Android Principal Engineer

Job Title: Senior Android Developer / Lead Engineer (Java | Kotlin | Android)

Experience Required

• 10+ years of overall software development experience
• Strong hands-on expertise in Java, Kotlin, and Android development

Role Overview

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Android Engineer with deep expertise in Android OS internals, system-level development, and strong hands-on coding ability. The role demands strong technical leadership, architectural thinking, and the ability to design and build scalable, high-performance Android applications with system-level integrations.

This is a hands-on technical role (not people management) with focus on architecture, design, and complex problem solving.

Key Responsibilities

1. Android Application Development

• Design, develop, and maintain advanced Android applications using Java and Kotlin
• Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code with strong adherence to OOP principles
• Participate in hands-on coding, debugging, and code reviews

2. Android Framework & System-Level Development

• Work with Android OS-level APIs including:
• Services
• Binder IPC
• AIDL
• System services
• Understand and implement system-level integrations

3. Low-Level & Hardware Interaction

• Exposure to Kernel / Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL)
• Work on device-level integrations such as:
• Sensors
• Bluetooth
• Other hardware peripherals

4. Performance & Stability Engineering

• Identify and resolve performance issues including:
• ANR (Application Not Responding)
• Memory leaks and optimization
• Ensure application stability and efficient resource usage

5. Concurrency & Multithreading

• Build robust multi-threaded applications
• Strong understanding of:
• Concurrency models
• Synchronization mechanisms
• Thread safety and race condition handling

6. System Design & Architecture

• Design scalable, modular, and maintainable Android applications
• Define architecture patterns and enforce best practices
• Contribute to system-level design decisions

7. Technical Leadership (Hands-on)

• Provide technical direction and mentorship to engineering team members
• Guide design and implementation decisions
• Conduct architecture and code reviews
• Remain actively involved in coding and technical problem solving

Preferred / Good to Have

• Exposure to IoT domain
• Exposure to HVAC systems or related embedded domains

Must-Have Skills Summary

• 10+ years Android development experience
• Strong Java, Kotlin, Android expertise
• Deep knowledge of Android internals and system APIs
• Strong OOP and coding skills (coding assessment required)
• Experience with performance tuning and memory management
• Strong understanding of multithreading and concurrency
• System design and architecture expertise
• Hands-on technical leadership

Roles & Responsibilities:

This role will be based in our brand new Hyderabad office. Join us in India’s beautiful “City of Pearls” and bring your ambition to life. We are looking for an experienced iOS engineer who is passionate about building modern, scalable applications for iOS and tvOS, and will take ownership of the full product feature cycle from design to delivery.

Your Team:

The R&D group is building and delivering the enablement platform for the current and next generation of media experiences in the fields of personalization, content interaction, and social interaction, all of which are at the core of DAZN's value proposition. Key parts of the workflow are ingestion, transcoding of various video and audio live/VOD assets, personalized processing, and distribution across the world to end-users, while allowing collaboration among users, all in real-time. This group is taking full responsibility for providing end-to-end social interaction functionalities on multiple platforms including web, smart TVs, iOS, Android, PlayStation, and Xbox.

As our new Senior iOS Engineer, you’ll have the opportunity to:

● Designing and developing our cutting-edge products, delivered to millions of

sports fans around the world.

● Be an essential part of a team working in a fast B2C paste product delivery

pipeline.

● Work with the most talented individual on features that cross platforms,

languages, and protocols to deliver social engagement to sports fans.

● Learn from the best in the field, and teach others.

● Own the full product feature cycle from being a part of the product

brainstorming through all dev cycles and up to take the responsibility for the

feature when rolled to production.

You’ll be set up for success if you have:

● B.Sc. in Computer Science or equivalent.

● At least 4 years of experience in Apple Swift/Obj-C development.

● Senior-level understanding of design patterns and architectures.

● A verse in 3rd party frameworks and solutions.

● Senior-level understanding of server-client fundamentals.

● Senior-level understanding of multithreading.

● Experience with UI Kit

● Experience with RxSwift development.

● Experience in writing unit tests.

● Strong analytical skills.

● Can-do attitude!

Even better if you have:

● Experience in writing automation tests.

● Continuous integration tools and practices.

● Familiarity with agile software development.

● Experienced with low-level systems in C/C++.

● Experienced with OpenGL, high-performance rendering, mobile device, digital

AV, video and audio codecs, and media players.

● Experience with RxSwift development.

● Experienced with working on networking technology and approaches, e.g.

client-server, peer-to-peer, writing network code using TCP/IP and UDP

stacks and networking concepts.(routing, congestion, datagrams vs. streams)

● Experienced with RT web technologies: WebSockets, WebRTC.

At DAZN, we bring ambition to life. We are innovators, game-changers and pioneers. So if you want to push boundaries and make an impact, DAZN is the place to be.

As part of our team you'll have the opportunity to make your mark and the power to make change happen. We're doing things no-one has done before, giving fans and customers access to sport anytime, anywhere. We're using world-class technology to transform sports and revolutionise the industry and we're not going to stop. If you're ambitious, inventive, brave and supportive, then you're the kind of person who's going to enjoy life at DAZN.

We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment, both inside and outside of our walls, that values equality and diversity and where everyone can contribute at the highest level and have their voices heard. For us, this means hiring and developing talent across all races, ethnicities, religions, age groups, sexual orientations, gender identities and abilities.

We are supported by our talented Employee Resource Group communities: proud@DAZN, women@DAZN, disability@DAZN and ParentZONE.

• Should have excellent knowledge of Swift and Objective C
• Good working knowledge in Cocoa Touch
• Experience with performance and memory tuning with tools
• Experience with memory management & caching mechanisms specific to mobile devices
• Experience with third-party libraries and APIs
• Experience working with Core Data, Realm
• Understanding of the full mobile development life cycle
• Experience in publishing apps to the App Store.
• Code version tool – Git, Bitbucket
• Design Pattern - MVC and MVVM, MVP
• Must be able to provide individual or project oversight on rapid prototyping/POC 
• efforts and large scale enterprise wide roll out planning.
• Must be familiar with software development methodologies like Agile, Waterfall, Iterative etc.
• Must have strong analytical skills and should be able to define and build competency assets – estimators, tools, reusable assets, scripts, etc.
• Must have strong communication and customer interfacing skills with particular emphasis on Scope and Requirements Management

Job Types: Full-time, Regular / Permanent

Experience: 2+ yrs

Android Developer responsibilities include:

Designing and developing advanced applications for the Android platform.

Unit-testing code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability.

Bug fixing and improving application performance.

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 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.

Responsibilities and Duties

We are looking for an Android Developer who possesses a passion for pushing mobile technologies to the limits. This Android app developer will work with our team of talented engineers to design and build the next generation of our mobile applications. Android programming works closely with other app development and technical teams.

Requirements

Proven software development experience and Android skills development

Good Experience in Kotlin, Room, SQLite

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.

About Ftechiz Solution Pvt Ltd:

Established in 2016, Ftechiz Solutions Pvt Ltd, with it’s dedicated and skilled team of professionals, able to create dynamic and cost effective solutions for it’s clients. We believe in delivering the best services to our Clients without compromising on time or quality. Ftechiz Solutions Pvt Ltd has been launched with a clear vision to become multi-skilled and multi-dimensional IT service providers with a focus on high end strategic solutions and with the ultimate aim to evolve and become a leading One Stop internet strategy consulting company. We have been successful because we believe in keeping our promises and our simple but highly effective websites are known to interest the viewers greatly as the design is eye catching with the navigation easy making it a comfortable experience.

• Experience 4 to 10 years
• Location - Hyderabad (work from Office)
• NP- Immediate to 30 days
• Need experience in Swift / OOP's concept, API & SDKs, Mapkit, Firebase, and Payment Gateways.

Responsibilities: -

• Design and build applications for the iOS platform (Prefer Swift Language)
• Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
• Collaborate with a team to define, design, and ship new features
• Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs
• Help maintain code quality and organization.
• Should have basic knowledge of the application submission process

Skills

• Proficient with Swift, and Cocoa Touch
• Experience with iOS frameworks.
• Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect iOS applications to back-end services
• Knowledge of UI/UX standards.
• Understanding of Apple’s design principles and interface guidelines
• Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications
• A knack for benchmarking and optimization
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git

Vah Vah! is an ed-tech company that offers online makeup courses in micro-batches to students across India to learn from the leading teachers in top cities. We provide holistic education with lots of practical training that makes our students job-ready with not just the base skills but also the soft skills for great customer service. Our teachers have more than 15+ years of experience in training makeup and have certified more than 1000+ students. Vah Vah! is founded by executives with extensive experience running consumer business and mobile games at scale (over 100 million players) at Zynga. Vah Vah! is backed by a leading investment firm.

Website Link: https://vahvah.com/

The Mission

Vah Vah teaches professional makeup to budding makeup artists and influencers through live online classes. We have students from Srinagar, all the way to the Andamans. And experienced teachers who have worked in Bridal Makeup, Ramp Shoots, Film and more. We empower our students to join the workforce as fully trained makeup artists. This is the future of vocational education, and you can help build it.

Our Culture

• Amazing workplace and colleagues to work with
• We have the right mixture of creativity, analytics and hustle to move fast in the right direction.
• You will work with colleagues who don’t take themselves too seriously but move mountains.
• See yourself evolving every month with new problems to solve and new skill to master.
• Work with the smartest engineers so you can learn from them.
• Competitive salary at par with the best in the industry
• Great stock options so you can benefit from the company's growth.
• Immense exposure to new technologies

Responsibilities:

• Complete ownership of building and maintaining mobile APP.
• Deliver across the entire app life cycle design, build, deploy, test, release to app stores and support.
• Should be comfortable working on Android (Kotlin/Java) OR iOS(swift) platform.
• Should be comfortable in building a great consumer user interface.

Requirements:

• Overall experience of 2-4 years in native Android or iOS Platform
• Android Developer OR iOS developer with 2+ years of experience
• Experience in Android (Android Studio, Java, Kotlin) OR iOS development (Xcode, Swift)
• Basic understanding of Backend services, API implementation and database systems.
• We encourage all our devs to have base level of knowledge on DevOps, Source Control, CI/CD systems, Cloud Services such as AWS, Firebase, GCP
• Ability to implement designs and functionality provided by UI/UX teams
• Understanding of production deployment of the app in Play Store/App Store

• Android Studio, Java, Kotlin OR Xcode, Swift, Objective-C
• Familiarity with Analytics integrations
• Conversant with Github, CI/CD pipeline

What you get:

• Amazing workplace and colleagues to work with
• Work with the smartest engineers so you can learn from them.
• Competitive salary at par with the best in the industry
• Immense exposure to new technologies

Roles and Responsibilities: 

• Must be self-driven and motivated
• Proficient in writing quality, efficient and performant code for iOS app, using Swift
• Follow right architecture and design patterns
• Aware of the agile working environment
• Document design/technical guidelines and spread knowledge across teams
• Responsible for self/peer code reviews
• Viable suggestions with clear understanding of iOS fundamentals
  
  
  Requirements :

  (Must have skills) 

• Swift (relevant knowledge)
• iOS Fundamentals
• MVVM/VIPER (relevant knowledge and experience )
• SOLID principles
• Third party integrations likes google map, firebase, Analytics
• Know about push notification & deep linking

Requirements:

• Strong passion for Programming in general and Android App development in specific.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Strong system design and architecture skills - specifically for android.
• Curiosity to tinker around, explore new paradigms, and strong zest for continuous improvement.
• Over 4+ years of Android App development experience with strong basics and complete exposure to Android development.
• Idea/experience of unit and instrumentation testing in Android E2E App development and/or experience of developing SDKs is good to have.