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We are looking for a Mobile Lead (IOS & Android) for one of the leading TMT bar manufacturers & suppliers in Kolkata.

Role - Mobile Lead (IOS & Android)

Experience - 5+ years

Location - Kolkata

Job Description :-

As a Mobile Lead, your primary responsibility is to oversee the development and maintenance of mobile applications for our organization. 

Some of the key job responsibilities include :-

1. Leading the Mobile Development Team: You will lead a team of developers, designers who are responsible for building and maintaining mobile applications. You will be responsible for Coding, delegating tasks, setting goals and timelines, and overseeing the team's performance to ensure that the development process runs smoothly.

2. Developing Mobile Applications: You will be responsible for developing mobile applications for iOS and Android platforms, using a range of programming languages such as Swift, Java, Kotlin, and React Native. You will need to ensure that the application is scalable, user-friendly, and meets the specific requirements of the organization.

3. Collaborating with Stakeholders: You will be responsible for collaborating with various stakeholders in the organization, including product managers, project managers, designers, and other development teams to understand the requirements and objectives of the application. You will need to ensure that the application aligns with the overall product roadmap and meets the business objectives.

4. Ensuring Quality: You will be responsible for ensuring the quality of the mobile application, including testing, debugging, and fixing any issues that arise during the development process. You will need to

ensure that the application is free of bugs, runs smoothly, and meets performance and usability standards.

5. Keeping Up with Emerging Trends: You will need to stay up to date with the latest developments in mobile technology, and emerging trends in user experience and design. You will need to ensure that the mobile application is using the latest technologies and is in line with industry best practices.

6. Managing Project Budget: You will be responsible for managing the budget for mobile development projects, including resource allocation, vendor management, and contract negotiations.

Overall, the Mobile Lead is a critical role that requires a strong understanding of mobile development processes and the ability to lead a team to deliver high-quality mobile applications.

What does the core role include?

• Designing and developing high-volume, low-latency applications for mission-critical systems and delivering high-availability and performance
• Designing stateless components in React Native
• Contributing in all phases of the development lifecycle
• Working with the developers to create and maintain a robust framework to support the apps
• Working with the developers to build the interface with a focus on usability features
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What else can you expect in the role?

• Prepare and produce releases of software components
• Optimizing performance for the apps
• Problem-solving skills, analytical mind, and positive attitude
• Ability to think from end users perspective and focused on improving the overall product experience.
• Deliver across the entire app life cycle concept, design, build, deploy, test, release to app stores and support
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What can fetch you brownie points?

• Hands on experience with React Native is required
• Hands-on experience in React Native APIs, ReactJS, Javascript, ECMAScript (OOJS) and JSX.
• Strong understanding of JavaScript ecosystem
• Hands on experience on Android in creating Hybrid / Native applications
• Demonstrable UI/UX experience on a large-scale app.
• Thorough understanding of React Native development tools like IDEs (Nuclide, Atom, Sublime Text, or Visual
• Good knowledge of JS frameworks like ReactJS is a plus.

Desired Skills and Experience

Hybrid Apps,React Native, Native iOS and Android Architecture understanding

• Have experience  in iOS/Android apps  with Flutter. Either deployed on the AppStore/Google Play or available on Github;
• 3+ years in mobile software development minimum.
• Two year’s developing Flutter applications for mobile
• Experience with third-party libraries and APIs;
• Understanding of the Agile development life-cycle;
• Experience with automated testing and building;
• Experience with Git, SVN, or other version control tools;
• Proven experience in writing readable code, creating extensive documentation for existing code, and refactoring previously written code

• Java/Swift experience;
• Understanding of Android Keyboard API;
• Experience with optimizing applications for Material Design.

Responsibilities:

• User-centric development of high-quality code that is maintainable and testable
• Utilize flutter to design and build complex applications
• Create custom packages in flutter by employing the functionalities as well as the APIs accessible in native Android and iOS
• Create and translate the designs as well as the wireframes into high-quality responsive UI code
• Design and develop architecture as well as testable, viable, and functional software by using MVC & MVVM to implement new features and meet product requirement
• Determine and solve any issues present in the system and propose your ideas in terms of new features and improvements needed in the new system
• Propose ideal Data Structure keeping in mind space and time complexity
• Stay up-to-date with the industry trends and best practices
• Keep the Scrum Team up-to-date by updating and managing the code and the project on Git
• Make sure security rules are being followed while building the application
• Ensure, through validation of the cloud system, that new changes are not affecting the security of the backend server
• Maintain software throughout product lifecycle including design, development, verification & bug fixes
• Coordinate with the respective teams for bug fixing and ensure we have a stable product
• Be part of the core team developing new app features while focusing on improving our existing code
• Self-starter with excellent analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):

• At least 2 years of experience in mobile app development
• Experience with Flutter Development (or any other alternative like Kotlin, React native, Xamarin, Cordova, ionic etc) is a must
• Experience shipping two or more Android and/or iOS based applications utilizing hybrid technologies (flutter, ionic framework, react native, Xamarin)
• While focus is on hybrid, a solid native coding background in either Android or iOS is a must
• Experience in developing cross-platform mobile applications for Android (Java/Kotlin) iOS (Swift/Objective C), or other cross platform frameworks like React native or Xamarin
• Experience with Futter. This should include from making responsive UIs to efficiently query data and also manage states in an optimized manner
• Experience working in an Agile Environment

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience)

• Passionate about creating and refining great mobile user experiences
• Knowledge of JavaScript, React.js is a plus
• Knowledge of web technologies, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript is a plus

• Knowledge of mobile application security best practices is a plus
• Programming experience in Microsoft Stack (Strong C#, ASP.NET Web forms, Web API, SQL Server) is a plus
• Expertise in deploying hybrid applications across iOS App Store and Google Play App Store is a plus

• Own the delivery of multiple features of the product end to end while hands-on in development as well
• Advocate best development practices such as continuous integration/continuous delivery, automation (testing and infrastructure) and code modularity, extensibility, quality
• Adopt security- first approach in the product development and ensure automated and manual security checks in place across the delivery pipeline
• Lead by example and mentor other developers in the team both technically and professionally
• Support other Senior Product Engineers and contribute to their growth professionally
• Work with  tech leads and the team to ensure shared technology vision and develop state of the art design and architecture for any product development
• Work with other functions such as testing, analysis, infra management, support to ensure faster delivery of products
• Ensure timely and accurate communication with broader team in order to share understanding of product functionality, features, and technology vision
• Look out for technology trends across the industry and apply relevant developments to the products
• Work with the decentralised application business owners to ensure their vision is realised through efficient technology and delivery timelines
• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, transparent, non-hierarchical, and ego-free culture where your talent is valued over a role title 
• Develop personally and professional outside of the confinement of a traditional career path by focusing on what you’re passionate about rather than a predetermined one-size-fits-all plan 

• Must have extensive hands on experiencing designing and building mobile applications on Android
• Must have excellent programming, debugging and scripting skills with a solid understanding of Object-Oriented Design principles
• Must have ability to learn/iterate quickly in a rapidly changing technical stack with nascent codebase and developer tools
• Must possess a passion for delivery-focused development, and overcoming challenges through teamwork and self-motivation
• Ability to work in a variety of client settings and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment 
• Ability to communicate technical vision and direction of the product and make significant impacts to technology and design choices

• Architectural design while leading and inspiring software development teams 
• Leading development of large, custom-built object-oriented applications 
• Continuous integration tools and test automation
• Managing systems in production and understands release process, monitoring, and debugging
• Working and developing in agile environment working with XP/Scrum development practices

• Expertise in end to end Android development and release management
• Proficiency in at least two of the following: Java,  NodeJS, Go, JavaScript, Python programming stacks, and passion for software engineering and craftsman-like coding prowess 
• Knowledge of software practices like refactoring, clean code, domain driven design, Encapsulation etc 
• Hands on experience managing databases like MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis
• Exposure to event driven systems and event streaming engines like Kafka
• Good knowledge of DevOps tooling like docker, kubernetes, ansible/chef, AWS.
• Solid OO skills, including strong design patterns knowledge and enterprise integration

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

Looking for a change in your career?

We are looking for someone to be part of our early-stage product development team and have to manage both maintenance and enhancement projects

● Our team mainly focused on providing the best user experience to customers.
● You should be a facilitator and also coordinate with cross-functional teams to get
things done
● You should follow the development techniques and a deep understanding of
systems engineering, build and release management principles including
continuous integration and continuous delivery


To be a Mobile App developer, should be passionate about user interface design
and have skills in Native Android
● Experience with integration of libraries like Room, RetroFit, Glide, etc.,
● Should have better designing skills
● Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize
development efficiency.
● Should have strong analytical and troubleshooting skills. Ability to think out of
the box and be innovative.
Furniture Magik - Android Developer JD
● Passion to explore and keep enhancing your skills.
● If you have already developed apps available on the play store is highly appreciated