IBM Work Light Developer

Rupayya (www.rupayya.com) is looking for a passionate and skilled iOS Developer with 2–4 years of experience in building high-quality mobile applications. The ideal candidate should have strong expertise in Swift, a good understanding of iOS frameworks, and the ability to deliver scalable and performant applications.

🛠️ Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop advanced applications for the iOS platform using Swift / Objective-C
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including UI/UX designers, backend developers, and product managers
• Integrate RESTful APIs and third-party libraries/services
• Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
• Identify and fix bugs, optimize performance, and improve code quality
• Participate in code reviews and follow best coding practices
• Maintain code versioning using tools like Git
• Stay updated with the latest trends and technologies in iOS development

💡 Required Skills & Qualifications

• 2–4 years of hands-on experience in iOS development
• Strong proficiency in Swift (preferred) and/or Objective-C
• Experience with iOS frameworks such as UIKit, Core Data, Core Animation
• Familiarity with MVVM / MVC architecture patterns
• Experience with RESTful APIs and JSON parsing
• Knowledge of Auto Layout, Storyboards, and SwiftUI (preferred)
• Understanding of app lifecycle, memory management, and multithreading
• Experience with version control systems like Git

⭐ Good to Have

• Experience with SwiftUI and modern iOS development practices
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines for mobile apps
• Familiarity with unit testing frameworks (XCTest)
• Experience with Firebase, push notifications, and analytics tools
• Exposure to App Store deployment and guidelines

🎯 Key Competencies

• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills
• Attention to detail and performance optimization
• Good communication and teamwork skills
• Ability to work in an agile environment

🎁 What We Offer

• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge mobile technologies
• Flexible work environment
• Learning and growth opportunities
• ESOPs

College: IIT, NIT, BITs other Tier 1 colleges  

   Priority skills:  Kotlin, MVP, MVVM, especially Viper, Unit & UI Test, Firebase, Google maps, design patterns, GIT

Responsibilities ( Experience 8-10 years)

    Design and development of apps for Android in Kotlin and JAVA
    Follow Google user interface guidelines and principles of material design
    Ensure performance and maintainability of the apps
    Code review and guidance to other team members to make sure code quality is as desired.
    Researching new frameworks and adapting the best of them in app development.

Skills Required

    Expert knowledge of Kotlin and JAVA
    Expert knowledge of Architectural patterns like MVC, MVVM and Clean Architecture.
    Expert understanding of Android run time model
    Experience with offline caching, threading and task management.
    Experience with object oriented design patterns.
    Experience with push notifications and Firebase or other similar PaaS systems.
    An Eye for design details, following pixel perfect designs.
    Experience with 3rd party libraries like okhttp, volley , Soket.io, Realm, Firebase, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, RX Kotlin/JAVA.
    Team management skills.

What you need to have:

• You will be having an impact on our 1.7M users every day.
• You will be rolling out experiments and working closely with our product managers and design team to validate and build new features.
• Monitoring apps and fixing bugs for improving performance.
• Refactoring/Rewriting obsolete code to align with the new architecture.
• Design, build and maintain high performance, reusable, and reliable Kotlin code.
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency Experience: 1- 5 yrs in android development

Expertise:

• Kotlin
• Live Data and other Android Jetpack components
• DI (Dagger/Hilt)
• Design patterns MVVM, MVI
• Multithreading (Coroutines)
• Offline Storage
• Remote data interaction via REST and JSON

Hands-on experience:

• Git
• CI/CD
• Third-party analytics like Amplitude, Clevertap, etc..
• Common third-party libraries and APIs like (Glide, retrofit...)
• Firebase products (FireStore/ RealTimeDB/ FCM..)
• Writing custom views
• Text-based UIs like notes, reader, etc..
• Publishing/Updating apps on Google Play and other stores (Huawei/Xiaomi...)

Good to have:

• Basic understanding of clean architecture.
• Simple data structure and algorithm understanding.
• Basic understanding of AWS services and products
• Strong design intuition and user empathy.
• Should be aware of future technologies in the Android ecosystem.
• You should be quick in understanding the hypothesis, and build the experiment and make it available to a user
• We prefer people who are highly experimental and willing to take risks.
• Experience in training or mentoring team members.

Do not apply if you are not:

• Ownership driven
• Curious in general
• Self-motivated
• Use to work in a chaotic environment
• Highly proactive
• Hate drinking and smoking will have a hard time here

• Maintaining existing Android applications and developing new features for the same.
• Ensuring the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the application.
• Developing cross-platform applications on hybrid frameworks like Ionic/Flutter.
• Testing and maintenance of applications across device models and platforms.

Requirements:

• Strong understanding of Android SDK, Android architecture, and different Android versions.
• Experience with building hybrid (or native iOS) applications.
• Working on applications featuring multiple services and multi-threading.
• Strong knowledge of Runtime Environments, Location services, Android support libraries.
• Well acquainted with Android Studio and various profilers.
• Strong REST fundamentals, Java, XML, JSON, Web Services, SQLite databases.
• Object-oriented Java programming and multi-threading concepts.
• Proficient in using data structures.
• Ability to write optimized algorithms.
• Strong debugging skills.
• Customizing Android OS for the company's embedded gateway devices.
• Hands-on experience with Android JNI and SE Linux is highly valued.

• Build beautiful, user-friendly, performant, and effective new features
• Take ownership of the company’s iOS platform
• Continuously improve stability and performance of the company’s iOS platform
• Be the user’s voice and help make product decisions
• Deliver beautiful delightful user experiences
• Exhibits knowledge and behavior to adopt Information Security and Privacy practices at their work.

• You think iOS, design for iOS, build for iOS! Technical
• At least 1.5 - 3 years experience on native iOS platform using the Cocoa framework
• Proficiency with Swift and familiarity with Objective-C
• Experience with RxSwift or Combine framework is preferred
• Strong knowledge of iOS Frameworks like Core data, CoreAnimation, etc
• Expertise with Auto-layouts for UI development
• Experience building a modular code base in MVVM Team Building & Leadership
• Want to interact with all levels of the company including senior leaders and cross-functional teams
• Love problem solving and thrive on handling multiple projects and tasks
• Foster strong professional relationships with the full organization