Android Developer

With millions of transactions each month, Animall is one of the world’s fastest-growing agritech companies. We continue to re-imagine and re-engineer the dairy ecosystem in India, and each team member will have significant ownership of the key components that go into this mission

• Work with product managers to find solutions to critical problems, face internal customers, and create requirements.
• Triage and fix critical issues that arise in the field that affect our core product.
• Manage git repositories, pull requests, and review code.
• Communicate properly & promptly with all stakeholders.
• Build a proof-of-concept for new products from scratch.
• Optimize, clean up, and comment on the existing codebase.

• Experience working on the Android platform
• Experienced with MVVM, Kotlin Coroutines, Room and Koin or Dagger
• Experience in designing, development and REST API Integration of Android Applications using Java or Kotlin
• Strong knowledge of Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices
• Knowledge of Android APIs and platform capabilities (location-based capabilities within apps)
• Experience with performance tuning of Android Applications

• Experience working with web views and knowledge about best practices for web view based apps

• Solving real business needs of our internal customers using your software engineering and analytical problem-solving skills.
• You love architecting and building a robust, scalable, and highly available distributed infrastructure.
• Live and grow the Animall https://www.notion.so/Our-Culture-2ec96ec0e96b427b9187cc94cdd61b28">Culture

• A fast paced environment to learn and grow. You’ll get opportunities to represent the company in events like Devoxx, Google Developer Days India etc.
• Very high autonomy; freedom to take risks, to experiment and to fail.You’ll collaborate with product managers and designers, data scientists and algorithm experts, even dairy farmers, to build exciting new features
• An opportunity to work on something that really matters. Check out the reviews for our app.
• Very high transparency.
• We pay top of market with excellent benefits
• Personal CFO Services with IndMoney.
• Employee assistance program- Counselling and consultation services for work and home- life topic
• Group medical insurance family floater for Employee, spouse and kids

 Proven working experience of minimum 3+ Years in Android app development (Min 2Yrs. experience in Kotlin)

- Have strong knowledge in Kotlin and Java.

- Strong knowledge of Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices

- Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning.

- 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.

• Proven experience in Mobile application development using flutter
• Design and Build sophisticated and highly scalable apps using Flutter
• Build custom packages in Flutter using the functionalities and APIs already available in native Android and IOS.
• Use of Model-View-Controller ( MVC) and Model-View-ViewModel-Controller (MVVM) as it relates to designing, developing architecture, and developing maintainable, testable, and functional software that meets product requirements.
• Resolve any problems existing in the system and suggest and add new features in the complete system
• Must have Flutter knowledge to build cross-platform mobile apps for Android, IOS, and Web apps. This should include making responsive UIs to efficiently query data and also manage states in an optimized manner.
• Must have knowledge of version controlling
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About the Role

A highly motivated and passionate individual who has experience in executing end to end web based products and applications; bringing them to production quickly and with high quality. Passionate about building flexible and scalable solutions with an eye for detail and can weigh pros and cons to find best possible solutions. 

Role and Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product Managers to plan, implement and deliver tasks and modules on a timely basis with best practices and adherence to SOPs.
• Understand the product requirements, ask questions, and gather information and feedback to design and deliver features both on Android and iOS.
• Create a roadmap of tasks to be delivered for both iOS and Android applications in sync, such that new features go to the end-user at same time. 
• Lead the design of Android and iOS applications in a modular fashion with reusable components.
• Proactively identify issues related to memory consumption, battery drain and multi-threading in the application by planning regular tests and analysis.
• Deliver Android and iOS applications with integration to backend services deployed on the cloud with high quality and responsiveness. 
• Create strong practices around test driven development, automating delivery of apps to the marketplace with strong CI/CD practices.
• Manage a highly skilled and efficient team by hiring, keeping the team motivated, and managing performance.
• Play the role of an unblocker in a tight scrum environment. Should be able to help other developers with challenges, problem solving, and help achieve milestones as per plan.
• Prioritize to manage ad-hoc requests in parallel with ongoing projects.
• Hands on with programming with 50%+ of bandwidth going into modules owned.

Skills/Experience

• A highly talented developer with 10+ years of hands-on experience in building apps that have been released to the Play Store(Android) and Appstore(iOS). 
• Demonstrated experience managing teams of 5-10 or more engineers in mobile application teams.
• Strong knowledge of Android, Kotlin, iOS, Swift, Objective C and working with MVVM, MVP, MVC patterns.
• Experience building mobile applications which lean heavily on connecting to cloud services to gather data and stream videos/content. 
• Working knowledge of Xamarin or Flutter (cross platform frameworks) is highly preferred. 
• Practitioner of test driven development practices. Experience in creating and adhering to best practices for development.

Mandatory: Hands on experience working with Java or Kotlin. Very strong logical skills. Good hold on operating system concepts and data structure. Experience with web services , SQL Lite , camera kit , image caching concepts, keychain , past experience working with one of the design patterns like MVC / MVVM / MVP , network check implementation.

Good to have:  Rx-Swift experience , video / image filter experience , media player usage , complex UX effects , couch-db , RealM.Knowledge of GIT management , Continuous Integration and Continuous Development practices.

Soft Skills: Strong communication skills , high spirited , eager to learn , able to perform in a high pressure environment

• Strong grasp of computer science fundamentals and excellent problem-solving skills.
• Good understanding of software engineering practices, Data Structures & Algorithms.
• Solid programming skills in Java/Kotlin.
• Good communication skills.
• Strong sense of ownership and accountability.
• Experience in Reactive programming, Asynchronous programming and Unit Testing will be an added advantage.
• 3+ years of experience in product driven organization.
• A Bachelors or master’s degree in engineering from a reputed institute (preferably IITs, NITs, or other top engineering institutes)