Mobile Developer

At BigThinkCode, our technology solves complex problems. We are looking for a talented mobile (Android with Kotlin skills) development specialist to join our technology team at Chennai.

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Company: BigThinkCode Technologies

URL: https://www.bigthinkcode.com/

Role: Senior / Lead Engineer (Android , Kotlin)

Experience required: 5–8 years

Work location: Chennai

Joining time: Immediate – 4 weeks

Work Mode: Work from office (Hybrid)

About the Role

An experienced Android Native Application specialize with 5-8 years of experience emphasizes technical leadership, architectural design, and proficiency in modern Kotlin-based Android development practices. The ideal candidate is a strong communicator, self-driven, and capable of leading a distributed development team. You’ll play a key role in building high-quality iOS applications that deliver great user experiences and align with business goals.

Job Summary

This pivotal role involves leading a team of engineers, defining technical direction, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality software products from concept through deployment. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in the Android ecosystem and a proven track record of technical leadership and mentorship.

Key Responsibilities

Key responsibilities include defining technical architecture and development standards, leading application development using Kotlin, and collaborating with other teams. The role also involves conducting code reviews and enforcing coding standards, mentoring team members, troubleshooting performance issues, managing app releases, and staying current with new technologies like Jetpack Compose.

Required skills:

·      Candidates should have 5-8 years of Android development experience with leadership experience.

·      Strong proficiency in Kotlin, and deep knowledge of the Android SDK and design principles.

·      Experience with Android Jetpack components, modern UI development, APIs and networking libraries, version control.

·      Strong problem-solving and communication skills are essential.

·      Preferred a portfolio of published apps, and experience with performance monitoring tools.

• Experience integrating RESTful APIs, third-party libraries.
• Proven ability to lead Android projects independently and coordinate with remote/global teams.
• Excellent communication skills — able to translate technical concepts into business-friendly language.
• Knowledge of the full mobile development lifecycle, from concept to App Store deployment.

Nice to have:

• Experience with CI/CD tools (e.g. GitHub Actions).
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies.
• Exposure to cross-platform frameworks or App Store optimization techniques.

Why Join Us

• Opportunity to lead impactful iOS projects with autonomy.
• Collaborative work environment.
• Exposure to modern tools and scalable application architectures.
• Medical cover for employee and eligible dependents.
• Tax beneficial salary structure.
• Comprehensive leave policy
• Competency development training programs.

1. Designing and developing advanced applications for android platforms.
2. Collaborate with UI/UX designers as well as the software engineers to make sure that each app is presentable.
3. Test the applications, identify any bugs and resolve them
4. Manage tasks within Agile framework and controlled JIRA workflow.
5. Document architecture and implementation for internal and external components.

1. 1+ years of experience in Android Development .
2. Previous experience working in a fast paced start up is a plus.
3. Released at least 1 app or have a project in works that you can tell us about.
4. Experience publishing a high-quality android application to the google store.
5. Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle.
6. Experience working with Android SDK and Android studio.
7. Good in JAVA (j2se) and Kotlin
8. Experience with APIs (OAuth, XML, JSON, REST, etc. )
9. Ability to understand business requirements and convert them into technical requirements.

• Designing and building advanced applications for the iOS platform
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to define, design and ship new features
• Unit-testing code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability
• Working on bug fixing and improving application performance
• Continuously discovering, evaluating and implementing new technologies to maximize development efficiency

What you need to have:

Mandatory: Hands on experience working with Java or Kotlin. Very strong logical skills. Good hold on operating system concepts and data structure. Experience with web services , SQL Lite , camera kit , image caching concepts, keychain , past experience working with one of the design patterns like MVC / MVVM / MVP , network check implementation.

Good to have:  Rx-Swift experience , video / image filter experience , media player usage , complex UX effects , couch-db , RealM.Knowledge of GIT management , Continuous Integration and Continuous Development practices.

Soft Skills: Strong communication skills , high spirited , eager to learn , able to perform in a high pressure environment

Intro:
Empala is an exciting new fintech launching in Singapore. Empala aims to help workers in the SEA region get access to their pay & helping them save for unexpected expenses. 

Job Description:

As fullstack developer at Empala you will be building and shaping our product. Our current offerings are centered around a React Native app (iOS & Android) with a serverless backend.

Empala is a flat and young organization, meaning every hand has a lasting impact on our product and our culture. You will report directly to the CTO and will in general be working closely with the founders. The job is of course mostly focused on building and maintaining our products, but in a small team you will have to wear a lot of hats, you could get involved in sales, marketing or anything in between, ideally you will see this as a positive thing and a chance to learn more about our users/customers/new areas of work. 

Benefits: 

At Empala we offer a competitive package that will be a mix of salary and employee stock options. We pay ourselves on demand meaning you can get paid for the work you have done when you wish it, be it daily, weekly, monthly or a combination of above. 

Requirements: 

The following requirements are a guideline, if you are missing some points but you are confident that you can master them in a reasonable amount of time there might still be a place for you at Empala. 

Preferred

• React Native 
• Backend tools and frameworks (express or any other, non JS is OK as well) 
• Cloud providers, AWS preferred 
• Git

Other requirements 

• Fluent in english 
• Proactive approach to problem solving 
• A hunger to get stuff done 

Nice to have: 

• Experience with Redux, GraphQL, Typescript, AWS Amplify
• Experience with SCRUM and/or TDD

JOB DESCRIPTION :          

• A full stack Engineer who is well versed in React-Native ad IOS/ANDROID development. 
• Can Understand and develop REACT NATIVE and knows how to bridge. 
• Can update React-native version along with the primeware/library update. 
• Has experience in using react-native, redux, redux thunk. 
• Has developed programs using React components and knows how to re-use it. 
• Has an overall understanding on ANDROID/IOS/UI/UX design.
• Can develop external primeware API like Google firebase. 
• Can develop media player controller and PDF viewer.
• Has operated or distributed multi-lingual services and country based services.
• Can manage and distribute playstore/appstore.  
• Can maintain and manage the version through GIT.    

EXTRA QUALIFICATIONS :

• Can develop codes for modules, tests and maintenance. 
• Has experience distributing through Code-push.