Mobile Developer

Some of the key responsibilities of this candidate are:

• Understand the EdTech context
• Innovate, evaluate, and deploy various android and IOs Features 
• Ability to take ownership over your work.
• An understanding of React Native best practices and a commitment to following them.

• Experience with React Js, React Native, JavaScript including DOM Manipulation and JavaScript object model.
• Thorough understanding of React Native and its core Principles.
• Good Knowledge of HTML5, CSS.
• Familiarity with code versioning tools (Such as Git, SVN or Mercurial)
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs
• Good knowledge of database (MySQL, SQLlite, RealM etc ..)
• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools.
• Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Web pack, NPM etc.
• Experience with Native Mobile app deployment on App store and google play store.

Responsibilities:

·       Develop and maintain mobile applications using Flutter framework

·       Work with UI/UX designers to implement engaging and intuitive user interfaces

·       Collaborate with back-end developers to integrate with RESTful APIs and other services

·       Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to improve code quality

·       Stay up-to-date with emerging trends and technologies in mobile app development

·       Participate in Agile development process, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives

·       Debug and troubleshoot issues reported by end-users

·       Contribute to the development of project plans, timelines, and budgets

·       Communicate effectively with team members and project stakeholders

Requirements:

·       Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

·       Strong experience with Flutter framework and Dart programming language

·       Experience with mobile app development for both iOS and Android platforms

·       Strong understanding of software design patterns and architectural principles

·       Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills

·       Experience with Agile development methodologies

tl;dr

🤓 An early employee of an experienced team. A lot of impact and opportunities to learn or deepen new technologies like GPT3, Amazon Rekognition, FFmpeg and more.

💰 Fixed Salary + Stock-Options

About

Blend is an AI-driven graphic design tool for entrepreneurs that removes decision making to create professional-grade product catalogs. Entrepreneurs can now create product marketing material in a few seconds to stand out and sell better online. Instead of manipulating pixels, users edit objects. Deep learning models ensure the translation of pixels into objects.

What you'll do

Blend app, an AI-driven design tool, will help its users create stunning designs within seconds.

To help us get to our vision faster, we are looking for an Engineer to join us on our app development front. This developer:

• 👩‍💻 Would work on our Flutter codebase writing cross platform code for both Android and iOS.
• 🎨 Work closely with product and design to create amazing user experiences.
• 🐜 Watch out and fix production issues, and target on running a smooth experience.
• 📈 With the help of the rest of the team, you maintain a great app with few bugs and trustable analytics: KPIs, logs, crash logs, boards.

Above all, you would be the owner of the app side of things. Drive it to success. That will be the goal.

We are tech/langugage agnostic when it comes to developers, so the only hard requirement is to be smart and passionate. That being said, having the skills below will be an advantage:

• Experience working with Flutter and/or Dart
• Experience with React/React Native (makes it easier to pick up flutter)
• Experience with Native app development (sooner or later you might get to a point where you need to write native modules as well)

How we work:

• Team: you are humble, open to challenge, and like to help others grow. The most important is the progress of the team and the product.
• Impact: you can prioritize your time to build what will give users superpowers or wow them.
• Learning: learning and sharing knowledge makes you happy. At Blend, this holds true as a team, with machine learning, and with our users.

Hiring process:

3-steps process:

• Screening call
• Technical Interview
• Cultural fit interview with the founders

• Bachelors/ Masters degree in computer science, Engineering or a related subject
• Minimum of 5 years of work experience in mobile application development
• Proficiency in Problem Solving, Data Structures, and Algorithms
• Strong knowledge of design concepts and constraints on mobile platforms
• Proficiency in Java/ Android/ Excellent in Kotlin & Flutter language
• Demonstrable experience building excellent mobile apps that are currently in Google PlayStore
• MVP/ MVVM architecture
• Firebase services
• Local databases (SQLite, firebase DB)/ORM (Green DAO, Room)
• Experience with a scalable architecture, while maintaining a hands-on role with code development
• Excellent teamwork skills, flexibility, and ability to handle multiple tasks
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving skills and Setting & following targets and timelines
• High proficiency in Android frameworks and core components
• Bug fixing

• 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.

• 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
• 12+ 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.

Simultaneously develop app and target for both Android and iOS using third party SDKs and APIs

Required – React Native, Firebase Integration, Third Party SDK integrations

• Developing, releasing, and maintaining native Android Applications and oversee mobile application development efforts.
• Deliver across the entire app life cycle, design, build, deploy, test, release to app stores and support.
• Extensive experience in developing mobile apps using Android SDK with proficiency in Core Java and design patterns.
• Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of the application.
• Work directly with the product manager to conceptualize, build, test and release products.
• Collaborate with a team 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.
• Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs in order to maintain code quality.
• Show leadership and focus on the completion of projects.
• Optimize performance for the app and keep up to date on the latest industry trends in mobile technologies.
• Working within a SCRUM team.

REQUIRED SKILLSETS

• Relevant industry experience of 2+ years.
• Great understanding of Android Development SDK.
• Understanding of Google's Material Design principles and interface guidelines.
• Expertise in Core Java with solid OOD principles and design patterns.
• Experience with Git, Retrofit, JetPack, RxJAVA 2, Kotlin, basic knowledge of NDK.
• Experience with development in Kotlin and Google Activity Tracker applications is a plus.
• Knowledge of Databases like SQL Lite, Realm, Room, etc.
  Conversant with JSON API (i.e. RESTful APIs).
• Should have experience in writing Android Studio Test Cases.
• Experience with SaaS platforms for mobile development like Analytics, Push Notifications, Cloud Storage, Ad Networks, etc.
• Hands-on experience with Android's debugging, unit testing, memory, and performance optimization tools.