Android / Senior Android Developer

Hiring for a Series E, Bay Area based 3.1 Billion USD rapidly growing organisation focused on payments, marketing and customer loyalty. You will be responsible for development of alternative payments based on blockchain technologies.

Position: Senior / Lead Engineer –Android

Location: Bangalore (Currently remote but post pandemic you need to relocate)

Roles & Responsibilities

• Design and development of apps for Androidin, 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 Androidrun 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.

Is your next career move to lead a team of iOS developers and spearhead the development of cutting-edge iOS applications to enhance user experience and advance DAZN's OTT platform?

DAZN is a tech-first sport streaming platform that reaches millions of users every week. We are challenging a traditional industry and giving power back to the fans. Our new Hyderabad tech hub will be the engine that drives us forward to the future. We’re pushing boundaries and doing things no-one has done before. Here, you have the opportunity to make your mark and the power to make change happen - to make a difference for our customers. When you join DAZN you will work on projects that impact millions of lives thanks to your critical contributions to our global products

This is the perfect place to work if you are passionate about technology and want an opportunity to use your creativity to help grow and scale a global range of IT systems, Infrastructure and IT Services. Our cutting-edge technology allows us to stream sports content to millions of concurrent viewers globally across multiple platforms and devices. DAZN’s Cloud based architecture unifies a range of technologies in order to deliver a seamless user experience and support a global user base and company infrastructure.

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.

Lead IOS Developer

Responsibilities

• Work in a fun and fast-paced environment.
• 2-3 years’ experience in leading development teams
• Participate in requirements gathering, design, development, QA, support.
• Communicate with different stakeholders such as QA, Project Managers and Product Owners
• Discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.
• Groom, mentor and upskill team members with modern technologies and development practices
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Key Competencies:

• 6-8 years of experience in IOS Development using Objective-C/Swift
• Strong knowledge of IOS frameworks such as Core Data, Core Animation etc.
• Strong command over Apple’s design principles, Interface guidelines, platform's advantages & limitations.
• Strong knowledge of design patterns
• Experience with consuming RESTful web services
• Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning
• Experience with the latest development paradigms like functional and reactive programming

Good to have skills:

• Knowledge of cloud-based services like AWS and GCP.
• Working knowledge of Video streaming and playback
• Knowledge of modern programming paradigms like functional and reactive programming.

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.

• 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

1. Proven working experience in Android app development and published at least one original Android app.
2. 1-3 years of experience in Android using the java language 
   Familiarity with architecture styles/APIs.
3. Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle.
4. Knowledge of MVVM and other Mobile design patterns and best practices.
5. Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
6. Work in Agile, cross-functional teams and taking responsibility for deliverables
7. Excellent communication skills in both technical and non-technical discussions

We are seeking extremely smart Android developers who are passionate about pushing mobile technologies to the limits.

• Design and develop products by working closely with business teams.
• Design super intuitive experiences in the next generation of our mobile applications.
• Build performant, scalable, yet secure, enterprise-ready android applications with architecture that is fast yet lean on the backend servers enabling them to support millions of users in parallel.
• Build enterprise-ready back end architectures that can support millions of users in parallel.
• Gain experience with hands-on coding and independent ownership of software components.
• Follow strong engineering best practices and champion their adoption.

• 2+ years’ experience in android software development and delivery.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in engineering from a reputed institute(preferably IITs, NITs, or other top engineering institutes).
• Strong grasp of CS fundamentals, algorithms and excellent problem-solving abilities.
• All experience should be from good product development or e-commerce background.
• Must have shown good stability in all your previous associations.
• Knowledge of UI architectural patterns like MVVM(preferable), MVC, MVP, data binding, activity & fragment lifecycle, recycler view, navigation component, layouts (constraint layout preferable), theming etc.
• Should have actively used retrofit, work managers, android jetpack, Rx java, dagger, retrofit, android sdk, GIT/bitbucket, gradle/ant and very keen on exploring other proven tech stacks.
• Comfortable with test-driven development in android with UI testing, instrumented unit testing and unit testing using junits, mockito or other tools.
• Willingness to learn and write simple backend REST API’s (preferably in Java, spring boot & hibernate) without having to completely depend on backend engineers for delivery.
• Has worked in a fast-paced agile organization building stateless and re-entrant/resumable android applications.

This person MUST have:

• B.E Computer Science or equivalent.
• Demonstrable portfolio of released applications on the Android market with experience in Android development. 
• In-depth knowledge of at least one programming language like Kotlin 
• Strong knowledge of how to work with RESTful APIs 
• Strong Familiarity with OOP design principles 
• Integrate with our backend web services to deliver better and faster user experience 
• Strong knowledge of version control (i.e. git, svn, etc.) 
• Ability to performance tune and scale applications 
• Agile development experience 
• Experience working at a software product company is a major plus  
• Passion to learn and develop new skills continuously 
• Strong sense of ownership in every application they build 
• Working with highly collaborative and dynamic team environments 

Experience:

• Min 3 year experience
• Startup experience is a must.
   

Location:

• Remotely, anywhere in India

Timings:

• 40 hours a week but with 4 hours a day overlapping with client timezone.  Typically clients are in California PST Timezone.

Position:

• Full time/Direct
• We have great benefits such as PF, medical insurance, 12 annual company holidays, 12 PTO leaves per year, annual increments, Diwali bonus, spot bonuses and other incentives etc.
• We dont believe in locking in people with large notice periods.  You will stay here because you love the company.  We have only a 15 days notice period.