Android (SDE3)

LogiNext is looking for a technically savvy and passionate mobile application leader to cater to the development and launch of core mobile product features. You will help the team in building an awesome product with your optimized code. You will make a humongous impact on design, architecture, implementation and enhancement of the applications that exceed client expectations in terms of value and benefit.

You have hands-on experience in building secure, high-performing and scalable mobile applications. Your design intuition inclines towards usability, elegance and simplicity. You are biased towards open-source tools and existing frameworks. You have assisted in shipping applications with beautiful front-end and intelligent back end. You have demonstrated strong interpersonal and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop cutting edge native Android or iOS applications for the mobile platform
• Build, test, maintain and enhance mobile apps having elegant and efficient UI/UX to enhance client experience
• Own features from their ideation, design, development, test, release and maintenance
• Be a resident expert of new trends and implement the latest Android/iOS features to maximize application performance
• Maintain high standards of quality and responsiveness through technical design analysis, code reviews and test automation
• Collaborate with a talented team of product managers, engineers, and designers
• Demonstrate high level of ethics, dedication and teamwork

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field
• 10+ years of experience in developing native Android or iOS mobile applications
• Strong knowledge of programming language in Swift or Java/Kotlin, SQLite and IDE like XCode or Android Studio
• Hands on experience in using Location Based Services, REST Web Services Integration, FCM, Firebase and Battery Optimization Techniques
• Strong experience in memory management, performance tuning and resource optimization
• Deep knowledge of mobile automation and unit testing frameworks
• Proven ability to drive large scale projects with deep understanding of Agile SDLC, high collaboration and leadership
• Experience in both Android and iOS applications is a plus
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, judgment and decision-making skills

Currently, we are looking for engineers who are skilled, passionate, driven, and a wee bit crazy (yes, crazy works! ) to join our tribe. The small tweaks you make, the processes you alter, the experiments you run, and the business decisions you drive will have reverberating effects on our ability to add value to our customers and keep them coming back for more.

Responsibilities:

• Work on cutting edge technical systems and seek to do things no one else has done before.
• Work with a group of people who believe in the utmost transparency and ethical practices.
• Work with full autonomy and high ownership of outcomes
• Add value to our user's life • Evolve as a professional through a learning and challenging journey.

Requirements:

• 4+ years of overall work experience, and a minimum of 2 years of experience in Android development
• Excellent knowledge of Java, Kotlin and Android eco-system
• Experience in software engineering best practices and design principles
• Prior experience in working on scalable Android App • Capable of handling web service integration - RESTful, JSON, SOAP, XML
• A focus and passion for Mobile UI & UX to make apps exciting for the user
• Excellent debugging and optimisation skills
• Rapid prototyping skills for getting product feedback
• Understanding of product development lifecycle
• Experience in React Native is a bonus

tl;dr

🤓 An early employee of an experienced team. A lot of impact and opportunities to learn or deepen new technologies like GPT3, Amazon Rekognition, FFmpeg and more.

💰 Fixed Salary + Stock-Options

About

Blend is an AI-driven graphic design tool for entrepreneurs that removes decision making to create professional-grade product catalogs. Entrepreneurs can now create product marketing material in a few seconds to stand out and sell better online. Instead of manipulating pixels, users edit objects. Deep learning models ensure the translation of pixels into objects.

What you'll do

Blend app, an AI-driven design tool, will help its users create stunning designs within seconds.

To help us get to our vision faster, we are looking for an Engineer to join us on our app development front. This developer:

• 👩‍💻 Would work on our Flutter codebase writing cross platform code for both Android and iOS.
• 🎨 Work closely with product and design to create amazing user experiences.
• 🐜 Watch out and fix production issues, and target on running a smooth experience.
• 📈 With the help of the rest of the team, you maintain a great app with few bugs and trustable analytics: KPIs, logs, crash logs, boards.

Above all, you would be the owner of the app side of things. Drive it to success. That will be the goal.

We are tech/langugage agnostic when it comes to developers, so the only hard requirement is to be smart and passionate. That being said, having the skills below will be an advantage:

• Experience working with Flutter and/or Dart
• Experience with React/React Native (makes it easier to pick up flutter)
• Experience with Native app development (sooner or later you might get to a point where you need to write native modules as well)

How we work:

• Team: you are humble, open to challenge, and like to help others grow. The most important is the progress of the team and the product.
• Impact: you can prioritize your time to build what will give users superpowers or wow them.
• Learning: learning and sharing knowledge makes you happy. At Blend, this holds true as a team, with machine learning, and with our users.

Hiring process:

3-steps process:

• Screening call
• Technical Interview
• Cultural fit interview with the founders

• Engineering Graduates or Postgraduates with 2-5 years of experience in mobile development, who have designed and developed advanced applications for the Android platform in B2C domain. Experience of development of app for retail domain is an added advantage.  
• Must have working skills:  
  • Kotlin, RXJava, Dependency injection (Koin/Dagger) 
  • Unit Test 
  • Worked on multi-threaded applications 
  • MVP and MVVM 
• In depth understanding of Android recommended design principles, interface guidelines and coding best practices.  
• Experience with performance and memory tuning of complex apps.  

- Strong knowledge of Android SDK, different versions of Android, and how to deal with different screen sizes

- Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect Android applications to back-end services

- Strong knowledge of Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices

- Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning

- Strong knowledge in SQLite Database

- Experience in designing and developing custom controls for Android.

- Solid foundation in data structures, algorithms, and object orientation design.

- Capabilities to write and execute unit test cases.

- Independent researching, solution finding, analysis and problem solving skills and capabilities.

- Should have a strong knowledge of OOPS and intermediate knowledge of front-end GUI design and development.

- Should have knowledge of Kotlin

- Should have experience in  MVC / MVVM Architecture.

- Good in Analytics and Communication