Android Developer

Mobile Developer , TIFIN

Mumbai, India

WHO WE ARE:

TIFIN is a fintech platform backed by industry leaders including JP Morgan, Morningstar, Broadridge, Hamilton Lane, Franklin Templeton, Motive Partners and a who’s who of the financial service industry. We are creating engaging wealth experiences to better financial lives through AI and investment intelligence powered personalization. We are working to change the world of wealth in ways that personalization has changed the world of movies, music and more but with the added responsibility of delivering better wealth outcomes.

We use design and behavioral thinking to enable engaging experiences through software and application programming interfaces (APIs). We use investment science and intelligence to build algorithmic engines inside the software and APIs to enable better investor outcomes.

In a world where every individual is unique, we match them to financial advice and investments with a recognition of their distinct needs and goals across our investment marketplace and our advice and planning divisions.

OUR VALUES: Go with your GUT

●     Grow at the Edge. We are driven by personal growth. We get out of our comfort zone and keep egos aside to find our genius zones. With self-awareness and integrity we strive to be the best we can possibly be. No excuses.

●     Understanding through Listening and Speaking the Truth. We value transparency. We communicate with radical candor, authenticity and precision to create a shared understanding. We challenge, but once a decision is made, commit fully.

●     I Win for Teamwin. We believe in staying within our genius zones to succeed and we take full ownership of our work. We inspire each other with our energy and attitude. We fly in formation to win together.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING:

As part of TIFIN's technology division, you will be enhancing UI development and you will work closely with our Engineering team and bridge the gap between graphical design and technical implementation, taking an active role on both sides and defining how the application looks as well as how it works.

Expectations and Responsibilities

• See a project through from conception to finished product
• Strong organizational skills. You should not need someone to “manage” you
• Should be able to manage and collaborate with others
• Excellent verbal communication skills
• Good problem-solving skills
• Attention to detail
• Be able to push the boundaries of technology to deliver an unparalleled product
• Able to research and use cutting-edge tools to deliver seamless experiences for users

Technical Skills

• Design and develop apps for iOS and/or Android devices
• You should demonstrate experience in: Flutter
• Android or iOS native development
• Strong stage management practices such as Provider or Bloc
• Experience with the apps supported by AWS, Firebase and GCP stack would be a plus
• Code deployment through CI/CD and Knowledge about publishing the app to App Stores / Google Play
• Familiar using source control tools such as github and able to setup server environments for testing, staging, live, etc.

Job Location : Mumbai

Work Location : 5+ Years

BENEFITS PACKAGE:

TIFIN offers a competitive benefits package that includes:

·  Performance linked variable compensation, including equity

·  Medical insurance

·  Tax saving benefits

·  Flexible PTO policy and Company-paid holidays

·  Parental Leave: 6 months paid maternity, 2 weeks paid paternity leave

·  Access to our Wellness trainers, including 1:1 personal coaching

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A note on location. While we have team centers in Boulder, New York City, San Francisco, Charlotte, and Bangalore,this role is based out of Mumbai.  

TIFIN is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and values the multitude of talents and perspectives that a diverse workforce brings. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status.

We are seeking extremely smart Android developers who are passionate about pushing mobile technologies to the limits.

• Design and develop products by working closely with business teams.
• Design super intuitive experiences in the next generation of our mobile applications.
• Build performant, scalable, yet secure, enterprise-ready android applications with architecture that is fast yet lean on the backend servers enabling them to support millions of users in parallel.
• Build enterprise-ready back end architectures that can support millions of users in parallel.
• Gain experience with hands-on coding and independent ownership of software components.
• Follow strong engineering best practices and champion their adoption.

• 2+ years’ experience in android software development and delivery.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in engineering from a reputed institute(preferably IITs, NITs, or other top engineering institutes).
• Strong grasp of CS fundamentals, algorithms and excellent problem-solving abilities.
• All experience should be from good product development or e-commerce background.
• Must have shown good stability in all your previous associations.
• Knowledge of UI architectural patterns like MVVM(preferable), MVC, MVP, data binding, activity & fragment lifecycle, recycler view, navigation component, layouts (constraint layout preferable), theming etc.
• Should have actively used retrofit, work managers, android jetpack, Rx java, dagger, retrofit, android sdk, GIT/bitbucket, gradle/ant and very keen on exploring other proven tech stacks.
• Comfortable with test-driven development in android with UI testing, instrumented unit testing and unit testing using junits, mockito or other tools.
• Willingness to learn and write simple backend REST API’s (preferably in Java, spring boot & hibernate) without having to completely depend on backend engineers for delivery.
• Has worked in a fast-paced agile organization building stateless and re-entrant/resumable android applications.

Sr. Android Developer

It is a digital consultancy that partners with the world's leading brands to design and deliver compelling digital products and services for their customers. It is a digital engagement provider for more than 200 of the world’s leading brands. We are a collective of consultants, designers, developers, cloud advisors, and data scientists - spread across 3 continents and 9 offices - who create compelling digital experiences to help clients show they care to the people who matter most - their consumers, patients, and employees.

We are seeking a Senior Android Developer with demonstrated experience designing and implementing enterprise scale mobile solutions. The ideal candidate will bring both strategic vision and solid execution skills to create native applications for mobile devices.

Responsibilities: 

• Design and develop native mobile applications for Android
• Integrate mobile apps with RESTful web services
• Work with UX Designers, Mobile Architects and other Developers to build enterprise mobile solutions
• Work as part of an agile team on leading edge technologies

Skills and Experience:

• 5+ years experience developing applications software
• Excellent working knowledge of an objective oriented language (Java, C++, Objective-C, C#, or similar) - including 2+ years Java
• Android, Android Jetpack, Kotlin, Java, coroutines, MVVM, MVP, Pro-Guard, test cases, unit cases, Agile, Git, App Security
• Demonstrated expertise with the Android SDK
• Experience using RESTful APIs to integrate mobile applications to server side systems.
• Good understanding of software development best practices
• Experience working in an agile environment
• Working knowledge of SCM with strong emphasis on Git and proper Git Flow
• Must reference at least one application you developed that is available today.
• Knowledge of Hybrid technologies like : ReactNative, Ionic will be plus point.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor in  Computer Science or equivalent work experience
• Good communicator and team player with strong organizational skills
• Ability to be proactive, find solutions and meet deadlines
• A good sense of humor and a passion for technology

Responsibilities

1. Design and Build Mobile and Web Apps

2. Support technically for CRMs

3. Working with designers to understand the user's experience with new features

4. Designing and building features for our iOS app

5. Developing unit tests along with features and integration tests into the development process

6. Maintaining current capabilities of our app which include debugging and fixing issues while maintaining code quality

Qualifications

1. At least 1 year of proven experience in building Android & iOS applications.

2. Bachelor's degree in computer science

3. Proficient in working with Jira and Confluence is a plus

4. Comfortable working in a dynamic, constantly changing atmosphere and able to prioritize work and communicate challenges

5. Excellent verbal and written communication skills, able to interact with technical and non-technical team members with experience working with both local and remote teams

PREFERRED SKILLS:

Java and Swift or SwiftUI experience is preferred

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Translate designs and wireframes into high quality, high performant, reusable and maintainable code.
• Collaborate with cross functional teams (engineers, product managers, designers etc. ) to define, design and ship new features.
• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance, ensuring our applications run smoothly across a wide array of devices including low end mobile devices and across varied form factors.
• Develop empathy with end customers, measure product usage patterns, suggest and incorporate inputs in the product development lifecycle.
• Be agile and continue to learn, grow, and help us tackle brand new challenges as we build for Bharat.

Requirements:

• An ideal candidate will be someone who has a good mix of software engineering expertise (Android), product thinking and leadership qualities.
• 2-5 years of experience in product based startups.
• Proficiency with Kotlin.
• Experience working with remote data via REST and JSON.
• Experience with offline storage & caching, threading and performance tuning.
• Working knowledge of the Android landscape, architectures, trends and its roadmap.
• Experience with third party libraries and APIs (e. g. Dagger, Retrofit, Firebase etc. ).
• Solid understanding of the complete Android app development lifecycle & Android platform APIs.
• A knack for benchmarking and optimization.

Good to have:

• Have published at least one original Android application or have contributed to any open source project.
• Experience with any NoSQL database and designing schema.
• Prior experience of working with a FinTech startup.