Android Developer

Web & Mobile Applications development

• Responsible for driving development team and coordinate strategies to ensure smooth functioning of delivered software service to internal customers.
• Ability to work with complex business scenarios supporting critical business functions deployed across multiple locations.
• Manage day-to-day activities of application development team following SDLC principles.
• Exposure to Agile or Scrum Development, DevOps preferred
• Exposure to API management and UX design preferred
• Manage and coordinate the teams working on development using PHP/MYSQL, Oracle/APEX, Android Mobile application, etc.
• Help maintain the code quality, its organization, and automations.
• Experience in Project and team management
• Should have worked on large scale applications

A bit about us

WeatherBug is a popular weather site and mobile app providing hyperlocal, live weather data and proactive alerting to consumer users. With over 15 million unique users per month, across all platforms, WeatherBug’s vision is to provide environmental intelligence for all aspects of people’s lives. The WeatherBug app is a top-rated weather app in the app stores. In 2019, WeatherBug was named the best weather app by MediaPost’s Appy Awards. WeatherBug is owned and operated by GroundTruth, a media company that turns real-world behavior into marketing that delivers real business results.

Learn more at WeatherBug.com

At GroundTruth, we believe that innovative technology starts with the best talent and we have been ranked one of Ad Age’s Best Places to Work for three years in a row (2021, 2022 & 2023). Learn more about the perks of joining our team here.

A bit about you

A recognized expert in their professional discipline, with significant impact and influence on organizational policy and program development. Establishes critical strategic and operational goals, and develops and implements new products, processes, standards, or operational plans to achieve organizational objectives. Regularly leads projects of critical importance to the organization—projects that carry substantial consequences for success or failure. Requires strong influence and communication with executive leadership. Problems encountered are often complex and multidimensional, requiring broad-based consideration of variables that affect multiple areas of the organization.

You will:

• Develop production-ready code to meet scope of requirements.
• With guidance, update and create documentation as needed for new and existing solutions.
• Participate in code-reviews with comments to improve code quality, stability, and maintainability.
• Create and maintain unit and integration testing solutions. Be able to run your code in lower environments.
• Run tests on the mobile device to ensure code meets requirements
• Watch mobile releases for Android or iOS for features you developed
• Teardown your solutions across multiple environments and platforms.
•  Provide operational support of your deployed code
• Determine issues within your areas of expertise.
• Work with teams across the engineering organization to understand and incorporate client requirements into final solutions.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.

You have:

• Bachelor’s degree (4 years) in Computer Science or a related field, OR 5+ years of relevant software development experience.
• 3+ years of professional experience in software engineering.
• 2+ years of hands-on Android application development using Kotlin and Android Studio.
• Experience with modern Android libraries and frameworks, including Jetpack components (e.g., Navigation, Room, ViewModel, LiveData), Retrofit for networking, and image loading libraries (e.g., Glide, Coil).
• Proficiency with asynchronous programming using Kotlin Coroutines and Flow.
• Familiarity with dependency injection frameworks such as Dagger/Hilt or Koin.
• Experience with app architecture patterns such as MVVM or MVI, and clean architecture principles.
• 2+ years of experience working in Agile teams and participating in iterative development cycles.
• Strong understanding of object-oriented design principles, design patterns, best practices, performance optimization, and memory management.
• Experience with unit and UI testing frameworks (JUnit, Mockito, Espresso).
• Familiarity with Git and collaborative version control workflows.
• Exposure to CI/CD tools and automated build/deployment pipelines.
• Ability to independently take ownership of tasks and deliver robust solutions.
• Commitment to writing clean, maintainable, and well-documented code.

Would be great if you have:

• Experience with React Native, including building function components, using hooks, and working with JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Knowledge of Play Store processes, including app signing, publishing, and release management.
• Familiarity with ingesting and exposing large datasets in the weather industry.
• Experience in the advertising industry.
• Proficiency with tools like GitHub, Jenkins, Artifactory.

You are:

• A team player who is organized, flexible and willing to adapt
• Not afraid of new technologies and driven to learn
• A detail-oriented person, who catches problems early and adjusts
• A strong communicator who is able to collaborate with multiple business and engineering stakeholders and work through conflicting needs
• A problem solver who likes to dive deep into a problem, diagnose root causes and work with multiple teams to come up with a solution
• Organized with demonstrated ability to prioritize and deliver timely work
• A team player and not afraid to roll up your sleeves and help when needed
• Self-sufficient and not afraid to take the lead and manage tasks independently
• Coachable and open to feedback
• Respectful–-we treat each other with respect and assume the best of one another
• Not afraid to have fun!

What we offer

At GroundTruth, we want our employees to be comfortable with their benefits so they can focus on doing the work they love.

● Parental leave- Maternity and Paternity

● Flexible Time Offs (Earned Leaves, Sick Leaves, Birthday leave, Bereavement leave & Company Holidays)

● In Office Daily Catered Lunch

● Fully stocked snacks/beverages

● Health cover for any hospitalization. Covers both nuclear family and parents

● Covid home quarantine cover

● Tele-med for free doctor consultation, discounts on health checkups and medicines

● Wellness/Gym Reimbursement

●  Pet Expense Reimbursement

●  Childcare Expenses and reimbursements

●  Employee assistance program

●  Employee referral program

●  Education reimbursement program

●  Skill development program

●  Cell phone reimbursement (Mobile Subsidy program)

●  Internet reimbursement

●  Birthday treat reimbursement

●  Home office set up

●  Employee Provident Fund Scheme offering different tax saving options such as VPF and employee and employer contribution up to 12% Basic

●  Creche reimbursement

●   Co-working space reimbursement

●   NPS employer match

●   Meal card for tax benefit

●   Special benefits on salary account

●   New joiner relocation

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

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

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

We are looking for an experienced Android developer for the development and maintenance of an Android app aimed at drone pilots to execute drone flights. The application will have to be intuitive, robust and work offline.

You will be working along-side other mobile and web developers to develop a full-stack drone flight solution that enables drone service providers, pilots, and enterprises to execute fast, accurate, and seamless drone missions. You will work with cross functional product development team and will be responsible to design and build drone applications.

Qualification:

• Tech/M.tech/BCA/MCA Degree in computer Science/IT/Electronics.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Design, build and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable android code.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features
• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency

Skills:

• Hands-on experience in developing Android apps

• Experience with offline storage, threading and performing benchmarking and tuning.
• Well versed with the latest android jetpack libraries (AndroidX, ViewModels etc)
• Understanding of Android design principles and interface guidelines
• Strong knowledge of Android SDK, different versions of Android, and how to deal with different screen sizes.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools like Git
• Work with outside data sources and APIs (Familiar with frameworks like Retrofit, Volley, OkHTTP, etc.)
• Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications.
• Good knowledge in programming concepts OOPs, design & coding patterns
• Experience in writing & executing UI Unit Tests for robustness, usability, and reliability.
• Experience with Google Play console and publishing apps on the play store

Soft Skills:

• Understanding of database structure, algorithms, and processes
• Familiar with database management and design
• Good communication and management skills
• Ability to adapt to new technology, concept, approaches, and environment faster
• Problem-solving and analytical skills
• Must have a learning attitude and improvement mindset
• Knowledge of non-functional aspects of the app/product such as security, automation, testing, performance, optimization
• Leadership and resource management skills

Hands-on experience in working with Android Studio, Visual Studio & Xamarin.Forms.

Hands-on experience in creating user interface using Xamarin.Forms, Android SDK & iOS SDK for designing UI using XAML with various layouts and controls.

Hands-on experience required on MVVM.​

Hands-on experience in developing Xamarin.Forms Custom Renderers, Data Binding, Effects,Gustures, Sliders, List views, Buttons, Styles, Check boxes, Date Pickers, Webview and Dependency Service.

Need Good Knowledge on data storage options using SQLite Database, Shared Preferences and Content Provider In Xamarin.Forms & Android.

Hands-on experience  in Server integration technologies including web services RESTful APIs.

Need Good Knowledge in integrating Google Play Services, Google Maps API and Google

         Cloud Messaging.

Need Good Knowledge with Push Notification Implementation in Xamarin.Android by Firebase.

Working experience  required on developing  the applications and testing them on Emulators, mobiles and tablets.

Proficient in generating Android .APK & iOS .IPA files deploying to the Playstore and App Store.

• Designing and building advanced applications for the iOS platform
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features
• Unit-test coding for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability
• Working on bug fixing and improving application performance
• Continuously discovering, evaluating and implementing new technologies to maximize development efficiency

Desired Candidate Profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline
• 3-6 years iOS app development experience
• Strong hands on experience in developing high performance mobile applications
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Good logical sense, strong technical skills and the ability to learn new technologies quickly
• Expert with Swift (swift 4.0 & above) and Cocoa Touch
• Experience with iOS frameworks such as Core Data, Core Animation, etc.
• Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning
• Must have experience in BLE and BT
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect iOS applications to back-end services
• Understanding of Apples design principles and interface guidelines
• Experience with performance and memory tuning with tools such as Instruments and Shark
• Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications
• Familiarity with the MVC and MVVM design patterns
• Knowledge of the open-source ecosystem and the libraries available for common tasks
• Experience building, testing and distributing native apps that consume RESTful services
• Hands-on coding, systems analysis, design, and delivery of projects assigned
• At least three native iPhone applications deployed in the marketplace
• Should have Knowledge in Apple Certificate/Profile creation and maintenance
• Knowledge in SDK integration into iOS app & Realm Database is an added advantage
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as GIT

Job Location: Pune

Experience: 2 to 5 years

Annual CTC: 400000 - 1000000 INR

Notice Period:  1 Month or Less

Skills: Flutter, Platform level iOS/Android, Mobile Application Development, SQLite.

Job Requirement:

• Desire to work in a startup environment, Fun@work culture and able to self-manage.
• Must have at least 2 years of experience in building mobile applications and built at least two Android and/or iOS apps with Flutter.
• A strong commitment to quality and willingness to learn.
• Have published one or more mobile apps in Google Play or App Store.
• Experience with third-party libraries and APIs.
• Experience working in an agile development process.
• Be proficient in using version control and continuous integration, with tools such as Bit Bucket, Git and Jenkins.
• Write clear, maintainable and testable code that you are proud of.
• Good communication skills.

Good to have: (Not Mandatory)

• Ability to take an ownership & leadership role on the team.
• Working knowledge of the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies.
• Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle, including automated testing and building.
• Experience working in Fintech payments and eCommerce.
• General knowledge of Location Services, Maps, and other common Android/IOS libraries.