Android Developer

Designation: Android Developer

Location: Bangalore/Bhopal

Experience – 3 to 6

Job Type: Full Time

Job Description:

We are seeking a skilled Android Developer to join our team. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in developing, deploying, and maintaining Android applications. The role requires proficiency in Java and Kotlin, expertise in payment gateway integration, and the ability to support multiple languages within the app. If you have successfully deployed multiple apps on the Play Store and can manage end-to-end development, we want to hear from you.

Responsibilities:

·       Lead the development lifecycle from concept to deployment, ensuring high performance and responsiveness.

·       Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code using Java and Kotlin.

·       Implement and maintain secure payment gateway solutions to facilitate transactions within the app.

·       Manage deployment processes, ensuring smooth and efficient delivery of applications.

·       Integrate and maintain support for multiple languages to ensure the app is accessible to a global audience.

·       Manage the process of uploading and maintaining applications on the Google Play Store, ensuring compliance with all guidelines and policies.

·       Work closely with designers, product managers, and other developers to deliver high-quality applications.

·       Conduct rigorous testing to identify and fix bugs, ensuring a smooth user experience.

·       Stay updated with the latest industry trends, technologies, and best practices to continuously improve the app development process.

Requirements:

·       Proficiency in Java and Kotlin.

·       Android app development using Jetpack Compose.

·       Knowledge of state management, navigation, and UI best practices in Compose.

·       Experience with payment gateway integration.

·       Ability to support and manage multiple languages within the app.

·       Proven track record of deploying and maintaining at least 5 apps on the Google Play Store.

·       Strong understanding of mobile UI/UX principles.

·       Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect Android applications to back-end services.

·       Experience with version control systems (Git).

·       Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

·       Strong communication and collaboration skills.

What you’ll be doing

We are much more than our job descriptions, but here is where you will begin:

● Work with stakeholders (product owners, project managers and scrum masters) to define and clarify requirements.

● Hands-on development with both front-end, middle-tier and back-end programming.

● Leverage the DevOps team to ensure products can be built, deployed and tested across all of the release cycles from dev to production.

● Further your strong grasp of modern security principles and apply them to applications.

What you’ll need

Like us, you’ll be deeply committed to delivering impactful outcomes for customers.

● Experience developing macOS, iOS applications using Swift

● Experience releasing successful iOS applications on Apple App Store and Google Play.

● Excellent knowledge of the iOS ecosystem, including third-party libraries.

● Hands-on experience with Swift in a professional environment.

● Excellent understanding of Swift, Android UI design patterns and Material UI guidelines.

● Experience integrating Mobile Apps with back end Web Services (REST)

● Knowledge of the functional and asynchronous concepts in Swift language and asynchronous computing concepts.

● Knowledge of alternative Mobile App frameworks, tools and technologies such as Jenkins Continuous Integration Server, Git, and Maven.

● Proficiency in Java, Objective-C desirable but not required.

•Strong in Android, Kotlin, and MVVM architectural pattern

•Great understanding of Coroutines, Memory management, and App performance

•Solid understandings of Connectivity - BLE, WiFi

•Unit and Instrumentation testing knowledge in Espresso, JUnit4 or JUnit5, and Mockito/MockK libraries

•Experience in Dependency Injection - Hilt, Dagger2

•Good knowledge in screen navigation using Navigation APIs

•Good to have knowledge in Jetpack Compose

We are seeking extremely smart Android developers who are passionate about pushing mobile technologies to the limits.

• Design and develop products by working closely with business teams.
• Design super intuitive experiences in the next generation of our mobile applications.
• Build performant, scalable, yet secure, enterprise-ready android applications with architecture that is fast yet lean on the backend servers enabling them to support millions of users in parallel.
• Build enterprise-ready back end architectures that can support millions of users in parallel.
• Gain experience with hands-on coding and independent ownership of software components.
• Follow strong engineering best practices and champion their adoption.

• 2+ years’ experience in android software development and delivery.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in engineering from a reputed institute(preferably IITs, NITs, or other top engineering institutes).
• Strong grasp of CS fundamentals, algorithms and excellent problem-solving abilities.
• All experience should be from good product development or e-commerce background.
• Must have shown good stability in all your previous associations.
• Knowledge of UI architectural patterns like MVVM(preferable), MVC, MVP, data binding, activity & fragment lifecycle, recycler view, navigation component, layouts (constraint layout preferable), theming etc.
• Should have actively used retrofit, work managers, android jetpack, Rx java, dagger, retrofit, android sdk, GIT/bitbucket, gradle/ant and very keen on exploring other proven tech stacks.
• Comfortable with test-driven development in android with UI testing, instrumented unit testing and unit testing using junits, mockito or other tools.
• Willingness to learn and write simple backend REST API’s (preferably in Java, spring boot & hibernate) without having to completely depend on backend engineers for delivery.
• Has worked in a fast-paced agile organization building stateless and re-entrant/resumable android applications.

-Strong understanding of Swift & Objective-C, MVC/MVVM, and Cocoa APIs/frameworks

-Experience with AVFoundation, CoreData,Core location, CoreAnimation, CoreGraphics, NSURLSession,

iOS background modes, tvOS, JSON, CocoaPods,3D touch.

-Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect iOS applications to back-end services.

-Strong understanding of Apple's design principles and interface guidelines.

-Strong understanding of auto layout and UI implementation.

-Strong understanding of Git.

-Understanding of the full mobile development life cycle.

-Experience with third-party libraries and APIs.

-Establish unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability.

-Knowledge in making network calls using Alamofile(swift), AFNetworking(Objective - C), and using native

NSURLSession.

-Good debugging skills and knowledge to use Instruments App.

-App store deployment and certificate management knowledge.

-Knowledge in Firebase Real-Time dB and FCM will be a plus.

-Experience in implementing universal linking in iOS.

You will help define the next generation experience for Citrix Workspace app on desktop platforms and modernize tech stack. If you believe in a bottom-up culture, are passionate about delivering high quality software at scale, striving for technical agility in a fast paced, high performance environment, then we are looking for you! 

Position Overview
The Engineering Manager is responsible to lead a critical iOS development team in Bangalore focused on building exciting new solutions for our iOS users .This team will be driving key strategic initiatives while collaborating closely with our iOS development teams globally.

Role Responsibilities

• Build and manage a team of highly skilled software engineers using agile practices.
• Responsible for design, development, maintenance of software which is used by millions of people daily.
• Has flexibility to spend significant time as an individual contributor as well, writing code and designing applications and APIs.
• Design and develop advanced applications for mobile platforms (Mobile Apps and/or cloud services)
• Help own and deliver on the Team goals owned out of Bangalore by challenging the existing thinking and bringing on new technologies and solutions by applying your experience to guide the future of Citrix.
• Collaborate with various stakeholders across different business functions and located in different Geos.
• Lead the team through the development process and seek opportunity for continuous improvement and best practices on multiple projects of high complexity.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science and 9+ years of software development experience, with 1+ years in a Technical manager role
• Extremely deep understanding of mobile development frameworks and deep experience in cross platform application development such as React, React Native, Meteor
• Experience with iOS  frameworks   -   UIKit,   Core Foundation,   Core  Animation,  Core Graphics,   Autolayout,  AVFoundation,  SceneKit,  GCD etc.
• In depth Understanding of Apple’s recommended design principles, interface guidelines and and best practices for coding
• Experience working with remote data via REST, JSON and Web Services
• Strong foundational knowledge on computer science principles
• Sound Agile planning and Design skills
• Demonstrated ability to lead and collaborate effectively across organizational boundaries.
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills, to drive collaboration and innovation.
• Experience and interest in guiding and leading team members of other teams