App Developer

Qualifications:

• 10+ years native mobile development (iOS Swift + Android Kotlin)

• Proven experience building mission-critical, offline-first applications

• Deep understanding of mobile architecture patterns (MVVM, Clean Architecture)

• Expert-level API integration and data synchronization strategies

• Experience with emergency services, healthcare, or field operations software (preferred)

• Strong debugging, performance optimization, and memory management skills

• Demonstrated leadership in establishing mobile development best practices

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE:

• iOS: Swift 5.x, SwiftUI/UIKit, CoreData, CoreLocation, Background Tasks

• Android: Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Room, WorkManager, Location Services

• Tools: Xcode, Android Studio, Git, Figma, Firebase, TestFlight/Play Console

• CI/CD: Fastlane, GitHub Actions, or similar automation tools

• APIs: RESTful services, JSON parsing, authentication/authorization

• Testing: XCTest, Espresso, automated UI testing frameworks

Responsibilities:

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Architect mobile applications for First Due's emergency response platform serving Fire and

EMS agencies nationwide

• Lead mobile development initiatives for the Hyderabad development center

• Design offline-first architectures ensuring reliability in low-connectivity emergency

scenarios

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams across US and India time zones

• Establish mobile CI/CD pipelines, coding standards, and quality assurance processes

• Mentor developers on mobile best practices and First Due's technology stack

• Drive sprint planning, velocity tracking, and technical roadmap for mobile development

• Ensure HIPAA compliance and data security for patient care reporting features

Work Location: Hyderabad, India

Work mode: Work From Office

• Strong knowledge of Android SDK, different versions of Android, and how to deal with different screen sizes
• Kotlin, Java
• Important libraries include Dagger, RxJava, Realm
• MVVM Clean Architecture
• 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
• Knowledge of the open-source Android ecosystem and the libraries available for common tasks
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications
• A knack for benchmarking and optimization
• Understanding of Google’s Android design principles and interface guidelines
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git

Responsibilities

·        Design and build advanced applications for the iOS platform.

·        Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.

·        Work on bug fixing and improving application performance.

·        Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs

·        Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization

·        Support the whole application lifetime from idea through design, testing, release, and maintenance

·        Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.

Skills

·        Proficient with Swift and Cocoa Touch

·        Experience with iOS frameworks such as Core Data, Core Animation, etc.

·        Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning

·        Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect iOS applications to back-end services

·        Understanding of Apple’s design principles and interface guidelines

·        Experience with performance and memory tuning with tools 

·        Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications

·        Knack for benchmarking and optimization

·        Proficient understanding of code versioning tools source tree, git

·        Familiarity with continuous integration

·        Solid grasp of algorithms, memory management, object oriented programming, and MVC Design

Competencies

·        Excellent communication skills

·        Ability to co-ordinate with cross functional teams  

·        Should be a good Team player.

• Mobile App development using react native framework
• Expert in creating smooth UIs across both iOS & Android mobile platforms
• Leverage native APIs for deep integrations with both platforms.
• Should be able to solve complex technical, scalability or performance challenges
• Maintain code and write automated tests to ensure the product is of the highest quality.
• Follow coding standards, unit testing, code reviews etc.

We are looking for someone with 4-7 years of experience in iOS / iPhone applications development with:

- Strong Object Oriented design and programming skills in SWIFT

- Good working experience in iOS SDK (Cocoa Touch, UIKit, Core Data, Core Location, etc.) and XCode

- Proficient in writing Unit and UI Test Cases and delivering quality work

- Good experience with MVVM architecture

- Experience in web services integration (REST APIs, JSON, XML), to connect iOS applications to back-end services

- Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning is desired

- Understanding of Apple's design principles and interface guidelines

** Areas of Responsibility ** 

- Involvement in all aspects of development: playing a critical role in the design, planning, development, and deployment and help develop best practices for future development

- Fast prototyping of proof-of concept features/applications based on a brief

- Developing and maintaining new features in Mobile Application development

- Owning the delivery of an entire piece of a system or application

- Using technical knowledge and creative thinking to provide the most innovative solutions

- Optimizing the performance of the apps and keeping up to date with the latest industry trends in mobile technologies

** Required Skills ** 

- Dedicated to delivering high-quality work and adhering to timelines

- Must be a good team player, good learner, and self-starter

- Must have strong leadership and team management qualities
- Good analytical and problem-solving skills

- Good communication skills 

- Must have strong decision-making skill

Perks and Benefits 

Company provided meals, Medical Insurance and other perks.

Company Introduction

Edfone is an educational technology company, which creates smart tools for schools and colleges. This position is for a global project where your work will create an impact on students across the globe. Being one of the early in-house team members you will get to enjoy interacting with founding team and working with early customers - students and teachers. And as always, you will be eligible for a fair share of startup benefits. If you are someone who loves to write mouth watering code and is game to for an exciting ride to help students across the world learn better, do see if you have the skills we need and apply.

Job Description

We are looking for a React Native developer interested in building performant mobile apps on both the iOS and Android platforms. You will be responsible for architecting and building these applications, as well as coordinating with the teams responsible for other layers of the product infrastructure. Building a product is a highly collaborative effort, and as such, a strong team player with a commitment to perfection is required.

Responsibilities

• Build pixel-perfect, buttery smooth UIs across both mobile platforms.
• Leverage native APIs for deep integrations with both platforms.
• Diagnose and fix bugs and performance bottlenecks for performance that feels native.
• Reach out to the open source community to encourage and help implement mission-critical software fixes
• Maintain code and write automated tests to ensure the product is of the highest quality.
• Transition ownership of existing React Native apps from out sourced developers to in-house

Skills

• Firm grasp of the JavaScript, React Native and its nuances
• Knowledge of functional or object-oriented programming
• Ability to write well-documented, clean Javascript code
• Rock solid at working with third-party dependencies and debugging dependency conflicts
• Familiarity with native build tools, like XCode, Gradle, Android Studio
• Understanding of REST APIs, the document request model, and offline storage
• Experience with automated testing suites, like Jest or Mocha