Senior Android Developer

Job Title: React Native Developer

Experience: 2+ Years

Location: Bangalore, India

Elocity is a cleantech start-up striving to make the world a better place through technology innovations. We

are building a global infrastructure for making the transition to electric vehicles viable, affordable, and

sustainable by working closely with the utilities, governments, and public.

Headquartered out of Canada, we are a team of highly specialized domain experts and problem solvers

enabling utilities, public and private sector entities to successfully manage the demands of electric vehicle

charging and its infrastructure needs to pave the way for electromobility in future.

To know more visit https://elocitytech.com/

Job Summary

We are looking for a React / React Native senior developer interested in building performant mobile apps on

both the iOS and Android platforms. Your primary focus will be on developing user interface components and

implementing them following well-known React Native frameworks. You will ensure that these components

and the overall application are robust and easy to maintain. You will coordinate with the rest of the team

working on different layers of the infrastructure. Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem solving,

sophisticated design, and a quality product are important.

Key Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

* Build pixel-perfect, buttery smooth UIs across both mobile platforms.

* Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the mobile applications * Good

understanding of Design and Architecture Patterns

* Maintain code and write automated tests to ensure the product is of the highest quality.

* Familiarity with native build tools, like XCode, Gradle (Android Studio, IntelliJ).

* Experience in native Android / iOS app development 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:

    - 2+ years' experience in React-Native based app development

    - 1-2 years' experience in Mobile app development (React-Native + Android/iOS). 

    - Hands on experience in Redux

Qualifications & Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related fields with 3+ years of experience

• 2+ years of native Android/iOS development

• Constantly learning and looking for ways to improve yourself and the processes around you.

• Deep knowledge of scalability, security, and maintainability of high-volume mobile applications

• Should have mobile testing experience with strong basics, understand about the mobile OS and

excellent debugging skills.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, leadership and decision-making skills

• Sharp analytical abilities, proven design skills, excellent communication skills.

• Mentoring and supporting other team members by doing code reviews and applying your experience

in process and technical leadership.

• Must be able to handle the independent execution.

We are looking for an Android developer responsible for the development and maintenance of applications aimed at a vast number of diverse Android devices. Your primary focus will be the development of Android applications and their integration with back-end services. You will be working along-side other engineers and developers working on different layers of the infrastructure. Therefore, commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and creating quality products is essential.

• Translate designs and wireframes into high quality code
• Design, build, and maintain high performance, reusable, and reliable Java code
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the application
• Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization

• Strong knowledge of Android SDK, different versions of Android, and how to deal with different screen sizes
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect Android applications to back-end services
• Strong knowledge of Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices
• Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning
• Ability to design applications around natural user interfaces, such as “touch”
• Familiarity with the use of additional sensors, such as gyroscopes and accelerometers
• Knowledge of the open-source Android ecosystem and the libraries available for common tasks
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications
• A knack for benchmarking and optimization
• Understanding of Google’s Android design principles and interface guidelines
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• Familiarity with continuous integration

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 feature.
• 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 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, Social APIs, Geo-locations, Media permissions, SMS fetch, etc.
• Experience in memory management and in designing high- performance apps

Lead/Principal Engineer – Android

We are looking for talented engineers who are passionate about using software engineering to make kids love to learn and redefine learning@home at BYJU’S. You will have an opportunity to work in a highly motivated fast-paced environment in a fastest-growing Ed-Tech company. You will be building platforms and services to be used across various products. You will have the opportunity to create a significant impact on our systems, our business and most importantly on the life of millions of our students as we take on challenges that will reshape the education industry. You will operate at the intersection of diverse disciplines - Backend, Frontend, Big Data, ML, Computer vision and Multiple programming languages. You will build solutions for Byju’s core learning Apps, co-branded platforms, new launches, product development & innovations and personalized learning experiences.

We are looking for smart people with excellent technical skills and a can-do attitude. Candidates should be eager to learn, flexible to pivot when needed, savvy enough to thrive in a dynamic environment and should possess a growth mindset.

• Leads more than one projects end-to-end and collaborates across functions. Drives planning, estimation and execution.
• Manages stakeholder expectations and offers scalable, reliable, performant and easy to maintain solutions.
• Consistently takes well thought technical/design decisions.
• Develops expertise in more than one area and shares knowledge with others. Able to mentor/train people in areas which are new to them.
• Drives people to solve engineering challenges.
• Enjoys high respect of Tech and other cross functional teams.
• Demonstrates effective communication with project team, management and internal/external clients as necessary.
• Surfaces both technical and non-technical team challenges and helps resolve them.
• Champion for SDLC best practices and high-quality standards.
• Significantly contributes in hiring high performance candidates.

• Expert in JAVA, Kotlin, Reactive programming, Asynchronous programming and Dependency Injection. Experience with unit-tests and automation frameworks.
• Familiarity with any architectures like MV*(MVP/MVVM/MVI).
• Strong focus on high-quality mobile UI experiences.
• Operates independently with almost no oversight.
• Is able to apply domain expertise to think critically and make wise decisions for the team, taking into account tradeoffs and constraints.
• Communicates tech decisions through design docs and tech talks.
• Has delivered multiple projects with end-to-end engineering ownership.
• Keeps track of new technology/tools and embraces them as necessary
• 7+ years of experience in a product-driven organization.

Technologies we're working with

• MVP, JAVA and Kotlin, Realm, Firebase Real-time Database, RxJava,Kotlin Coroutines, Dagger and Retrofit.

Note- WFH currently

• Owning significant architectural and product areas of the platform
• You’ll make the key decisions and see them through to successful user engagement
• Delivering features that make a big impact on our growth journey
• Writing high-quality, highly-performant code
• Pushing changes every week
• Participating in code reviews and architectural discussions - we want you to bring your expertise to the team and make us all better engineers

• An expert with Kotlin and the rest of the Android ecosystem
• Collaborative and want to see the team succeed in its goals
• Practical about tradeoffs between speed and polish
• Passionate about showing others how to do something new
• Excited to join a small team that moves quickly