Android + Hybrid Developer

Job Title: Android Developer

Experience: 4 to 5 Years

Location: Bangalore, Pune, Gurgaon, Chennai, Bhopal, Jaipur

Work Mode: Hybrid (2-3 Days Work from Office)

Notice Period: Immediate joiners preferred

About the Role

We are seeking a skilled and passionate Android Developer with 4-5 years of hands-on experience to join our mobile development team. The ideal candidate should have solid experience in building native Android applications using Java and Kotlin, with a deep understanding of Android SDKs and design patterns. You will be working in a collaborative environment on scalable and user-centric mobile apps for various domains.

Required Skills

• Strong experience in Android Development using Java and Kotlin.
• In-depth understanding of Android SDK, Android Studio, and different Android versions.
• Familiarity with MVVM/MVP architecture, Jetpack components, LiveData, and ViewModel.
• Experience with third-party libraries and APIs (Retrofit, Glide, Firebase, etc.).
• Knowledge of unit testing, debugging, and optimization for performance.
• Understanding of Google’s Android design principles and interface guidelines.
• Strong knowledge of mobile UI/UX standards and guidelines.
• Familiarity with version control tools like Git.

.Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain high-performance Android applications.
• Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code in Java and Kotlin..
• Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications.
• Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs.
• Work on continuous improvement of application performance and user experience.
• Integrate RESTful APIs and third-party services.
• Participate in code reviews and mentor junior developers.

Mandatory Requirement

• Valid Passport is a must. Candidates without a valid passport will not be considered.

Why Join Us?

Be a part of an innovative team where your work directly impacts user experience at scale. Work in a hybrid environment that promotes both productivity and flexibility, with exposure to international projects and cutting-edge technologies.

College: IIT, NIT, BITs other Tier 1 colleges  

   Priority skills:  Kotlin, MVP, MVVM, especially Viper, Unit & UI Test, Firebase, Google maps, design patterns, GIT

Responsibilities ( Experience 8-10 years)

    Design and development of apps for Android in Kotlin and JAVA
    Follow Google user interface guidelines and principles of material design
    Ensure performance and maintainability of the apps
    Code review and guidance to other team members to make sure code quality is as desired.
    Researching new frameworks and adapting the best of them in app development.

Skills Required

    Expert knowledge of Kotlin and JAVA
    Expert knowledge of Architectural patterns like MVC, MVVM and Clean Architecture.
    Expert understanding of Android run time model
    Experience with offline caching, threading and task management.
    Experience with object oriented design patterns.
    Experience with push notifications and Firebase or other similar PaaS systems.
    An Eye for design details, following pixel perfect designs.
    Experience with 3rd party libraries like okhttp, volley , Soket.io, Realm, Firebase, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, RX Kotlin/JAVA.
    Team management skills.

• 3+ years proven work experience as a Mobile developer.
• Experience using web services (HTTP, REST, SOAP) using JSON, API and API Framework) .
• Good knowledge of object-oriented design patterns and Multi-threading concepts
• Good knowledge of the SQLite database and the Google Play Services like Push Notifications (fcm/sns)
• Strong mobile UI design (multi-screen resolutions), coding, support and maintenance
• Knowledge of HTML5, Bootstrap, JavaScript,
• Experience with third-party libraries and APIs (like Facebook, Twitter, etc.)
• Proficient iOS and Android mobile app experience are a plus
• In-depth knowledge of at least two Framework/Libraries like React Native / Ionic / Framework7 / Aurelia / PhoneGap / Flutter and angular / react / vue / Mobile Angular UI/ Kendo UI.
• Knowledge of bench marking and optimization
• Mandatory : self sufficient developer and must have prior experience of hybrid development [atleast 3 projects]

• 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
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency

• 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
• 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
• Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle.

• Someone who is annoyed by the build time it takes for an application to build and has actually done something to optimize it
• Has good experience in building Android applications
• Experience with the flutter ecosystem is a great plus.
• Who likes to think in terms of software and data architecture before opening Android studio.
• Comfortable with managing development and deployment of applications.
• Open and more importantly excited about learning the new technologies.

Roles and responsibilities

• Participate and contribute to the design and development of the core components of the company service.
• Ensure high quality of software development w.r.t to project architecture, code quality, testing and deployment.
• Implement testing frameworks and disciplines as part of every feature development.
• Own performance of the app in production and implement/push for implementation of systems to monitor, debug and fix an issue in production in the lowest TAT possible.
• Advocate good engineering has the highest priority with the only exception of value delivered to the end-user. 

• You will be having an impact on our 1.7M users every day.
• You will be rolling out experiments and working closely with our product managers and design team to validate and build new features.
• Monitoring apps and fixing bugs for improving performance.
• Refactoring/Rewriting obsolete code to align with the new architecture.
• Design, build and maintain high performance, reusable, and reliable Kotlin code.
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency Experience: 1- 5 yrs in android development

Expertise:

• Kotlin
• Live Data and other Android Jetpack components
• DI (Dagger/Hilt)
• Design patterns MVVM, MVI
• Multithreading (Coroutines)
• Offline Storage
• Remote data interaction via REST and JSON

Hands-on experience:

• Git
• CI/CD
• Third-party analytics like Amplitude, Clevertap, etc..
• Common third-party libraries and APIs like (Glide, retrofit...)
• Firebase products (FireStore/ RealTimeDB/ FCM..)
• Writing custom views
• Text-based UIs like notes, reader, etc..
• Publishing/Updating apps on Google Play and other stores (Huawei/Xiaomi...)

Good to have:

• Basic understanding of clean architecture.
• Simple data structure and algorithm understanding.
• Basic understanding of AWS services and products
• Strong design intuition and user empathy.
• Should be aware of future technologies in the Android ecosystem.
• You should be quick in understanding the hypothesis, and build the experiment and make it available to a user
• We prefer people who are highly experimental and willing to take risks.
• Experience in training or mentoring team members.

Do not apply if you are not:

• Ownership driven
• Curious in general
• Self-motivated
• Use to work in a chaotic environment
• Highly proactive
• Hate drinking and smoking will have a hard time here