Sr. Android Developer
It is a digital consultancy that partners with the world's leading brands to design and deliver compelling digital products and services for their customers. It is a digital engagement provider for more than 200 of the world’s leading brands. We are a collective of consultants, designers, developers, cloud advisors, and data scientists - spread across 3 continents and 9 offices - who create compelling digital experiences to help clients show they care to the people who matter most - their consumers, patients, and employees.
We are seeking a Senior Android Developer with demonstrated experience designing and implementing enterprise scale mobile solutions. The ideal candidate will bring both strategic vision and solid execution skills to create native applications for mobile devices.
Responsibilities:
- Design and develop native mobile applications for Android
- Integrate mobile apps with RESTful web services
- Work with UX Designers, Mobile Architects and other Developers to build enterprise mobile solutions
- Work as part of an agile team on leading edge technologies
Skills and Experience:
- 5+ years experience developing applications software
- Excellent working knowledge of an objective oriented language (Java, C++, Objective-C, C#, or similar) - including 2+ years Java
- Android, Android Jetpack, Kotlin, Java, coroutines, MVVM, MVP, Pro-Guard, test cases, unit cases, Agile, Git, App Security
- Demonstrated expertise with the Android SDK
- Experience using RESTful APIs to integrate mobile applications to server side systems.
- Good understanding of software development best practices
- Experience working in an agile environment
- Working knowledge of SCM with strong emphasis on Git and proper Git Flow
- Must reference at least one application you developed that is available today.
- Knowledge of Hybrid technologies like : ReactNative, Ionic will be plus point.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
- Good communicator and team player with strong organizational skills
- Ability to be proactive, find solutions and meet deadlines
- A good sense of humor and a passion for technology
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- Understand the EdTech context
- Innovate, evaluate, and deploy various android and IOs Features
- Ability to take ownership over your work.
- An understanding of React Native best practices and a commitment to following them.
We like those candidates who have these skills:
- Experience with React Js, React Native, JavaScript including DOM Manipulation and JavaScript object model.
- Thorough understanding of React Native and its core Principles.
- Good Knowledge of HTML5, CSS.
- Familiarity with code versioning tools (Such as Git, SVN or Mercurial)
- Familiarity with RESTful APIs
- Good knowledge of database (MySQL, SQLlite, RealM etc ..)
- Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools.
- Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Web pack, NPM etc.
- Experience with Native Mobile app deployment on App store and google play store.
Job Description:
- Min 4-5 years of experience in Mobile application development
- Min 2-year Experience in React Native app development
- Firm grasp of the JavaScript and TypeScript language and its nuances, including ES6+ syntax
- Follow best practices using Android Guidelines
- Knowledge of functional or object-oriented programming
- Technically strong in React-Redux/Mobx development and deep understanding of core mobile concepts such as lifecycle, UI, networking, caching, device features, etc
- Experiences with automated testing suites, like Jest or Mocha
- Experience integrating third-party frameworks. Worked with logging and capturing user navigation and app usage to Analytics and Crashlytics for understanding the most used features by users.
- Knowledge of mobile security and cryptography is an advantage.
- Good working knowledge of tools such as Git, JIRA, Jenkins, or any tools that are similar to these.
- Experience with agile methodology is preferred
- Good communication skills
- Good knowledge of app telemetry integration & app performance management
- Have published at least 2 React Native apps on Play Store & Appstore
Key Skills:
- Implement robust app architectures and complex user interfaces
- Component Design and coding new features. includes unit tests, debugs, and solves defects
- Component Design/Coding/Unit Testing/Debugging
- Responsible for designing app architecture and integration design to various external systems (APIs, 3rd Party SDK)
- Follow best practices using React Native Guidelines
- Understand reacting design patterns like HOC, Render Props, and their applications.
- Good understanding of atomic design principles
- Experience with CSS-in-js / styled-components
- Good understanding of Android & iOS working principles, Release process
- Ability to multi-task under pressure and work independently with minimal supervision
- Work on high-performance consumer-facing apps
- Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds.
- Good understanding of server-side templating languages (such as jade, EJS, and pug).
- Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes.
- Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests.
- Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, SCSS, and CSS3.
- Ability to make recommendations on UI design and UX best practices.
We are looking for someone to build and lead the team of Android developers for a B2C product. Someone with deep experience in building consumer apps is desirable. You should have lead a team of android developers. Person who can recruit, lead and manage teams will be given preference.
What does the core role include?
- Experience in leading a team
- Design and build advanced app features for the Android platform.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features
- Build and introduce new features to our Android App
- Work on MVP & MVVM architecture for building apps in Android Studio
- Experience in Dagger framework
- Translate designs and wireframes into high-quality code.
- Design, build and maintain high performance, reusable, and reliable Java code
- Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect Android applications to back-end services
- Unit test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability
- Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.
What else can you expect in the role?
- Handling coroutines with Kotlin
- Work with REST API(JSON) endpoints using Retrofit
- Knowledge of Material Design and how to implement it in code
- Working on interfaces, data binding, and application lifecycle
What are we looking for?
- Expert in Java, RxJava, ReactJS, Kotlin
- Good working knowledge of design patterns & OOAD
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Hands on experience in writing Android applications
- Built and managed apps with over 1 million users
- Working knowledge of the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies
● 4 + years’ software development experience, preferably for automotive and in
connection with user interface technologies
● Experience using modern development processes/tools and developing through the
complete Software Development Life Cycle
● Experiences in programing and scripting languages (JAVA, Python, Typescript)
● Experience with using source control tools like Git and CI/CD pipeline tools like Jenkins
● Experience working in / Knowledge of Agile/Scrum framework
● Experience in Android development
● Knowledge of the open-source Android ecosystem and the libraries available for
common tasks
● Strong object-oriented analysis, design, and coding skills
● Fluent in English both written and spoken
● Strong team player and customer focus
Preferred skills:
● Good knowledge of Android Automotive platform
● Experience with VS Code
● Ability to set-up and hardware equipment in support of software development tasks (i.e.
configure software on target device, connect cabling/power suppliers, etc.
- You will be having an impact on our 1.7M users every day.
- You will be rolling out experiments and working closely with our product managers and design team to validate and build new features.
- Monitoring apps and fixing bugs for improving performance.
- Refactoring/Rewriting obsolete code to align with the new architecture.
- Design, build and maintain high performance, reusable, and reliable Kotlin code.
- Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency Experience: 1- 5 yrs in android development
Expertise:
- Kotlin
- Live Data and other Android Jetpack components
- DI (Dagger/Hilt)
- Design patterns MVVM, MVI
- Multithreading (Coroutines)
- Offline Storage
- Remote data interaction via REST and JSON
Hands-on experience:
- Git
- CI/CD
- Third-party analytics like Amplitude, Clevertap, etc..
- Common third-party libraries and APIs like (Glide, retrofit...)
- Firebase products (FireStore/ RealTimeDB/ FCM..)
- Writing custom views
- Text-based UIs like notes, reader, etc..
- Publishing/Updating apps on Google Play and other stores (Huawei/Xiaomi...)
Good to have:
- Basic understanding of clean architecture.
- Simple data structure and algorithm understanding.
- Basic understanding of AWS services and products
- Strong design intuition and user empathy.
- Should be aware of future technologies in the Android ecosystem.
- You should be quick in understanding the hypothesis, and build the experiment and make it available to a user
- We prefer people who are highly experimental and willing to take risks.
- Experience in training or mentoring team members.
Do not apply if you are not:
- Ownership driven
- Curious in general
- Self-motivated
- Use to work in a chaotic environment
- Highly proactive
- Hate drinking and smoking will have a hard time here
TECHNICAL SKILLSET REQUIRED:
- Experience building and maintaining code for:
- Android platform (Eclipse/Android Studio, Java, Android SDK) OR
- Any other platform, with proven track record of picking up new skills
- Hands-on experience with modern technologies.
- Excellent Java programming skills
- Excellent analytical, debugging and troubleshooting skills (battery usage, network usage optimization, etc)
- Passion for usability, simplicity and consistency in software development.
- Excellent communication and collaborative skills.
- Exposure to Agile methodologies
- Bonus points for Knowledge of major mobile platforms (iOS, WP8, etc.)
POSITION:
- Be part of fastest growing eCommerce platforms in exciting application areas like core commerce, supply chain, logistics and fulfilment, merchant, mobile commerce, analytics, automation and a lot more for the global markets positioned for Asia.
- Develop awesome new features front to back (using Java and Android SDK)
- Responsibilities will include all aspects of software development from design, coding, testing, customer feedback and maintenance.
- Work with a team of amazing developers and designers to build simple, beautiful and consistent user experiences for our mobile apps
- Invent and prototype new features, then build, test and ship them in our products.
- Drive the implementation of new technologies which improve our ability to build great products.
QUALIFICATION
- A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
- Strong experience in Android UI development,
- Expertise in API implementation
- Experience in using GMAPS, FIREBASE, SQLlite
- Familiar with Android & its related technologies like Android SDK, Java.
- Experience with GIT, XML, JSON & Web Services.