Android Developer

iOS Developer:

1+ years of experience in iOS mobile application development

• Proficient with Swift and Cocoa Touch
• Experience with iOS frameworks such as Core Data, Core Animation, Core Location etc
• Experience in Design patterns such as POP, MVVM, CleanSwift, Facade
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect iOS applications to back-end services
• Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications
• Understanding of Apple's design principles and interface guidelines
• Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
• Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning
• Understanding of the full mobile development life cycle
• Understanding of Git

Mandatory skills:

• Proficient with Objective-C and Swift depending on project requirements and Cocoa Touch
• Experience with iOS frameworks such as Core Data, Core Animation, etc.
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect iOS applications to back-end services

Secondary Skills:

• Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning
• Knowledge of other web technologies and UI/UX standards
• Understanding of Apple's design principles and interface guidelines
• Experience with Version Control System
• Experience with Bug Tracking

Added advantage if the candidate possess below skills.

• Knowledge of low-level C-based libraries is preferred
• Experience with performance and memory tuning with tools such as Instruments and Shark, depending on project needs Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications
• Bluetooth communication, BLE
• Performance and Security related Concepts

Our Mission

Mercari is a Japan-based company with the mission of “create value in a global marketplace where anyone can buy & sell.” Having continuously worked toward this goal since our founding in 2013, we are now transforming from a startup into a global player. While this transformation brings its own specific set of challenges, we believe that solving them one after another will allow us to fully achieve our mission. Are you interested in working together to take on these exciting challenges?

Our Culture

To achieve our mission at Mercari, our organization and each of our employees share the same values and perspectives. Our individual guidelines for action are defined by our three values: Go Bold, All for One, and Be a Pro. Our organization is also shaped by our four foundations: Sustainability, Diversity & Inclusion, Trust & Openness, and Well-being for Performance. Regardless of how big Mercari gets, the culture will remain essential to achieving our mission and something we want to preserve throughout our organization. We invite you to read the “Mercari Culture Doc,” which summarizes the behaviors and mindset shared by Mercari and its employees. We continue to build an environment where all of our members of diverse backgrounds are accepted and recognized, and where they can thrive while holding dear to Mercari’s culture.

Work Responsibilities

• Native Android app development for Mercari and group companies' apps
• The development environment is as follows.
• Development language: Kotlin
• Development environment: Android Studio
• Build tool: Gradle
• CI/CD： CircleCI
• Others: GitHub, Firebase, Slack, Figma, JIRA, Confluence

Minimum Requirements

• Shared understanding and belief in Mercari Group mission and values
• At least 3 years of experience developing native Android applications with Kotlin Developing, operating, making decisions when selecting technology, and continuous improvement of large-scale product codebases
• Ability to design and develop with performance and scalability in mind
• Extensive knowledge of object-oriented software development, networking, memory management, and software testing
• Good communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate with multiple stakeholders
• Familiarity with architecture frameworks like MVVM, MVP, declarative UI, or similar architectures

Preferred Requirements

• Experience using and installing Jetpack functions such as Android Architecture Components
• Understanding of UI development
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies like Scrum, Kanban, etc
• Experience in iOS or web development
• OSS contribution experience/familiarity with the OSS community
• Customer-centric product development in E-commerce/Fintech
• Working in multi-cultural and diverse teams
• Team Leadership experience

Working Conditions

Employment Status

Full-time

Office

Bangalore

• Hybrid Workstyle

Work Hours

• Full flextime (no core time)
• *Does not apply to all positions

Job Description:

• Strong working experience in IOS application development is a must. First-hand experience of native mobile apps using Swift must.
• Experience with Swift, RxSwift, Swift UI, Unit test.
• Strong system design and architecture skills - specifically for IOS. Curiosity to tinker around, explore new paradigms and strongest for continuous improvement. Strong problem-solving skills.
• Understanding of network connections, Rest API'sand scheduling. Strong knowledge about security standards (e.g. HTTPS) and privacy standards.
• Idea/experience of the unit and instrumentation testing in IOS. Optimizing app performance and memory consumption.
• Leveraging community libraries to efficiently complete development tasks.
• Debugging apps using simulators and related tooling.
• Persisting data for offline-first apps using databases such as Realm.
• Localizing apps to support multiple languages and regions, vernacular libraries and fonts.
• Familiar with Version control system such as GIT.

About us:

Zapit aims to be a multi-platform single app solution for universal payments using blockchain technology. Our goal is to spread economic freedom by pushing the boundaries of p2p payments by introducing non-custodial decentralised financial services.

We are looking to build smart contracts that can be deployed for real world use cases such as insurances, loans and other useful decentralised financial products. We are also working towards building an economy where concepts like company shares, gift cards, discount coupons, loyalty points and more can be tokenised including NFTs in the form of art, music, gaming items, event tickets, design concepts and more.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with designers to develop a visually appealing, responsive & optimised app for mobile, web & desktop platforms.
• Use Flutter framework to develop great user experiences with effective workflows.
• Build reusable code and robust libraries of UI components.
• Write clean, maintainable and documented code with solid test coverage.
• Participate in the product roadmap discussions.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, scale and improve code base.
• Implement methods to understand user interaction and engagement on the product through metrics.

Requirements:

• Minimum experience of 1.5 years in Dart/Flutter development with a good knowledge of native Android & iOS development.
• Good understanding of Data Structures and Algorithms.
• Passionate and opinionated about beautiful design with an eye for detail.
• Should be updated with latest front end technologies and trends.
• Proficient knowledge of cross-browser compatibility issues and handle graceful degradation.
• Should have delivered multiple products.
• Interest in building things from scratch.
• Willingness and affinity to learn.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Self-motivated, work well independently or as part of the team.

Our Stack:

We tend to work with Javascript, Typescript, Dart, Flutter, gRPC, Express.js, Heroku, NodeJS, MongoDB, AWS, Solidity, Bitcoin Script.

Good-to-Have:

• Open Source contributions.
• Interest in Cryptocurrency/Payments space.
• Familiar with Git and GitHub/GitLab

Incentives:

• Equity in the company
• Get to work in a distributed team.
• Handsome pay. (Competitive)
• Fast opportunities for personal and professional learning and growth, tons of autonomy and responsibility, results-driven environment, international team, exposure to a wide array of ecosystems and trailblazing technology, flexible work hours.

Please include something beautiful you’ve implemented in the past if possible!

If you have examples of a project where you iterated after learning new things from potential users, please talk about that!

Mobile App Development:-

We are looking for 2 - 3 years of overall mobile app development experience out of which experience of at least 2+ years in developing native and hybrid mobile applications Should have handled end-to-end designing, development, testing, and deployment on any native Android/iOS platform.

Hands-on experience with native development will add advantage, Angular 6+ Excellent technical knowledge on HTML5, CSS3, JQuery, JQuery Mobile, AJAX, XML, JSON, Java, Bootstrap, PhoneGap, Angular JS.

Should have working experience in consuming Web Service and REST API.

Experience in Business Object Model implementation data integration with JSON/XML Designing and implementing different analytics interfaces such as charts, graphs etc.

Should have knowledge of App signing, publishing to Play-store and iTunes Well versed with code management like GIT, SVN Should be a team player

Roles and Responsibilities:-

• Develop hybrid mobile applications & deliver across the entire app life cycle concept,
• design, build, deploy, test, release to app stores.
• Work directly with the tech team to conceptualize, build, test, and realize products.
• Test the app on devices and Deploy it on Apple Store & Google Play Store.
• Standardizing the platform and in some cases apps to deliver across multiple brands with minimal duplication of effort and Optimizing performance for the apps.