Mobile Application Developer

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

Requirements:

• 4-6 years of overall development experience.
• Very good understanding of core Javascript concepts.
• 3 years of React Native experience for iOS and/or Android.
• Extensive knowledge about mobile app development.
• This includes the whole process from the first line of code to publishing in the store(s).
• Some understanding of the build process involved with iOS and Android.
• Comfortable with basic design concepts and flex ui.
• Great attention to code quality & coding standards.
• Good grasp of architectural principles and patterns.
• Proficiency in Javascript/Typescript.
• Very good communication skills in English.

Job description:

Responsible for developing high quality software for automotive/multimedia products, and

building deep understanding in cutting-edge technologies

Follow software development life cycle, industry standard processes, and work closely with

customers and partners

Basic eligibility criteria:

1. experience in embedded systems platform/middleware development in

Linux/Android

2. Proficient in C/C++/Java and OOPS concepts

3.Hands-on experience in multi-threaded programming, IPC's and OS concepts

4. Hands-on experience in at least one of the following: Automotive domain, Android

programming, Multimedia frameworks

5. Candidate should be self-motivated and a go-getter who can quickly learn new things to solve

real-world programming challenges

Desirable skills:

1. Expertise in Android frameworks, JNI, AIDL and HIDL

2. Epertise in automotive infotainment technologies like Apple CarPlay, Android Auto,

Bluetooth, WiFi, Multimedia, etc

3. Expertise in multimedia or audio/video frameworks like Android Media, gstreamer, alsa,

openssl, openmax, etc

• Designing and developing an advanced application for the IOS

• Unit-testingcode for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability

• Bug fixing and improving application performance

• Design and build advanced applications for the iOS  platform

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

• Work with outside data sources and APIs

• Design, build, and maintain high-performance, reusable,and reliable objective-C/Swift

• Help maintain code quality, organization,and automation

• Work with product managers and other stakeholders to provide technical requirements

• Troubleshoot and fix software defects using an issue tracking system

• Perform code reviews with other developers

We are looking for a Senior Android Developer responsible for the development and maintenance of applications aimed at a range of Android devices including mobile phones and tablet computers.

Job Description -

Job Title: Expert Android Developer (Home Automation)

Experience: 5 to 8 Years experience

Job Location: Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India

Salary: Open (No bar for the right candidate) upto 12 Lac

Joining: Immediate (prefer less than 15 days Notice Period)

Skills: Android, Rx java , Java/J2EE, Core Java, etc.

Job Purpose:

The Android Engineer is responsible for building advanced applications for the Android Phones & Android Tablets. The candidate is required to work closely with Development, QA, Project Managers, Designers, and other team members daily to ensure the timely and cost-effective delivery of the final product that exceeds client expectations.

If you are interested, let’s connect via email (hr {at} jstechalliance.com) to discuss the details fully.

In the case that you are not available, we would appreciate any recommendations or reference of any qualified friends/colleagues.

Please feel free to contact me via email if you have any questions

Thanks & Regards

HR Manager

• Who thinks they are best on IOS Platform
• Who think they work independently with less supervision.
• Objective-C and Swift in-depth Knowledge
• Architecture Knowledge is Plus (VIPER Architecture)added Advantage
• Must have at least 3 good quality iOS apps in the portfolio to showcase
• Knowledge of Android Development will be a plus