Android Engineer

About HeyCoach:

We are an exceptional group of highly skilled individuals, passionate about addressing a fundamental challenge within the education industry. Our team consists of talented geeks who possess a deep understanding of the issues at hand and are dedicated to finding innovative solutions. In our quest for excellence, we are constantly seeking out remarkable individuals who can contribute to our growth and success. Whether it's developing cutting-edge technologies, designing immersive learning experiences, or implementing groundbreaking teaching methodologies, we consistently strive for excellence.

Job Description:

• Mobile App Development: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, test, and deploy robust and scalable Android applications.
• Code Optimisation: Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code, with a focus on performance and responsiveness. Identify and address bottlenecks and bugs.
• UI/UX Implementation: Work closely with designers to implement visually appealing and intuitive user interfaces. Ensure seamless integration between the front-end and back-end components.
• API Integration: Integrate with RESTful APIs and third-party services to enhance app functionality and data exchange.
• Testing and Debugging: Conduct thorough testing of applications, including unit testing and debugging. Collaborate with quality assurance teams to ensure the delivery of high-quality software.
• Platform Compatibility: Stay updated on the latest Android platform updates and ensure compatibility with various devices and screen sizes.
• Performance Optimization: Continuously optimize application performance, keeping up with best practices and industry standards.
• Collaboration: Work closely with other developers and team members to achieve project goals. Participate in code reviews and knowledge-sharing sessions.

Requirements:

• Engineers with 1-6 years of experience in shipping consumer-facing Android apps with the large user base, ideally currently available on the Google Play Store.
• Top-notch programming skills in Java, Kotlin and Android along with MVVM, Dagger2, Room, LiveData, Coroutine & JetPack-Components.
• Command of memory management, view hierarchy, battery optimisation and in-depth experience with multi threaded and networked applications.
• Worked with Restful APIs, third-party SDK Integrations and common technologies like HTTPS, JSON, OAuth, and SQL.
• Thorough working knowledge of Android Studio with the Gradle build system.
• Understanding the quirks of the fragmented ecosystem of Android OS versions and devices.
• Focus on Material Design principles and pixel-perfect implementation of the design into code.
• Solid experience with Git Care for quality with an obsession for performance and willingness to spend time testing the team's work as well as yours.

As part of the Mobile SDK Engineering team at MoEngage, here are some things you can expect:

• Take ownership and be responsible for what you build.
• Work with A players (some of the best talents in the country), and expedite your learning curve and career growth.
• Make in India and build for the world at a scale of 900M+ active users, which no other internet company in the country has seen.
• Learn together from different teams on how they scale to millions of users and billions of messages.
• Work with the customer success team to enable MoEngage customers to adopt Insights-led engagement in different industry sectors like e-Commerce, FinTech, OTT, Social, entertainment, travel, telco, food-tech etc.
• Explore the latest in topics like Mobile development, SDK, iOS, tvOS, various mobile hybrid frameworks and share with the team. More importantly, have fun while you work on scaling MoEngage.

Skills Required

• 6+ years of experience with iOS, Swift, ObjC, Xcode and Cocoa.
• Working knowledge of architecture principles, code organization, and system design.
• Informed and up to date with iOS SDK and ecosystem.
• In-depth knowledge and understanding of the iOS framework:
• Memory Management
• Caching and Persistent data storage
• Multithreading concepts
• Rest APIs Implementation
• Dependency Managers
• Understands the internals of the mobile builds and distribution processes.
• Great communication skills and an ability to work within a team and with cross-functional teams.
• Experience with code reviews, releasing and maintaining mobile applications/SDKs.

Good to Have:

• Knowledge of other cross-platform frameworks i.e, Flutter, React-Native, Cordova, Unity.
• Experience in working and shipping SDKs/plugins.

• Design and build applications for iOS platforms
• Ensure performance and quality of the application
• Collaborate with cross functional team to define and design the app
• Perform checks on correct functionality of app
• Integrate application with backend tools such as cloud, APIs and push notifications
• Responsible to help maintain code quality, organization and automation
• Responsible for providing prototypes and proofs of concepts
• Use encryption tools to safeguard content

• Expert in Objective-C or Swift programming
• UI and UX experience
• Proficiency with 2D and 3D graphics frameworks
• Experience with iOS frameworks
• Adept with benchmarking and modification
• Familiar with Apple's design principles and interface guidelines
• Proficiency with offline storage, threading and performance tuning
• Knowledgeable of clouds message API and push notifications_

• Designing and building advanced applications for the iOS platform
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features
• Unit-test coding for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability
• Working on bug fixing and improving application performance
• Continuously discovering, evaluating and implementing new technologies to maximize development efficiency

Desired Candidate Profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline
• 3-6 years iOS app development experience
• Strong hands on experience in developing high performance mobile applications
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Good logical sense, strong technical skills and the ability to learn new technologies quickly
• Expert with Swift (swift 4.0 & above) and Cocoa Touch
• Experience with iOS frameworks such as Core Data, Core Animation, etc.
• Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning
• Must have experience in BLE and BT
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect iOS applications to back-end services
• Understanding of Apples design principles and interface guidelines
• Experience with performance and memory tuning with tools such as Instruments and Shark
• Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications
• Familiarity with the MVC and MVVM design patterns
• Knowledge of the open-source ecosystem and the libraries available for common tasks
• Experience building, testing and distributing native apps that consume RESTful services
• Hands-on coding, systems analysis, design, and delivery of projects assigned
• At least three native iPhone applications deployed in the marketplace
• Should have Knowledge in Apple Certificate/Profile creation and maintenance
• Knowledge in SDK integration into iOS app & Realm Database is an added advantage
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as GIT

About the Role

We, at upGrad, believe in giving ownership and responsibility to each one of the team members. As an iOS Developer, you will be a part of the iOS app development team and strive to deliver the best learning experience out there to our learners that upGrad is known for. You will be responsible for developing features, taking those features to production and maintaining the existing code.

Innovative nature and pro-active involvement in the product is taken very seriously at upGrad, therefore, a major part of your role would involve thinking about new features and new ways to deliver quality learning experience to our learners.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Own end to end development and operations of high-performance software development team.
• Design the architecture and deliver clean, testable, and scalable code 
• Participate in requirement gathering and display a strong sense of ownership and delivery 
• Maintain high standards of software quality within the team by
• Participating in regular peer-reviews of solution designs and related code 
• Provide technical leadership to teammates through coaching and mentorship.

Skills Required

• Minimum 6 years of strong iOS development experience with at least 2 Apps Published on App Store of Enterprise Platform.
• Strong Swift concepts along with OOPS, Computer Science fundamentals, Memory Management, App Profiling experience.
• In depth understanding of frameworks like UIKit, Foundation classes, AutoLayout, Core Data, Networking, Collections, GCD, ARC.
• Solid understanding to write modular code, template based programming which is Unit testable (Critical Requirement)
• Solid understanding of iOS architectural patterns especially VIPER (and MVVM) and their importance in scalable software development process.
• Prior understanding of Git (must have), JIRA, Trello, Confluence, etc
• Experience in iOS UI creation using Storyboards, XIB and Code.
• Experience with standard libraries like RxSwift, Swinject, Alamofire, etc.
• Good written and verbal communication.
• Ability to collaborate with multiple teams to work on different phases of the project.
• Knowledge about App Store, publishing an app and the common rejection reasons.

Hey 

We are looking for freelance iOS Developers for our new startup. 

If you believe you are a developer who can follow all best practices and create quality apps, only then apply for this job. 

We can allow you to work on your desired time frames each week, but we are strict about deadlines. 

We expect you to be good at

- Managing rest services 
- Managing cache and permanent storage

- Preparing pixel perfect UI which is compatible with all screen sizes (designs will be given)

- Daily pushing your code using Git 

- Writing clean and understandable code

All the best!