Senior Software Engineer

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.

Role Overview:

We are seeking a talented Mobile App Developer with 2+ years of experience in React Native and Expo. The ideal candidate will have expertise in app publishing (Play Store and App Store) and a proven track record of implementing video call features in mobile applications.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain mobile applications using React Native and Expo.
• Build and integrate video call features to enhance the app's functionality.
• Publish and manage applications on the Google Play Store and Apple App Store.
• Optimize app performance and ensure a seamless user experience.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality features.
• Stay updated with the latest mobile development trends and best practices.

Requirements:

• 2+ years of experience in React Native development.
• Proficiency with Expo and mobile app deployment on both app stores.
• Hands-on experience building and integrating video call features (e.g., WebRTC, third-party SDKs).
• Strong understanding of mobile app design principles and performance optimization.
• Experience with version control tools (e.g., Git).
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.

• Design and develop mobile applications in true service oriented architecture.
• Building mobile applications on Android platform using Java, Kotlin, etc
• Worked on major architectures like MVVM, MVP

Reading the description below might take a few minutes, but we promise it is all worth it.

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The Opportunity :

Apps10X is looking to hire a Sr. Android Developer who possesses a passion to build scalable apps, learn and grow quickly. Your work will directly impact millions of lives as you will be working on one of our high growth products. We have over 100 Million users across all our products and we are growing exponentially.

Our ideal candidate has at least 2 to 5 years of experience in Android Development.

What we believe :

• Our number one priority is company culture. our whole belief is that "your culture is your brand
• All the team members are open to converse, helping and teaching.
• You will always be noticed for your better work and rewarded.
• Great work-life balance with the flexibility of you deciding your working hours.

What You'll Do :

• Write well designed, testable, efficient code
• Develop new features and cutting edge user experience
• Work on bug fixing, code optimisation and performance improvements
• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximise development efficiency
• Code evaluation and managing the teammates

What We Need You To Have :

• Understanding of kotlin and coroutines.
• Knowledge of design patterns (MVVM and MVI)
• Understanding of dependency injection frameworks like Dagger HILT
• Understanding of RxJava, observable pattern
• Proficient in debugging and analysis skills using ADB
• Good knowledge of memory management, concurrency, and multi-threading
• Experience of working with Test Driven Development
• Experience and passion to built great user experiences
• Good knowledge of OOPS, data structure and algorithms
• B.E/B.Tech degree in Computer Science and/or relevant work experience.
• Previous work experience at startup would be a plus

Experience : 2 to 5 years

Work Location : Bengaluru (Koramangala)

Education : B.E/B.Tech Preferred (Engineering in CSE and Experience in startup would be a plus)

Desired Skills : Android, Kotlin, MVVM, Dagger HILT, Coroutines

Benefits :

• Health Insurance for yourself and your Parents- We know a healthy employee is a happy and productive employee. That's why we offer a variety of health insurance options to meet your lifestyle. You'll have access to the top providers and physicians available to you and your family.
• Unlimited leaves- No strict leave policies. It's flexible but disciplined.
• Flexible work timings- You decide your work timing. Feel free to work on your productive time, Just that work gets done as per timeline.
• Challenging work- All our products targeted 100+ Million users. One gets to work on scale and experience solving challenging problems.
• Great team- Like-minded talented team to work with
• Career growth- Boost your career growth by 10X more learning and opportunities
• MacBook to work- You decide your machine, however, we prefer Apple
• Team outing- Join us on our annual 2-3 days team outing! Our last one was in Ooty, Tamil Nadu
• Office lunch - Daily free lunch

We're passionate about enabling people to do their best work. We dream big and we're looking for people who do the same. Come work with us and find out where your career will take you at Apps10X!

We know that people are more than what's on their CV. If- this role highlights your experience and gets you excited- please apply!

What does the core role include?

• Designing and developing high-volume, low-latency applications for mission-critical systems and delivering high-availability and performance
• Designing stateless components in React Native
• Contributing in all phases of the development lifecycle
• Working with the developers to create and maintain a robust framework to support the apps
• Working with the developers to build the interface with a focus on usability features

What else can you expect in the role?

• Prepare and produce releases of software components
• Optimizing performance for the apps
• Problem-solving skills, analytical mind, and positive attitude
• Ability to think from end users perspective and focused on improving the overall product experience.
• Deliver across the entire app life cycle concept, design, build, deploy, test, release to app stores and support

What can fetch you brownie points?

• Hands on experience with React Native is required
• Hands-on experience in React Native APIs, ReactJS, Javascript, ECMAScript (OOJS) and JSX.
• Strong understanding of JavaScript ecosystem
• Hands on experience on Android in creating Hybrid / Native applications
• Demonstrable UI/UX experience on a large-scale app.
• Thorough understanding of React Native development tools like IDEs (Nuclide, Atom, Sublime Text, or Visual
• Good knowledge of JS frameworks like ReactJS is a plus.
• Desired Skills and Experience
• Hybrid Apps,React Native, Native iOS and Android Architecture understanding

The Impact you will create in the Job:

• Developing SDKs on native Android with support for cross-platform technologies like ReactNative, Flutter along with hybrid development over platforms like Cordova. 
• Apply data structures and algorithms to optimize the code for a lower memory, battery, and processing footprint - all with the goal to build plug-and-play SDKs that don’t expect the app developers to write any supporting code in the app.
• As an individual contributor, you will tackle some of our broadest technical challenges that requires deep technical knowledge, hands-on software development and seamless collaboration with all functions.
• You will envision and develop features that are highly reliable and fault tolerant to deliver a superior customer experience.
• You will get an opportunity to work with some of the best talent while learning from various highly-functional teams in the company.
• Plan and execute the roadmap with the engineering team to build and deliver next-generation systems.
• You will also collaborate with cross-functional teams to meet deliverables throughout the software development lifecycle and continuously identify areas of improvement.
• Identify and improvise areas of improvement through data insights and research.

What we look for?

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science/IT from premier institute.
• 2-4 years of industry experience in Native Android development, with at least one live app on Google Play Store. 
• Good knowledge of Kotlin and/or Java with an understanding of Android Native SDK, specifically network classes, concurrency handling, databases, and background processes. 
• Strong knowledge of data structures and algorithms. 
• Solid understanding of Android Libraries related to UI, network, background services, and database.
• Familiarity with developing UI with both XML layouts and code. 
• Good understanding of SDK integrations, debugging, and troubleshooting. 
• Interest in exploring mobile app development ecosystems like React Native, Cordova and Flutter. 
• Comfortable with tackling ambiguous problems and unblocking yourself.
• Fair understanding of Push Notification ecosystem.

Experience: 1 – 2.5 years

Job Location: Chennai, Bangalore & Mumbai

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Proven working experience in Android Native development 

• Excellent coding skills in Java or Kotlin or both. 

• Should have knowledge in SQL and SQLite Database.

• Strong knowledge in User Interface designing using latest frameworks.

• Strong knowledge of Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices.

• Improving Application performance.

• Enterprise application development experience

• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements.

• Experience with third-party libraries and APIs 

• Working knowledge of the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies

• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency 

Educational Requirements:

BE/B. Tech, BBA, MBA

General Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, on multiple projects concurrently.

• Track record of timelines, milestones and deliverable.

• Ability to interact effectively with executive level clients.

• Excellent oral/written communication skills. Effective analytical, problem-solving. interpersonal and time management skills. 

• Ability to mitigate pressure and risk.

We are looking for Andriod/IOS Developers to join our Mobile Application Development team at Pune. The candidate will play a significant role in developing highly interactive and cutting-edge cross platform applications for Android/iOS. 

Requirements

• Relevant experience of 3 years in building a mobile application using android/IOS OR React Native is required
• Your primary focus will be on developing user interface components for mobile and implementing them following well-known React workflows (such as Flux or Redux)
• You will ensure that these components and the overall application are robust and easy to maintain
• You will be coordinating with the rest of the team working on different layers of the infrastructure
• Should have published at least 1 live application using React Native
• Good understanding of Android / iOS / Web design guidelines, SDK and excellent JavaScript skills
• Expertise in RESTful APIs development
• Expertise with code testing best practices, including unit and integration testing to ensure the quality of code
• Familiarity with code versioning tools such as Git, TFS, and Agile/SCRUM development methodologies

Responsibilities

• Developing business applications in React Native / Redux
• Developing new user-facing features using React Native
• Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use
• Translating designs and wireframes into high-quality code
• Optimising components for maximum performance across platforms
• Willingness to learn new platforms and adapt as requirements change