Fullstack Android Developer

Role: Android Developer (Software Development Engineer III - Android)

Location: Mumbai

Experience : 5-7 Years

The Role: SDE-3, Android Developer

As a senior member of our Android Engineering team, you’ll play a pivotal role in designing and building world-class mobile experiences that empower millions of Indians to trade, invest, and grow their wealth with confidence. This isn’t just about writing code — it’s about shaping the performance, security, and scale of one of India’s most loved fintech apps.

If you’re excited by solving complex technical challenges, mentoring engineers, and pushing the boundaries of mobile innovation, this role is for you.

What You’ll Own

Design & Architecture: Drive the design and architecture of scalable, secure, and high-performance Android applications.

End-to-End Development: Own features from concept to production, ensuring seamless UI/UX and optimal app performance.

Code Quality & Standards: Champion best practices in coding, testing, and deployment — raising the bar for the entire mobile team.

Collaboration: Partner with Product, Design, and Backend teams to deliver frictionless, intuitive customer experiences

Innovation: Explore and implement modern Android technologies (Jetpack, Kotlin Coroutines, Compose, etc.) to stay ahead of the curve.

Mentorship: Guide and mentor junior engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning.

Performance & Monitoring: Define metrics, monitor app health, and continuously optimize for speed, stability, and scale.

Who You Are

7+ years of hands-on Android development experience, with strong expertise in Kotlin, Android SDK, and Jetpack libraries.

AI-native, with the mindset to harness AI for accelerating development, debugging, performance optimization, automating workflows, and driving smarter engineering decisions

Proven Track record of shipping complex, large-scale Android apps with millions of users.

Strong grasp of mobile app architecture (MVVM/MVI), design patterns, dependency injection, and reactive programming.

Skilled at writing clean, maintainable, and testable code.

Exposure to performance tuning, memory management, multithreading, and offline storage strategies.

Collaborative mindset — able to work seamlessly with cross-functional teams while also mentoring peers.

Relentlessly resourceful, with a “figure it out” attitude and strong problem-solving skills.

Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field preferred.

Why This Role Rocks

You’ll build at scale — powering a fintech platform trusted by millions of active users.

You’ll work on cutting-edge mobile tech (Kotlin, Jetpack, Compose, modular architecture) with freedom to innovate.

You’ll have high ownership and visibility — directly shaping the user experience of one of India’s top fintech apps.

You’ll join a team of smart, driven engineers who thrive on solving big, meaningful problems.

Every Line of code you write will impact the way India invests.

• 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.

About the role:

We are looking for an experienced Software Development Engineer II (SDE2) to help deliver high visibility and impact features for the ChakraHQ Platform. ChakraHQ Platform is the world's first Omnichannel Process Automation Platform. Imagine AWS but for operations and business teams; built on cutting edge technology stacks, to solve problems for modern businesses.

Technology specialists at ChakraHQ are at the core of the company's decisions and vision. As an SDE2, you will contribute to the design and development of the core technology stack of the ChakraHQ Platform. Working closely with Engineering, Product Management, Sales and Customer Success you will take ownership to develop features, plugins and custom fixes that will materially impact customer’s and ChakraHQ’s business. You will also be responsible for maintaining a streamlined build and CI/CD system. You will help coordinate the incorporation of upstream features into the ChakraHQ Platform. 

Technologies you will work with: React-Native, Javascript, Android, iOS, PostgreSQL, Serverless, AWS, Google Cloud

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop and maintain features, services, products that are part of ChakraHQ
• Own delivery of said features and services
• Own success of the products by tracking its lifecycle with customers
• Build systems that scale horizontally
• Implement clean and modern mobile interfaces that provide an excellent user experience. 
• Write automated tests to ensure code quality
• Work with customers to build a product roadmap
• Work with sales & marketing to sell your product to end-users
• Work as an integral part of an agile software development team to build features end-to-end
• Support those features in the ChakraHQ production environment by participating in an on-call rotation

Position Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science.
• 3+ years of experience working on teams to develop and deploy web or mobile applications
• Expertise with Javascript
• Knowledge of frameworks such as React-Native is a big plus
• Ability to write code compatible across browsers and other clients
• Good understanding of backend systems i.e. web services, APIs from a consumer perspective
• Proficiency with git and Github workflows
• Expertise with test-driven development and automated testing
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication skills and fluent English
• Open to learn and work on new technologies

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Design and build advanced applications for the Android platform.

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

• Work with outside data sources and APIs

• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability

• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance

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

• Strong knowledge of Android SDK.

• Proficient in different versions of Android, and know how to deal with different screen sizes.

• Strong technical expertise on Android device platforms.

• Good exposure to custom UI development.

• Candidate should be responsible for Design applications around natural user interfaces.

• Familiarity with Restful APIs to connect Android applications to back-end services.

• Strong knowledge of Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices.

• Ability to understand business and technical requirements.

• Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications.

• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.

• 5-Days a week working

• Regular Refreshments

• Trips and Activities