We’re currently looking for rockstar developers to help us build a next-gen social audio community engagement platform. Avalon is hiring for both backend & frontend engineering roles. Our tech stack is majorly Ruby on Rails & React Native.
If you were looking for a rocket ship, this is it!
As a senior front-end developer, our primary requirement is that you are proficient in React Native.
Apart from that the job entails:
- Building new features (while squashing bugs) for our growing mobile app to extend device support especially across the Android ecosystem
- Architect elegant and maintainable code with support from the team
- Collaborate with design, data, and other teams to build beautiful interfaces that look great and run smoothly
- Guide and improve the technical direction of mobile, bolstering the technical foundational, improving performance, and re-architecting.

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Skills Required:
● 2+ Years of experience of Android native development with Java and Kotlin
● Experience in Android Studio IDE and tools like Android Device Monitor, Logcat
● Hands-on experience on MVVM architecture pattern
● Solid experience/understanding of OOPS concepts and Design patterns.
● Knowledge on cross platforms like Flutter, React Native is an added advantage
● Thorough knowledge of Android APIs and platform capabilities (location-based capabilities within apps)
● Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning
● Proven knowledge of Android UI design principals, patterns, and best practices
● Experience with publishing applications on Google Play Store and app signing process
● Expertise in payment gateway and social media integration
● Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
● Familiarity with CI/CD
Responsibilities:
● Provide technical leadership and functional help working closely with team members
● Design, implement and maintain application within all phases of the software development life cycle (SDLC) on Microsoft Azure (or AWS)
● Independently carry out the activities without much of guidance
● Create, understand, and validate design and estimates and be able to justify them
● Applies knowledge of principles and techniques to solve technical problems.
● Works closely with other functions to understand customer needs and to develop product roadmaps.
● Translate design and wireframes into high-quality mobile applications.
● Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills and detail oriented
● Comprehensive understanding of OOPS concepts, data structures, algorithms and product development techniques and theories
● Should be able to design schema for enterprise level applications
● Should be able to apply design patterns
● Should be open to face new challenges and learn new technologies
● Experience with debugging, performance profiling and optimization
Responsibilities
- Advise and discuss with the team on the architecture and requirements.
- Bring your experience for mobile User Experience.
- Set up actions to ensure high level of quality and satisfaction
- Build and maintain efficient and reliable code.
- Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies.
Skills
- Bachelor’s Degree in Informatics Engineering or similar
- Minimum of 4+ years work experience in similar roles
- Strong knowledge in Front-end frameworks (React Native)
- Strong knowledge in the mobile language (swift, objective-c, java, kotlin)
- Experience in unit testing and TDD.
- Advance knowledge in using testing frameworks ( Karma, Jest, Appium, Cypress ).
- Experience with Agile Methodologies (Scrum, Kanban)
- Experience in CI/CD
- Having a coaching profile, good communication skills is crucial to ensure good exchange and sharing of information within and outside of the train
- Being able to provide based on the audience synthetic or detailed information is mandatory
- Being curious to continuously learn and being a leader in your domain of expertise
- Immediate or very low availability
- Fluent in English - written and spoken (mandatory)
Responsibilities
- 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
Requirements
- BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject
- Proven software development experience and Android skills development
- Proven working experience in Android app development and
- Have published at least one original Android app
- Experience with Android SDK
- Experience working with remote data via REST and JSON
- Experience with third-party libraries and APIs
- Working knowledge of the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies
- Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle.
Location : Chennai
Experience : 1 - 3 Years
Job type : Permanent
What you must have:
- Experience in iOS Development and / or apps on Apple store and must have handled atleast 2 projects.
- Software Development experience in Java, MVC / MVVM pattern, Objective C, Swift development.
- Familiarity with SDK Integrations, APNS, Cocoapods, Carthage, Networking, JSON structuring and working with REST APIs.
- Experience in collaborating on software projects using Git based Version Control Systems (FYI, we use Bitbucket).
- Bonus Points if you have:
- Have a basic knowledge of how Android Development works (for collaborating with the Android team and developing programming patterns which works for both Android & iOS)
- Have experience working in an E-Commerce project
- Have worked with graphic & memory optimization in apps
- Have a Github account with some cool projects in it.
- Have scary but amazing debugging skills.
Expectations:
- Passion to be a part of the Startup who are building something bigger than themselves.
- Ability to take responsibility and ownership of their roles and work through the challenges in a startup team.
- Your typical week:
- iOS Development of our Core product
- Keeping up with product release cycle
Skills:
- iOS Development, Version Control, CocoaPods, Storyboard, iOS Mobile Automation, Mobile Application Testing - Android iOS
The position requires an experienced and ambitious candidate who is passionate about technology and is self-driven. We have an energetic workplace environment where we welcome innovative ideas and offers growth opportunities and positive environment for accomplishing goals. Our purpose is to create abundance for everyone we touch.
- Proficient in React/Native frameworks.
- Should have in-depth knowledge of redux and other state management.
- Have experience in developing Android & iOS apps using React Native framework
- Experience in Firebase development
- Familiar with code versioning control tools Git
- Knowledge of Jira and Atlassian tools
- Ability to start hitting the ground right away
- Should have excellent communication and a good team player roles and
- 3-5 years of experience in Native Android App development (Preferably for a B2C Product)
- Proficiency in various algorithms and data structures.
- Familiar with Kotlin/Java language, and experience with Object-Oriented Design.
- Strong experience with REST APIs, storage databases, Multi-threading, performance and memory tuning.
- Good knowledge of architectural patterns such as MVP and MVVM.
Android Development Engineer - Chennai
Who we are?
Kaleidofin is a financial platform for the informal sector, which provides solutions tailored to the customer’s goals and are intuitive to use. We are working towards creating fair and transparent financial solutions that can target millions of customers and enterprises in India that don’t have easy access to formal financial planning.
In a very short time span, global investors such as Omidyar Network, Blume Ventures and well known individual investors have supported Kaleidofin’s well thought out business model with $2.8 million in seed funding.
With its focus to harness mobile technology to deliver a paperless experience as well as its focus to harness technology and analytics to predict the right product for the right customer, Kaleidofin aims to become a leading FinTech player bringing financial solutions to everyone.
To know more about Kaleidofin, do visit our site https://kaleidofin.com/
What You’ll Do?
We are seeking extremely smart Android developers who are passionate about pushing mobile technologies to the limits. You will:
- Design and develop products by working closely with business teams
- Design super intuitive experiences in the next generation of our mobile applications
- Build performant, scalable, yet secure, enterprise ready android applications with architecture that is fast yet lean on the backend servers enabling them to support millions of users in parallel
- Build enterprise ready back end architectures that can support millions of users in parallel
- Gain experience with hands on coding and independent ownership of software components
- Follow strong engineering best practices and champion their adoption
Who You Need To Be?
- 2+ years’ experience in android software development and delivery
- Bachelors or Masters degree in engineering from a reputed institute(preferably IITs, NITs, or other top engineering institutes).
- Strong grasp of CS fundamentals, algorithms and excellent problem solving abilities.
- All experience should be from good product development or e-commerce background.
- Must have shown good stability in all your previous associations.
- Skill set
- Knowledge of UI architectural patterns like MVVM(preferable), MVC, MVP, data binding, activity & fragment lifecycle, recycler view, navigation component, layouts (constraint layout preferable), theming etc.
- Should have actively used retrofit, work managers, android jetpack, Rx java, dagger, retrofit, android sdk, GIT/bitbucket, gradle/ant and very keen on exploring other proven tech stack.
- Comfortable with test driven development in android with UI testing, instrumented unit testing and unit testing using junits, mockito or other tools.
- Willingness to learn and write simple backend REST API’s (preferably in Java, spring boot & hibernate) without having to completely depend on backend engineers for delivery
- Has worked in a fast paced agile organization building stateless and re-entrant/resumable android applications.
Seeing a project from conception to finished product.
Working alongside web developers.
Meeting both technical and end-user needs.
Expert knowledge of Native Mobile Development, Android SDK's, Rest APIs & API
integration
Knowledge on RDBMS & NoSQL
Strong understanding of SOLID principles and Object-Oriented Programming
Languages
Should have experience in Retrofit, Dagger, Animation,Canvas, Google Map APIs
In- depth knowledge on Android log analysis, performance issue analysis (Trace
View, Memory analyser tool).
Should have hands on experience on analysing the crash and ANR logs.
Should have prior experience in module design & defining interface between
modules.
Design, Develop & Prototype for Android phones and tablets (multiple screen sizes).
Write and maintain documentation for all features in development.
Work with product owner to meet specification needs
Collaborate with other developers to design and optimize code
Drive a best practices approach to the continuous improvement of our products,
processes, and tools.
Evaluating code to ensure it meets industry standards, is valid, is properly structured,
and is compatible with devices of all standard range (Mobile/Tablet).
VCS (Version control system): Git
Testing: Experience with unit testing and tools
Attention to detail
Creative vision
Good organizational skills
Good problem-solving skills
Patience, a big one
Identifying problems uncovered by customer feedback and testing, and correcting
Able to develop ideas and processes and clearly express them










