Android Lead

Android Developer | Hyderabad | ZOBAZE

Location: Hyderabad (Mandatory)

Experience: 4–6 years

Type: Full-time, In-office

🚀 About Us

We’re on a mission to empower small businesses with enterprise-grade tools they’ve never had before.

Our POS app handles live sales, inventory, and billing for thousands of shops every day—keeping mom-and-pop stores running like clockwork.

Here, you won’t be another cog in the machine. You’ll work side-by-side with our founder, owning critical modules of a large-scale app and making production-impacting decisions from day one.

If you thrive on trust, responsibility, and rapid career growth, let’s chat.

🎯 What You’ll Do

• End-to-End Ownership: Design, build, and ship modules that power real-world businesses.
• Uptime Champion: Hunt down crashes and ANRs, ensuring thousands of shops stay online seamlessly.
• Modernize & Refactor: Convert legacy Java code to Kotlin, streamline architecture, and slay technical debt.
• Feature Delivery: Partner with product and leadership to scope, develop, and launch high-impact features.
• Root-Cause Excellence: Dive into live issues, write rock-solid RCAs, and deploy fixes that stick.
• Mentorship & Growth: Level up your Android chops—Jetpack Compose, KMP, multi-module apps—straight from the source.

✅ Must-Have Skills

• 4–5 years building production Android apps (≥10k installs or equivalent real-user experience)
• Kotlin powerhouse: Strong MVVM, Coroutines/Flow, Retrofit/OkHttp skills
• Debug pro: Hands-on with Crashlytics (or similar), can walk us through a past RCA
• API & Firebase know-how: REST, Firestore, Auth, Analytics
• AI-forward mindset: Eager to leverage Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor for smarter dev

🤩 Nice-to-Haves

• Jetpack Compose experience
• Multi-module architecture & CI/CD background
• Hardware integration (Bluetooth/USB printers, scanners, payment devices)
• Prior POS/retail or startup exposure

💼 Why You’ll Love It Here

• Market-leading salary for reliability & delivery
• Health insurance for you & your family
• Office Perks (Lunch, Zobaze Mix, Fitness etc)
• Learning budget for courses, conferences & self-development
• Clear career path: Module Lead → Team Lead as we scale
• Hands-on AI: Shape how AI assists our entire dev workflow

If you’re high-agency, impact-driven, and startup-ready—let’s build something meaningful together. Apply now and help small businesses thrive!

JOB DESCRIPTION

React Native Developer

It is a platform for creators, influencers and celebrities to grow, manage and monetise their community. It is aimed at both established and aspiring online creators who want to pursue their passion. Our vision is to enable anyone and everyone to make a successful living doing what they enjoy.

• Roles & Responsibilities:-

• Architect, build and maintain excellent React Native applications with clean code.
• Implement pixel perfect UI's that match designs.
• Implement clean, modern, smooth animations and transitions that provide an excellent user experience.
• Integrate third-party API's.
• Write unit and integration tests.
• Release applications to IOS and Google Play stores.
• Work with native modules when required.
• Work as part of a small team, which will include other React Native developers, a project manager, QA professional, and a designer.
• Complete two week sprints and participate in sprint retrospectives and daily standups.
• Assist with building estimates.
• Interface with clients via Slack, Zoom, and email.
• Track your time throughout the day using Toggle.
• Work with modern tools including Jira, Slack, GitHub, Google Docs, etc.
• Be part of a community of React Native developers who share knowledge and help each other as problems arise.

• Required Candidate profile:-

• 2+ years of professional experience working with React Native.
• 4+ years of professional software development experience.
• Experience working with Swift, Java required.
• Meaningful experience working on large, complex systems.
• Ability to take extreme ownership over your work. Every day is a challenge to ensure you are performing to the expectations you and your team have agreed upon, both in regards to estimates and to the general process.
• An understanding of React Native best practices and a commitment to following them.
• Ability to work through new and difficult React Native issues and contribute to libraries as needed.
• Ability to create and maintain continuous integration and delivery of React Native applications.
• A positive mindset and can-do attitude.
• Forensic attention to detail.
• You work well within a team environment and enjoy working in the office with your colleagues.
  
  

Roles & Responsibilities: 2-3 years of Experience developing mobile apps.  Have an Experience indeveloping nativeAndroid apps(depth knowledgeof Android SDK, NDK)  Depth knowledgeof SQLite andRoom  Excellentin JAVA, Kotlin language with agooddebugging Skills  Expertin usingAndroid StudioandGit .  Developing universalapplication, which can run on most available androiddevices.  Must have good understanding ofObject-OrientedProgramming  Good eye formobileapp designand productsense  Experience in cross platformToolslike Appcelerator  Internallymotivated, abletowork proficiently both independently and in a team environment.  Good communication skills with both internal teammembers and external business stakeholders  Strong initiativeto find ways to improve solutions,systems, and processes.  Experience ofworking onAndroid Studio.  Good in data structure and Algorithms.  Very Sound knowledge of Android Components.

Candidate Required: • Excellentcommunication skills • ProficientinmobileappUI development and bestpractices • Ability to understand that business needsmay shift yourpriorities and adjustaccordingly • Exceptionalwritten and oral communicationskills. • Exceptional interpersonalskills, with a focus on listening and questioningskills. • Proven analytical and problem-solving abilities. • Ability to effectively prioritizeand execute tasksin ahigh-pressure environment

Key Responsibilities

•  Build, iterate, and enhance mobile applications on Android.

•  Continue to evaluate innovative approaches on Android and present new ideas to improve our offering on Android and other mobile platforms.

•  Ensures that code developed is easy to test, easy to understand, extensible and meets the quality guidelines of the business unit.

•  Partner closely with the design team to create an intuitively easy to use application for our users.

•  Bring new features in the course taking experience to the Android platform.

•  Optimize the existing code for ease of use and performance and improve quality.

•  Continue to improve the development process. Evaluate and implement new tools as needed.

•  Lead and Contribute to a team culture that values quality while fostering initiatives and innovation.

• Knowledge of the common application/web security and OWASP vulnerabilities.

•  Knowledge of the encryption algorithms to protect sensitive information.

• Knowledge of PII, PCI, HIPPA, and GDPR compliance and how to implement.

• Understanding of security breaches of data-in-transit and data-at-rest and knowledge in implementation for both.

• Knowledge/Aware of finding the vulnerabilities of the third-party components/libraries used in the application and remediating vulnerabilities.

• Integrate with multiple devices & printers

Required skillset:

 Java, Android SDK, Rest API, SQLLite, Json, Enterprise mobility management (EMM) and EMV, POS application in Android(preferably version 4.4 Kitkat and API level 19 and above) 

Good to have:

 Play store deployment, push notifications, Web services, Android Location Services, Google Maps API, GIT

 Desired Competencies:

 Problem Solving Approach, Analytically strong, Time Management skills, Passionate to learn new technologies and working in an agile environment.

• Relevant experience in building a mobile application using React Native.
• Your primary focus will be on developing user interface components for mobile and implementing them following well-known React workflows. (such as Flux or Redux)
• You will ensure that these components and the overall application are robust and easy to maintain. 
• You will be coordinating with the rest of the team working on different layers of the infrastructure. 
• Should have published at least 2 live hybrid mobile applications. 
• Good understanding of Android / iOS / Web design guidelines, SDK and excellent JavaScript skills. 
• Expertise in RESTful APIs development. 
• Expertise with code testing best practices, including unit and integration testing to ensure a quality of code. 
• Familiarity with code versioning tools such as Git, TFS and Agile/SCRUM Development methodologies