Android Developer

Company Description

Sciflare Technologies Pvt. Ltd. is a 10+ years dynamic and innovative IT and software development company located in Chennai. With a strong presence in the US, Europe, and UAE, we specialize in various domains, including AI, Gaming, Banking, Fintech, Fantasy Sports, IT, E-commerce, Logistics, Healthcare, and On-Demand Services. Our team of over 40 talented professionals is dedicated to delivering cutting-edge solutions that drive our clients' success. Our top clients include Provident Bank, Century Financial, HDFC Life, The New Indian Express, Cisco, and EROS Group.

Join us and be a part of a company that thrives on creativity, technology, and excellence.

CHANCE TO WORK WITH APPS WITH 10LAKH CONCURRENT USERS IN GAMING INDUSTRY

Role Description

• You are a champion at Code reviews and Unit/Mock/integration Tests
• You have a strong sense of ownership of what you design and deploy
• You provide strong technical mentorship to team members
• You are an excellent team player
• You continuously learn and improve

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior React Native Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will lead and manage software development projects across diverse domains such as Gaming, Banking, Fintech, Fantasy Sports, IT, E-commerce, Logistics, Healthcare, and On-Demand Services. You will be responsible for ensuring the successful delivery of projects, meeting deadlines, and exceeding client expectations.

Skill Sets

• Startup Experience: Proven track record of taking ownership of projects and delivering impactful results in a startup environment.
• Relevant Experience: 3-9 years of experience in mobile app development, with a strong focus on building high-performance, scalable, and maintainable React Native applications.
• React Native Expertise: Extensive experience with React Native, including deep knowledge of its ecosystem, libraries, and tools.
• JavaScript & TypeScript: Proficiency in JavaScript and TypeScript, with experience in writing clean, maintainable, and efficient code.
• Mobile Development: Hands-on experience in developing cross-platform mobile applications for both iOS and Android, with a strong understanding of platform-specific guidelines and best practices.
• State Management: Proficiency with state management solutions such as Redux, MobX, or Context API.
• APIs & Integration: Experience integrating with RESTful APIs and GraphQL endpoints, with a strong understanding of asynchronous data fetching and state management.
• UI/UX Design: Strong understanding of UI/UX principles and experience working with designers to implement user-friendly interfaces and improve app usability.
• Testing & Debugging: Experience with mobile testing frameworks and tools such as Jest, Detox, or Appium. Skilled in debugging and performance optimization for mobile applications.
• Version Control & CI/CD: Experience with Git, pull requests, and CI/CD pipelines. Familiarity with tools like GitLab, GitHub, or Bitbucket.
• Agile Practices: Experience working in Agile environments, with a solid understanding of SCRUM and related methodologies.
• Collaboration & Communication: Excellent teamwork and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively in a remote or distributed team setting.
• Solutions-Oriented: Ability to tackle complex problems with a solutions-oriented mindset, adapting to the fast pace and challenges of startup life.

Responsibilities

• Scalable Architecture: Lead the design and implementation of scalable mobile architectures that ensure performance, reliability, and maintainability of React Native applications.
• Informed Decisions: Make architectural and technical decisions that align with the companys business objectives and technical strategy.
• Code Quality & Standards: Maintain high standards of code quality through regular code reviews, adhering to best practices and industry standards.
• User Experience: Work closely with UX/UI designers to ensure that applications provide a seamless and engaging user experience.
• Performance Optimization: Optimize mobile applications for speed, responsiveness, and efficiency, ensuring a smooth user experience across both iOS and Android platforms.
• Testing & Debugging: Implement comprehensive testing strategies to identify and address issues early in the development cycle, ensuring reliable and high-quality releases.
• Collaboration: Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other developers to understand user requirements and deliver features that meet user needs and project goals.
• Continuous Learning: Stay current with the latest trends, technologies, and best practices in React Native and mobile development to drive innovation and improvement.
• Autonomy: Take ownership of projects and tasks, working independently and effectively without the need for constant supervision.
• Simplicity: Strive for simplicity and elegance in your code and solutions, avoiding unnecessary complexity.
• Proactive Problem Solving: Anticipate and address potential issues before they arise, contributing to the overall success of the team and project.
• Solution-Oriented: Focus on delivering practical solutions to problems, going beyond just writing code to contribute to the overall success of the product.

Life@Sciflare:

• An exciting & lively workplace gives you the chance to work in an environment where you may unleash your creativity and inventiveness to the best extent possible.
• Work in a collaborative setting where your cooperative team contributes new perspectives to your objectives and forges strong bonds.
• Growth mindset: You are nurtured through each stage of your professional advancement by learning and unlearning new things.

The role is office-based, working from Monday to Friday 9:00 AM to 06:00 PM & all Saturdays & Sundays are off.

•Strong in Android, Kotlin, and MVVM architectural pattern

•Great understanding of Coroutines, Memory management, and App performance

•Solid understandings of Connectivity - BLE, WiFi

•Unit and Instrumentation testing knowledge in Espresso, JUnit4 or JUnit5, and Mockito/MockK libraries

•Experience in Dependency Injection - Hilt, Dagger2

•Good knowledge in screen navigation using Navigation APIs

•Good to have knowledge in Jetpack Compose

Krafty Solutions is looking for an enthusiastic, energetic, young-minded mobile application developer who take pride in the work they do.

Krafty Solutions is a product design and development studio where you will learn a lot in your field by working in a very friendly environment. An opportunity will be given based on your preference.

About You

If you're the guy who has a strong bias for making things happen, always wears a smile on your face, with a proactive attitude then we would like to meet you. You will work closely with your team leader who will help you to learn new things as well as resolve your doubts. If you're interested in creating a user-friendly environment by writing code and moving forward in your career, then this job is for you. We expect you to be a tech-savvy professional, who is curious about new digital technologies and aspires to combine usability with visual design.

Knowledge

• Strong knowledge of OOP, Java and Android SDK.
• Experience in RESTful, JSON and XML parsing, SQLite, Push Notification, Payment Gateway Integration, In app Purchase
• Experience of integrating third-party libraries.
• Hands on with Kotlin, Android-KTX libraries and Unit testing (Junit, Espresso, Mockito, Firebase Test-case)
• Hand on experience on Android UI Development (Material Design Component), multiple device resolution support, landscape and tablet support, multi-language & RTL support in layout.
• Understanding of App Lifecycle, Activity, Fragment, Background Service, Broadcast, Gradle, Memory management, Threading etc.
• Understanding of architecture design patterns like MVP and/or MVVM
• Android jetpack component(Room, DataBinding, LifeCycle, LiveData, Navigation, Paging, ViewModel, WorkManager)
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (e.g. GIT)
• Data binding library, constraint layout, RxJava concepts,
• Experience with publishing app on Google Play Console and managing the app lifecycle
• GraphQL knowledge is a plus

Responsibilities and Duties

• Overall responsibility and accountability for Android App
• Hands-on coding, systems analysis, design, and delivery of projects assigned.
• Overall App Design - code, performance, security, size
• Deliver new features, execute on the roadmap and plan for the future.
• Convert app requirements into actionable and tangible items for all stakeholders
• Release planning and timely integration with other stakeholders (product, backend, frontend, ui/ux etc)
• Proactive ANR, other crash fixes etc
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development/performance etc
• Improve product quality through code reviews, writing effective unit tests, and collaborating with QA

Key Skills

• Kotlin, Java, RxKotlin, RxJava, Android SDK, Android Studio, Git Required
• Education - B.E/ B.Tech/BCA/MCA/MSc IT degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject
• Experience - 3-6 yrs

Benefits

• Great Company Culture - A relaxed, friendly and positive company culture with a dynamic young team
• Work-Life Balance - Genuine work/life balance served at Krafty.
• A Well Earned Rest - You will get 11 paid public holidays as well as 12 paid leaves. So, a total of 23 HOLIDAYS
• Flexible working hours - Reaching late at the office would never be an issue for you. Fully remote culture
• Weekends Off - Saturday & Sunday Fixed Off

• Translate product designs and features into high-quality code within project constraints through diligent planning and attention to detail.
• Design and develop efficient reusable components. Follow SDLC best practices by ensuring coding and testing standards.
• Take the lead to maintain and refactor code and remedy performance bottlenecks.
• Collaborate with different tech teams, product teams, and QA. Exhibit excellent teamwork and help achieve team goals. Keep key stakeholders informed about progress and problems; avoid surprises.
• Work to architect simple, reliable, and elegant applications. Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.
• Identify and communicate improvements to development tools, processes & workflows. Contribute to a collaborative work environment and a culture of ownership.
• Participate in understanding problems for our specific target and finding solutions for them.

• Strong knowledge of Android design principles, patterns, and best practices.
  Good problem-solving skills and verse with OOPs fundamentals.
• Proficiency in Java, Kotlin, and a solid understanding of Android SDK and other components (MVP/MVVM, Architecture components, Jetpack, Dagger, RxJava, Coroutines, Data binding, Retrofit, etc).
• Knowledge of clean architecture and its implementation.
• Proficient with developing apps optimized for different android versions and devices of varying performance.
• Strong system design and architecture skills.
• Experience with multi-threading, memory management, databases.
• Experience in working with REST APIs, JSON, XML, etc.
• Experience/Knowledge of unit testing and integration testing.
• A knack for profiling, performance tuning, and optimization.
  Skills that will give you an edge
• Hands-on experience with supporting payments and integrating payment gateways
• Experience with progressive web apps, service workers
• Strong grasp over frontend unit and end-to-end testing frameworks

We’re looking for a Senior Mobile Application Developer to work on Client & Internal Applications.  The successful candidate will be responsible designing, developing and implementing software solutions to address complex business issues.  The ideal applicant will be able to thrive in a highly collaborative workplace and actively engage in the development process hands-on. 

Company are looking for an Android developer - it will be a huge benefit if you are confident and able to build application in Objective C or Swift.

Requirements

• Experience with publishing APIs and in4tegrating with 3^rd party services
• Kotlin, Android, Java, Objective C, Swift
• Good knowledge of database (MySQL, SQLlite, Firebase)
• Able to publish Apps to Playstore & Appstore
• Experienced in building mobile applications that utilizes web services (SOAP / REST / JSON)
• An eye for design
• Extensive experience with Mobile features & libraries – Maps, Camera, Files, Wearables, GPS, QR Scanning etc.
• Experience with Tensorflow Lite
• Able to build responsive Ui that work with different devices
• Other programming languages are of benefit – HTML, CSS, PHP, C#

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!

• Min 2-3 years of experience in Mobile App/Android development
• Min 1 year of experience in Kotlin
• Immediate joinee are preferred
• Experience with different programming paradigms, esp. functional and reactive programming
• Strong in writing unit test cases
• Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs
• Familiarity with git and continuous integration
• Proficiency in various software design patterns
• Exposure to agile/scrum
• Excellent communication skill

Android

• Strong understanding of the OOPS concept.
• Working experience in Java and Kotlin language. (Must)
• Knowledge of Offline Sync, Multithreading, Realm/Room/SQLLite databases, Live data, Socket Programming. (Must)
• Familiar with Android Jetpack components (Must)
• Idea/Experience of MVC/MVVM and MVP
• At least 1 live application on Playstore. (Must)
• Good debugging and problem-solving skills.

Good to have

• Idea/experience in RxJava, RxKotlin
• Idea/experience of unit and instrumentation testing in Android
• Knowledge of Web RTC.
• Experience with tools like Git, Jira, Basecamp, BitBucket, Azure DevOps would be an advantage.
• Good to have experience working with IOT projects, Bluetooth technologies
• Active Open Source, GitHub or Stack Overflow contribution will be a big plus
• Having personal apps in play store will be an added advantage
• Working knowledge of the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends & emerging technologies.

What we look for in people 

critical thinking, openness to unlearn and learn, collaborate seamlessly cross borders, enjoy working in a remote and fast paced environment, curious and passionate about solving customer problems, consensus driven decision making approach, persuasive communication and precision for details