Mobile Software Engineer - ReactNative

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

• Opportunity to work on highly challenging international projects.
• Opportunity to travel & work with International clients.
• Flexible and friendly work environment
• Great organisational culture, focus on employee's well-being.
• Work-life balance.
• Be part of the best place to work for certified company

Job Description:

1. Strong Object Oriented designing and programming skills in Java
2. Solid understanding of the Android App Components lifecycle
3. Experience in Google Cloud APIs and Firebase APIs
4. Experience in Flutter
5. Experience in SQLite database
6. Knowledge of important libraries like RxJava, Retrofit, Okhttp
7. Knowledge of MVVM architecture, GPS location tracking
8. Knowledge of source code management tools like Git
9. Have published at least one app on Google play store
10. Experience in working with remote data via REST and JSON
11. Maintain quality and ensure responsiveness of applications.
12. Collaborate with the rest of the engineering team to design and launch new features.
13. Experience with Android SDK and multiple versions of Android.
14. Experience with Android framework, as well as offline storage, threading, and performance tuning.
15. Experience with Android UI principles and best practices.

Good to have skills:

1. Having experience in Kotlin, Dagger, Jetpack, Room database
2. Having experience in Flutter, React-Native.

• Experience in integrating with various SDKs like Swift
• Significant experience working with react native along with tools like Flux, Flow, Redux, etc.
• In-depth knowledge of JavaScript, CSS, HTML, functional programming, and front-end languages
• Strong knowledge of React fundamentals such as Virtual DOM, component lifecycle, and component state
• A complete understanding of the full mobile app development lifecycle right from prototyping
• Knowledge of type checking, unit testing, typescript, prop types, and code debugging
• Experience working with REST APIs, document request models, offline storage, and third-party libraries
• Strong understanding of web technologies like JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
• Knowledge of user interface design and responsive designs
• Well-versed in a variety of React Native software and technologies such as Jest, Enzyme, ESLint, and so on
• Understanding of React Native best principles and design aesthetics
• A positive mindset and continuous-learning attitude
• A collaborative approach to building apps and solving complex problems
• Attention to detail and problem-solving skills
• Client-focused approach to create user-centric designs
• Good interpersonal and collaboration skills
• Ability to write clean, well-documented code that follows good coding practices
• Good in Agile development process.
• Excellent English verbal and communication skills.
• Should be able to handle the customer individually as needed
• Support the customer as and when required

• 5+ years of industry experience in developing mobile applications, web and/or large-scale enterprise products
• Mobile Development Experience: Swift, Objective-C, and Xcode
• Familiarity with Apple Human Interface Guidelines
• Experience with standard mobile architectures (MVC, MVVM, MVP, etc)
• Ability to effectively apply software design patterns and architectural principles
• Knowledgeable in building complex user interfaces
• Skillful at writing effective unit and behavioral tests
• Experience with software development processes (Agile, Scrum, Kanban, etc)