Senior React Native Developer

PayPal is a leading technology platform and digital payments company that enables digital and mobile payments on behalf of consumers and merchants worldwide. PayPal is committed to democratizing financial services and empowering people and businesses to join and thrive in the global economy.

. Giving an opportunity to build business critical features on the PayPal app. This is a new initiative and a new team and employees would get involved in designing the blue print from scratch, building a highly scalable and configurable app and scale it to hundreds of regions, impacting lives of millions of users

Strong customer focus and product thinking is essential. Will help build the next generation of PayPal native apps.

Role/ Responsibilities:
• Assist in design and development of PayPal iOS application
• Influencing peers, juniors and seniors both within the organization and across PayPal.
• Native iOS app development and converting ideas, designs and requirements to concrete stable production builds
• Coordinate and collaborate with the Product and Engineering teams to understand problems, come up with creative solutions, and help with tracking and delivering within the release plan • Understand and implement iOS specific design patterns
• Collaborate with Engineering and QA to resolve bugs

Desired Skills and Experience:
• At least 5 years of native ioS development experience .
• Extremely comfortable with understanding and implementing internet application with REST services at the backend
• Super awesome at iOS fundamentals, including technologies like UIKit, Core Animation, Auto Layout and Cocoa Touch

Excellent Swift and Objective-C coding ability along with strong CS & OS fundamentals
• Familiarity with continuous integration (Jenkins), application monitoring (Crashlytics and fabric.io), mocking tools (Appium and Apiary), build tool development and enhancements, using unit testing and cucumber tests for functional tests.
• Extremely comfortable with understanding and implementing client-side handlers for web services with REST services at the backend

- Experience with Cucumber testing framework desired
• B.S. or equivalent degree in Computer Science is desired

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.

• You will build an android app for the Saathi users (Teachers and students) to manage teacher classes and students’ studies.
• You will work on building features end to end with complete ownership, developing, testing, and deploying the core features.
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the Saathi app

• You have prior experience as an Android Developer using Kotlin or have a strong desire to shift to Kotlin.
• You have 2- 4 years of experience in android development.
• You have strong knowledge of Android SDK, different versions of Android, and know how to deal with different screen sizes
• You have proven work experience in design patterns mobile architecture using frameworks such as MVVM/MVC
• You have familiarity with various testing tools
• You are good in pixel-perfect implementation of designs
• You can easily pick up new technologies and frameworks on the go. For you, engineering is about principles and practices; technology is about tools and tradeoffs.
• You have excellent problem-solving skills and can map out the system design for a feature end to end and execute on it.
• You want to be involved actively in the product development process and can come up with out-of-the-box ideas for unique features.
• And most importantly, you are fun to work with! 😌

Responsibilities:

• Write high quality code & unit tests, builds, tests as per agreed timelines.
• Follows and promotes SDLC best practices: Coding standard, testing, code reviews, code comments etc.
• Keeps key stakeholders informed about progress and problems; avoids surprises.
• Organises and expresses ideas clearly and concisely.
• Exhibits excellent teamwork and helps achieve team goals.

Requirements:

• Exhibits strong problem solving skills.
• Strong grasp of computer science fundamentals and excellent problem solving skills.
• Good understanding of software engineering practices, Data Structures & Algorithms.
• Solid programming skills in Java/Kotlin.
• Good communication skills.
• Strong sense of ownership and accountability.
• Experience in Reactive programming, Asynchronous programming and Unit Testing will be an added advantage.
• 0-3 years of experience in product driven organisation.
• A Bachelors or Masters degree in engineering from a reputed institute (preferably IITs, NITs, or other top engineering institutes)

Technologies we're working with:

• MVP, JAVA and Kotlin, Realm, Firebase Real-time Database, RxJava, Kotlin, Coroutines, Dagger and Retrofit.

Work Location : Kochi/ Trivandrum

The ideal candidate will be passionate about providing the best experience to our user community from UI/UX design to speed and performance.  You will think critically to develop native apps for iPhone and iPad.  You’ll instrument, measure, optimize and build high quality architectures and code in areas such as Search, Transactions and Profile Management.

General Responsibilities:

End-to-end iOS application development that will produce elegant features that our users will love

Coding alongside the team (comprised of designers and product managers)developing features for our mobile apps

Produce high quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed, and checked in regularly for continuous integration.

Understand where to make architectural trade-offs applying synchronous and asynchronous design patterns

Provide solid feedback on good mobile UI/UX design practices and ways to reduce any user friction

Requirements:

9+ years in top-notch current software development skills which includes Objective-C, C and/or C++

10+ years experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions.

Knowledge of UI and animation frameworks, touch user interface, and MVP application design

Strong expertise in developing enterprise applications on iOS – understand how to scale to millions of users

Familiar with deploying to Apple’s app store and staged rollouts 

Experience with third-party libraries and APIs

Extensive programming experience in Objective-C

Experience with relational databases (transactional and non-transactional), database architecture, and distributed transaction management.

Strong understanding of working with REST services, databases, caching strategies & asynchronous calls is a must

Good understanding of software development lifecycle along with working knowledge of SCM with strong emphasis on Git and Jira

BA/BS Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or related practical experience.

Please visit us at https://www.foundingminds.com/

Mandatory: Hands on experience working with Java or Kotlin. Very strong logical skills. Good hold on operating system concepts and data structure. Experience with web services , SQL Lite , camera kit , image caching concepts, keychain , past experience working with one of the design patterns like MVC / MVVM / MVP , network check implementation.

Good to have:  Rx-Swift experience , video / image filter experience , media player usage , complex UX effects , couch-db , RealM.Knowledge of GIT management , Continuous Integration and Continuous Development practices.

Soft Skills: Strong communication skills , high spirited , eager to learn , able to perform in a high pressure environment

Support the entire application lifecycle (concept, design, test, release and support) on both Android and iOS
- Build a framework as the application grows so our Apps and SDKs are unanimous. 
- Produce fully functional mobile applications writing clean code 
- Gather specific requirements and suggest solutions 
- Troubleshoot and debug to optimise performance 
- Design interfaces to improve user experience 
- Liaise with Product team to plan new features 
- Ensure new and legacy applications meet quality standards 
- Stay up-to-date with new technology trends
- Work with latest Security protocols and data transfer optimisations

- Proven work experience as a Mobile developer with 3 - 5 years of experience. 
- Must be proficient in at least one programming language from Java, Swift & Objective C and must be willing to learn the other two. 
- Experience with third-party libraries and APIs 
- Familiarity with OOP design principles 
- Excellent analytical skills with a good problem-solving attitude 
- Ability to perform in a fast paced team environment
- Strong understanding of in-device security

Preferences:

If you have experience Building apps for fast-growing startups
- If you have hands-on experience on iOS and Android both
- If you have experience working with Flutter.

Note:Our Android application is being written in Java 
and iOS app in Objective C and Swift.

• Health Memberships 
• Sports Subscriptions 
• Entertainment Subscriptions 
• Key Conferences and Event Passes
• Learning Stipend 
• Team Lunches and Parties 
• Travel Reimbursements 
• ESOPs 

Thast what we think would bloom up your personal life, as a gesture for helping us with your talents.

Join us to be a part of our Exciting journey to Build one Digital Identity Platform!!!