Senior Android Developer

A bit about us

WeatherBug is a popular weather site and mobile app providing hyperlocal, live weather data and proactive alerting to consumer users. With over 15 million unique users per month, across all platforms, WeatherBug’s vision is to provide environmental intelligence for all aspects of people’s lives. The WeatherBug app is a top-rated weather app in the app stores. In 2019, WeatherBug was named the best weather app by MediaPost’s Appy Awards. WeatherBug is owned and operated by GroundTruth, a media company that turns real-world behavior into marketing that delivers real business results.

Learn more at WeatherBug.com

At GroundTruth, we believe that innovative technology starts with the best talent and we have been ranked one of Ad Age’s Best Places to Work for three years in a row (2021, 2022 & 2023). Learn more about the perks of joining our team here.

A bit about you

A recognized expert in their professional discipline, with significant impact and influence on organizational policy and program development. Establishes critical strategic and operational goals, and develops and implements new products, processes, standards, or operational plans to achieve organizational objectives. Regularly leads projects of critical importance to the organization—projects that carry substantial consequences for success or failure. Requires strong influence and communication with executive leadership. Problems encountered are often complex and multidimensional, requiring broad-based consideration of variables that affect multiple areas of the organization.

You will:

• Develop production-ready code to meet scope of requirements.
• With guidance, update and create documentation as needed for new and existing solutions.
• Participate in code-reviews with comments to improve code quality, stability, and maintainability.
• Create and maintain unit and integration testing solutions. Be able to run your code in lower environments.
• Run tests on the mobile device to ensure code meets requirements
• Watch mobile releases for Android or iOS for features you developed
• Teardown your solutions across multiple environments and platforms.
•  Provide operational support of your deployed code
• Determine issues within your areas of expertise.
• Work with teams across the engineering organization to understand and incorporate client requirements into final solutions.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.

You have:

• Bachelor’s degree (4 years) in Computer Science or a related field, OR 5+ years of relevant software development experience.
• 3+ years of professional experience in software engineering.
• 2+ years of hands-on Android application development using Kotlin and Android Studio.
• Experience with modern Android libraries and frameworks, including Jetpack components (e.g., Navigation, Room, ViewModel, LiveData), Retrofit for networking, and image loading libraries (e.g., Glide, Coil).
• Proficiency with asynchronous programming using Kotlin Coroutines and Flow.
• Familiarity with dependency injection frameworks such as Dagger/Hilt or Koin.
• Experience with app architecture patterns such as MVVM or MVI, and clean architecture principles.
• 2+ years of experience working in Agile teams and participating in iterative development cycles.
• Strong understanding of object-oriented design principles, design patterns, best practices, performance optimization, and memory management.
• Experience with unit and UI testing frameworks (JUnit, Mockito, Espresso).
• Familiarity with Git and collaborative version control workflows.
• Exposure to CI/CD tools and automated build/deployment pipelines.
• Ability to independently take ownership of tasks and deliver robust solutions.
• Commitment to writing clean, maintainable, and well-documented code.

Would be great if you have:

• Experience with React Native, including building function components, using hooks, and working with JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Knowledge of Play Store processes, including app signing, publishing, and release management.
• Familiarity with ingesting and exposing large datasets in the weather industry.
• Experience in the advertising industry.
• Proficiency with tools like GitHub, Jenkins, Artifactory.

You are:

• A team player who is organized, flexible and willing to adapt
• Not afraid of new technologies and driven to learn
• A detail-oriented person, who catches problems early and adjusts
• A strong communicator who is able to collaborate with multiple business and engineering stakeholders and work through conflicting needs
• A problem solver who likes to dive deep into a problem, diagnose root causes and work with multiple teams to come up with a solution
• Organized with demonstrated ability to prioritize and deliver timely work
• A team player and not afraid to roll up your sleeves and help when needed
• Self-sufficient and not afraid to take the lead and manage tasks independently
• Coachable and open to feedback
• Respectful–-we treat each other with respect and assume the best of one another
• Not afraid to have fun!

What we offer

At GroundTruth, we want our employees to be comfortable with their benefits so they can focus on doing the work they love.

● Parental leave- Maternity and Paternity

● Flexible Time Offs (Earned Leaves, Sick Leaves, Birthday leave, Bereavement leave & Company Holidays)

● In Office Daily Catered Lunch

● Fully stocked snacks/beverages

● Health cover for any hospitalization. Covers both nuclear family and parents

● Covid home quarantine cover

● Tele-med for free doctor consultation, discounts on health checkups and medicines

● Wellness/Gym Reimbursement

●  Pet Expense Reimbursement

●  Childcare Expenses and reimbursements

●  Employee assistance program

●  Employee referral program

●  Education reimbursement program

●  Skill development program

●  Cell phone reimbursement (Mobile Subsidy program)

●  Internet reimbursement

●  Birthday treat reimbursement

●  Home office set up

●  Employee Provident Fund Scheme offering different tax saving options such as VPF and employee and employer contribution up to 12% Basic

●  Creche reimbursement

●   Co-working space reimbursement

●   NPS employer match

●   Meal card for tax benefit

●   Special benefits on salary account

●   New joiner relocation

• Design and Build Advanced Applications for the Android Platform
• Collaborate with Cross-Functional Teams to Define, Design and Ship New Features
• Troubleshoot and Fix Bugs in New and Existing Applications
• Continuously Discover, Evaluate and Implement New Development Tools
• Work With Outside Data Sources and APIs
• Knowledge of Android SDK, Java programming, Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Realm
• Version Control, Clean Architecture

Roles & Responsibilities: 2-3 years of Experience developing mobile apps.  Have an Experience indeveloping nativeAndroid apps(depth knowledgeof Android SDK, NDK)  Depth knowledgeof SQLite andRoom  Excellentin JAVA, Kotlin language with agooddebugging Skills  Expertin usingAndroid StudioandGit .  Developing universalapplication, which can run on most available androiddevices.  Must have good understanding ofObject-OrientedProgramming  Good eye formobileapp designand productsense  Experience in cross platformToolslike Appcelerator  Internallymotivated, abletowork proficiently both independently and in a team environment.  Good communication skills with both internal teammembers and external business stakeholders  Strong initiativeto find ways to improve solutions,systems, and processes.  Experience ofworking onAndroid Studio.  Good in data structure and Algorithms.  Very Sound knowledge of Android Components.

Candidate Required: • Excellentcommunication skills • ProficientinmobileappUI development and bestpractices • Ability to understand that business needsmay shift yourpriorities and adjustaccordingly • Exceptionalwritten and oral communicationskills. • Exceptional interpersonalskills, with a focus on listening and questioningskills. • Proven analytical and problem-solving abilities. • Ability to effectively prioritizeand execute tasksin ahigh-pressure environment

• 0-2 years of software experience in front-end mobile/web app development
• Good understanding of concurrency and multithreading
• Full Stack development experience building data, logic tier and user experience software
• Exposure to Android SDK (experience in AndroidTV framework will be a plus)
• Knowledge of REST, JSON, MQTT, Databases, Networking technologies
• React | React Native, Multi-platform exposure is a plus
• Experience with Agile development processes is a plus

About Presidea Tech:

Presidea Tech was founded in 2020 to offer professional web and mobile-based services to businesses, worldwide. We provide a wide range of design and development services that are all delivered using the latest technologies with the greatest support. Our aim is to acquiesce our customers with the means to effectively commence and proclaim themselves online successfully. We go through our proven planning to help you build your brand, expand your web presence globally and establish more meaningful relationships with your customers. Our work philosophy is “Always deliver, more than expected” and we follow to convey more than what companies expect from our services.

Roles and responsibilities

• Design, develop and implement software programming applications.
• Build a highly scalable product.
• Participate in gathering business requirements and assessing existing architectures and resources.
• Work with the application development team in delivering the project and deliverable within time and with good quality.
• Perform unit testing, oversee quality assurance of applications through system testing.
• Establishes processes for performance and conducts code reviews.
• Manage and mentor junior members of the team on good coding practice

Skills and experiences

• E/ B.Tech in computer science or a related field.
• Efficient in Java, Spring Core, Spring Boot, Microservices
• Efficient in React native, React Js
• Experience with SQL/No-SQL database technologies – MySQL, Mongo dB, Cassandra, Redis, PostgreSQL, etc.
• Proficiency with Object-Oriented Design (OOD)
• Experience in Web services (REST or SOAP)
• Familiar with Agile SDLC and CI/CD
• Development experience in both mobile & web.
• End to end development experience is highly preferred
• Good understanding of unit testing methodologies.
• Startup work culture mindset.

About us: 

A new start-up is on the horizon, BroBazaar is a new age marketplace for the property market. BroBazaar, an iOS, and Android app enables the Builders, Brokers, and customers to close a property deal much faster than today and would also streamline the workflow with a great customer experience.  

Our team members are carefully selected, and the approach helps nurture entrepreneurship and great ideas into our solutions. We seek out multiple professionals who thrive in a congenial, start-up-focused atmosphere. 

Our team is friendly, focused, and a tad obsessive. The kind of people you’ll love working with.