Lead Android Developer

Position: Senior Android Developer

Experience: 5+ Years

Location: Gurugram

Employment Type: Full-Time

Work Mode: Onsite

About the Role

We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced Android Developer with 5+ years of strong hands-on experience in Android application development. This role will involve designing, developing, maintaining, and enhancing high-quality Android mobile applications. Strong expertise in Android development, application architecture, API integration, debugging, performance optimization, and production deployment.

Mandatory Skills & Experience

·       5+ years of professional experience in Android application development.

·       Strong hands-on Android development experience is mandatory.

·       Strong proficiency in Kotlin and/or Java.

·       Strong understanding of the Android SDK, Android Studio, Android application lifecycle, UI components, layouts, and navigation.

·       Experience developing and deploying production applications on the Google Play Store.

·       Strong experience with REST APIs, JSON, API integration, and third-party SDK integration.

·       Good understanding of mobile application architecture and design patterns.

·       Experience with Git and modern version-control practices.

·       Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and problem-solving capabilities.

·       Good working knowledge of React Native is required.

·       Ability to understand, debug, maintain, and contribute to an existing React Native codebase.

·       Good understanding of React Native components, navigation, API integration, and state management.

Key Responsibilities

·       Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable and high-performance Android applications.

·       Take complete ownership of Android application development from requirement analysis to production deployment.

·       Develop clean, maintainable, reusable, and efficient code following Android development best practices.

·       Integrate REST APIs, third-party APIs, SDKs, payment gateways, push notifications, analytics, and other mobile services.

·       Troubleshoot and resolve application crashes, performance issues, memory leaks, UI issues, and other production problems.

·       Perform code reviews and contribute to improving development standards and engineering practices.

·       Optimize applications for performance, scalability, security, responsiveness, and reliability.

·       Implement new features and enhancements based on business and product requirements.

·       Work with existing React Native applications and contribute to feature development and maintenance when required.

• Experience working on SaaS, enterprise, or large-scale mobile applications.
• Understanding of Agile/Scrum development methodologies.

·       Experience working on both Android and iOS applications.

• Experience integrating payment gateways and third-party SDKs.

Experience and Required Skill Sets: 

1      Solid experience in software design and development using Microsoft ASP.NET framework, C#, Visual Studio, and in writing clean, readable, and easily maintainable code

2      5+ years of experience in WCF, WPF, VB.NET, SQL Server, JQuery, Angular 10 and above.

3      5+ years of experience in developing highly scalable REST/Web APIs

4      5+ years of experience in developing highly efficient SQL/NoSQL Queries

5      5+ years of experience in Relational and Document databases

6      Strong understanding of object-oriented programming and possess strong fundamental design principles for building a scalable application.

7      Experience in using the MVC framework, working knowledge in APIs, and Service Oriented Architecture

8      Strong understanding of object-oriented programming and possess strong fundamental design principles for building a scalable application.

9      Experience in Angular version 10 and above is required 

10   Expert in SQL programming & Database Design (Stored procedure, Function, Trigger, Constraints, Replication) 

11   Strong ability in HTML and JavaScript (AJAX, DOM)

12   Development experience with data integration technologies including REST, SOAP, JSON, XML

13   Expertise in programming and usage of any unit testing framework. Expertise in integration testing and continuous integration.

14   Experience working in a DevOps environment will be an added advantage.

Responsibilities: 

•       Ability to create complex, enterprise-transforming applications that meet and exceed client expectations. 

•       Responsible for the bottom line. Strong project management abilities. Ability to encourage the team to stick to timelines.

•       Follow best-in-class coding practices and review the solutions vis-à-vis the requirements and technical specifications.

•       Should demonstrate strong client interfacing capabilities like emails and calls with clients in the US/UK