Android architect

Key responsibilities include:

Building and maintaining mobile applications for iOS and Android using React Native

Writing clean, efficient, and well-documented code

Participating in code reviews and ensuring that all solutions are aligned with best practices

Collaborating with the development team to brainstorm new features and enhancements

Troubleshooting and debugging issues as they arise

Qualifications:

Strong knowledge of JavaScript, React, and React Native

Experience with building and deploying mobile applications for iOS and Android

Familiarity with mobile architecture patterns and front-end development best practices

Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills

Strong understanding of agile development methodologies

Strong written and verbal communication skills

Familiarity with related technologies such as Redux, and JSX

Rippling is looking for a Senior Mobile Engineer (React Native) who is motivated to combine the art of design with the art of programming. Responsibilities will include translation of the UI/UX design wireframes to actual code that will produce visual elements of the mobile application. 

You will build and scale multiple areas of our mobile application. To begin with —you will be responsible for building out the new product features in the mobile app and owning the deliverables.

• Develop new user-facing features
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI designs
• Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability
• Have horizontal leadership - driving initiatives via community sync-ups or work on more "zoomed-out"and more long term projects that will move the needle in the long run.

• 3+ years experience in mobile engineering roles including leadership roles.
• 1+ years of experience in React Native development
• Development expertise in either Android or iOS native platform
• Proficient understanding of JS fundamentals
• Experience working in a fast paced, dynamic environment
• Good interpersonal skills

• We run functional teams based on the SCRUM methodology and are a fairly Agile environment, with 2 week sprints and teams with a minimum of 2 developers (preferably 3) plus a Platform Owner.
• Sprints cannot be interrupted and work is planned out well in advance to keep stress down to a minimum.

• Line by line code reviews for every pull request on Gitlab maintains code quality and keep everyone in the loop & learning.
• At least 2 people working together on every project (collaborating not pairing)

• Kotlin is strongly preferred
• Experience with clean architecture and MVVM
• Experience with Jetpack Libraries ( Navigation, Paging, Room, Data Binding)
• Experience with Dependency Injections (Dagger2)
• Experience with Rx Java, Rx Android & Co-routines
• Practical understanding of Continuous Integration and Delivery

• A resume in pdf format. Include into your resume the links to software, mobile apps,

• Leads more than one projects end-to-end and collaborates across functions. Drives planning, estimation and execution.
• Manages stakeholder expectations and offers scalable, reliable, performant and easy to maintain solutions.
• Consistently takes well thought technical/design decisions.
• Develops expertise in more than one area and shares knowledge with others. Able to mentor/train people in areas which are new to them.
• Drives people to solve engineering challenges.
• Enjoys high respect of Tech and other cross functional teams.
• Demonstrates effective communication with project team, management and internal/external clients as necessary.
• Surfaces both technical and non-technical team challenges and helps resolve them.
• Champion for SDLC best practices and high-quality standards.
• Significantly contributes in hiring high performance candidates.

• Expert in JAVA, Kotlin, Reactive programming, Asynchronous programming and Dependency Injection. Experience with unit-tests and automation frameworks.
• Familiarity with any architectures like MV*(MVP/MVVM/MVI).
• Strong focus on high-quality mobile UI experiences.
• Operates independently with almost no oversight.
• Is able to apply domain expertise to think critically and make wise decisions for the team, taking into account tradeoffs and constraints.
• Communicates tech decisions through design docs and tech talks.
• Has delivered multiple projects with end-to-end engineering ownership.
• Keeps track of new technology/tools and embraces them as necessary
• 12+ years of experience in a product-driven organization.

Technologies we're working with

• MVP, JAVA and Kotlin, Realm, Firebase Real-time Database, RxJava,Kotlin Coroutines, Dagger and Retrofit.

Collabsports Technologies Pvt Ltd is a sports-tech startup based in Pune, India. We are a small team, passionate about Sports & Technology. Our product, Scorpad is a mobile app with a mission “Sporting Made Smarter”, helps athletes in recording, analysing & improving their game while collaborating with their friends and other like-minded athletes. For more information, visit https://scorpad.com">https://scorpad.com

• You need to be passinate about technology with strong development & debugging skills.
• You will be responsible for designing, developing, testing & debugging responsive mobile applications.
• You should have one or more mobile apps on Google/ App store
• Thorough with VCS/ Git
• Working knowledge of general mobile landscape, architectures and trends
• Good understanding of RESTful APIs
• You should have a desire to work in startup fast-paced environment, able to self-manage and work remotely, when required.

Here’s what you will do day-to-day:

Brainstorm, contribute new ideas, conceive innovative strategies, and implement solutions to difficult problems

Work with fellow designers and developers in an iterative environment with short and impactful development cycles 

Exploit the most advanced Android APIs and platform features to build innovative solutions to real-world problems 

Build all the necessary tools and infrastructure to enable rapid mobile development 

Work closely with our backend team to interface with RESTful API services 

Work with real-time feedback from our users to make the product better 

Discover, design, develop, deploy, debug. Repeat! 

Why work with us?

Work in a very small, highly talented team consisting IIT alumnus and rockstar developers

High standard of engineering quality 

Work on cutting edge technologies in android development so that you are always updated with the trends in android community. P.S. We hate outdated technologies! 

High impact role at fast paced growth company 

Skills we are looking for - Android Engineer:

Must be able to independently design, code and test major features, as well as work jointly with other team members to deliver complex changes.

Strong object-oriented design and coding skills (Java, Kotlin) 

Solid software development background including design patterns, algorithms, data structures 

Experience with MVVM or MVP or Clean architecture 

Experience with mobile data storage with SQLite/Room or other DBs including no-SQL 

Understanding of RxJava, Dependency Injection frameworks like Dagger 2 

Good experience in memory management, performance tuning, and resource optimizations 

Has published at least one app in play store 

Few Good to Haves:

Kotlin experience is a big plus

Experience working in a startup 

Experience with Camera and Google Maps apis 

Published apps in play store 

Github/Medium/StackOverflow presence 

Our Android Tech:

Clean architecture with best practices in MVVM 

Latest jetpack components 

Reactive programming 

Kotlin

• Strong grasp of computer science fundamentals and excellent problem-solving skills.
• Good understanding of software engineering practices, Data Structures & Algorithms.
• Solid programming skills in Java/Kotlin.
• Good communication skills.
• Strong sense of ownership and accountability.
• Experience in Reactive programming, Asynchronous programming and Unit Testing will be an added advantage.
• 4-7years of experience in product driven organization.