Mobile Manual Tester

• Strong knowledge of Android SDK, 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.
• Ability to design applications around natural user interfaces, such as “touch”.
• Familiarity with the use of additional sensors, such as gyroscopes and accelerometers.
• Knowledge of the open-source Android ecosystem and the libraries available for common tasks.
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements.
• Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications.
• A knack for benchmarking and optimization.
• Understanding of Google’s Android design principles and interface guidelines.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.
• Familiarity with continuous integration.

UWorld is seeking a Senior Android Developer who is passionate about building great Android apps and enjoys taking on new challenges. The Senior Android Developer will be responsible for collaborating with a team of mobile app developers and end-to-end development of native Android apps for our online test delivery platform.

• Design and develop features for our Android application(s) that target our key customer segments.
• Collaborate with the team lead in setting up application architecture to improve scalability, performance, and usability.
• Learn from user feedback and market research to provide cutting-edge features to users.
• Design and develop app-based analytics that may guide future UI improvements, business strategy, or subject matter changes.
• Collaborate with other software developers, product designers, and UX designers in building application prototypes and proofs-of-concept.
• Work with QA engineers to ensure the quality and reliability of all apps by process of continuous improvement.
• Continuously review other platform-specific features so all apps provide a consistent user experience.
• Conduct code reviews with the team to ensure the team is employing best programming practices and meeting standards for code documentation.
• Function as a subject matter expert for all things - coding, tools usage, processes, and procedures to help guide others to create and maintain a healthy codebase.

Environment: Java, Kotlin, Android SDK, Relational Databases (MS-SQL, MySQL, etc), NoSQL (MongoDB, CosmosDB, etc), HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, TypeScript, Bootstrap, Material Design principles.

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science (preferred but not a must)
• 5+ years of experience in mobile applications development
• 5+ years of experience in Android app development using Java or Kotlin.
• Experience in launching and supporting several commercially deployed applications.
• Experience with third-party tools integrations using APIs and REST services
• Experience in Mobile Application Development Frameworks, Design Guidelines, design patterns, and cross-platform tools
• Exposure to creating custom UI controls.
• Experience in developing multimedia-based applications or ed-tech applications (preferred not a must)

• Working proficiency and communication skills in verbal and written English
• Excellent interpersonal skills demonstrating the ability to articulate ideas clearly, concisely, and persuasively.
• Excellent attention to detail and organization skills and ability to understand direction and feedback.
• Ability to adapt, switch gears, and thrive in a fast-paced environment.
• Exceptional follow-through, personal drive, and the desire to make a difference.

• Building and Designing advanced Android applications for the Android platform.
• Cross-functional team collaboration to design, define and ship new features.
• To use and work with outside APIs and data sources.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience specifically on MVVM architecture creating B2C applications.
• Should have developed at least 1 app from scratch.
• Good knowledge in Java
• Excellent debugging skills
• Good understanding of Kotlin, jetpack components, Android Studio, Android NDK, etc
• Experience and understanding of large and complex code bases and architectures
• Experience in API design, SDK architecture, and mobile software lifecycle development practices
• Strong UX/UI design exposure and experience in making apps work intuitively and with pixel perfect interfaces

The Must-Haves

• Should have developed at least 1 app from scratch.
• Good knowledge in Java
• Excellent debugging skills
• Good understanding of Kotlin, jetpack components, Android Studio, Android NDK, etc
• Experience and understanding of large and complex code bases and architectures
• Experience in API design, SDK architecture, and mobile software lifecycle development practices
• Strong UX/UI design exposure and experience in making apps work intuitively and with pixel perfect interfaces
• Strong CS fundamentals  (with competencies in algorithms and data structures)

About WeSkill: WeSkill is an early-stage funded EdTech startup. Founded by alums from IIMA, IITB and IITD. We are on a mission to reimagine holistic education for kids in India.

As a Full Stack App Developer, you will:

• Be a core team member and ride alongside the founders in a high-growth journey

• Play the role of a tech-lead on various projects, and establish yourself as an SME in certain areas

• Design, build and maintain high performance, reusable, and reliable code

• Write Unit & UI tests, set up dashboards and alerting, uncover and fix bugs, crashes, and other issues, in order to ensure a robust app

• Analyze and optimize UI and infrastructure application code for quality, efficiency, and performance

• Mentor, coach and develop engineers and lead by example

• Collaborate with Product Designers to deliver compelling consumer-facing products on the Android Platform

We are looking for:

• Minimum experience of 3 years in developing android applications with proficiency in Kotlin/ Flutter
• Strong preference for candidates who've worked for a consumer-facing product company or social media or EdTech company
• Experience in defining system architectures and exploring technical feasibility tradeoffs.
• Have experience with common Android libraries like Retrofit, OkHttp, Picasso, RxJava, Gson, Arch-components, etc.
• Debugging skills, including identifying memory leaks, performance bottlenecks, and using tools like adb, proguard, etc
• Experience with multithreading programming and mobile memory management is a plus

Pay range: Competitive salary with generous ESOP pool

Position: Senior Android Developer

JOB DETAILS:

Job Role: Android Developer

Experience: 6-8 years

Location: India (remote)

JOB DESCRIPTION:

1.            Handson exp in Kotlin and Android studio

2.            Good understanding of Core Java

3.            Experience in JSON parsing

4.            Experience in REST API

5.            Experience in Junit test cases

6.            Well versed in Latest Android API version.

7.            Experience in publishing apps to the App Store.

8.            Social Networking site integration

9.            Code version tool – Git and JIRA

10.          Architecture understanding - MVVM, MVP

11.          Strong analytical and debugging skills/ Unit test coverage

12.          Ability to do design and high level architecture

Job brief

We are looking for an Android Developer who possesses a passion for pushing mobile technologies to the limits. This Android app developer will work with our team of talented engineers to design and build the next generation of our mobile applications. Android programming works closely with other app development and technical teams.

Responsibility

Design and build advanced applications for the Android platform

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

Work with outside data sources and APIs

Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability

Work on bug fixing and improving application performance

Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency

• Proven software development experience and Android skills development
•  Strong experience in Android app development 
• Experience with Android SDK and also android studio.
• Experience working with remote data via REST and JSON
• Strong command working on kotlin and nodejs.