Android Developer

KoinBX is a trusted cryptocurrency exchange that unlocks a world of limitless possibilities in the realm of digital assets. Our platform empowers both seasoned traders and newcomers alike to participate in the fast-paced and ever-evolving crypto market. With a user-centric approach, advanced security measures, and an extensive array of cryptocurrencies, KoinBX is your gateway to the future of finance

Job Description:

We are seeking a dedicated Android developer to join our growing company. You will collaborate as part of a team of developers to work on creating and maintaining Android apps.

As an Android developer, you will need to be familiar with the Android ecosystem and mobile app development, including familiarity with popular app frameworks and software development best practices. Your duties will include maintaining existing codebases, including bug fixing, and creating apps from scratch as part of a team while following all coding guidelines and industry best practices.

Responsibilities:

1. Design and implement scalable, robust, and maintainable Android applications for our centralized cryptocurrency exchange platform.
2. Collaborate with product managers and designers to translate requirements and wireframes into high-quality code and user interfaces.
3. Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of the Android application.
4. Optimize application performance for mobile devices, including memory usage, battery consumption, and network efficiency.
5. Participate in code reviews, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement initiatives to enhance team productivity and code quality.
6. Work closely with backend developers to integrate APIs and implement new features seamlessly.
7. Write unit and integration tests to ensure code quality, reliability, and scalability.
8. Contribute to the overall architecture, design, and development of our Android application, adhering to coding standards and best practices.

Qualifications:

1. Proven experience developing Android applications, with a strong portfolio of published apps on the Google Play Store.
2. Proficiency in or Kotlin programming languages, along with a deep understanding of the Android SDK, Android Studio, and related development tools.
3. Solid understanding of mobile UI/UX design principles, patterns, and best practices.
4. Experience with RESTful APIs, JSON, and web services integration.
5. Familiarity with version control systems such as Git.
6. Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
7. Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team environment.
8. Passion for cryptocurrencies, blockchain technology, and financial markets is a plus.

Skills Set:

ü Good at communication skills.

ü Excellent Analytical, Problem solving skills.

ü Strong Programming skills in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ionic, Cordova, NodeJS.

ü Good exposure to Object oriented programming and MVC coding standards.

ü Excellent knowledge of MySQL/MS SQL Database is required in terms of designing database, SQL queries.

ü Knowledge of optimizing techniques.

Have an Experience indeveloping nativeAndroid apps(depth knowledgeof Android SDK,

NDK)

Depth knowledge of SQLite and Room

Excellent in JAVA, Kotlin language with a good debugging Skills

Expert in using Android Studio and Git .

Developing universal application, which can run on most available android devices.

Must have good understanding of Object-Oriented Programming

Good eye for mobile app design and product sense

Experience in cross platform Tools like Appcelerator

Internally motivated, able to work proficiently both independently and in a team environment.

Good communication skills with both internal team members and external business stakeholders

Strong initiative to find ways to improve solutions, systems, and processes.

Experience of working on Android Studio.

Good in data structure and Algorithms.

Very Sound knowledge of Android Components.

Good in Multi-threading concepts(Desired).

Very good understanding of Java, garbage collection and design patterns.

Third party API Integration like Facebook, Twitter, Payment Gateways.

Experience with Android Google Maps API, and other location based services

• Very good knowledge of building iOS Apps. 
• Experience in developing iOS SDKs will be preferred 
• Very good knowledge of Swift is mandatory
• Knowledge of Objective C will be an added advantage.
• Good knowledge of interface builder, Core animation, and Object-oriented concepts.
• Working knowledge of the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies.
• Experience with third-party libraries and APIs.
• The familiarity with frameworks & web technologies.
• Android experience is an added advantage.
• Team handling experience is an added advantage 

• To design and build advanced SDK for cross-platform.
• Client Interaction
• To collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
• To RnD for new features
• To generate wireframes
• To design, develop, test, and implement a custom iOS framework as well as continuous production of new versions of the application.
• To design solutions independently.
• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability.
• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance.
• Operates effectively in a fast-paced, deadline-driven, collaborative and iterative programming environment.
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.

• Pleasant in communication
• Very good in interdepartmental coordination
• Innovative and out of box thinking
• Self-motivated and creative problem-solving skills

Benefits

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• Work from anywhere(remote)
• Internet Allowance
• Medical Insurance Cover

Senior Android Development Engineer - Chennai

Who we are?

Kaleidofin is a financial platform for the informal sector, which provides solutions tailored to the customer’s goals and are intuitive to use. We are working towards creating fair and transparent financial solutions that can target millions of customers and enterprises in India that don’t have easy access to formal financial planning.

In a very short time span, global investors such as Omidyar Network, Blume Ventures and well known individual investors have supported Kaleidofin’s well thought out business model with $2.8 million in seed funding.

With its focus to harness mobile technology to deliver a paperless experience as well as its focus to harness technology and analytics to predict the right product for the right customer, Kaleidofin aims to become a leading FinTech player bringing financial solutions to everyone.

To know more about Kaleidofin, do visit our site https://kaleidofin.com/

What You’ll Do?

We are seeking extremely smart & independent senior developers who are gung ho about building large scale systems that are going to have a big impact on millions of customers. You will:

• Lead design and development of products working closely with business team
• Independently own software components and co-own entire applications with a small group of fellow developers
• Formally mentor junior software engineers on the team, reviewing design documents, (peer) reviewing code, providing design direction and guidance
• 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
• Establish strong engineering best practices and champion their adoption

Who You Need To Be? 


• 4+ years’ experience in android software development and delivery
• Bachelors or Masters degree in engineering (preferably computer science or sister branches) 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.
• Able to take ownership of working with multiple teams – Product, Back end, QA, Business from start of development to go-live.
• Must have shown good stability in all your previous associations.
• Skill set
  • Strong 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 stack.
  • Comfortable with test driven development in android with UI testing, instrumented unit testing and unit testing using junits and mockito
  • Have working knowledge of writing 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.
  • Should have worked on building applications across wide range of android devices and android versions.
  • Experience of Kotlin (especially kotlin coroutines and koin) is a big plus.