Android Developer - Surat, Gujrat

Technical Skills & Qualifications:

• 1. Native iOS and Android Development: Strong experience in native development for both platforms, ideally with prior experience in developing open-source SDKs.
• 2. Android Skills: Proficiency in Kotlin and Java, with solid experience in Android Views and Jetpack Compose. Familiarity with Gradle for Android builds and dependency management is essential.
• 3. iOS Skills: Proficiency in Swift, with hands-on experience in both UlKit and SwiftUl. Familiarity with CocoaPods and Swift Package Manager (SPM) for iOS dependency management is required.
• 4. Cl/CD Experience: A strong understanding of Cl/CD pipelines, with practical experience in automating builds and deployments.

Additionally, experience with Flutter SDK development would be a plus. We would ideally prefer a candidate with stronger iOS experience to support our current needs.

• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Flutter code to develop feature-rich, high-performance mobile applications for Android and iOS platforms.

Collaborate with designers to implement visually stunning and responsive user interfaces, ensuring an excellent user experience across various devices and screen sizes.

• Integrate mobile applications with backend APIs and services to facilitate seamless data exchange and ensure smooth app functionality.

• Identify and resolve bugs, performance issues, and other problems that may arise during the development process or in the live applications.

• Continuously optimize application performance and enhance the user experience by employing efficient algorithms and techniques.

• Stay up-to-date with the latest trends, tools, and technologies related to mobile development, particularly within the Flutter ecosystem, and apply them to improve development processes and outcomes.

Requirements

• Minimum 4 years of professional experience in mobile app development, with a focus on Flutter.

• Proven expertise in developing robust and complex mobile applications using the Flutter framework.

• Solid understanding of mobile app development concepts, including UI/UX design, offline storage, threading, and performance optimization.

• Strong proficiency in Dart programming language, along with a good understanding of object-oriented programming (OOP) principles.

• Familiarity with RESTful APIs and experience in integrating mobile applications with backend services.

• Strong communication skills to collaborate effectively with team members and clients.

●      2+ Years of experience of Android native development with Java and Kotlin

●      Experience in Android Studio IDE and tools like Android Device Monitor, Logcat

●      Hands-on experience on MVVM architecture pattern

●      Solid experience/understanding of OOPS concepts and Design patterns.

●      Knowledge on cross platforms like Flutter, React Native is an added advantage

●      Thorough knowledge of Android APIs and platform capabilities (location-based capabilities within apps)

●      Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning

●      Proven knowledge of Android UI design principals, patterns, and best practices

●      Experience with publishing applications on Google Play Store and app signing process

●      Expertise in payment gateway and social media integration

●      Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git

●      Familiarity with CI/CD

●      Provide technical leadership and functional help working closely with team members

●      Design, implement and maintain application within all phases of the software development life cycle (SDLC) on Microsoft Azure (or AWS)

●      Independently carry out the activities without much of guidance

●      Create, understand, and validate design and estimates and be able to justify them

●      Applies knowledge of principles and techniques to solve technical problems.

●      Works closely with other functions to understand customer needs and to develop product roadmaps.

●      Translate design and wireframes into high-quality mobile applications.

●      Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills and detail oriented

●      Comprehensive understanding of OOPS concepts, data structures, algorithms and product development techniques and theories

●      Should be able to design schema for enterprise level applications

●      Should be able to apply design patterns

●      Should be open to face new challenges and learn new technologies

●      Experience with debugging, performance profiling and optimization

As part of your day to day job, you’ll

1. Own end-to-end features of the app: networking, persistence, business logic, and

UI

2. Use Kotlin (primary) and Java

3. Do reactive programming using RxJava2

4. Follow Model-View-Intent architecture to build UI of the app

5. Use Android Architecture Components

6. Write tests

7. Invent awesome Android stuff to make your job easier

Qualifications

1. Motivation to design and build reliable, elegant apps

2. 3 - 5.5 years of android application development experience

3. Proficiency in Java and experience in Kotlin

4. Familiarity with RxJava2, Dagger2, OkHttp, Retrofit, Android Architecture

Components

5. Familiarity with material design

At Cityflo, we are solving the problem of commuting to the office which affects employees in big, populated Indian cities every day. Cityflo provides a bus experience like no other - we run premium AC buses for daily commuters.  We’re changing the way urban Indians commute and enabling everyone to reclaim hours of their time every day. Before the imposed lockdown due to coronavirus, we were serving about 7500 commuters per day. We plan to scale to 5,00,000 rides per day in the next 4 years in a profitable and sustainable manner.

We're looking for people who are passionate about creating great Android applications.
You've been around for a few API levels and you know how to delight Android users. You’ve got an eye for the beautiful Android design our users expect and an attention to detail down to the very last dpi. You know your way around the View hierarchy and are eager to partner with Product and Design to craft efficient, performant, and delightful user experiences. You like building for the long term and value patterns and structures that allow for maximum flexibility in a constantly evolving product.

You can read more about our engineering and culture on our blog: https://blog.cityflo.com/tag/engineering/" target="_blank">https://blog.cityflo.com/tag/engineering/

What you should have:

• At least three years of engineering experience, a large portion of which in a team environment
• Bachelors/Masters degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related subject.
• Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms and programming languages
• Experience working closely with product teams, designers, and other developers to create a truly delightful mobile experience
• Familiarity with design concepts and constraints on mobile platforms.
• Extensive understanding of Android framework components and their respective lifecycles
• Experience developing highly performant Kotlin code and view layouts and the ability to diagnose performance bottlenecks
• A disciplined approach to development, testing, documentation and code structure in a team environment
• Familiarity with the Android tool ecosystem for development, testing, debugging, and performance benchmarking
• An excellent understanding of best practices for concurrency and threading
• MVVM design architecture pattern for android.

Preferred skills:

• Open Source contributions & participation in programs like Google Summer of Code are a plus.
• Have published one or more Android apps on the Play Store.
• Dependency injections: Dagger, Koin.
• Multi-threading and coroutines in Kotlin/Rxjava.