Senior Android Developer

Job Title: Mobile Developer (React Native/Flutter)

Location: Hybrid

Employment Type: Full-time

About Us:

We are a startup building a marketplace for maids. Our mission is to connect customers with service providers through a seamless, user-friendly mobile application. We are looking for a passionate Mobile Developer to join our team and help shape the future of our platform.

Role Overview:

As a Mobile Developer, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining our mobile application using React Native or Flutter. You will work closely with designers, backend engineers, and product managers to deliver high-quality, scalable, and user-friendly experiences.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain mobile applications using React Native or Flutter.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
• Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications.
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code following best practices.
• Troubleshoot and debug issues, optimizing application performance.
• Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and share knowledge.
• Stay updated on the latest mobile development trends and technologies.

Requirements:

• 2+ years of professional experience in mobile development with React Native or Flutter.
• Strong understanding of JavaScript (React Native) or Dart (Flutter) and mobile development frameworks.
• Experience integrating RESTful APIs and third-party libraries.
• Familiarity with mobile UI/UX standards and best practices.
• Knowledge of version control systems (e.g., Git).
• Experience with state management (Redux, MobX, Provider, etc.).
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

Nice-to-Have:

• Experience with native development (Android/iOS).
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines for mobile applications.
• Knowledge of Firebase services (e.g., Authentication, Firestore).
• Experience working in Agile environments.

What We Offer:

• Competitive salary and equity options.
• Flexible work environment (hybrid).
• Opportunity to shape the future of a high-growth startup.
• Collaborative and supportive team culture.
• Professional development and learning opportunities.

Roles and Responsibilities

Create & manage world-class apps that have the potential of reaching millions of users.

Roles and responsibilities include -
1. Addition of new features to existing app and making sure minimal crash rate and ANR
2. Adding new AI models built by the data science team into the android environment 
3. Creating reasonable timelines and making sure delivery is according to planned schedules 

NOTE -

+ Premier institute(s) preferred - but not a requirement for the job.

+ Salary is negotiable based on your skillset

Key Skills

• Must have experience building apps using fluter, good knowledge on dart. Preferably built and deployed couple of apps both on iOS and Android
• Good knowledge in integrating or developing app functions using firebase
• Must have ported at least 2 applications on iOS and Android platforms. Exposure to the entire build piepline is a must.
• Has good knowledge on how native android and iOS apps work. Must have experience building iOS native apps
• Has an understanding on Computer vision and basic deep learning concepts. Any prototypes of proof of concepts are a big plus.

What they need to do?

• Code - write or learn to write clean code, understand design patterns and develop a quick turnaround time to ship updates
• UI/UX - understand design guidlines and implement them in the project
• Communication - communicate project goals clearly to the team. Understand and convert project requirements in to actionable steps
• Documentation - maintain documentation to support product development

• HomeGround is an AI platform that helps aspiring cricketers and coaches level up thier training. We help our users get an equal opportunity to play, train for and achieve their goal by providing professional level training analytics right on the smartphone, no special equipment or sensors required.
• HomeGround is one of the Top 10 early stage sports tech startup selected by Startupbootcamp Australia

• Our team shares experience in product growth, marketing and deep learning. We are passionate about our work and are committed 100% to our startup.

tl;dr

🤓 An early employee of an experienced team. A lot of impact and opportunities to learn or deepen new technologies like GPT3, Amazon Rekognition, FFmpeg and more.

💰 Fixed Salary + Stock-Options

About

Blend is an AI-driven graphic design tool for entrepreneurs that removes decision making to create professional-grade product catalogs. Entrepreneurs can now create product marketing material in a few seconds to stand out and sell better online. Instead of manipulating pixels, users edit objects. Deep learning models ensure the translation of pixels into objects.

What you'll do

Blend app, an AI-driven design tool, will help its users create stunning designs within seconds.

To help us get to our vision faster, we are looking for an Engineer to join us on our app development front. This developer:

• 👩‍💻 Would work on our Flutter codebase writing cross platform code for both Android and iOS.
• 🎨 Work closely with product and design to create amazing user experiences.
• 🐜 Watch out and fix production issues, and target on running a smooth experience.
• 📈 With the help of the rest of the team, you maintain a great app with few bugs and trustable analytics: KPIs, logs, crash logs, boards.

Above all, you would be the owner of the app side of things. Drive it to success. That will be the goal.

We are tech/langugage agnostic when it comes to developers, so the only hard requirement is to be smart and passionate. That being said, having the skills below will be an advantage:

• Experience working with Flutter and/or Dart
• Experience with React/React Native (makes it easier to pick up flutter)
• Experience with Native app development (sooner or later you might get to a point where you need to write native modules as well)

How we work:

• Team: you are humble, open to challenge, and like to help others grow. The most important is the progress of the team and the product.
• Impact: you can prioritize your time to build what will give users superpowers or wow them.
• Learning: learning and sharing knowledge makes you happy. At Blend, this holds true as a team, with machine learning, and with our users.

Hiring process:

3-steps process:

• Screening call
• Technical Interview
• Cultural fit interview with the founders

• Experience / strong knowledge in both iOS & Android Mobile Application technologies
• Proficient in SwiftUI, Swift, Xcode, Java, Kotlin and Android Studio, Flutter, React Native
• Experience with version control: Maven, Gradle, Git, Cocopods
• Experience in application submission / provisioning process
• Experience in performance and memory tuning
• Good understanding of computer science concepts, design patterns, algorithms and data structures

Bonus Points:

• Experience / knowledge in any of the Back-End technologies

• Designs and codes features for the Android application as per the specifications provided by Product and Design teams.
• Write unit tests for all features.
• Ships feature fast moving agile sprints.
• Works closely with API, Product Design and Product Management teams to brainstorm and chalk out details of features.