Business Development Associate

Position Title:  Mobile Developer - Android                   Location: Bangalore, India    

Reports To: Manager of Mobile Development          

Position Summary:

Bottomline is at the forefront of digital transformation. We are a growing global market leader uniquely equipped to address the changing needs of how businesses pay and get paid. Our culture of working with and for each other enables us to delight our customers. We empower our teams to think like owners driving customer delight, helping them grow their business and win in their markets.

Bottomline Technologies delivers award-winning user experiences for large banks and financial institutions globally. Our Mobile Team seeks talented individuals who will deliver solutions across both business and consumer markets that are innovative, thoughtful, and set a new standard in the industry. The selected individual will be working with a talented and dynamic team building native applications for large enterprise system used by banks, insurance companies, and healthcare organizations around the world. 

Essential Job Functions:

• Design and develop native apps for Android with Kotlin and Flutter/Dart
• Build high quality and secure mobile application
• Work in fast based SCRUM teams
• Interact with Product Owners periodically; understand the requirements and provide application solutions.
• Engage with other mobile developers to create reusable code modules, flutter plugins.
• Promotes and adheres to good development practices: code/design reviews, optimization, and maintainability.
• Maintaining and contributing to technical documentation and coding standards.
• Keeps up to date with mobile application development trends and industry news.
• Design, implement and unit test SaaS applications for the mobile environment.

Required Skills:

• 3+ years hands on design and development with Android SDK with at least two apps in the PlayStore.
• A good understanding of OOPS, MVC, MVP, MVVM and other design patterns.
• Good to have worked in Test Driven Development, or Behavior driven development
• Working experience with WCAG 2.1 Level A and AA success criteria.
• Experience with Git and an understanding of CI/CD
• Experience with REST web services with JSON or XML formatted return data
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills
• Experience working in an Agile Scrum Development process

Education and Experience:

• BE / B Tech / MCA in Computer Science from a reputed university with good academic record

Educational Requirements

• Must possess a diploma/degree/certificate in graphic design / fine art/interface design from a recognized school, institute, or academy (NIFT, NID, Pearl Academy)

Experience:  5+ years, Proven experience with UI / UX / Graphic design with a portfolio of sample projects

Desired Candidate Profile:

Hard skills

• Experience with web and mobile app design
• Experience creating rapid prototypes
• Team management skill
• Working knowledge of responsive design and grid principles
• Strong typography, layout, and visual design skills
• Working knowledge of industry tools: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, InVision, Sketch
• Working knowledge of the ideation and creation of UI design deliverables: Sitemaps, user flows, wireframes, lo-fi and hi-fi layouts, prototypes
• Ability to innovate and develop out-of-the-box solutions to complex user interaction problems

Soft skills

• Desire to learn and grow as a designer
• Proactive, independent working style
• Excellent communication skills – both spoken and written
• Ability to clearly articulate ideas and concepts
• Strong attention to detail and a keen eye for aesthetics
• Artistic eye for design, user interaction, functionality, and readability
• Strong team player who can collaborate effectively with different stakeholders
• Designers should demonstrate critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Time-management skills to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment
• Well organized and well planned (yes, we know this is a big ask!)
• Happy, fun-loving, and imaginative

Responsibilities:

• Develop standard UI components and style guides
• Build wireframes and storyboards to conceptualize the design
• Define visual elements, product elements, and overall design
• Taking design briefs to understand requirements
• Effectively communicate your designs to developers and other key stakeholders
• Create and implement interaction models and user interface specifications
• Conduct industry research and stay up-to-date on best practices, competitor UI designs, and emerging technologies
• Conduct, observe, and analyze usability testing sessions
• Conduct user testing of applications, software, and websites
• Develop consistent, intuitive architectures
• Support the QA team to make sure features are implemented in the coded version as intended
• Determine timeline and deliverables
• Evaluate and set best practices and standards
• Work with UI managers and team to define user flows and sitemaps
• Measure the human-computer interaction (HCI) element of a design
• Collaborate on scenarios, end-to-end experiences, and screen designs
• Work with frontend and backend developers as needed.

• Excellent in Jquery, HTML5, CSS, ReactJS or AngularJS.

• Excellent programming skills in PHP Codeigniter / Laravel Framework. (Laravel is mendatory)

• Experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux)
• Familiarity with newer specifications of EcmaScript
• Experience with data structure libraries
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs
• Must be well versed with software application design and development tools.
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token
• Familiarity with the whole web stack, including protocols and web server optimization techniques.
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• Familiarity with code versioning tools (such as Git, SVN, and Mercurial)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.