Mobile app developer

We're looking for an experienced and mature engineer (2-6 yrs experience), who wants to build incredible products while shaping the architecture, tools, and engineering culture of our company

Responsibilities:

• Architect and build our native Android application using Java or Kotlin.
• Set up our backend using either the MEAN (Mongo, Node) or Django stack.
• Collaborate with the design team on feasibility and design reviews.
• Set up DevOps processes - CI/CD and release management.
• Hire an additional backend engineer to scale the application based on requirements.

Requirements:

• You possess strong computer science fundamentals.
• You have native Android application development skills - with Java/Kotlin as a framework.
• You have strong knowledge of Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices.
• You have built backends for mobile applications - using the MEAN or Django stack.
• You have some mobile app projects that are worthy of public view (Play Store, Github).
• You like discussing a plan upfront, welcome open collaboration and are an excellent verbal and written communicator.
• We’re a fast-paced environment so while we value robustness, we also hope for speed. You’ll hop from project to project and should be a self-starter.
• You are open to learning new stuff (important).
• You are humble, kind, and are open to feedback (important)

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

• Should have programming experience on the iOS native platform.
• Adept in Swift language.
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect iOS applications to back-end services.
• Strong coding, data structures and algorithms.
• Should have a working knowledge on various libraries available for iOS.
• Familiarity with XCode and other Developer tools.
• Deep understanding of software engineering practices, Object Oriented Analysis.
• Obsession with quality and customer experience.
• Understanding of design and architecture is an added advantage.

React Native Developer 

Mandatory: Hands on experience working with Swift 3 , Swift 4. Very strong logical skills. Good hold on operating system concepts and data structure. Experience with web services , core-data , camera kit , image caching concepts, keychain , past experience working with one of the design patterns like MVC / MVVM / Viper , network check.

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.

Mutual Mobile is a world-leading agency in mobile and emerging technology innovation, and we are looking for an accomplished and capable engineer to join our team!

We have built our success through timely bets on emerging technology and the rapid execution of targeted marketing campaigns and skills development. This approach has resulted in a list of premier clients that come to us to build innovative experiences using emerging technology (Nike, Google, GM, Nestle, UnderArmour). We’ve seen this happen with iOS, Android, Wearables, and IoT. We continue to evolve - it’s in our DNA - we stay at the forefront of innovation. Now, in 2019, we stand at the foot of a massive transition in emerging technology with the growth of Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Voice, Bots, and more. We are ready to embrace these changes and to help our clients make the most of the opportunities they bring.

At Mutual Mobile, Engineers are highly-capable, experienced producers of high-quality, extensible code. They know the ins-and-outs of their field, apply that knowledge to solve the most difficult problems, and pass along that knowledge to the next generation through mentorship. They:

• Improve the structure, quality, and extensibility of code bases
• Implement tools and best practices
• Create reusable libraries and frameworks
• Discover and evaluate new tools and technology partners

We expect Engineers to:

• Be highly-capable experts in at least one technology
• Build breadth across multiple tech stacks
• Write high-quality, extensible, testable code
• Participate in planning activities and provide accurate story estimates
• Conduct code reviews and act as a role model on the team
• Proactively breakdown work, identify risks, and explore solutions

Engineers have experience:

• Expert experience with hybrid mobile application and plugin development using Cordova, PhoneGap
• Solid understanding of vanilla JavaScript independent of any framework
• Proven expertise in JavaScript tooling—debugging and build tools
• Good to have some experience with OpenCV and creating Cordova plugins. Awesome, if worked on some camera vision-related apps in the past.
• Experience with upgrading Cordova projects on iOS and Android.
• Experience with task automation frameworks like grunt in mobile app development tooling together with Xcode and Android SDK
• Experience with salesforce mobile cloud iOS and Android SDKs is a plus
• Experience with Native iOS & Android development is a plus
• Should have expert level knowledge of HTML5, CSS3
• Should have strong debugging skills on Developer Tools of the browser and working with cross-browser UI.
• Unit and UI testing frameworks like Karma, Jasmine, Mocha, Protractor, etc.
• Should have experience in Response / Adaptive Web Design for desktop, tablet, and mobile
• Good understanding of CSS preprocessors LESS/SASS.
• Must know about the complete deployment cycle (Alpha - Beta - Prod) on the App Store and Play Store.
• Provisioning DevOps tooling and continuous integration
• Driving development best practices, including unit testing, coding standards, and code reviews
• Capable of implementing industry best-practices related to mobile application development concepts, design, and architecture

Preferred experience includes:

• Familiarity with other front-end development such as Angular,  React or Vue
• Good to have task automators like Gulp and Grunt
• System monitoring and security design and implementation

Why work for Mutual Mobile? We make great products. We craft beautiful mobile interfaces and solve complex software challenges. Clients such as HEB, Google, lynda.com, Citi, Nike, and Under Armour come to us for our deep experience in mobile and emerging technology — from establishing a mobile strategy that provides impactful business value, to build those solutions from the ground up. We bring together the brightest minds in interactive & visual design, engineering, and business management to deliver solutions that actually matter.

You’ll love working here, because this isn’t a company of silos. Team members are empowered and encouraged to pursue cool ideas, think for themselves, and make mistakes. If your passion extends beyond the role, we’ll invite your views and assistance with improving our culture, systems and processes. We know you’re smart, and that you love learning new technologies--so you’ll be able to work on a variety of projects with many different types of people.