Senior Android Developer at KNOW App · Chennai · 4 - 10 years · ₹5L - ₹18L / yr · Raised funding · Posted 22 Sep 2021
About the job
Responsibilities and qualifications
- 5+ years of Android development experience
- Will own several parts of our tech stack, but primarily our Android app
- Build new functionality to the Android app and regularly re-architect it to keep up with latest technologies (e.g., Kotlin)
- Work on new tech that we are already a leading user of (e.g., Google Firebase)
- Work closely with the backend team to construct creative solutions
- Optimize, improve efficiency, scalability, stability of application
- MUST BE reliable, and be able to communicate clearly
- MUST BE able to own and deliver their own work within deadlines, professionally
- Should be passionate about building a strong engineering culture
Bonus Points for experience building high-scale applications, SDKs and other web technologies (like JavaScript).
Who we are
- Fast growing Chennai-based startup (with venture funding)
- Led by strong engineers with significant experience at top tier firms like McKinsey, Oracle, Morgan Stanley, and authors of multiple Java Standards
- Building an awesome product already used by Swigg etc.
- Raised investment, so this role will not vanish in a few months
- Mentors include the Vice Chairman of HCL, Chairman of Singapore Airlines, Senior leaders from LinkedIn etc.
Other background information
- Looking for strong, passionate developers who want to join our team and grow
- We move fast, and will make you an offer in a few days for the right person
- The job location will be in Chennai (it is the SaaS capital of India)
- Please only apply if you are open to moving to Chennai (or are already here)
- This won't be a 10 - 6 job, but you will be given amazing responsibilities
- You will learn a ton, have a lot of flexibility, and have fun while doing it!
Job Perks
- Daily breakfast
- Friday team lunches
- Macbook
- Office near beach (for when people return after COVID)
- Potential for stock options (in lakhs)
- Stipend to attend conferences
- Potential travel to Singapore and other client locations

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Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end development and launch of features on the our App
- Participate in scoping, planning discussions with the designers, PMs, and Leads
- Conceptualize and develop prototypes quickly
- Develop and own launch plans to completion
- Identify opportunities and implement solutions to improve the performance and the architecture of our App
- We will depend on this person to set-up/improve the code quality, tracking, and App architecture and this person needs to have extensively worked on React + Android/iOS
Required Skills
- Min. 3 years of Full-time work experience (College projects, Internships are not a part of this) Hands-on experience with React Native
- Deep expertise of either iOS or Android platform and ecosystems
- Deep understanding of your tools: Languages, frameworks, systems.
- Experience with abstracting requirements into frameworks.
What does the core role include?
- Designing and developing high-volume, low-latency applications for mission-critical systems and delivering high-availability and performance
- Designing stateless components in React Native
- Contributing in all phases of the development lifecycle
- Working with the developers to create and maintain a robust framework to support the apps
- Working with the developers to build the interface with a focus on usability features
What else can you expect in the role?
- Prepare and produce releases of software components
- Optimizing performance for the apps
- Problem-solving skills, analytical mind, and positive attitude
- Ability to think from end users perspective and focused on improving the overall product experience.
- Deliver across the entire app life cycle concept, design, build, deploy, test, release to app stores and support
What can fetch you brownie points?
- Hands on experience with React Native is required
- Hands-on experience in React Native APIs, ReactJS, Javascript, ECMAScript (OOJS) and JSX.
- Strong understanding of JavaScript ecosystem
- Hands on experience on Android in creating Hybrid / Native applications
- Demonstrable UI/UX experience on a large-scale app.
- Thorough understanding of React Native development tools like IDEs (Nuclide, Atom, Sublime Text, or Visual
- Good knowledge of JS frameworks like ReactJS is a plus.
Desired Skills and Experience
Hybrid Apps,React Native, Native iOS and Android Architecture understanding

Should have min 2+ years of Hands-on experience in React Native development.
- Knowledge of REACT tools including React.js, Webpack, Enzyme, Redux, and Flux
- Experience with JavaScript, Typescript, CSS, HTML5 and front-end languages.
- Good understanding of Android/ iOS design guidelines, SDK.
- Exposure to building React Native components in native iOS and Android.
- Solve complex technical, scalability or performance challenges.
- Familiarity with code versioning tools such as Git, SVN, Gitlab.
We need candidates to join immediately to 15days
Salary: Upto 10 LPA
Industry: Fintech
Roles and Responsibilities:
- 2-3 years of Android development experience.
- Kotlin, Android SDK, Java
- Rest API, JSON, XML, Retrofit
- MVVM
- SQLite, Room, Offline storage, Encryption
- Google APIs, Maps, Navigation, Google Play Optimization
- Live Data, Dagger, Co-Routines, Multithreading
- Memory management and optimizations using Data Structures and Algorithms
- Espresso, JUnit, kotlin, work manager, Co-Routines,, data structure, multithreading.
- Develop mobile and web apps using Google's Flutter development framework and Dart with a modular approach and clean code with the best coding practices.
- Architect, build and maintain excellent Flutter applications with clean code.
- Implement pixel perfect UI's that match designs.
- Implement clean, modern, smooth animations and transitions that provide an excellent user experience.
- Integrate third-party API's.
- Release applications to the Apple and Google Play stores.
- Work as part of a small team, which will include other Mobile and Web developers, Node.js developers, a technical lead, project manager, QA professional, and a designer.
- Complete two-week sprints, and participate in sprint retrospectives and daily standups.
- Work with modern tools including Jira, Slack, GitHub, Google Docs, etc.
• Design and Build cross-platform mobile apps for Android and IOS using Flutter.
• Translate and Build the designs and Wireframes into high-quality responsive UI code.
• Experience in submitting mobile applications to Play Store and App Store.
• Experience with version control tools like Git/Bitbucket.
• Experience with any of the state management solutions like Bloc, Provider, Mobx, etc. knowledge About firebase.
• Mobile app architecture design and optimization.
• 1+ Years of active development in Flutter (Dart)
Responsibilities
• Develop new features using Flutter
• Create reusable widgets and components
• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance.
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.
Immediate joiners are more preferred.
Proficiency in the standard Android tech stack - JAVA/Kotlin
Good knowledge of design patterns, MVVM, Dependency Injection and more
Restful API, JSON Parsing, Retrofit Network Libraries
Strong knowledge of Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices
Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning
Excellent Android technical issue diagnosis and problem solving skills
GOOD TO HAVE
Hilt
Coroutine
Clean architecture
Excellent knowledge of UI animation and transition
candidate have most knowledge of payments gateway and UPI
- 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.






