Senior Flutter Developer

A bit about us

WeatherBug, a division of GroundTruth, empowers people to plan their day thanks to hyperlocal weather forecasts. With 10+ million monthly users, our app and website are favorites on the App Store and Google Play Store. We use a vast network of weather observations and innovative technology to give you real-time forecasts, alerts, and insights. Our team is passionate about enhancing user experiences and always looks for new ways to use weather data to make a difference. Join us at WeatherBug and help people stay informed and prepared for whatever the weather brings. Let's make it happen together!

Learn more: www.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.

Role : Senior Software Engineer (iOS/React Native)

Location : Remote, India

*This role requires Core Work Hours from 8:30 pm to 12:30 am IST (will change as per daylight saving in US). The remaining hours are completed at individual discretion.*

Role Characteristics:

Recognized subject matter expert who knows how to apply theory and put it into practice with in-depth understanding of the professional field with limited oversight from managers. Independently performs the full range of responsibilities within the function; requires deep job knowledge of areas typically obtained through higher education combined with experience. Manages large projects or processes and problems faced are difficult and often complex; analyzes problems/issues of diverse scope and determines solutions. May manage programs that include formulating strategies and administering policies, processes, and resources; functions with a high degree of autonomy. Influences others regarding policies, practices and procedures.

You Will:

• Design, architect, and document the entire system, down to the details, to meet team needs.
• Code robust iOS solutions to solve current problems, identifying and fixing issues within your areas of expertise.
• Act as a CodeOwner and stakeholder in code reviews within your area of expertise.
• Automate unit, integration, and end-to-end testing solutions, working closely with the QA team to ensure seamless integration.
• Deploy and run your code in pre-production to ensure quality before release.
• Develop and maintain debugging tools to enhance team efficiency.
• Collaborate with vendors to ensure third-party SDKs are properly integrated and functional.
• Perform and monitor mobile releases for iOS, ensuring smooth rollouts and updates.
• Retire outdated solutions and resources when no longer needed, ensuring the system remains efficient and streamlined.
• Provide operational support for your deployed code and all code within your domain of expertise.
• Identify and address team-wide issues, preventing problems from occurring.
• Coordinate across all business teams to resolve technical issues, mitigate risks, and provide actionable solutions.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned

You Have:

• 4-year degree in Computer Science or a related field OR 9+ years of experience in software development.
• 7+ years of experience in software engineering.
• 5+ years of experience with iOS development tools (Swift, SwiftUI, Objective-C, Xcode, Core Data, Combine, Foundation, UIKit).
• 2+ years of experience with SwiftUI or declarative UI frameworks.
• 3+ years of experience on an Agile team.
• Proficiency in Concurrency, Multithreading, and Swift Combine or other asynchronous programming patterns.
• Knowledge of object-oriented design principles, patterns, best practices, performance optimizations, and memory management on iOS.
• Ability to effectively communicate across teams to provide and implement solutions.
• Proven ability to troubleshoot complex issues and execute solutions.
• A strong sense of self-drive and technical expertise to work independently and within a team.
• Mentorship skills to guide junior and mid-level engineers.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills to articulate ideas clearly.
• Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking abilities to handle edge cases and unexpected issues.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams (designers, product managers, QA).

Great if You Have:

• Experience using React Native (Function Components, Hooks, Redux, JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Familiarity with ingesting and exposing large datasets in the weather industry.
• Experience in the advertising industry.
• Proficiency with tools like GitHub, Jenkins, Spinnaker, Artifactory.

What we offer

At WeatherBug, 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
• 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
• 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

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity, inclusion and equity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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

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.

1. Proven working experience in Android app development and published at least one original Android app.
2. 1-3 years of experience in Android using the java language 
   Familiarity with architecture styles/APIs.
3. Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle.
4. Knowledge of MVVM and other Mobile design patterns and best practices.
5. Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
6. Work in Agile, cross-functional teams and taking responsibility for deliverables
7. Excellent communication skills in both technical and non-technical discussions

• Write clean, high-quality, high-performance and maintainable code
• Solve complex technical problems
• Perform an objective analysis of the problem statement and come up with an unbiased technical solution before writing a single line of code
• Coordinate cross-functionally to ensure the project meets business objectives and compliance standards
• Participate in and drive code reviews

• Excellent attention to detail.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated expertise in building production-grade and high-performance applications.
• Must be a self-starter who can work well with minimal-to-no guidance in a fluid environment.
• Must be excited by challenges surrounding the development of highly scalable & distributed systems.
• Agility and ability to adapt quickly to changing requirements and scope and priorities.
• Object-oriented software development experience.
• Experience building Android applications in Java/Kotlin using Android SDK.
• Strong focus on high-quality mobile UI experiences.
• Experience building maintainable and testable code bases, including API design and unit testing techniques
• Experience with multithreading programming and mobile memory management.
• Experience with open source libraries like Retrofit, RxJava, Dagger 2, Lottie.

• Experience in Javascript/React JS/Flutter is a plus.
• Bonus points for open-source contributions, side-projects, blog posts, and YT tech videos.

• BS in Computer Science (or related field)
• 4-5 years of relevant work experience

• Writing clean and efficient code for Android applications.
• Atleast published 1-2 apps on play store.
• Identifying and resolving bottlenecks, rectifying bugs and enhancing application performance.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to define and design new features.
• Staying up to date with new mobile technology trends, applications, and protocols.

• You have prior exposure to Kotlin, Android SDK.
• Understanding of design patterns and mobile architecture using frameworks such as MVVM / MVC / MVP.
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to effectively integrate Android applications.
• Understanding of code versioning tools such as Git.
• You are a problem solver with good analytical skills.
• Prior experience in accessibility applications or voice-based applications will be a plus not a necessity
• Passion to work in dynamic, start-up environment

WE EXPECT YOU TO WIN:Everyone at chargeMOD is given the tools and resources they need to succeed at their job. We offer a flexible and positive work environment so you have the autonomy to build amazing software for our customers and add to our team of industry leading visionaries. You will build a compelling and easy to use interface, ensure its maintainability and ease of use, and suggest ways to improve the look and feel of the application. We are lean, which means we reflect on what we learn and use that new knowledge to quickly make better products. Your job is to keep learning, contribute your knowledge back to the rest of the team, and apply what you learn to make chargeMOD and our clients even greater.

YOUR OPPORTUNITY:

chargeMOD’s engineering team is looking for an Android Developer to join our growing team. You are highly motivated, collaborative, and technical, with the passion to help shape the delivery of software products for our customers. You are passionate about web development and interested in helping to shape the future of our web services team.You are always seeking new and diverse challenges to grow your skill set and broaden your experience.

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

• You will join development on a mobile SDK, in use by tens of thousands of users around Pan India.
• You will join the weekly team meetings with the client and communicate progress to the client, as well as work closely with our development team in Slack/Gmeet.
• You will be responsible for development, do a portion of the testing, and be responsible for the release of the application

RESPONSIBILITIES: As a developer, you are responsible for delivering valuable software to your clients while adhering to technical standards, company values, and industry best practices. Your success in this position will require you to set and meet appropriate expectations with customers and delight customers by anticipating their needs. You will be accountable for meeting commitments and producing quality, tested software. High output, driven developer, able to work in a team setting.
Here are some tools we use in our Android development process:

• Slack
• Atlassian Tools (Jira, Confluence, etc)
• Android Studio
• Jenkins
• Github

YOUR QUALIFICATIONS:

• You have ability to write and test SDKs for use by other developers
• Here are some of the skills we expect you to possess:
  • Java and Kotlin
  • Client and team communication
  • Material design
  • Action bar/toolbar
  • Support libraries/Android X/Jetpack
  • Understanding of the activity and fragment lifecycle
  • Efficient layout design
  • Resource/asset management
  • Multi-threading, background processing
  • Networking
  • Functional / UI Testing (Espresso)

WE CONSIDER IT A PLUS IF YOU HAVE EXPERIENCE WITH:

• Significant UI experience (one of the primary SDKs is UI-related – so although you will not be developing a user interface for the application, knowledge on UI is important)
• Significant push notification experience (one of the primary SDKs is push-notification related)

We are looking for an Android developer interested in building performant mobile apps on Android platforms. You will be responsible for architecting and building the applications, as well as coordinating with the teams responsible for other layers of the product infrastructure.

Requirements

• Build pixel-perfect, buttery smooth UIs Android platform.
• Leverage native APIs for deep integrations with Android platform.
• Diagnose and fix bugs and performance bottlenecks for performance that feels native.
• Reach out to the open source community to encourage and help implement mission-critical software fixes.
• Maintain code and write automated tests to ensure the product is of the highest quality.

Skills

• Firm grasp of the Kotlin language and its nuances.
• Knowledge of functional or object-oriented programming Ability to write well-documented and clean code.
• Rock solid at working with third-party dependencies and debugging dependency conflicts
• Familiarity with native build tools, like Gradle , Android Studio, IntelliJ and Play console. Understanding of REST APIs, the document request model, and offline storage

Interpersonal Skills

• Self-motivated, team player, action--and-results oriented.
• Well organized, good communication and reporting skills.
• Ability to successfully work under tight project deadlines.

          Experience in Kotlin is mandatory .