)

• Ability to write well-documented, clean code

• Experience launching and managing production mobile apps Nice to have

• Familiarity with continuous integration

• Knowledge on native Android development

• Designs and codes features for the Android application as per the specifications provided by Product and Design teams.
• Write unit tests for all features.
• Ships feature fast moving agile sprints.
• Works closely with API, Product Design and Product Management teams to brainstorm and chalk out details of features.