Lead/Principal Engineer – Android
Description
We are looking for talented engineers who are passionate about using software engineering to make kids love to learn and redefine learning@home at BYJU’S. You will have an opportunity to work in a highly motivated fast-paced environment in a fastest-growing Ed-Tech company. You will be building platforms and services to be used across various products. You will have the opportunity to create a significant impact on our systems, our business and most importantly on the life of millions of our students as we take on challenges that will reshape the education industry. You will operate at the intersection of diverse disciplines - Backend, Frontend, Big Data, ML, Computer vision and Multiple programming languages. You will build solutions for Byju’s core learning Apps, co-branded platforms, new launches, product development & innovations and personalized learning experiences.
We are looking for smart people with excellent technical skills and a can-do attitude. Candidates should be eager to learn, flexible to pivot when needed, savvy enough to thrive in a dynamic environment and should possess a growth mindset.
Roles & Responsibilities
- Leads more than one projects end-to-end and collaborates across functions. Drives planning, estimation and execution.
- Manages stakeholder expectations and offers scalable, reliable, performant and easy to maintain solutions.
- Consistently takes well thought technical/design decisions.
- Develops expertise in more than one area and shares knowledge with others. Able to mentor/train people in areas which are new to them.
- Drives people to solve engineering challenges.
- Enjoys high respect of Tech and other cross functional teams.
- Demonstrates effective communication with project team, management and internal/external clients as necessary.
- Surfaces both technical and non-technical team challenges and helps resolve them.
- Champion for SDLC best practices and high-quality standards.
- Significantly contributes in hiring high performance candidates.
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Expert in JAVA, Kotlin, Reactive programming, Asynchronous programming and Dependency Injection. Experience with unit-tests and automation frameworks.
- Familiarity with any architectures like MV*(MVP/MVVM/MVI).
- Strong focus on high-quality mobile UI experiences.
- Operates independently with almost no oversight.
- Is able to apply domain expertise to think critically and make wise decisions for the team, taking into account tradeoffs and constraints.
- Communicates tech decisions through design docs and tech talks.
- Has delivered multiple projects with end-to-end engineering ownership.
- Keeps track of new technology/tools and embraces them as necessary
- 7+ years of experience in a product-driven organization.
Technologies we're working with
- MVP, JAVA and Kotlin, Realm, Firebase Real-time Database, RxJava,Kotlin Coroutines, Dagger and Retrofit.
Note- WFH currently

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KEY QUALIFICATIONS
● BE/BTech in Computer Science or related field.
● You have a minimum 3+ years of Android development and a strong understanding of
building complex layouts using Android SDK.
KEY SKILLS
● Strong computer system analysis and design skills in current methodologies and
patterns including object-oriented programming, MVC, MVP, MVVM etc.
● Proficient in working with multi-threaded apps, XML, JSON, web services, Android
development tools, and SDK.
● Experience in Kotlin, Dagger2 and RXJava and third-party libraries and APIs.
● Skilled in writing Unit Tests and/or Test Driven Development (TDD) preferred.
1. Writing clean and efficient native Android applications
2. Proven knowledge of Android SDK, different versions of Android, and how to deal with
different screen sizes
3. Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect Android applications to back-end services
4. Proven knowledge of Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices
5. Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning
6. Must have worked on integrating oAuth/JWT
7. Must have worked with Git
8. Understanding of SDLC process
9. Good to have knowledge of Jira
Key Responsibilities:
1. Writing clean and efficient native Android applications
2. Consuming web services/APIs for Android platform
3. Monitoring the performance of live apps and work on optimizing them at the code level
4. Identifying and resolving bottlenecks, rectifying bugs and enhancing application
performance
5. Integrating new features into the platform
6. Integrating payment gateways
7. Looking into any bug fixes post go live
8. Helping the junior developers
Work as part of a small team to build React Native iOS / Android applications for clients.
Architect, build and maintain excellent React Native applications with clean code.
Implement pixel perfect UI's that match designs.
Implement clean, modern, smooth animations and transitions that provide an excellent user
experience.
Integrate third-party API's.
Write unit and integration tests.
Release applications to IOS and Google Play stores.
Work with native modules when required.
Work as part of a small team, which will include other React Native developers, a project
manager, QA professional, and a designer.
Complete sprints and participate in sprint retrospectives and daily standups.
Assist with building estimates.
Interface with clients via Slack, Zoom, and email.
Track your time throughout the day using Toggle.
Work with modern tools including Jira, Slack, GitHub, Google Docs, etc.
Be part of a community of React Native developers who share knowledge and help each
other as problems arise.
Follow Full Stack's detailed development process
At Nspira we want to develop an ecosystem of apps to dominate the personal growth market in the education sector. Being one of our talented mobile developers, you'll have an opportunity to learn and grow and be a key part of creating our products.
Engineering Culture :
- We run functional teams based on the SCRUM methodology and are a fairly Agile environment, with 2-week sprints and teams with a minimum of 2 developers (preferably 3) plus a Platform Owner.
- Sprints cannot be interrupted and work is planned out well in advance to keep stress down to a minimum.
Other stuff we do/you will encounter:
- Line by line code reviews for every pull request on Gitlab maintains code quality, and keep everyone in the loop & learning.
- At least 2 people working together on every project (collaborating not pairing)
Required skills:
- Swift is strongly preferred
- Experience with clean architecture, MVVM, and other design patterns
- Master Storyboards and auto layouts
- Familiar with RESTful web service
- Experience with Static Frameworks
- Great logic and problem-solving skills
- Practical understanding of Continuous Integration and Delivery
Your application must include:
- A resume in pdf format. Include into your resume the links to software, mobile apps, your coding samples so we can see proof of your talents.
- Good experience with Objective-C/Swift and iOS SDK.
- Good working knowledge in Cocoa Touch.
- Experience with memory management and caching mechanisms specific to mobile devices.
- Experience working with iOS frameworks such as Core Data, Core Animation, Core Graphics and Core Text.
- Experience in Payment gateway integration in mobile apps is a big plus.
- A portfolio of iPhone apps in the app store is a plus.
- UI & UX experience
- Locations and Map API's
- Design and build iOS mobile applications.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to analyze, design, and ship new features.
- Fully responsible for mobile app development in the team.
- Implement new technologies to maximize application performance Job Requirements.
- Job Type: Full-time, Ready to join office.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
Work on bug fixing and improving application performance.
Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.
You must have prior experience as an Android Developer using Kotlin, Java, Android SDK, Android NDK
Strong knowledge in different versions of Android, and how to deal with different screen sizes
Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect Android applications to back-end services
Strong knowledge of Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices
Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning
Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
Understanding of Google’s Android design principles and interface guidelines
Experience: 1-2 yrs
Location: Technopolis IT Hub, Noida Sec-62
Salary: Negotiable as per last CTC
Job Description
- Experience of designing and developing mobile applications for Apple’s iOS platform.
- Proficient in Objective-C, Swift, and Cocoa Touch.
- Extensive experience with iOS Frameworks such as Core Data and Core Animation.
- Knowledge of iOS back-end services.
- Knowledge of Apple’s design principals and application interface guidelines.
- Proficient in code versioning tools including Mercurial, Git, and SVN.
- Knowledge of C-based libraries.
- Knowledge of third-party libraries.
- Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning
- Familiarity with push notifications, APIs and cloud messaging.
- Experience with continuous integration.
- Ensuring quality and performance of application to specifications.
- Identifying potential problems and resolving application bottlenecks.
- Fixing application bugs before final release.
- Publishing application on App Store.
- Maintaining the code and atomization of the application.
- Designing and implementing application updates.
- Knack for benchmarking and optimization.
Requirements
- Degree in Software Development, Computer Science, or similar.
- Excellent communication skills for domestic and international client-interaction.
- Top-notch teamwork and ability to manage workload with minimal supervision.
- At least five published iOS Applications
- Unwavering curiosity.
• Exposure to Android CTS/VTS test development and fixing of CTS/VTS issues.
• Interface with Various Domains within Android Product Line to achieve Stability metrics.
• Excellent in C, C++ programming
• Good understanding of Android architecture (AOSP, Binder IPC, HAL Layers & Native services)
• Board bring-up, Kernel Migration & Android Porting/Upgrade.
- Min 2-3 years of experience in Mobile App/Android development
- Min 1 year of experience in Kotlin
- Immediate joinee are preferred
- Experience with different programming paradigms, esp. functional and reactive programming
- Strong in writing unit test cases
- Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning
- Familiarity with RESTful APIs
- Familiarity with git and continuous integration
- Proficiency in various software design patterns
- Exposure to agile/scrum
- Excellent communication skill








