Senior Android Developer

Job brief

We are looking for a qualified Mobile developer to join our Engineering team. You will be working with our engineers to develop and maintain high-quality mobile applications.

If you’re passionate about mobile platforms and translating code into user-friendly apps, we would like to meet you. As a Mobile developer, you’ll collaborate with internal teams to develop functional mobile applications, while working in a fast-paced environment.

Ultimately, you should be able to design and build the next generation of our mobile applications.

Responsibilities

• Support the entire application lifecycle (concept, design, test, release, and support)
• Produce fully functional mobile applications writing clean code
• Gather specific requirements and suggest solutions
• Write unit and UI tests to identify malfunctions
• Troubleshoot and debug to optimize performance
• Design interfaces to improve user experience
• Liaise with the Product development team to plan new features
• Ensure new and legacy applications meet quality standards
• Research and suggest new mobile products, applications, and protocols
• Stay up-to-date with new technology trends

Requirements and skills

• Proven work experience as a Mobile developer
• Demonstrable portfolio of released applications on the App store or the Android market
• In-depth knowledge of at least one programming language like Swift and Java
• Experience with third-party libraries and APIs
• Familiarity with OOP design principles
• Excellent analytical skills with a good problem-solving attitude
• Ability to perform in a team environment

Key Responsibilities:

• Conceptualizing and formulating apps that are suitable for use on all types of Android devices.
• Implementing measures to safeguard users' data.
• Ensuring that the construction and presentation of your apps are congruent with the company's standards.
• Proofreading your code and correcting mistakes before each app is released.
• Collaborating with UI and UX Designers, as well as Software Testers, to ensure that each app is presentable and in perfect working order.
• Liaising with the marketing department to ensure consistency in our company's 'voice' across the board.
• Monitoring app reviews to detect areas for improvement.
• Creating app updates, including bug fixes and additional features, for release.

Key Competencies (Functional):

• Proficiency in Java, Kotlin, or C++.
• Ability to use the Android Studio, including the Android SDK, with ease.
• Proficient in code versioning tools including Mercurial, Git, and SVN.
• Knowledge of C-based libraries.
• Familiarity with push notifications, APIs, and cloud messaging.
• Experience with continuous integration.

What You Bring to the team:

• 2-5 years of working experience in game development, preferable 2D games.
• Excellent knowledge of Unity, including experience with scripting, textures, animation, GUI styles, user session management.
• Good knowledge of game physics and particle systems
• Experience of shipping out games on Android/ iOS and rolling out updates to them
• Ability to plan and estimate timelines of new features/ releases.
• Expert in debugging
• Strong understanding of object-oriented programming, data structure and algorithms

Extra Gems for:

• Experience of working in Product industry
• Good understanding of client/ server interaction
• Experience of working on a mobile multiplayer games on scale, will be a huge plus
• Experience with Android development / Objective C
• Open source contributions, interesting hobby projects.
• Experience optimising for memory and space
  
  

Your responsibilities would include:

• As an Associate Unity game developer, you will be part of the Unity Dev team and will be responsible for the front-end (client) side development.
• You would design, build and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code
• Implement new game features and services 
• Continuously improve the game quality by fixing crashes, ANRs, performance related issues to deliver exceptional experience to our users.
• Integrate third party SDKs like Analytics, Monetisation, Crash reporting etc.
• Create, debug, maintain and optimise the game, and related in-house written libraries used for the game’s development.
• Reporting to team lead regularly in clear and structured way regarding your progress. Proactive communication is a must when deadlines are getting missed.

Why Us?

• High Growth Startup environment 
• Company sponsored courses and education material
• Lots of learning opportunities 
• Work with a super-talented team of professionals
• Informal work-culture, Casual Dress Code, multiple outings and trips
• Performance Based Bonus
• Competitive Salary
• Medical Insurance for you and your family 
• Subsidies Lunch and Unlimited Snacks, Tea & Coffee in the house at all times

Required:

1. A minimum of 1 years of consulting and/or relevant industry experience
2. Understanding of Android Framework and Android app development.
3. Experience in developing android apps using Kotlin and latest frameworks
4. Knowledge and understanding of Design-Patterns and Data Structures.
5. Ability to develop Android applications using latest Frameworks like Retrofit, RxJava
6. Ability to write Unit test cases using the frameworks.
7. Knowledge about how to consume the REST API's
8. Understanding of Git/BitBucket or any version control system
9. Good written and verbal communication skills.
10. B.E/B.Tech/MCA/MSC/MS

Preferred:

1. Understanding and usage of latest android frameworks like JetPack, Android Architectural components
2. Experience in mentoring the new team members and also the junior folks.
3. Exposure to various mobile architectures (ex: MVC, MVP, MVVM, etc..)
4. Experience in handling the Android app deployment process.
5. Experience in working in Agile methodology

• Opportunity to work on highly challenging international projects.
• Opportunity to travel & work with International clients.
• Flexible and friendly work environment
• Great organisational culture, focus on employee's well-being.
• Work-life balance.
• Be part of the best place to work for certified company

• 2+ years of work experience in consumer-facing high traffic (millions of concurrent users) mobile applications with a desire to work in growing fast-paced startups.
• Worked on applications from scratch. Well-versed with building apps for various screen densities and sizes.
• Up to date on upcoming trends in android and its ecosystem with respect to design, architecture, etc.
• Experience in optimizing all important parameters like network utilization, application size, and battery.
• Experience with kotlin, coroutines, dagger, retrofit, Rx-android, and android architecture components, etc.
• Should have used mock frameworks, modular code design, and popular design patterns.

• Good grasp of algorithms, design patterns, memory management, and multithreaded programming.
• Experience with SAAS platforms for mobile development like Analytics, Push Notifications, Cloud Storage, Ad Networks, etc.
• Hands-on experience with Android's debugging, unit-testing, memory, and performance optimization tools.
• Experienced in databases like SQLite, ROOM DB.
• Experience in using Device hardware integrations like GPS, Camera, etc.
• Experience with performance and memory tuning with tools.
• Knowledge of engineering practices like CI-CD.
• Strong communication and team collaboration skills.
• Experience in iterative development methodologies like Agile.

At Cityflo, we are solving the problem of commuting to the office which affects employees in big, populated Indian cities every day. Cityflo provides a bus experience like no other - we run premium AC buses for daily commuters.  We’re changing the way urban Indians commute and enabling everyone to reclaim hours of their time every day. Before the imposed lockdown due to coronavirus, we were serving about 7500 commuters per day. We plan to scale to 5,00,000 rides per day in the next 4 years in a profitable and sustainable manner.

We're looking for people who are passionate about creating great Android applications.
You've been around for a few API levels and you know how to delight Android users. You’ve got an eye for the beautiful Android design our users expect and an attention to detail down to the very last dpi. You know your way around the View hierarchy and are eager to partner with Product and Design to craft efficient, performant, and delightful user experiences. You like building for the long term and value patterns and structures that allow for maximum flexibility in a constantly evolving product.

You can read more about our engineering and culture on our blog: https://blog.cityflo.com/tag/engineering/" target="_blank">https://blog.cityflo.com/tag/engineering/

What you should have:

• At least three years of engineering experience, a large portion of which in a team environment
• Bachelors/Masters degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related subject.
• Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms and programming languages
• Experience working closely with product teams, designers, and other developers to create a truly delightful mobile experience
• Familiarity with design concepts and constraints on mobile platforms.
• Extensive understanding of Android framework components and their respective lifecycles
• Experience developing highly performant Kotlin code and view layouts and the ability to diagnose performance bottlenecks
• A disciplined approach to development, testing, documentation and code structure in a team environment
• Familiarity with the Android tool ecosystem for development, testing, debugging, and performance benchmarking
• An excellent understanding of best practices for concurrency and threading
• MVVM design architecture pattern for android.

Preferred skills:

• Open Source contributions & participation in programs like Google Summer of Code are a plus.
• Have published one or more Android apps on the Play Store.
• Dependency injections: Dagger, Koin.
• Multi-threading and coroutines in Kotlin/Rxjava.