Senior Android Engineer

Qualifications:

• 10+ years native mobile development (iOS Swift + Android Kotlin)

• Proven experience building mission-critical, offline-first applications

• Deep understanding of mobile architecture patterns (MVVM, Clean Architecture)

• Expert-level API integration and data synchronization strategies

• Experience with emergency services, healthcare, or field operations software (preferred)

• Strong debugging, performance optimization, and memory management skills

• Demonstrated leadership in establishing mobile development best practices

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE:

• iOS: Swift 5.x, SwiftUI/UIKit, CoreData, CoreLocation, Background Tasks

• Android: Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Room, WorkManager, Location Services

• Tools: Xcode, Android Studio, Git, Figma, Firebase, TestFlight/Play Console

• CI/CD: Fastlane, GitHub Actions, or similar automation tools

• APIs: RESTful services, JSON parsing, authentication/authorization

• Testing: XCTest, Espresso, automated UI testing frameworks

Responsibilities:

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Architect mobile applications for First Due's emergency response platform serving Fire and

EMS agencies nationwide

• Lead mobile development initiatives for the Hyderabad development center

• Design offline-first architectures ensuring reliability in low-connectivity emergency

scenarios

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams across US and India time zones

• Establish mobile CI/CD pipelines, coding standards, and quality assurance processes

• Mentor developers on mobile best practices and First Due's technology stack

• Drive sprint planning, velocity tracking, and technical roadmap for mobile development

• Ensure HIPAA compliance and data security for patient care reporting features

Work Location: Hyderabad, India

Work mode: Work From Office

Job Description:

1.Design mobile application interface design, navigation, and presentation along with developing

custom controls as required by the application.

2. Understand product development road map and execute rapidly to build mobile applications with

high quality.

3. Utilize native APIs to enable maps, in-app SMS and email features

4. Develop applications that controls handset resources

5. Able to lead and mentor team members

6. Troubleshoot to solve customer problems with help of Catalytic/firebase among other tools.

7. Deployment / Release understanding

8. Unit Testing

9. Good to have exposure to Kotlin, flutter, react native

10. Implement Deep Links and Notification Libraries

11. Understanding of battery/ram/network and other system resource saving strategies

Job Description:

• Min 4-5 years of experience in Mobile application development
• Min 2-year Experience in React Native app development
• Firm grasp of the JavaScript and TypeScript language and its nuances, including ES6+ syntax
• Follow best practices using Android Guidelines
• Knowledge of functional or object-oriented programming
• Technically strong in React-Redux/Mobx development and deep understanding of core mobile concepts such as lifecycle, UI, networking, caching, device features, etc
• Experiences with automated testing suites, like Jest or Mocha
• Experience integrating third-party frameworks. Worked with logging and capturing user navigation and app usage to Analytics and Crashlytics for understanding the most used features by users.
• Knowledge of mobile security and cryptography is an advantage.
• Good working knowledge of tools such as Git, JIRA, Jenkins, or any tools that are similar to these.
• Experience with agile methodology is preferred
• Good communication skills
• Good knowledge of app telemetry integration & app performance management
• Have published at least 2 React Native apps on Play Store & Appstore

• Implement robust app architectures and complex user interfaces
• Component Design and coding new features. includes unit tests, debugs, and solves defects
• Component Design/Coding/Unit Testing/Debugging
• Responsible for designing app architecture and integration design to various external systems (APIs, 3rd Party SDK)
• Follow best practices using React Native Guidelines
• Understand reacting design patterns like HOC, Render Props, and their applications.
• Good understanding of atomic design principles
• Experience with CSS-in-js / styled-components
• Good understanding of Android & iOS working principles, Release process
• Ability to multi-task under pressure and work independently with minimal supervision
• Work on high-performance consumer-facing apps
• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds.
• Good understanding of server-side templating languages (such as jade, EJS, and pug).
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes.
• Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests.
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, SCSS, and CSS3.
• Ability to make recommendations on UI design and UX best practices.