Senior Android Developer

Android Developer | Hyderabad | ZOBAZE

Location: Hyderabad (Mandatory)

Experience: 4–6 years

Type: Full-time, In-office

🚀 About Us

We’re on a mission to empower small businesses with enterprise-grade tools they’ve never had before.

Our POS app handles live sales, inventory, and billing for thousands of shops every day—keeping mom-and-pop stores running like clockwork.

Here, you won’t be another cog in the machine. You’ll work side-by-side with our founder, owning critical modules of a large-scale app and making production-impacting decisions from day one.

If you thrive on trust, responsibility, and rapid career growth, let’s chat.

🎯 What You’ll Do

• End-to-End Ownership: Design, build, and ship modules that power real-world businesses.
• Uptime Champion: Hunt down crashes and ANRs, ensuring thousands of shops stay online seamlessly.
• Modernize & Refactor: Convert legacy Java code to Kotlin, streamline architecture, and slay technical debt.
• Feature Delivery: Partner with product and leadership to scope, develop, and launch high-impact features.
• Root-Cause Excellence: Dive into live issues, write rock-solid RCAs, and deploy fixes that stick.
• Mentorship & Growth: Level up your Android chops—Jetpack Compose, KMP, multi-module apps—straight from the source.

✅ Must-Have Skills

• 4–5 years building production Android apps (≥10k installs or equivalent real-user experience)
• Kotlin powerhouse: Strong MVVM, Coroutines/Flow, Retrofit/OkHttp skills
• Debug pro: Hands-on with Crashlytics (or similar), can walk us through a past RCA
• API & Firebase know-how: REST, Firestore, Auth, Analytics
• AI-forward mindset: Eager to leverage Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor for smarter dev

🤩 Nice-to-Haves

• Jetpack Compose experience
• Multi-module architecture & CI/CD background
• Hardware integration (Bluetooth/USB printers, scanners, payment devices)
• Prior POS/retail or startup exposure

💼 Why You’ll Love It Here

• Market-leading salary for reliability & delivery
• Health insurance for you & your family
• Office Perks (Lunch, Zobaze Mix, Fitness etc)
• Learning budget for courses, conferences & self-development
• Clear career path: Module Lead → Team Lead as we scale
• Hands-on AI: Shape how AI assists our entire dev workflow

If you’re high-agency, impact-driven, and startup-ready—let’s build something meaningful together. Apply now and help small businesses thrive!

The Impact you will create in the Job:

• Developing SDKs on native Android with support for cross-platform technologies like ReactNative, Flutter along with hybrid development over platforms like Cordova. 
• Apply data structures and algorithms to optimize the code for a lower memory, battery, and processing footprint - all with the goal to build plug-and-play SDKs that don’t expect the app developers to write any supporting code in the app.
• As an individual contributor, you will tackle some of our broadest technical challenges that requires deep technical knowledge, hands-on software development and seamless collaboration with all functions.
• You will envision and develop features that are highly reliable and fault tolerant to deliver a superior customer experience.
• You will get an opportunity to work with some of the best talent while learning from various highly-functional teams in the company.
• Plan and execute the roadmap with the engineering team to build and deliver next-generation systems.
• You will also collaborate with cross-functional teams to meet deliverables throughout the software development lifecycle and continuously identify areas of improvement.
• Identify and improvise areas of improvement through data insights and research.

What we look for?

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science/IT from premier institute.
• 2-4 years of industry experience in Native Android development, with at least one live app on Google Play Store. 
• Good knowledge of Kotlin and/or Java with an understanding of Android Native SDK, specifically network classes, concurrency handling, databases, and background processes. 
• Strong knowledge of data structures and algorithms. 
• Solid understanding of Android Libraries related to UI, network, background services, and database.
• Familiarity with developing UI with both XML layouts and code. 
• Good understanding of SDK integrations, debugging, and troubleshooting. 
• Interest in exploring mobile app development ecosystems like React Native, Cordova and Flutter. 
• Comfortable with tackling ambiguous problems and unblocking yourself.
• Fair understanding of Push Notification ecosystem.

Responsibilities:

• Writing clean and efficient codes for Android applications
• Identifying and resolving bottlenecks, rectifying bugs, and enhancing application performance.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to define and design new features.
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.
• Ability to brainstorm and come up with solutions to open-ended problems.
• Ability to take ownership and drive initiatives end to end.
• Desire to learn and dive deep into new technologies on the job.
• Solid understanding of CS fundamentals-Operating Systems, Databases, and Data Structure.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Prior experience as an Android Developer using Java, Kotlin, Android SDK, Android NDK
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to effectively integrate Android applications
• Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle.
• Passion for products and aspiration to make a big impact.
• Solid engineering principles and a clear understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Expertise in implementation of custom UI components along with fabulous animations and write/understand Rest APIs
• Experience working with Google Maps, Geo-locations, Media permissions, etc.

• Design and build advanced applications for the Android platform
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features
• Experience in working with SDLC. Experience in end to end SDLC documentations.
• Experience in Banking/Financial Application.
• 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
• Hands-on experience in Web Services
• Excellent programming, unit testing and debugging skills in Mobile Java (Android and Kotlin)
• Good designing skills based on object-oriented design patterns & frameworks
• Basic/core Java/Kotlin/OOPS knowledge and an understanding of Java technologies is mandatory
• Very good exposure in frameworks like Android Architecture, SDK, SDK Development
• Strong Experience in Mobile Application Development Life Cycle
• Experience in Design Patterns MVVM, MVP etc.
• Programming new Android Applications from specifications
• Experience in implementing communication with API servers via web-services using JSON and XML
• Exploring upcoming new features of Android Platform

Who are we looking for?

1. Someone who is annoyed by the build time it takes for an application to build and has done something to optimize it

1. Has good experience in building Android applications
2. Experience with the flutter ecosystem is a great plus.
3. Who likes to think in terms of software and data architecture before opening an Android studio. Comfortable with managing

1. the development and deployment of applications.
2. Open and more importantly excited about learning the new technologies.

Roles and responsibilities

1. Participate and contribute to the design and development of the core

components of the service.

• B.E. / B.Tech. / MCA in Computer Science, Engineering, or related fields is required.
• 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.