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Job Title: Senior Android Developer / Lead Engineer (Java | Kotlin | Android)

Experience Required

• 10+ years of overall software development experience
• Strong hands-on expertise in Java, Kotlin, and Android development

Role Overview

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Android Engineer with deep expertise in Android OS internals, system-level development, and strong hands-on coding ability. The role demands strong technical leadership, architectural thinking, and the ability to design and build scalable, high-performance Android applications with system-level integrations.

This is a hands-on technical role (not people management) with focus on architecture, design, and complex problem solving.

Key Responsibilities

1. Android Application Development

• Design, develop, and maintain advanced Android applications using Java and Kotlin
• Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code with strong adherence to OOP principles
• Participate in hands-on coding, debugging, and code reviews

2. Android Framework & System-Level Development

• Work with Android OS-level APIs including:
• Services
• Binder IPC
• AIDL
• System services
• Understand and implement system-level integrations

3. Low-Level & Hardware Interaction

• Exposure to Kernel / Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL)
• Work on device-level integrations such as:
• Sensors
• Bluetooth
• Other hardware peripherals

4. Performance & Stability Engineering

• Identify and resolve performance issues including:
• ANR (Application Not Responding)
• Memory leaks and optimization
• Ensure application stability and efficient resource usage

5. Concurrency & Multithreading

• Build robust multi-threaded applications
• Strong understanding of:
• Concurrency models
• Synchronization mechanisms
• Thread safety and race condition handling

6. System Design & Architecture

• Design scalable, modular, and maintainable Android applications
• Define architecture patterns and enforce best practices
• Contribute to system-level design decisions

7. Technical Leadership (Hands-on)

• Provide technical direction and mentorship to engineering team members
• Guide design and implementation decisions
• Conduct architecture and code reviews
• Remain actively involved in coding and technical problem solving

Preferred / Good to Have

• Exposure to IoT domain
• Exposure to HVAC systems or related embedded domains

Must-Have Skills Summary

• 10+ years Android development experience
• Strong Java, Kotlin, Android expertise
• Deep knowledge of Android internals and system APIs
• Strong OOP and coding skills (coding assessment required)
• Experience with performance tuning and memory management
• Strong understanding of multithreading and concurrency
• System design and architecture expertise
• Hands-on technical leadership

Roles and Responsibilities

• To  maintain the code quality, organization, and automatization
• Strong understanding of Android Activity life cycle, Services, Broadcast, Content Provider, SQLite DB, Thread handling etc.
• Work with the development team consisting of architects, UI designers,  product managers, testers to deliver high quality mobile product & services
• Develop, test and rollout optimised UIs for diff versions/device
• Translate designs and wireframes into high quality code
• Build for multi device &multi platform scenario i.e mobile website along with mobile app
• Design, build, and maintain high performance, reusable, and reliable Java code
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality and responsiveness of the application
• Adaptability is a key factor to becoming a great Android app developer
• Identify the bugs ,correct bottlenecks and fix bugs

Skills

• Strong knowledge of Android SDK, different versions of Android, and how to deal with different screen sizes
• An Android app developer must be well-versed with Java programming language.
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect Android applications to back-end services
• Strong knowledge of Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices
• Having knowledge about  offline storage, threading, and performance tuning
• Knowledge of the open-source Android ecosystem and the libraries available for common tasks
• A knack for benchmarking and optimization
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• Understanding of Google’s Android design  principles and interface guidelines.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• Familiarity with continuous integration

About our Client

Our client is a B2B2C tech firm backed by India’s largest retailer and tech venture capitalist founded by founders - IITB Graduates who are experienced in retail, ecommerce and fintech

It aims to become one app to manage all your brands loyalty points, cashback and coupons. It will have additional content and discovery layer for customers and brands for further engagement and commerce.

The company currently powers closed-loop loyalty programs for all different brands under its parent retail group. Currently, it has 20Mn+ registered customers and 3Mn MAU across 8 brands. Its vision is to be at the center of D2C Brands and the consumer consumption ecosystem

Responsibilities and Duties
- Develop React Native and Android Mobile Applications from design
- Can analyse requirements and communicate with clients
- Must have proficiency in communication
- Should have knowledge of Core Android, Java, Kotlin, React Native, MySQL, SQLite, MVVM, MVP and MVC.
- Work on bug fixes and improvement of Mobile applications.
- Preferred to have knowledge in React Native and Android both.

Required Experience, Skills and Qualifications
- 3 + years of experience in Android development.
- Minimum 1 Year experience in React Native development.
- BE/MS/MCA/PGDCA degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject.
- Have worked on ReactJS Projects

Regards
Team Merito

About the role:

We are looking for an experienced Software Development Engineer II (SDE2) to help deliver high visibility and impact features for the ChakraHQ Platform. ChakraHQ Platform is the world's first Omnichannel Process Automation Platform. Imagine AWS but for operations and business teams; built on cutting edge technology stacks, to solve problems for modern businesses.

Technology specialists at ChakraHQ are at the core of the company's decisions and vision. As an SDE2, you will contribute to the design and development of the core technology stack of the ChakraHQ Platform. Working closely with Engineering, Product Management, Sales and Customer Success you will take ownership to develop features, plugins and custom fixes that will materially impact customer’s and ChakraHQ’s business. You will also be responsible for maintaining a streamlined build and CI/CD system. You will help coordinate the incorporation of upstream features into the ChakraHQ Platform. 

Technologies you will work with: React-Native, Javascript, Android, iOS, PostgreSQL, Serverless, AWS, Google Cloud

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop and maintain features, services, products that are part of ChakraHQ
• Own delivery of said features and services
• Own success of the products by tracking its lifecycle with customers
• Build systems that scale horizontally
• Implement clean and modern mobile interfaces that provide an excellent user experience. 
• Write automated tests to ensure code quality
• Work with customers to build a product roadmap
• Work with sales & marketing to sell your product to end-users
• Work as an integral part of an agile software development team to build features end-to-end
• Support those features in the ChakraHQ production environment by participating in an on-call rotation

Position Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science.
• 3+ years of experience working on teams to develop and deploy web or mobile applications
• Expertise with Javascript
• Knowledge of frameworks such as React-Native is a big plus
• Ability to write code compatible across browsers and other clients
• Good understanding of backend systems i.e. web services, APIs from a consumer perspective
• Proficiency with git and Github workflows
• Expertise with test-driven development and automated testing
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication skills and fluent English
• Open to learn and work on new technologies

Why FabHotels? Budget hotels is the largest and fastest growing segment of the Indian travel market. Despite attracting billions of dollars in last few years, online penetration in hotel bookings is still sub-20%. Supply of budget hotels is fragmented and lacks any brand of scale. At FabHotels, we’re building a millennial traveler focused budget hotel brand that leverages people, technology and processes in an asset-light, scalable model to deliver delight to consumers and segment-leading returns to asset owners. In ~4 years since inception, we have become larger than many established traditional hotel chains. Currently we have a fast growing network of 550+ hotels and 11,000+ rooms across ~50 cities pan-India.

Who? Founded by Bain & Wharton alumni, Vaibhav Aggarwal & Adarsh Manpuria,

FabHotels has raised >$35Mn. till date from leading VC firms Goldman Sachs, Accel Partners, Qualcomm Ventures. We're always looking for young, hungry & self-driven individuals, who want more than a 10-7 desk job and to make a significant contribution in creating a first-in-class Indian hospitality brand.

About the role: One key differentiator of FabHotels brand for our asset partners is bestin-class returns. While our online & offline demand teams drive higher occupancies for our partners, this role entails ownership of developing and work on react native side of application development.

Key responsibilities:

• Knows how to embed React-Native in a native (iOS/Android) component and vice versa.
• Firm grasp on JS/CSS fundamentals
• Build pixel-perfect, battery smooth UIs ((layouts, animations, etc.))across both mobile platforms
• Good understanding of Design and Architecture Patterns
• Strong focus on app performance
• Familiarity with native build tools, like XCode, Grade, Android Studio
• Good at working with third party libraries and debugging dependency conflicts
• Experience in unit testing is preferable.

Individuals who would connect best with the job requirements are those who:

• Are excited to be part of a young, dynamic team that is building a disruptive, sustainable business
• Are willing to go the extra 100 miles it takes to win in a super competitive market
• Are innovative, resourceful and comfortable with dynamic business requirements
• Fulfil below minimum criteria:

- 4+ years experience in Mobile app development.   

- Must have published at least 1 major React-Native app

- Experience with CodePush (appcenter)

- Hands on experience in Redux