Android Engineer

Android Services, System service and framework development, Broadcast using Java, Kotlin, C++ (Mandatory)

Experience in AOSP build setup & understanding of Android.bp, gradle, Android.mk (Mandatory)

IPC mechanism in Android: AIDL, JNI, HIDL, Socket Communication (Mandatory)

Experience in Android application development using Java & Kotlin (Mandatory)

Custom UI component development & understanding of MVVM architecture (Mandatory)

Flexible in customizing AOSP for product branding (Good to have)

RESTful service integration, Multithreading ,Message queueing (Good to have)

Skills Required

1. Good with React Native

2. Some who has worked on consumer Apps

What does the core role include?

• Designing and developing high-volume, low-latency applications for mission-critical systems and delivering high-availability and performance
• Designing stateless components in React Native
• Contributing in all phases of the development lifecycle
• Working with the developers to create and maintain a robust framework to support the apps
• Working with the developers to build the interface with a focus on usability features

Job Description
We are looking for an Android developer responsible for the development and maintenance of applications aimed at a vast number of diverse Android devices. Your primary focus will be the development of Android applications and their integration with back-end services. You will be working along-side other engineers and developers working on different layers of the infrastructure. Therefore, commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and creating quality products is essential.

Responsibilities
	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
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
	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

Who are we and what do we do?

Digio is a fast growing,profitable product startup founded in 2016 by ex-Flipkart, Twitter folks, playing a key role in India’s Digital story.

The company is building software platforms and products to power business processes, to go paperless and digital in order to bring down cost overheads, time involved in erstwhile offline business processes, thereby being instrumental in increasing operational efficacy and human productivity along with enabling presence-less digital reach and super rich end user experience.

Digio is the market leader in India for Digital onboarding and has played a key role so far in enabling Digital Transformation in India by empowering a large part of the Indian eco-system specifically Fintech sector of India. Digio has been honored as the world's 100 most innovative Regtech companies by the World Fintech Forum.

You can view their website at http://www.digio.in/">https://www.digio.in or find them on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

Roles & Responsibilities:

As a Senior Android Engineer at Digio your responsibilities will be:

• Drive Digio SDKs, Libraries, App development in Java, Kotlin and Flutter.
• Take care of performance and security Android level.
• Keep it crash free, modular, perfectly memory managed for mass level usage.
• Usage of Java based REST APIs and backend level developments.
• Drive Android level development as well around available AI, ML and Vision Android libraries.

Requirements:

• Education: B.Tech. (CS/IT) / B.Sc. (CS) / M.Tech. / MCA.
• Experience suitable to above mentioned requirements around Android. IOS experience is plus.
• Experience in creating Android Apps from scratch.
• Experience with Kotlin, Flutter. Experience with Dagger. 
• Experience in dealing with WebViews - Javascript and Native android communications.
• Good low level and High level software design and architecture skills, experience of working with distributed environments.
• Have good understanding on Android and IOS internals and memory management.
• Fast learning abilities.
• 3-5 years of experience and at least 2 years working with product company.

What you’ll be doing:

• You’ll design and architect new features on Mobile Application development.
• You’ll be involved all aspects of development, playing a critical role in design, planning, development and deployment.
• You'll Develop robust, quick prototypes for proof-of concept features / application based on briefs.
• You’ll coordinate with all lines of business to delivery an entire piece of a system or application.
• Write clean, simple and well-tested code

Who are you?

You are a team-player who collaborates with developers, designers, testers and product manager to create an amazing user experience. You have experience with all aspects of the production software lifecycle. You have good interpersonal skills and feel comfortable coordinating efforts across teams. You are a fast learner, with an eye for detail, strong problem-solving and debugging skills.

What you’ll bring to the table:

• Your extensive knowledge in Data structures, Algorithms, ORM and Design Patterns.
• You’ll bring extensive experience in mobile development along with the best practices as per language (Android) guidelines.
• Your ability to thrive in complexity and a strong desire to collaborate with colleagues to deliver projects.
• If you have work experience in a Consumer Product/E-Commerce company, we’ll like you even more.

ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Design and build advanced applications for the Android platform
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features
• Work with outside data sources and APIs
• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability
• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance
• Ensure lightweight and highly responsive app
• Extending the features as per requirement
• Write expressive code that is clear enough to compensate for simple documentation
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency

REQUIREMENTS

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject
• Proven software development experience and Android skills development
• Proven working experience in Android app development and
• Have published at least one original Android app
• Experience with Android SDK, design principles, patterns, c,c++ and best practices
• 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
• Experience in using git preferably with github or bitbucket
• Familiarity with Google Maps API, push notifications, firebase, Dart,SMS gateways and Payment gateways
• Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle.

Experience: 4+ years

JOB TYPE: Full-time

JOB LOCATION: Lower Parel, Mumbai

• Cross-platform mobile app developers who have developed mobile apps with a familiarity of Ionic/Flutter
• Develop and Manage Mobile Application in Hybrid - Android / iOS Platform
• Mobile app architecture planning
• Mobile app design and optimization, able to provide a solution to improve mobile app quality, understand emerging technologies, standards and best practices to bring mobile app product to the next level
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies and frameworks to maximize development efficiency
• Estimate timelines and deliver as per schedule
• Solid knowledge of mobile app development practices, along with mobile testing tools and techniques
• Expertise in optimizing the app for performance
• Experience using agile principles and methodologies
• Deep understanding of the mobile landscape and behavior patterns is mandatory

• 3+ years of experience in native android app development.
• Strong programming experience in Core Java, Android SDK
• Experience working with Kotlin is a plus
• Experience working with Media player
• Experience working with offline app & content security, Encryption and Decryption  
• Experience working with FCM 
• Experience with web services integration, REST API framework, social media and other third party integrations
• Write good quality code, unit tests, automation and performing code reviews.
• Should have Experience of Social Integration.
• Ready to take complete ownership of multiple products, work alone on project if required  
• Good knowledge in Android services/Framework layer and its debugging
• Experience with version control systems, preferably Git.
• Shipped multiple Android Applications that are currently available in the Google Play Store
• Good knowledge of data structures, algorithms and time/space complexity analysis.

• Good problem solving abilities.

• Ability to communicate well with Product and Engineering Team

• Experience with a start-up would be added advantage.