Kickass Android Developer

About the Opportunity

We are seeking a passionate React Native Developer to join our growing mobile development team. This role is ideal for candidates eager to build high-quality cross-platform apps and grow their career in mobile development.

What You Will Do

• Build and deploy cross-platform mobile applications using React Native
• Collaborate with designers and backend developers to deliver features
• Debug, test, and optimize app performance
• Stay updated with mobile development best practices

The Skills You Bring

• Strong knowledge of JavaScript/TypeScript, ReactJS and React Native
• Familiarity with REST APIs and third-party integrations
• Understanding of mobile UI/UX principles
• Problem-solving mindset and willingness to learn

The Impact you will create in the Job:

• Developing SDKs on native Android with support for cross-platform technologies like ReactNative, Flutter along with hybrid development over platforms like Cordova. 
• Apply data structures and algorithms to optimize the code for a lower memory, battery, and processing footprint - all with the goal to build plug-and-play SDKs that don’t expect the app developers to write any supporting code in the app.
• As an individual contributor, you will tackle some of our broadest technical challenges that requires deep technical knowledge, hands-on software development and seamless collaboration with all functions.
• You will envision and develop features that are highly reliable and fault tolerant to deliver a superior customer experience.
• You will get an opportunity to work with some of the best talent while learning from various highly-functional teams in the company.
• Plan and execute the roadmap with the engineering team to build and deliver next-generation systems.
• You will also collaborate with cross-functional teams to meet deliverables throughout the software development lifecycle and continuously identify areas of improvement.
• Identify and improvise areas of improvement through data insights and research.

What we look for?

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science/IT from premier institute.
• 2-4 years of industry experience in Native Android development, with at least one live app on Google Play Store. 
• Good knowledge of Kotlin and/or Java with an understanding of Android Native SDK, specifically network classes, concurrency handling, databases, and background processes. 
• Strong knowledge of data structures and algorithms. 
• Solid understanding of Android Libraries related to UI, network, background services, and database.
• Familiarity with developing UI with both XML layouts and code. 
• Good understanding of SDK integrations, debugging, and troubleshooting. 
• Interest in exploring mobile app development ecosystems like React Native, Cordova and Flutter. 
• Comfortable with tackling ambiguous problems and unblocking yourself.
• Fair understanding of Push Notification ecosystem.

Technical skills:

1. Working experience in using the any of the design principles MVVM or MVP
2. Experience in using Web Services and SQLite data base
3. Experience in Multithreading  concepts – Rx JAVA
4. Experience in using version control systems like SVN, GIT Hub, Bitbucket etc
5. Experience in using Dependency injection principles in android
6. Experience in using design patterns
7. Experience integration with 3rd party API’s like Facebook, gmail, retrofit, Picasso & 3rd party libraries
8. Experience/Knowledge in using google Flutter

About 1K

1K is an early-stage start-up building India’s first network of small-format stores (kiranas) for smaller towns through an integrated offline-online immersive experiential model. We have started off with the aggregation of kiranas, developing a franchise network for the delivery of daily necessities. We plan to build on the entrepreneurial spirit and underutilized real estate pockets hiding in India’s smaller towns and fuel Bharat’s growth through them. We are funded by Info Edge Ventures, Falcon Edge, and Kae Capital.

At 1K, our objective is to build technology that serves the needs of our customers with utmost satisfaction. To help us in doing so, we are looking for an experienced product manager to own the full lifecycle of product development from conception through release. An ideal candidate should have a keen eye for gaps in consumer product offerings and the innovative mindset to fill them. You should have experience in guiding cross-functional teams in the successful creation of products that improve consumer experience and grow market share.

You'll be responsible for developing android applications for managing various working aspects of e-commerce, warehousing & supply chain systems while playing a critical role in the design, planning, development, and deployment and help develop best practices for future development.

Responsibilities:

• Developing, releasing, and maintaining native Android Applications and oversee mobile application development efforts
• Deliver across the entire app life cycle, design, build, code review, deploy, test, release to app stores and support
• Working directly with developers and product managers to conceptualize, build, test, and release products
• Carefully evaluate the technical trade-offs of every decision
• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance.
• Good to have experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining complex mobile applications
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency
• Optimizing performance for the apps and keep up to date on the latest industry trends in the mobile technologies
• Solid understanding of UI Design practices

Requirements:

• 3+ years of hands-on experience in writing and deploying production quality code.
• Familiarity with test-driven development (TDD)
• Familiarity with CI/CD
• Great understanding of Android development
• Solid understanding of MVI/MVP/MVVM architecture.
• Expertise in Kotin with solid OOD principles, design patterns, dependency injection (Hilt/Koin/Dagger)
• Good grasp of algorithms, memory management, and multithreaded programming
• Hands-On experience with Android’s debugging, unit/UI ­testing, memory, and performance optimization tools.
• Awesome to have exposure working in startups.
• Great people skills!

Job Brief

We are looking for a Sr. Android developer with 6+ years of experience who will be responsible for the development and maintenance of applications aimed at a vast number of diverse Android devices. Your primary focus will be the development of Android applications and their integration with back-end services. You will be working alongside other engineers and developers working on different layers of the infrastructure. Therefore, commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and creating quality products is essential.

Main Responsibilities of an Android Developer

Your responsibilities will include:

1. Writing clean and efficient codes for Android applications.

2. Monitoring the performance of live apps and work on optimizing them at the code level.

3. Identifying and resolving bottlenecks, rectifying bugs, and enhancing application performance.

4. Performing unit and instrumentation tests on code.

5. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to define and design new features.

6. Staying up to date with new mobile technology trends, applications, and protocols.

Key Requirements

1. Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent field.

2. You have prior experience as an Android Developer using Kotlin, Java, and Android SDK and Android NDK will be a plus but not compulsory.

3. The candidate should have experience in publishing applications on the Google Play store.

4. Proven work experience in design patterns mobile architecture using frameworks such as MVVM/MVC/MVP.

5. Familiarity with RESTful APIs to effectively integrate Android applications.

6. Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git.

7. Familiarity with various testing tools.

Your passion and interest in your work is the key to success for you, so if you are looking for your dream place where you can show up and enjoy your work then we could be the right match for each other, so let's connect to be the part of the amazing journey to do something innovative.