Android Developer

Android Developer (Kotlin & Jetpack Compose)

Location: Indore / Chennai

Experience: 4 – 7 Years

Joining: Immediate Joiners Preferred

Good English communication skills

🔹 Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain Android applications using Kotlin & Jetpack Compose
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features
• Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
• Integrate REST APIs and third-party services

🔹 Required Skills:

• Strong experience in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose
• Good understanding of Android SDK & Android Architecture Components
• Knowledge of MVVM / Clean Architecture
• Experience with REST APIs & JSON integration

Some of the key responsibilities of this candidate are:

• Understand the EdTech context
• Innovate, evaluate, and deploy various android and IOs Features 
• Ability to take ownership over your work.
• An understanding of React Native best practices and a commitment to following them.

• Experience with React Js, React Native, JavaScript including DOM Manipulation and JavaScript object model.
• Thorough understanding of React Native and its core Principles.
• Good Knowledge of HTML5, CSS.
• Familiarity with code versioning tools (Such as Git, SVN or Mercurial)
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs
• Good knowledge of database (MySQL, SQLlite, RealM etc ..)
• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools.
• Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Web pack, NPM etc.
• Experience with Native Mobile app deployment on App store and google play store.

We are looking for an Flutter Developer responsible for the development and maintenance of applications.The primary focus will be on creating new experiences and maintaining the acclaimed app. You will be working along-side other engineers and developers working on different layers of the infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

• Working closely with another mobile application developer leading the other platform development
• Deliver across the entire app life cycle –concept, design, build, deploy, test, release to app stores and support.
• Working directly with developers and product managers to conceptualize, build, test and realize products.
• Gather requirements around functionality and translate those requirements into elegant functional solutions.
• Working with web developers to create and maintain a robust framework to support the apps.
• Working with the front end developers to build the interface with the focus on usability features.
• Create compelling device specific user interfaces and experiences.
• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance.
• Optimizing performance for the apps.
• Keep up to date with the latest industry trends in the mobile technologies.
• Able to estimate the time required to complete project deliverable.
• Able to work in a fast-paced start-up environment.

Requirements

• Candidate must have flutter and dart experience.
• Minimum 2-4 years work experience in iOS / Android (Java/Kotlin and Objective-C/Swift)
• Strong in Android Java. Candidate should have a good understanding of thread management, memory management and other aspects of Java for mobile application development.
• Strong OO design and network programming skills.
• Strong written/verbal communication skills.
• Strong knowledge of Android SDK, different versions of Android, and how to deal with different screen sizes
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect Android applications to back-end services
• Experience with Knowledge and understanding of Firebase
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications
• Qualification- Any computer science graduate/postgraduate

• Bachelors/ Masters degree in computer science, Engineering or a related subject
• Minimum of 5 years of work experience in mobile application development
• Proficiency in Problem Solving, Data Structures, and Algorithms
• Strong knowledge of design concepts and constraints on mobile platforms
• Proficiency in Java/ Android/ Excellent in Kotlin & Flutter language
• Demonstrable experience building excellent mobile apps that are currently in Google PlayStore
• MVP/ MVVM architecture
• Firebase services
• Local databases (SQLite, firebase DB)/ORM (Green DAO, Room)
• Experience with a scalable architecture, while maintaining a hands-on role with code development
• Excellent teamwork skills, flexibility, and ability to handle multiple tasks
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving skills and Setting & following targets and timelines
• High proficiency in Android frameworks and core components
• Bug fixing

Android Developer:

1 to 5 years of experience Android mobile app development

• Proficient in Kotlin
• Experience in MVVM Code architecture
• Understanding of using Jetpack libraries in Android
• Experience in RxJava techniques
• Capable of learning a new technology like Flutter
• Knowledge in Android app life cycle
• Have experience in Android app submission in PlayStore
• Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
• Proven software development experience and Android skills development
• Proven working experience in Android app development
• Have published at least one original Android app
• Experience with Android SDK
• 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

• You will be having an impact on our 1.7M users every day.
• You will be rolling out experiments and working closely with our product managers and design team to validate and build new features.
• Monitoring apps and fixing bugs for improving performance.
• Refactoring/Rewriting obsolete code to align with the new architecture.
• Design, build and maintain high performance, reusable, and reliable Kotlin code.
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency Experience: 1- 5 yrs in android development

Expertise:

• Kotlin
• Live Data and other Android Jetpack components
• DI (Dagger/Hilt)
• Design patterns MVVM, MVI
• Multithreading (Coroutines)
• Offline Storage
• Remote data interaction via REST and JSON

Hands-on experience:

• Git
• CI/CD
• Third-party analytics like Amplitude, Clevertap, etc..
• Common third-party libraries and APIs like (Glide, retrofit...)
• Firebase products (FireStore/ RealTimeDB/ FCM..)
• Writing custom views
• Text-based UIs like notes, reader, etc..
• Publishing/Updating apps on Google Play and other stores (Huawei/Xiaomi...)

Good to have:

• Basic understanding of clean architecture.
• Simple data structure and algorithm understanding.
• Basic understanding of AWS services and products
• Strong design intuition and user empathy.
• Should be aware of future technologies in the Android ecosystem.
• You should be quick in understanding the hypothesis, and build the experiment and make it available to a user
• We prefer people who are highly experimental and willing to take risks.
• Experience in training or mentoring team members.

Do not apply if you are not:

• Ownership driven
• Curious in general
• Self-motivated
• Use to work in a chaotic environment
• Highly proactive
• Hate drinking and smoking will have a hard time here

At Tailwebs, we’re well aware of the impact our solutions have on the world’s leading brands. But we won’t rest until everybody knows. We are looking for an Android developer who possesses a passion for pushing mobile technologies to the limits and will work with our team of talented engineers to design and build the next generation of our mobile applications.

GIVE UP BEING A PERFECTIONIST

Our ideal candidate will be trusted to dive right in, take the lead, make initiatives, and help top- notch brands that help make everyday activities easier for people around the world. You are never going to be perfect but keep on striving to become better at anything.

Tailwebs is a digital business organisation engaged with a range of companies from start-ups to top-notch corporations, which offers a multitude of services such as web designing, start-up software development, mobile/ web app development, and technology consulting.

Do you consider yourself to be a creative individual who is willing to step outside of the box in an effort to raise the bar in mobile technology development?

Then you might be the right team member we are looking for!

Have a look at your major objectives:

-Give up being a perfectionist

-Willingness to take that extra mile is the key to excel at this role in Tailwebs

Peek through what your weekly and monthly responsibilities look like?

-Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximise development

efficiency

-Working in a team of talented Android engineers to improve development

-Work closely with product management & UX to execute an idea from concept to delivery using

excellent software design, coding, & processes

-Design and build advanced app features for the Android platform

-Translate designs and wireframes into high quality code

-Design, build, and maintain high performance, reusable, and reliable Java code

-Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the application

-Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs

-Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization

And here’s what you need to qualify for the interview:

• Strong knowledge of Android SDK, different versions of Android, and how to deal with different screen sizes
• 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
• Ability to design applications around natural user interfaces, such as “touch”
• Familiarity with the use of additional sensors, such as gyroscopes and accelerometers
• 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
• Familiarity with continuous integration
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject

Job Type: Full-time

Your responsibilities include:

• Work on the LOTR (Locus on the road) app which is native app in Android in a small team of 3 engineers
• Apart from the app, there is LOTR SDK also which is in nascent stage. The role would require building up the SDK as well
• Write maintainable code with around 80% unit test coverage. Do PR (pull request) review of fellow engineers on the app
• If you are adventurous - opportunity will be provided to work on the backend API to which the LOTR app/SDK will communicate to. Backend is in all java
• We have some created some cool stuff around selective app upgrade setup. Also, our app development process is under CI/CD so you don’t have to build & release app manually.

Requirements:

• 2 - 6 year experience as Android developer in a product based company

Perks:

• Healthy catered meals at office
• You decide your own Work From Home (WFH) and Out Of Office (OOO)
• Pet-friendly - bring your pets to the office any day. Locus family already has a Rottweiler and a Beagle

Skills

ANDROID, MOBILE APPLICATION, Java, KOTLIN