Engineering Manager – Mobile App

Our Engineering Team 

Keka Engineering Team follows modern engineering practices and works with latest stack. Refactoring is central to our philosophy to evolve the design, maintain code consistency and adapt to dynamic business needs. We believe in DevOps practices, there is no fixed release cycle; our CI/CD pipeline, deployment automation, blue-green deployment and other related practices gives us flexibility to deploy multiple times a day (if required). Our Engineering team is made up of small cohesive teams embracing Agile; working on focus areas to deliver awesome experiences to our Customers. Keka Engineering Team works on complex technical challenges, learns & adapts and most importantly; we have fun along the way.  

As a Mobile developer you are required to work with a team of architects, and developers to create mobile applications.

·       Design and build applications for the iOS platform

·       Ensure the performance, quality, and knowledge of best practices

·       Collaborate with a team to define, design, and ship new features

·       Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs

·       Help maintain code quality, organization, and automation.

·       Working knowledge of the general mobile orientation, architecture, trends, and emerging technologies.

·       Solid understanding of the full mobile application development life cycle.

·       Must have good analytical, debugging, and problem-solving skills.

·       Self-starter having the ability to independently acquire the knowledge required in succeeding his job.

·       Good communication skills. Should be able to discuss requirement for stake holders like, Product Owner and other Business stakeholders

·       Proficient with Swift 5 & above

·       Strong understanding of MVVM Architecture and should be able to demonstrate working experience

·       Strong knowledge of Design patterns

·       Strong with Auto layout and Storyboard for proficient user interface creation

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

·       Experience with Online/Offline storage, threading, and performance tuning

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

·       Knowledge of UX standards

·       Should have experience with Unit Testing

·       Understanding of Apple's design principles and interface guidelines.

·       Review code, follow best practices for coding guidelines

·       Proficient with writing reusable code

·       Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications, social media integration, and integration of analytics

·       Knack for benchmarking and optimization

·       Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (Git / SVN, Swift Package Manager, Cocoa Pods)

·       Familiarity with continuous integration

·       Knowledge of Appstore Deployment process/norms

·       Good knowledge of Certificate and Profile creations

·       Good knowledge of distribution builds for testing over TestFlight or similar distribution tools.

We are looking for an Android Developer responsible for the development and maintenance of applications aimed at a range of devices including mobile phones and tablet computers. Your primary focus will be development of applications and their integration with back-end services. You will be working alongside other engineers and developers working on different layers of the infrastructure. Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and the creation of quality products is essential

Roles and Responsibilities

² Design and build applications.

² Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications

² Collaborate with a team to define, design, and ship new features

² Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs

² To maintain the code quality, organization, and automation

² Work with the development team consisting of architects, UI designers, product managers, testers to deliver high quality mobile product & services

² Develop, test and rollout optimised UIs for diff versions/device

² Translate designs and wireframes into high quality code

² Build for multi device & multi platform scenario i.e mobile website along with mobile app

² Design, build, and maintain high performance, reusable, and reliable Java code

² Ensure the best possible performance, quality and responsiveness of the application

² Adaptability is a key factor to becoming a great Android app developer

² Identify the bugs ,correct bottlenecks and fix bugs

Skills Required:

² Prominent hands on experience in Native Android, Native iOS or Both.

² Strong knowledge of Android SDK, different versions of Android, and how to deal with different screen sizes

² An Android app developer must be well-versed with Java programming language.

² Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect applications to back-end services

² Strong knowledge on UI design principles, patterns, and best practices

² Having knowledge about offline storage, threading, and performance tuning

² Knowledge of the open-source Android ecosystem and the libraries available for common tasks

² A knack for benchmarking and optimization

² Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements

² Understanding of Google’s Android design principles and interface guidelines.

² Proficient with Objective-C or Swift.

² Understanding of Apple’s design principles and interface guidelines

² Knowledge of low-level C-based libraries is preferred

² Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications

² Knack for benchmarking and optimization

² Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (such as Git, Mercurial or SVN)

² Familiarity with continuous integration.

As a Flutter developer, you’ll work on our mobile app that is built with Flutter. You’ll help to plan and develop new features, review other people’s code, fix bugs, help in technological and business decisions, and support the internal team. You will take initiative to run projects/features smoothly.

Requirements:

• At least 1 year of Flutter experience in a production environment
• At least 3 years of industry experience

Nice to have:

• Having the knowledge required to write native plugins in Swift or Kotlin is an asset
• Having a background in native iOS and/or Android development is a big plus (e.g. experience with Xcode, Gradle, Android Studio).
• Familiar with one or more CI/CD environments: CircleCI, Gitlab, Github, etc. Knowing your way around Fastlane to build & deploy your app comes in handy
• Experience in working with state management libraries such as Riverpod

• Familiar with writing tests for your application: unit tests, widget tests and integration tests
• UI / UX design principles
• Good understanding of coding best practices and design patterns
• Understanding of security technologies (encryption, authentication, OAuth 2.0)
• Contribution to open source projects
• Interest and ability to learn other coding languages as needed

• Having good knowledge of iOS SDK & interface builders
• Proficient in Objective C, iOS, X-Code etc.
• Continuously updating the expertise on latest releases of iOS products
• Should have developed at least 5 applications as per Apple standards
• Experience with Database in Mobile Apps like SQlite & Core Data.
• Experience in integrating Webservices like SOAP, REST and POST with Mobile App.
• Experience with Google Map & GPS Integration
• Hands on experience of Xcode, Objective C, JSON & Sqlite on iOS platfor
• Develop Native& Hybrid mobile applications
• Implementing Mobile Payments, Mobile Shopping & Security

• Leads a project end-to-end and collaborates across functions. Drives planning, estimation and execution.
• Understands requirements well and comes up with efficient design
• Develops complex, well backed and bug-free products. Estimates accurately.
• Takes well-reasoned tech decisions keeping in mind goals and trade-offs
• Becomes a go-to person in more than one area. Provide technical mentoring to team
• Communicates clearly, gets clarifications and establishes expectations for all parties
• Helps establish SDLC best practices and high standards of code quality
• Demonstrates excellent problem solving & debugging skills
• Proactively identifies and resolves issues in requirements, design and code
• Perform peer code reviews and help us all get better.