Hybrid Developer - Xamarin

Introduction :

iOS is one of the world’s leading mobile platforms, which makes Aertrip’s iOS app supremely important. Millions of users worldwide shall access Aertrip via the iOS app. You will have the opportunity to build one of the most amazingly designed apps in the world. The app shall be a benchmark - not just in the field of travel but for app developers worldwide across categories. So far, we've built a reasonably-sized, high-powered team and are always striving to be the best place to work we can be.

Our Tech Deck :

Architecture

Linux

Docker

HAProxy

Nagios

Munin

Backend & Servers

PHP

MySql

MongoDB

Redis

Memcached

Frontend

JavaScript

jQuery

Sass/Less

GruntJs

Bower

NPM

Repositories

Git

Collaboration

Slack

Evernote

Google Drive

Your Part :

You would be responsible for the complete development and continuous improvement of our iOS app.

Preferred Qualification & Experience :

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience/knowledge

5+ years of software engineering

3+ years of IOS platform experience, with strong background in algorithms.

Proficient with Swift, Objective-C, and Cocoa Touch

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

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

Understanding of Apple’s design principles and interface guidelines

Knowledge of third party SDK integrations.

Hands-on technical experience with scalable Architecture.

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

Experience with performance and memory tuning

Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications

Knowledge of other web technologies and UI/UX standards

Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git

Preferred Skills & Abilities :

As a Developer:

Write clean, manageable code and maintain proper documentation

Capable of designing large applications with stabllity and performance

Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies and frameworks to maximise development efficiency

Excellent command over Data Structures and Algorithms

Familiarity with continuous integration

Strong problem solving and analytical skills

Knack for benchmarking and optimization

Passion for quality and innovation

An eye for detail

As a team player

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

Ability to manage and drive small teams

Ability to work independently in small teams

Estimate timelines and deliver as per schedule

Responsible and capable of meeting tight deadlines

Thrive in a variable and demanding startup environment

Collaborate with multiple disciplines like product, engineering, marketing, research and support, and enjoy working in a collaborative environment

Understand technical and business needs and fulfil them

A bit about us

WeatherBug is a popular weather site and mobile app providing hyperlocal, live weather data and proactive alerting to consumer users. With over 15 million unique users per month, across all platforms, WeatherBug’s vision is to provide environmental intelligence for all aspects of people’s lives. The WeatherBug app is a top-rated weather app in the app stores. In 2019, WeatherBug was named the best weather app by MediaPost’s Appy Awards. WeatherBug is owned and operated by GroundTruth, a media company that turns real-world behavior into marketing that delivers real business results.

Learn more at WeatherBug.com

At GroundTruth, we believe that innovative technology starts with the best talent and we have been ranked one of Ad Age’s Best Places to Work for three years in a row (2021, 2022 & 2023). Learn more about the perks of joining our team here.

A bit about you

A recognized expert in their professional discipline, with significant impact and influence on organizational policy and program development. Establishes critical strategic and operational goals, and develops and implements new products, processes, standards, or operational plans to achieve organizational objectives. Regularly leads projects of critical importance to the organization—projects that carry substantial consequences for success or failure. Requires strong influence and communication with executive leadership. Problems encountered are often complex and multidimensional, requiring broad-based consideration of variables that affect multiple areas of the organization.

You will:

• Develop production-ready code to meet scope of requirements.
• With guidance, update and create documentation as needed for new and existing solutions.
• Participate in code-reviews with comments to improve code quality, stability, and maintainability.
• Create and maintain unit and integration testing solutions. Be able to run your code in lower environments.
• Run tests on the mobile device to ensure code meets requirements
• Watch mobile releases for Android or iOS for features you developed
• Teardown your solutions across multiple environments and platforms.
•  Provide operational support of your deployed code
• Determine issues within your areas of expertise.
• Work with teams across the engineering organization to understand and incorporate client requirements into final solutions.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.

You have:

• Bachelor’s degree (4 years) in Computer Science or a related field, OR 5+ years of relevant software development experience.
• 3+ years of professional experience in software engineering.
• 2+ years of hands-on Android application development using Kotlin and Android Studio.
• Experience with modern Android libraries and frameworks, including Jetpack components (e.g., Navigation, Room, ViewModel, LiveData), Retrofit for networking, and image loading libraries (e.g., Glide, Coil).
• Proficiency with asynchronous programming using Kotlin Coroutines and Flow.
• Familiarity with dependency injection frameworks such as Dagger/Hilt or Koin.
• Experience with app architecture patterns such as MVVM or MVI, and clean architecture principles.
• 2+ years of experience working in Agile teams and participating in iterative development cycles.
• Strong understanding of object-oriented design principles, design patterns, best practices, performance optimization, and memory management.
• Experience with unit and UI testing frameworks (JUnit, Mockito, Espresso).
• Familiarity with Git and collaborative version control workflows.
• Exposure to CI/CD tools and automated build/deployment pipelines.
• Ability to independently take ownership of tasks and deliver robust solutions.
• Commitment to writing clean, maintainable, and well-documented code.

Would be great if you have:

• Experience with React Native, including building function components, using hooks, and working with JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Knowledge of Play Store processes, including app signing, publishing, and release management.
• Familiarity with ingesting and exposing large datasets in the weather industry.
• Experience in the advertising industry.
• Proficiency with tools like GitHub, Jenkins, Artifactory.

You are:

• A team player who is organized, flexible and willing to adapt
• Not afraid of new technologies and driven to learn
• A detail-oriented person, who catches problems early and adjusts
• A strong communicator who is able to collaborate with multiple business and engineering stakeholders and work through conflicting needs
• A problem solver who likes to dive deep into a problem, diagnose root causes and work with multiple teams to come up with a solution
• Organized with demonstrated ability to prioritize and deliver timely work
• A team player and not afraid to roll up your sleeves and help when needed
• Self-sufficient and not afraid to take the lead and manage tasks independently
• Coachable and open to feedback
• Respectful–-we treat each other with respect and assume the best of one another
• Not afraid to have fun!

What we offer

At GroundTruth, we want our employees to be comfortable with their benefits so they can focus on doing the work they love.

● Parental leave- Maternity and Paternity

● Flexible Time Offs (Earned Leaves, Sick Leaves, Birthday leave, Bereavement leave & Company Holidays)

● In Office Daily Catered Lunch

● Fully stocked snacks/beverages

● Health cover for any hospitalization. Covers both nuclear family and parents

● Covid home quarantine cover

● Tele-med for free doctor consultation, discounts on health checkups and medicines

● Wellness/Gym Reimbursement

●  Pet Expense Reimbursement

●  Childcare Expenses and reimbursements

●  Employee assistance program

●  Employee referral program

●  Education reimbursement program

●  Skill development program

●  Cell phone reimbursement (Mobile Subsidy program)

●  Internet reimbursement

●  Birthday treat reimbursement

●  Home office set up

●  Employee Provident Fund Scheme offering different tax saving options such as VPF and employee and employer contribution up to 12% Basic

●  Creche reimbursement

●   Co-working space reimbursement

●   NPS employer match

●   Meal card for tax benefit

●   Special benefits on salary account

●   New joiner relocation

Responsibilities:

• Writing clean and efficient codes for Android applications
• Monitoring the performance of live apps and work on optimizing them at the code level
• Identifying and resolving bottlenecks, rectifying bugs and enhancing application performance
• Performing unit and instrumentation tests on code
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to define and design new features
• Staying up to date with new mobile technology trends, applications, and protocols

Key Requirements:

• You have experience in publishing an application on the Google Play store
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to effectively integrate Android applications
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git
• Familiarity with various testing tools
• You are a problem solver with good analytical skills

Skills: Java, Android SDK & NDK, MVVM/MVC/MVP

• Design and build applications for the iOS platform
• Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
• Collaborate with a team to define, design, and ship new features
• Identifying potential problems and resolving application bottlenecks.
• Fixing application bugs before the final release.
• Publishing application on App Store.
• Maintaining the code and atomization of the application.
• Designing and implementing application updates.

• Proficient with Swift, Xcode, and Cocoa Touch.
• Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect iOS applications to back-end services
• Knowledge of other web technologies and UI/UX standards
• Understanding of Apple’s design principles and interface guidelines
• Knowledge of low-level C-based libraries is preferred
• Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications

Diagnal Technologies is a fully owned subsidiary of Diagnal Inc, Hong Kong.  It’s a product company focusing on media and entertainment clients, creating Video on Demand apps for their customers. We are a team of OTT video solution specialists helping our customers build the new digital media industry in Asia Pacific and beyond. We create viable revenue generating video streaming products, enable our customers to gain business and operational insights through big data analytics and empower them to engage with their users more effectively through targeted marketing campaigns. Started its Development Center in Technopark Phase III campus and focusing on Indian and International clients.

Position: Senior Android Developer
Must have skills-Kotlin, MVVM architecture, Dependency Injection(Dagger/KOIN)

Job Description

You have:

• 1-3 years of experience of Android development in a project services or product engineering organisation
• Experience with developing highly polished consumer facing user interfaces with smooth interactivity
• Published applications on the Google Play Store
• Self motivation and ability to manage your own time to get the job done at the high international quality levels we expect
• An engineering Degree in computer science or equivalent practical experience
• A solid understanding of operating system fundamentals, application performance optimisation and backend integration

iOS Developer Responsibilities:

• Designing and building mobile applications for Apple’s iOS platform.
• Collaborating with the design team to define app features.
• Ensuring quality and performance of the application to specifications.
• Identifying potential problems and resolving application bottlenecks.
• Fixing application bugs before the final release.
• Publishing application on App Store.
• Maintaining the code and atomization of the application.
• Designing and implementing application updates.

EXPERIENCE

iOS Developer Requirements:

• BE, B Tech, ME, M Tech, MCA in Computer Science with 3-9 years of experience

• Proven experience as an app developer.
• Proficient in Objective-C/ Swift/ Cocoa Touch.
• Knowledge of iOS back-end services.
• Knowledge of Apple’s design principles and application interface guidelines.
• Proficient in code versioning tools including Mercurial, Git
• Ability to work with crash analytics, CI/CD etc regarding iOS development
• Familiarity with push notifications, APIs, and cloud messaging.
• Experience with continuous integration.

• 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.
• 3+ years of experience in product driven organization.
• A Bachelors or master’s degree in engineering from a reputed institute (preferably IITs, NITs, or other top engineering institutes)