Android Developer

Key responsibilities:

1. Creating and maintaining Android applications that are high-quality, efficient, and scalable

2. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to create new features

3. Ensuring the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications

4. Identifying and resolving bugs and performance bottlenecks

5. Conducting code reviews, maintaining code quality, and ensuring adherence to coding standards

6. Implementing and integrating APIs and third-party libraries

Participating in the entire Android development lifecycle, including planning, testing, and deploying applications

7. Providing technical guidance and support to other team members

Qualification

1. Bachelor's/master's degree in computer science, information technology, Engineering or a related field

2. Strong proficiency in Java, Javascript, and Kotlin

3. In-depth knowledge of Android SDK, Android Studio, and other various tools

4. Experience developing and publishing Android applications on the Google Play Store

5. Familiarity with RESTful APIs, JSON, and web services integration

6. An understanding of mobile UI and UX principles and design patterns

7. Knowledge of version control systems like Git

Solid understanding of software development principles, including agile methodologies

8. Strong problem-solving and debugging skills

9. Excellent communication and teamwork abilities

1. Bachelor's/master's degree in computer science, information technology, Engineering or a related field

2. Strong proficiency in Java, Javascript, and Kotlin

3. In-depth knowledge of Android SDK, Android Studio, and other various tools

4. Experience developing and publishing Android applications on the Google Play Store

5. Familiarity with RESTful APIs, JSON, and web services integration

6. An understanding of mobile UI and UX principles and design patterns

7. Knowledge of version control systems like Git

Solid understanding of software development principles, including agile methodologies

8. Strong problem-solving and debugging skills

9. Excellent communication and teamwork abilities

We are looking for a Senior React Native developer with 5 - 6 years of experience, in building performant mobile applications on Android & iOS platforms. You will be responsible to Architect, build React Native applications.

We are a fast growing product based startup operating out of Chennai.

Responsibilities

• Build pixel-perfect, buttery smooth UIs across Android and iOS.
• Technical design of complex mobile applications
• Leverage native APIs for deep integrations with both platforms.
• Translating designs and wire-frames into high quality code
• 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.

Requirements

• 5-6 years of demonstrable experience in designing and developing mobile apps using react-native.
• Ability to write well-documented, clean JavaScript code
• Rock solid at working with third-party dependencies and debugging dependency conflicts.
• Familiarity with native build tools, like XCode, Gradle, Android Studio and Visual Studio Code.
• Understanding of REST APIs, the document request model, and offline storage.

Below are a few perks of joining our team:

• Competitive salary
• Fully remote job
• Creative Problem Solving and Entrepreneurial Thinking
• Fast-Paced Environment
• Consistent Engagement from Senior Leadership

Skills:

• Strong knowledge of Android SDK, different versions of Android, and how to deal with different screen sizes
• Kotlin, Java
• Important libraries include Dagger, RxJava, Realm
• MVVM Clean Architecture
• 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
• 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

• Designing the Mobile Application for our product offering
• Communicating effectively in a cross-functional product development team and present ideas and designs effectively.
• Identifying and correcting bottlenecks and fixing bugs
• Helping maintain code quality, organization, and automatization

What you need to have:

• Leads a project end-to-end and collaborates across functions. Drives planning, estimation and execution.
• Understands requirements well and comes up with efficient design
• Develops complex, well backed and bug-free products. Estimates accurately.
• Takes well-reasoned tech decisions keeping in mind goals and trade-offs
• Becomes a go-to person in more than one area. Provide technical mentoring to team
• Communicates clearly, gets clarifications and establishes expectations for all parties
• Helps establish SDLC best practices and high standards of code quality
• Demonstrates excellent problem solving & debugging skills
• Proactively identifies and resolves issues in requirements, design and code
• Perform peer code reviews and help us all get better.

About the Role

As an Android Developer, you will own the Android app and strive to deliver the best learning experience out there to our learners that upGrad is known for. You will be responsible for developing features, taking those features to production and maintaining the existing code. Innovative nature and pro-active involvement in the product is taken very seriously at upGrad, therefore, a major part of your role would involve thinking about new features and new ways to deliver quality learning experience to our learners

Skills/Experience

1. Minimum 6+ years of hands-on Android development experience.
2. Strong Java and object-oriented concepts.
3. Solid understanding of Android architectural patterns especially MVVM and their importance in scalable software development process.
4. Strong understanding of Android fundamentals.
5. Experience in Android UI creation.
6. Experience of Android Live Data, Kotlin and Constraint layout would be a huge plus point.

Years of Exp –  Minimum 6-8 

We are looking for an Android developer who has hands-on experience in coding, building technology blocks, help answer choice of certain platform/tech over others, help the team visualize the product with the available resources and assets. 

What you’ll do:

• Design, develop, and test functionality for the latest app design.
• Support the entire application lifecycle (concept, design, test, release, and support).
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and develop new features.
• Take requirements and specs from design to development and be the first line of quality assurance.
• Understand user requirements—these apps have to meet real-world scenarios.
• Support the Supersub Mobile application in its entirety, including working on bug fixes and improving application performance, reliability and stability.
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.

What you bring:

• 3+ years of mobile software development experience.
• 3+ years of Kotlin Android development preferred.
• Solid Firebase & Firestore experience.
• Excellent decision-making skills with the ability to balance timeline vs features, while not sacrificing quality, and all within a fast-paced environment.
• Extensive knowledge in object-oriented software development, various architecture such as MVC/MVVM/MVP, multithreading, networking and memory management.
• Knowledge of standard Android libraries and frameworks.
• Strong analytical, prioritization, and troubleshooting skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Advanced knowledge of Android SDK, including relevant frameworks, such as testing and mocking frameworks, REST clients, dependency injection, etc.