Mobile app developer

Job Title: Tech Team Lead – Flutter

Department: Engineering

Location: Surat / Ahmedabad (On-site)

Employment Type: Full-time

About the Company

We are an AI-driven nutrition platform built to make healthier eating and living effortless. We translate ingredients and dishes into reliable nutrition profiles, then personalize recommendations based on goals, context, and preferences—across home cooking, daily routines, and restaurant ordering.

Our technology includes Flutter mobile apps, a Python/Django API, real-time data services, and machine learning models for tagging, ranking, and predictions. We’re building a delightful, safe, and scalable experience that helps users choose better meals and track progress—with strong standards for privacy, quality, and performance.

Role Summary

As the Tech Team Lead, you will lead a cross-functional engineering squad (Flutter, Backend, QA, and occasionally Data) to deliver secure, scalable product features on predictable timelines. This role combines hands-on architecture and coding with team leadership, agile execution, and quality ownership.

You’ll mentor engineers, improve engineering practices, and collaborate closely with Product and Design teams to ship impactful, user-centric experiences.

Key Responsibilities

• Own squad roadmap delivery — break down epics into milestones, estimate efforts, prioritize, and ensure timely releases.
• Provide technical leadership — define architecture, enforce coding standards, and guide trade-offs between performance, cost, and complexity.
• Contribute 30–50% hands-on coding — review critical PRs, pair program, and work on key modules.
• Ensure quality and reliability through robust testing (unit/integration/E2E), CI/CD gates, observability, and incident management.
• Mentor and manage 4–8 engineers — conduct 1:1s, set goals, and drive performance and career growth.
• Maintain security and compliance — apply secure development best practices (AuthN/AuthZ, PII handling, secret management).
• Collaborate with Product/Design on scope and acceptance criteria; communicate status, risks, and dependencies effectively.
• Keep technical documentation up to date — architecture decisions, system diagrams, runbooks, and release notes.

Required Qualifications

• 6–9+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 2–3 years in team/squad leadership.
• Strong backend expertise in Python, Django/DRF, REST API design, caching, queues, and WebSockets.
• Working knowledge of Flutter/Dart architecture and state management to lead cross-stack initiatives.
• Experience with CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Fastlane, Codemagic), containers (Docker), and AWS (EC2/ECS/ECR, S3, CloudFront, CloudWatch).
• Strong testing culture using PyTest, Flutter Test, and observability tools (logs, metrics, tracing, alerts).
• Excellent estimation, prioritization, and communication skills, with the ability to challenge scope when necessary.

Preferred (Nice to Have)

• Experience releasing and managing mobile apps (Play Console, App Store Connect, TestFlight).
• Exposure to Data/ML pipelines (batch vs. real-time inference, model versioning).
• Familiarity with security practices — OWASP, IAM, secret management, VPCs.
• Domain experience in health-tech or food-tech, or other privacy-sensitive industries.

Tech Stack You’ll Work With

• Mobile/Web: Flutter (Dart), React (optional)
• Backend: Python, Django/DRF, Celery, Redis, WebSockets
• Data/Storage: PostgreSQL/MySQL, MongoDB
• Infra/DevOps: AWS (EC2/ECS/ECR/S3/CloudFront/CloudWatch), Docker, Nginx, GitHub Actions, Fastlane, Codemagic
• Quality/Observability: PyTest, Flutter Test, Playwright/Cypress, Sentry, Crashlytics, OpenTelemetry (optional)

Vah Vah! is an ed-tech company that offers online makeup courses in micro-batches to students across India to learn from the leading teachers in top cities. We provide holistic education with lots of practical training that makes our students job-ready with not just the base skills but also the soft skills for great customer service. Our teachers have more than 15+ years of experience in training makeup and have certified more than 1000+ students. Vah Vah! is founded by executives with extensive experience running consumer business and mobile games at scale (over 100 million players) at Zynga. Vah Vah! is backed by a leading investment firm.

Website Link: https://vahvah.com/

The Mission

Vah Vah teaches professional makeup to budding makeup artists and influencers through live online classes. We have students from Srinagar, all the way to the Andamans. And experienced teachers who have worked in Bridal Makeup, Ramp Shoots, Film and more. We empower our students to join the workforce as fully trained makeup artists. This is the future of vocational education, and you can help build it.

Our Culture

• Amazing workplace and colleagues to work with
• We have the right mixture of creativity, analytics and hustle to move fast in the right direction.
• You will work with colleagues who don’t take themselves too seriously but move mountains.
• See yourself evolving every month with new problems to solve and new skill to master.
• Work with the smartest engineers so you can learn from them.
• Competitive salary at par with the best in the industry
• Great stock options so you can benefit from the company's growth.
• Immense exposure to new technologies

Responsibilities:

• Complete ownership of building and maintaining mobile APP.
• Deliver across the entire app life cycle design, build, deploy, test, release to app stores and support.
• Should be comfortable working on Android (Kotlin/Java) OR iOS(swift) platform.
• Should be comfortable in building a great consumer user interface.

Requirements:

• Overall experience of 2-4 years in native Android or iOS Platform
• Android Developer OR iOS developer with 2+ years of experience
• Experience in Android (Android Studio, Java, Kotlin) OR iOS development (Xcode, Swift)
• Basic understanding of Backend services, API implementation and database systems.
• We encourage all our devs to have base level of knowledge on DevOps, Source Control, CI/CD systems, Cloud Services such as AWS, Firebase, GCP
• Ability to implement designs and functionality provided by UI/UX teams
• Understanding of production deployment of the app in Play Store/App Store

• Android Studio, Java, Kotlin OR Xcode, Swift, Objective-C
• Familiarity with Analytics integrations
• Conversant with Github, CI/CD pipeline

What you get:

• Amazing workplace and colleagues to work with
• Work with the smartest engineers so you can learn from them.
• Competitive salary at par with the best in the industry
• Immense exposure to new technologies

• 5+ years of JavaScript experience
• Extensive experience with Angular and Ionic
• 5+ years of object-oriented software development of web applications
• Mobile app development and testing (Android and IOS)
• Deep knowledge of AngularJS practices and commonly used modules based on extensive work experience
• Preferable Experience in Cloud Technologies (AWS, AZURE)
• Experience with MS SQL stored procedures, database design and optimization
• Experience developing and utilizing web services
• Experience with high volume consumer-oriented web sites
• Experience working in an Agile Scrum environment
• Experience with formal test procedures, release management
• Preferable Travel industry experience preferred, especially programming associated with GDS’s - SABRE, Farelogix, and Travelport
• Ability to distill complex business needs into functional requirements
• Excellent follow-up, verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent problem-solving skills and an ability to make good decisions
• Team player with a professional attitude
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and maintain tight schedules
• Ability to work effectively with a geographically dispersed team in India

Strategic and Development Responsibilities

• Ability to "think outside the box"
• Ability to provide accurate and timely project estimates.

Software Tools/Languages

Required:        MS Visual Studio, MS SQL Server Management Studio, IIS, AWS, Angular, Ionic, Android, C#, Web Services, MS SQL (stored procedures), Jenkins, DevOps Tools.

Education

• Bachelor of Science in CS, MIS, or equivalent.

Will be developing mobile and web applications using latest technology. Should be good in analysing requirements and translate into applications. Good in understanding application flows.

Tech Skills –

Mobile technology – Hybrid (Ionic / Angular / Cordova ),  – Expert level – Should have completed at least one  project with server component, use of cloud services, use of device native capabilities like camera, accelerometer etc.

HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, Java script – Expert level - Good understanding of concepts and should be able to realize application screens based on the UI provided by designers.

(This is an internship to begin with, later you may be offered a full-time role.)

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain the partner(fleet) application.
• Sit with the core team to learn and address various complications through tech.
• Attend meetings to understand the intricacies of the business and implement quick features/automation to improve the application.

Requirements:

• If you can develop flutter applications, then go ahead and click Apply. Added Advantage - If you have experience in MERN stack.