Senior Mobile app Developer

Job Summary:

We are looking for a skilled and passionate Flutter Developer to join our development team. In this role, you will be responsible for designing and building cross-platform mobile applications for Android and iOS using the Flutter framework. The ideal candidate has a strong background in mobile app development, a keen eye for detail, and a drive to build seamless user experiences.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and develop high-quality, scalable, and maintainable mobile applications using Flutter.
• Collaborate with product managers, UI/UX designers, and backend developers to deliver engaging and functional applications.
• Write clean, reusable, and efficient Dart code following best practices and design patterns.
• Integrate RESTful APIs, third-party libraries, and platform-specific features.
• Conduct unit testing and participate in code reviews to ensure high code quality.
• Troubleshoot and debug application issues and performance bottlenecks.
• Stay up-to-date with Flutter and mobile development trends, technologies, and best practices.
• Participate in Agile/Scrum development processes, including sprint planning and retrospectives.

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

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop user-friendly, robust, and scalable Flutter/Android/iOS applications.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and backend developers to understand requirements and translate them into functional applications.
• Implement clean and efficient code following best practices, coding standards, and design patterns specific to mobile development.
• Ensure high performance, responsiveness, and stability of the applications by conducting thorough testing and debugging.
• Integrate RESTful APIs to fetch and send data from/to the backend servers.
• Work with SQLite or other database technologies to implement data persistence in mobile applications.
• Implement effective UI/UX designs following Material Design guidelines to ensure a smooth and intuitive user experience.
• Collaborate with the team to identify and implement solutions to improve application performance, maintainability, and user engagement.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest trends, technologies, and best practices in mobile development and share knowledge with the team.
• Assist in troubleshooting and resolving issues reported by users or clients, providing timely and effective solutions.

JOB DESCRIPTION: 

-Firm grasp of the JavaScript language and its nuances, including ES6+ syntax  

-Build pixel-perfect, smooth UIs across both mobile platforms  

-Leverage native APIs for deep integrations with both platforms  

-Diagnose and fix bugs and performance bottlenecks for performance that feels native  

-Knowledge of functional and object-oriented programming 

-Strong knowledge and experience in either iOS or Android native application development  

-Familiarity with native build tools, like XCode, Android Studio  

Desired Candidate Profile

nurture.farm is looking for an experienced Tech Lead who is eager to have an impact on the future of sustainable agriculture around the globe.

Our Company

At nurture.farm, we are putting the farmer at the center of everything we do. We

are building a more resilient and sustainable farming ecosystem by reducing risks

and improving the quality of life for the farmers and their families through

digitization of the farming life cycle, financial inclusion of the farming community,

and affordable timely access to products, technologies, advisory and services. We

are a technology-led organization, focused on bringing scalable and sustainable

solutions to the farming ecosystem. We are a young entrepreneurial startup that

wants to learn, create and adapt every day. We aspire to create a happy and pro

ductive workplace for our employees, that embodies respect and transparency in

every part of the organization.

The Opportunity

Nurture.farm is looking for builders and tinkerers, who derive pleasure from

creating something from scratch.Dreamers, who are passionate about creating

something that touches of millions of people, and transforms lives. Sculptors, who

take pride in simplicity of design, and have the keenest eye for detail when it

comes to quality,learners, who look forward to continuing to grow everyday.

What you’ll do

• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve software.
• Manage individual project priorities, deadlines and deliverables.
• Enthusiastic to take on problems across the full-stack
• Mentor junior engineers
• Architect large scale systems

What we’re looking for

Builders and tinkerers, who derive pleasure from creating something from scratch,

dreamers, who are passionate about creating something that touches millions of people, and transforms lives,

sculptors, who take pride in simplicity of design, and have the keenest eye for detail when it comes to quality

learners, who look forward to continuing to grow every day

5-8yrs of mobile development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages.

Professional experience in building apps/sdks using Android SDK and/or Flutter

Programming experience in one or more of the following languages: Java, Kotlin, Dart.

Knowledge of React Native/Flutter will be a plus.

Working proficiency and communication skills in verbal and written English.

Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code.

1. Build pixel-perfect UIs across Android and iOS mobile platforms.
2. Leverage native APIs for deep integrations with both platforms. 
3. Diagnose and fix bugs and performance bottlenecks for performance that feels native. 
4. Developing and releasing complex, data-driven apps using React Native as the primary application framework. 
5. Proficiency writing Modern JavaScript, including ES6+, and JSX.
6. Maintain code and write automated tests to ensure the product is of the highest quality.
7. Must be able to develop high-performance cross-platform apps using React-Native.