Senior Android Developer

Job Description

Position Summary:

We are looking for a Mobile application developer responsible for the development and maintenance of applications aimed towards iOS, including mobile phones and tablets. Your primary focus will be the development of such applications and their integration with other services. You will be working alongside other engineers and developers working on different layers of the infrastructure. Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and creating quality products is essential. You will be responsible for the product development with quality and by following the engineering practices. The candidate should be a team player who should be able to code, do the peer code review, defect fixes wherever needed on the existing product.

Responsibilities:

 Design and build applications for iOS

 Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications

 Collaborate with a team to define, design, and ship new features

 Innovative thinking for problems solutions. Solid implementation

 Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs

 Achieving Code, module delivery dates within time

 Help maintain code quality, organization, automatization, and documentation

 Uses Agile Scrum Methodology for software development

 Develops unit tests for all new code

 Has all code changes peer reviewed and must peer review code when required

 Provides input for documentation of new or existing programs

 Well versed with usage of debugging tools to analyze and solve complex problems independently

 Diagnose and resolve complex level issues of application

 Participate in interactions with all levels of personnel with different teams Skills:

 Proficient in all versions of Swift, with a good knowledge of its ecosystems

 Solid understanding of object-oriented programming

 Experience in App Store distribution process and Enterprise distribution of Apple

 Good knowledge of performance limits and characteristics

 Knowledge of memory management and multi-threading, background thread handling and iOS file systems

 Knowledge of private framework in swift and objective C languages

 Experience with embedded databases and other system datastores

 Experience of automated testing platforms and unit tests for Mobile applications

 Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect to back-end services

 Good sense of UI design and a user-oriented focus  Knack for benchmarking and optimization  Proficient understanding of code versioning tools e.g. Git

 Hands on experience in using Jenkins

 Familiarity with continuous integration

 Good Knowledge in design patterns

 Excellent interpersonal and written communication skills in English

 Good time management skills

 Certification of iOS development, swift language will be value added  Experience with Cocoa APIs on iOS and Apple frameworks AR, ML and swift UI is good to have

 2-4 years of work experience in Mobile application development.

Pay/compensation: Benefits: Health Insurance (including for Parents); Personal Accident Cover.

• Ability to work independently and as part of a team in a fast-paced environment.
•        Experience with native development (iOS/Android).
•        Worked on deep linking in mobile apps
•        Hands on experience in Bridging Native code base to react native.

Experience - 3-6 yrs

Skills : Swift , Objective -C.

Ecommerce industry is mandatory.

What we want:

➢ Can do attitude. Positive mind set.

➢ Experience in B2C applications.

➢At least 4 years of experience in mo

bile application development with a focus on iOS.

➢Proven experience with Swift or Objective C and Xcode.

➢Strong understanding of iOS development principles, patterns, and best practices.

➢Knowledge of mobile architecture patterns (MVC, MVVM, etc.) and design patterns (Singleton, Facade,etc.).

➢Familiarity with RESTful APIs, web services, and JSON.

➢Experience with third party libraries and APIs.

➢Experience with unit testing and continuous integration.

➢Excellent communication and problemsolving skills.

➢Ability to work independently and in a team environment.

➢Experience with performance and memory tuning.

➢Knack for benchmarking and optimization

Good to have:

➢Experience with Agile development methodologies.

➢Familiarity with Android development.

Location: Bangalore

Gobillion is a YCombinator backed IIM-NIT alumni co-founded social commerce startup headquartered in San Francisco, USA with offices in New Delhi, Bangalore and Guwahati. We are bringing e-commerce 2.0 to the next 400 million online customers across India, through a community and social driven approach. Our co-founding has diversified experience with prestigious organizations including McKinsey & Company, Deloitte US, EY, Adobe and SAP Labs.

Gobillion has been rapidly scaling and is backed by some of the world’s most prestigious investors from US, Europe, SE Asia and India including - YCombinator, Justin Mateen (Founder - Tinder), Pioneer Fund, Soma Capital, Venture Souq, Goodwater Capital, LetsVenture, Vikalp Sahni (Co-Founder- Gobibibo) amongst others.

We have been selected for and globally validated by the world’s leading investors/accelerators including YCombinator, Founder Institute Silicon Valley, NASSCOM 10000 Startups - India and Assam Startup. We have been named as the Top 10 Global startup for YCombinator S21 by Alex Mitchell.

Summary of role:

As a Developer, you will be working alongside our product team in the conceptualization, design and development of app and frontend components. You will be doing the following on the job

• Write clean, manageable code and maintain proper documentation
• Reviewing application requirements and interface designs.
• Developing and implementing highly-responsive user interface components using Android material design concepts
• Writing application interface codes using Java, Android
• Developing and implementing front-end architecture to support user interface concepts.
• Monitoring and improving front-end performance.

Why Join Us?

• You will have a chance to be a leader and have the responsibility to scale Gobillon across India's most fast growing cities
• The opportunity to join one of India’s fastest growing companies at an early stage - We are giving our early team members to benefit from a strong ESOP pool and be part of our growth journey
• Joining an amazing team of Gobillion rockstars from colleges like IIMs, IITs, NITs etc. and from organizations including McKinsey & Company, Deloitte US, EY, Adobe, SAP Labs, Urban Company, Udaan, Amazon, Delivery, Ninjacart, Accenture etc.
• Wear the Gobillion badge with pride - We are looking for owners with a founder’s mindset - not just employees. If you are passionate about our mission about making e-commerce social for the next 400M customers in India and serve as culture carriers - we are the right place for you!

Key Responsibilities of this Role:

• At least three years of production level experience in working with native Android using Kotlin, Java
• Bachelors in Computer Science (or equivalent work experience) is preferred
• Understanding of key design principles.
• At least one Android app developed by you must be live
• Experience with responsive and adaptive design.
• In-depth knowledge and passion for Java, Kotlin, CSS, HTML, OOPs and front-end languages
• If you have worked on an app (on Android) used by 100K+ users, you will be preferred.

• 3+ years proven work experience as a Mobile developer.
• Experience using web services (HTTP, REST, SOAP) using JSON, API and API Framework) .
• Good knowledge of object-oriented design patterns and Multi-threading concepts
• Good knowledge of the SQLite database and the Google Play Services like Push Notifications (fcm/sns)
• Strong mobile UI design (multi-screen resolutions), coding, support and maintenance
• Knowledge of HTML5, Bootstrap, JavaScript,
• Experience with third-party libraries and APIs (like Facebook, Twitter, etc.)
• Proficient iOS and Android mobile app experience are a plus
• In-depth knowledge of at least two Framework/Libraries like React Native / Ionic / Framework7 / Aurelia / PhoneGap / Flutter and angular / react / vue / Mobile Angular UI/ Kendo UI.
• Knowledge of bench marking and optimization
• Mandatory : self sufficient developer and must have prior experience of hybrid development [atleast 3 projects]

• Leads a project end-to-end and collaborates across functions. Drives planning, estimation and execution.
• Understands requirements well and comes up with efficient design
• Develops complex, well backed and bug-free products. Estimates accurately.
• Takes well-reasoned tech decisions keeping in mind goals and trade-offs
• Becomes a go-to person in more than one area. Provide technical mentoring to team
• Communicates clearly, gets clarifications and establishes expectations for all parties
• Helps establish SDLC best practices and high standards of code quality
• Demonstrates excellent problem solving & debugging skills
• Proactively identifies and resolves issues in requirements, design and code
• Perform peer code reviews and help us all get better.

• 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.