Android Principal Engineer

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Min 5 years of experience in designing and developing enterprise software applications including the experience in architecting and developing applications on the Android platform.
• Experience in Java, Kotlin and dependency injection for Android app development.
• Experience with Media, Telecom, FCM, Network, JSON, XML, Web Services and SQLite.
• Expertise in mobile and Java frameworks/accelerators.
• Knowledge of WebRTC, XMPP, DAO, Firebase, RESTAPIs, Crashlytics, and JetPack libraries.
• Advanced experience with Android Studio, Gradle, Git, and continuous integration.
• Strong knowledge of the Android mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies.
• Fully conversant with SOLID principles, software development frameworks, design patterns, and enterprise in mobile application integration
• Experience with XMPP and Smack libraries and with RxJava, Dagger2 is desirable

• Excellent working knowledge of OOPs, SOLID principles and different design patterns.
• Solid hands on experience and deep understanding of different architectures.
• Solid working knowledge of Objective C and Swift, iOS application development and iOS fundamentals.
• Proficient with general swift language features, collections, protocol oriented programming, etc.
• Hands on experience of implementing architecture patterns and designing/implementing unit test cases using XCTest & other third party libraries.
• Solid working experience of debugging, profiling tools, developer portal and App Store release process.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.

• Should have 5+ hardcore experience in Android Mobile App development
• Proficient in Kotlin, Android SDK with Location tracking, Route map, Google Map/ Voice API Integration, Regional language support etc.
• Understanding of design patterns and mobile architecture using frameworks such as MVVM / MVC / MVP.
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs and integration and code versioning tools such as Git.
• Problem solver with good analytical skills.
• Passion to work in dynamic, start-up environment.
• Compensation best in the industry

iOS Developer:

1 to 5 years of experience in iOS mobile application development

• Proficient with Swift and Cocoa Touch
• Experience with iOS frameworks such as Core Data, Core Animation, Core Location etc
• Experience in Design patterns such as POP, MVVM, CleanSwift, Facade
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect iOS applications to back-end services
• Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications
• Understanding of Apple's design principles and interface guidelines
• Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
• Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning
• Understanding of the full mobile development life cycle
• Understanding of Git

We are looking for a Passionate Android Developer to join our award-winning, talented team, building the next generation automated drone applications for our global customers. You will be responsible for the development of Android applications and their integration with back-end services.

About FlytBase

FlytBase is a 4-year old, venture-funded, high growth startup –  a global pioneer in software-led automation of commercial drone applications. The team has a cumulative professional experience of several decades, with engineering graduates from IIT-B, IIT-KGP, University of Texas & Georgia Tech.

FlytBase develops intelligent software that leverages reliable, off-the-shelf drone hardware to automate and scale drone deployments for commercial use-cases. FlytBase platform is hardware-agnostic, has intelligent plugins for autonomy, manages drone fleets via 4G/5G, and uses APIs to integrate into enterprise workflows. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, USA and has R&D offices in Pune, India. Widely recognized as a pioneer in the commercial drone ecosystem, FlytBase continues to win awards globally, the most recent one being the ‘NTT Data Open Innovation Global Champion 2019’.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Design, build and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable android code.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, ship new features, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the application.
• Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs.

Qualifications and Requirements:

• 1+ years of experience in designing and building Android applications.
• Good knowledge in programming concepts – OOPs, design & coding patterns.
• Experience in developing Android applications using Kotlin/Java.
• Strong knowledge of Android UI design principles, MVC, MVP and MVVM patterns.
• Strong knowledge of MAPS, Sqlite, GPS functionality etc.
• Strong experience in Material Design.
• Experience in writing Unit Tests and UI tests, must be familiar with Junit, Mockito and Espresso.
• Experience in integrating SSO and auth modules or libraries.
• Experience in Git or Bitbucket Repository.
• Experience in REST API integration.
• Familiarity with Android local connectivity API (Bluetooth, WiFi, USB).
• Familiarity with RxKotlin / RxJava (operator, thread management, eventBus).
• Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications.

What Will I Earn?

This role comes with an annual CTC that is market competitive and depends on the quality of your work experience, degree of professionalism, culture fit and alignment with FlytBase’s long-term business strategy.

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.

• Experience in React Native, Redux, CodePlus

• Need to have design/UI component knowledge on both Android/iOS platform.

• Capable of deploying the mobile app on both Android / iOS platform.

• Excellent knowledge in the integration of the NPM module within the environment.

• Good knowledge of data structure and algorithms

• Need to have experience in working with RestFul API service.

• Must have experience on version control SVN /GIT