
Vidyakul is looking for a Senior Android Developer to take our product to the next level for Pan India State Board students (A 60mn user opportunity!). We are willing to offer the right pay, and more importantly the right ESOPs for the right candidate!
* Knowledge of Android SDK, different versions of Android
* Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect mobile applications to back-end services
* Should have hands-on knowledge of Kotlin
* Should have the understanding of working on Firebase & Firebase real-time database
* Experience with third-party libraries like Retrofit2 and APIs
* Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning

About Vidyakul
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India’s first vernacular e-learning platform aims to make education more accessible in tier-II, III cities. We offer live lectures and pre-recorded courses (from Class 9th- 12th in Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, and Hinglish) to help state board students to learn academics.
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Work location: Chandra Layout, Vijayanagar, Bangalore.
Process: End-to-End Development
You will develop Android applications that scale to reach millions of users • You will continually evaluate emerging technologies to identify opportunities, trends, and best practices that can be used to strengthen technology platform and development practices • Work with the team to create user interface layouts for customers and interfaces to backend web services • Design and develop systems and libraries that are highly reusable and maintainable • Understand product architecture and frameworks and come to the table with your ideas • Collaborate with different teams along with other Android developers to exchange new ideas and improvements
REQUIREMENTS • Proficiency in the standard Android tech stack - JAVA, Android SDK, Android Studio, SDK, adb, Layout Editor • Good knowledge of Object Oriented Programming and design patterns, MVC, MVVM, Dependency Injection and more • Restful API, JSON Parsing, XML Parsing, Retrofit Network Libraries • Strong knowledge of Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices • Payment Gateways Integrations. • Experience of working with multi-language, multi-screen resolutions • Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning • Excellent Android technical issue diagnosis and problem solving skills • Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization • Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git • Experience with SQL databases, Java or full stack development is a plus
Who are we
Salarybox is a Payroll App for small businesses in Asia. We are backed by YCombinator and prominent investors from India & the Silicon Valley.
Today, business owners manage attendance on pen-paper, calculate salaries on excel and pay employees in cash. Using Salarybox, the entire process can be performed at the click of a button. What typically takes 5 days, can be done in 5 minutes using our App.
We launched in January 2021 and already have over 500,000 downloads on the Google Play Store.
What will you do
- Design and build advanced app features for Android
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features
- Work on MVP & MVVM architecture for building apps
- Translate designs and wireframes into high-quality code.
- Design, build and maintain high performance, reusable, and reliable code
- Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect Mobile Applications to back-end services
- Unit test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability
- Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.
This role requires
- 1+ years experience in Java, Kotlin
- Good working knowledge of design patterns OOAD
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Hands on experience in writing Mobile Applications
- Working knowledge of the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies
- Your primary focus will be the development of Android applications and their integration with back-end services.
- You will be working alongside 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.
Skills :
- 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 - Kotlin, Java
- Important libraries include Dagger, RxJava, Realm - MVP Clean Architecture
- Understanding of Data Structures and Algorithm.
- Basic Knowledge of Kotlin
- Skills : - Android, Web Sockets, MVP Development, Rxjava, Realm Mobile Database,
Starting out, we are building a platform to consult with our ‘Astro-advisors’ and engage in
wellness-focused activity-led content, called activity packs offered post consult. The packs will contain a wide range of activities like meditation, yoga, chants, affirmations, gratitude journaling, and other astrology related remedies. Over time we will expand to other advisors as well. A differentiated and highly trained supply and our content IP will be the two pillars of the business.
Team:
Aniket Lila, Co-Founder, CEO
• Investment Team at Nexus Venture Partners (largest homegrown VC in India, an early
investor in companies like Zomato, Snapdeal, Unacademy, Delhivery, Whitehat Jr, Postman, Druva)
• Corporate Development, Albertsons (2nd largest grocery store retailer in the US)
• BSc from Northwestern University, US
We are a team of 5 across product, content, ops, and business.
Progress:
We have closed a seed round from Nexus Venture Partners, Titan Capital (Snapdeal
founders) and high-value angels like Srini (Elance / Upwork), Ramakant (Livspace) and Vinay (President, Jio) and Farid (Sharechat). We are in stealth and currently building the first version of the product and hiring a kickass team.
Job Description:
We are looking for a hands-on lead mobile developer (iOS & Android) to join our core team with experience in building products from scratch into large-scale platforms and solving business problems leveraging new and innovative technology.
Roles and responsibilities:
● Design and build advanced applications for the React Native platform working
individually and in a team
● Work as per the defined project priorities and project schedules to complete the
assigned projects within allotted timelines
● Interact with the cross-functional team for the day to day development tasks and hurdles
● Adhere to agile development methodologies
● Maintain the quality and security of the assigned development tasks by applying the best design and development guidelines as defined in the project
Experience you MUST have:
● Extensive experience in React Native and Javascript programming, Advanced
Apps Development using progressive web technologies for both iOS & Android.
● Built progressive apps using GUI Camera, GPS API, Maps API, Services, and
SQLite database programming.
● Javascript IDE
● Using client apps for version control systems like SVN, Git, etc
● Code review tools/applications like Gerrit, code collaborator, JIRA
● Web services integration (SOAP, REST, JSON, XML)
● Working with third-party libraries, APIs and on projects run as per Agile
Methodology.
● Good knowledge in socket programming, device communication, Design
patterns, and writing unit test cases (This is a plus)
● Knowledge in In-App purchase, Push Notifications and publishing end-to-end apps
on Google PlayStore and Apple App Store.
● Experience in video streaming and call / chat-based products is a big plus
● Experience in working with global remote teams is a plus
Skills/mindset you MUST have:
● Product-first thinking - Break complex problems into implementable solutions with
an iterative mindset using the product
● Whole-brain problem solving - Uses right and left sides of the brain effectively -
Strong business judgment and analytical acumen with creative thinking
● Thrives in chaos - Comfortable with ambiguity but loves defining the boundaries
and parameters and getting shit done
● Communicate, care, inspire - Exceptional interpersonal and leadership skills - be
a leader and a team player
● Always push the bar - Strive for excellence in whatever you do, take ownership
and responsibility for outcomes
● Build fast, fail, learn, HUSTLE HUSTLE HUSTLE
● Want to have fun - if you are not happy and people around you are not happy, how
will we make the world a happier place? :)
● Curious and spiritual soul - Understanding of market and experience with
astrology, yoga, mediation, Art of Living, Isha Yoga would be a good plus
Why Astrology? $10B market with a target audience of 200M with 2M astrologers. Astrology is a 4,000-year-old trusted belief system which gives probabilistic insights into the future. People go to astrologers with problems (love and career majorly). They are at low points in their lives and are seeking help. They need guidance and motivation. Just like religion, astrology too gives us hope and brings positivity in our lives.
We want to bring a breath of fresh air to the industry and disrupt the industry using technology and product-first thinking. We want to build a trusted, positive, and relevant wellness brand for today’s audience and build the largest spiritual lifestyle brand in India.
Founded by two MDI alumnus, it is a student centric and personalised learning platform that delivers enjoyable learning content as per the state boards. This ed-tech provides a solution which is easy to use, lets students enjoy learning, makes life easy for a teacher and delivers learning in the language that students are most comfortable. The organisation has worked in 14 states across India and awarded Google India under "Impacting Change through Digital".
- Working with team to plan and develop the components of our adaptive
learning app and content marketplace solution. - Scaling up and upgrading the app with enhanced features as best suited for students and schools
- Working with team ensure a smooth backend integration into a dynamic content management system, to ensure personalisation of app as required
- Developing work including app backend, reporting and analytics to be taken up by the developer for both the products along with the current team.
- Both solutions for B2B and B2C App to be taken up actively by the developer along with the current product manager.
- Interacting and working with NGOs and Govt school community to build the entire tech as per the rural and local language to empower students and govt schools across India.
What you need to have:
- 1-3 years of deep hands-on experience with android based solutions and development
- Tech Expectations - Practical experience with Native android development, firebase, databases and server side integration and development
- An end user app based product experience will be a plus.
- We expect the developer to deeply own up our app solutions, work with the current team and scale up the product roadmaps for national growth and outreach.
- an undistracted mind, an aspiration for continued learning and holistic growth in life, humility to learn and self confidence to learn and do anything
- Excellent understanding of Native android development, firebase, Node. JS, databases and server side integration and development
Experience: 7 - 11 years
Talents from eComms Only
Role: Director Engineering (Mobile)
Key Skills: Java/Python, Android, iOS, Design Patterns, AWS, OOP, SDLC,Kotlin, Swift, Objective C, Cocoa
As a technical leader, you own the engineering vision and oversee the technical standards your team thrives on. As a manager of engineers, you coach and develop our promising, young talent and ensure their collective energy is applied effectively and efficiently to accomplish not only the organizational goals, but also their individual career goals.
- Own the development practices and standards for your team
- Own the technical architecture, drive engineering design and shoulder critical decisions
- Interface with Architects and technical leads to steer them to continuous Feature Improvements
- You have experience in managing, coaching software developers to help them level up
- You are able to weigh several and often conflicting constraints and make rapid decisions in a fast-moving and quickly-growing company
- You have a strong technical background, with 7+ years of experience with software engineering predominantly working on mobile applications (Android, iOS)
- Should have worked on at least one of these programming languages (Python/Java)
- You possess strong knowledge of Android, Java, JSON, Kotlin, Objective-C
- Excellent understanding of Android design patterns, Data Structures, Algorithms, iOS
- 2+ years of hands-on programming experience in building native iOS apps, with deep focus on usability, performance, Core Data and integration with REST APIs & services.
- Built real world apps that are published on the app store.
- Experience in OO design, design patterns & fluency in Objective-C programming (exposure to Swift or React Native would be a plus)
- Experience working with iOS frameworks such as Core Data, Core Animation, Core Graphics and Core Text
- Experience with third-party libraries and APIs, consuming REST Web Services
- Unit/Integration tests
- Experience with third-party libraries and APIs
- Working knowledge of the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies
- Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle
- Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance UI development with Interface Builder and Code, including Auto Layout








