React Native Developer

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop user-friendly, robust, and scalable Flutter/Android/iOS applications.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and backend developers to understand requirements and translate them into functional applications.
• Implement clean and efficient code following best practices, coding standards, and design patterns specific to mobile development.
• Ensure high performance, responsiveness, and stability of the applications by conducting thorough testing and debugging.
• Integrate RESTful APIs to fetch and send data from/to the backend servers.
• Work with SQLite or other database technologies to implement data persistence in mobile applications.
• Implement effective UI/UX designs following Material Design guidelines to ensure a smooth and intuitive user experience.
• Collaborate with the team to identify and implement solutions to improve application performance, maintainability, and user engagement.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest trends, technologies, and best practices in mobile development and share knowledge with the team.
• Assist in troubleshooting and resolving issues reported by users or clients, providing timely and effective solutions.

•Strong in Android, Kotlin, and MVVM architectural pattern

•Great understanding of Coroutines, Memory management, and App performance

•Solid understandings of Connectivity - BLE, WiFi

•Unit and Instrumentation testing knowledge in Espresso, JUnit4 or JUnit5, and Mockito/MockK libraries

•Experience in Dependency Injection - Hilt, Dagger2

•Good knowledge in screen navigation using Navigation APIs

•Good to have knowledge in Jetpack Compose

We are seeking a talented Android Native Kotlin Developer to join our team. As an Android Developer, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining high-quality Android applications using Kotlin. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver user-friendly and efficient mobile solutions that meet business objectives.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Design and develop Android applications using Kotlin, adhering to best practices and coding standards.
2. Collaborate with product managers, UI/UX designers, and backend developers to define and implement features.
3. Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code with proper documentation.
4. Conduct thorough testing and debugging of applications to ensure high quality and performance.
5. Optimize application performance and troubleshoot any issues that arise.
6. Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends, tools, and technologies related to Android app development.
7. Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and provide constructive feedback to team members.
8. Work in an Agile development environment, actively participating in sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives.
9. Collaborate with QA engineers to ensure proper testing and delivery of bug-free applications.
10. Continuously improve development processes and contribute to the overall improvement of the Android development team.

Qualifications and Skills:

1. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
2. Proven experience in Android app development using Kotlin.
3. Strong knowledge of Android SDK, Android Studio, and related development tools.
4. Solid understanding of object-oriented programming (OOP) principles.
5. Experience with RESTful APIs, JSON, and web services integration.
6. Proficient in version control systems such as Git.
7. Familiarity with agile development methodologies.
8. Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
9. Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.
10. Ability to work effectively both independently and in a team environment.

Additional Preferred Skills:

1. Experience with Android Jetpack components (e.g., LiveData, ViewModel, Room, Navigation).
2. Knowledge of reactive programming using frameworks like RxJava or Kotlin Coroutines.
3. Familiarity with dependency injection frameworks like Dagger or Koin.
4. Understanding of Material Design guidelines and UI/UX principles.
5. Experience with automated testing frameworks like Espresso or JUnit.
6. Knowledge of software development best practices, including continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD).
7. Prior experience working on large-scale mobile applications.

• Developer at heart with strong focus to learn and implement latest enhancements in React Native
• Create captivating and interactive mobile experience for iOS and Android devices
• Implement designs that are asynchronous, responsive and provide a rich user experience across the mobile platforms
• Implement new frameworks and software that meets Simform’s standards in performance, reliability and maintainability
• Create rapid prototypes to vet new design, interaction, and integration concepts
• Write unit and UI tests to identify malfunctions.
• Recommend new technologies, technical design and user interactions that will help differentiation the Funko digital experience
• Productively contribute to development projects in an agile software development environment, participate in sprint planning, task breakdown and daily stand ups

• Complete hands-on on React Native and Javascript coding practices and conventions.
• Hands on experience on Android, iOS platforms in creating Hybrid / Native applications.
• Should have apps in the Google Play Store or Apple Store.
• Use of Management tools including Bitbucket (GIT), Jira and Bamboo.
• Hands-on experience on React Native APIs, ReactJS, Javascript, ECMAScript (OOJS) and JSX
• Thorough understanding of React Native development tools like IDEs (Nuclide, Atom, Sublime Text, or Visual Studio Code), Chrome debugging tools, ESLint, React Native CLI, Watchman, package manager etc
• Good familiarity with most of the React Native built-in and popular third-party frameworks, libraries, and accelerators. With in-depth expertise on most of the popular ones

Responsibilities:

• Design and build advanced hybrid mobile applications using React Native
• Lead the application development effort by being the SPOC
• Build hybrid apps using React Native for Android/iOS
• Publish apps to the corresponding App store/Play store
• Implement new technologies to maximize application performance and optimize load time
• Collaborate with the back-end developer to build the RESTful APIs
• Research on emerging technologies and trends
• Participate in the planning and design of future software and technical architectures

Qualifications

• 2 years of hands-on experience in the full life cycle of Hybrid mobile application development including publishing one or more apps to the play store & app store
• Must have developed a Hybrid Mobile application using React. Hands-on Working experience with React Native is a must.
• Experience developing backend services preferably with NodeJS.
• Experience in developing apps on native Android/iOS platforms is a plus
• Experience in designing and working with n-tier architectures (UI, Business Logic Layer, Data Access Layer) along with some experience with service-oriented architectures (SOA)
• Strong skills in RESTful web services
• Experience with Agile methodologies would be helpful