Senior Software Engineer - Mobile

About Company

‘Good Good Piggy’ is an Ed-FinTech start-up that encourages the new generation to develop the life-skill of managing the entire money management equation digitally, because the future of money is digital. We recognize the importance of reinforcing good behaviour, habits and skills from a young age.

Job Description

We are looking for a React Native developer interested in building performant mobile apps on both the iOS and Android platforms. You will be responsible for architecting and building these applications, as well as coordinating with the teams responsible for other layers of the product infrastructure. Building a product is a highly collaborative effort, and as such, a strong team player with a commitment to perfection is required.

• Total Experience: 2 to 5 Years
• Notice Period: 30-45 Days
• Preferred Location: Delhi NCR
• Role: Full Stack Developer
• Industry Type: Ed-FinTech
• Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent
• Role Category: Software Development

Responsibilities

• Architect, build and maintain excellent React Native applications with clean code.
• Implement pixel perfect UI's that match designs.
• Implement clean, modern, smooth animations and transitions that provide an excellent user experience.
• Setup/configure CI/CD pipeline leveraging AWS native services or traditional tools (e.g. Jenkins, GitHub, Artifactory, SonarQube, etc)
• Deploy applications on AWS platform leveraging AWS platform services like EC2, EBS, S3, CodeArtifact etc
• Integrate third-party API's.
• Write unit and integration tests.
• Release applications to IOS and Google Play stores.
• Work with native modules when required.
• Work as part of a small team, which will include other React Native developers, a project manager, QA professional, and a designer.

Skills And Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional experience working with React Native.
• Experience working with Swift, Java required.
• Meaningful experience working on large, complex systems.
• Ability to take extreme ownership over your work.
• An understanding of React Native best practices and a commitment to following them.
• Ability to work through new and difficult React Native issues and contribute to libraries as needed.
• Working with Agile framework especially is necessary
• Organizational and leadership abilities
• Excellent communication skills
• Problem-solving aptitude

Education

B.Tech/B.E./MCA or Equivalent

• Design and build advanced applications for the Android platform.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
• Work with outside data sources and APIs.
• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability.
• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance.
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency

Responsibilities and qualifications

• 5+ years of Android development experience
• Will own several parts of our tech stack, but primarily our Android app
• Build new functionality to the Android app and regularly re-architect it to keep up with latest technologies (e.g., Kotlin)
• Work on new tech that we are already a leading user of (e.g., Google Firebase)
• Work closely with the backend team to construct creative solutions
• Optimize, improve efficiency, scalability, stability of application
• MUST BE reliable, and be able to communicate clearly
• MUST BE able to own and deliver their own work within deadlines, professionally
• Should be passionate about building a strong engineering culture

Bonus Points for experience building high-scale applications, SDKs and other web technologies (like JavaScript).

Who we are

• Fast growing Chennai-based startup (with venture funding)
• Led by strong engineers with significant experience at top tier firms like McKinsey, Oracle, Morgan Stanley, and authors of multiple Java Standards
• Building an awesome product already used by Swigg etc.
• Raised investment, so this role will not vanish in a few months
• Mentors include the Vice Chairman of HCL, Chairman of Singapore Airlines, Senior leaders from LinkedIn etc.

Other background information

• Looking for strong, passionate developers who want to join our team and grow
• We move fast, and will make you an offer in a few days for the right person
• The job location will be in Chennai (it is the SaaS capital of India)
• Please only apply if you are open to moving to Chennai (or are already here)
• This won't be a 10 - 6 job, but you will be given amazing responsibilities
• You will learn a ton, have a lot of flexibility, and have fun while doing it!

Job Perks

• Daily breakfast
• Friday team lunches
• Macbook 
• Office near beach (for when people return after COVID)
• Potential for stock options (in lakhs)
• Stipend to attend conferences
• Potential travel to Singapore and other client locations

• Developing new features and user interfaces from wireframe models
• Ensuring the best performance and user experience of the application
• Fixing bugs and performance problems
• Writing clean, readable, and testable code
• Cooperating with back-end developers, designers, and the rest of the team to deliver well-architected and high-quality solutions
• (Add any other relevant responsibilities here)

• Candidate should be expertise in iOS technology.
• Experience with developing native Applications using Swift 3 , Xcode, Objective C, Cocoa and iPhone SDK.
• Built and published commercial iPhone and iPad applications
• Candidate must have independently designed and developed mobile applications
• independently drive the design and development of iPhone/iPad application project.
  Conceptualize and design Mobile applications based on need.
• Experience with Objective-C, JavaScript, and JSON
• Coursework in Object-Oriented programming languages (C++/Java, etc)
• Understanding of Apple’s design principles and interface guidelines Animation, etc.
• Candidate can develop Mobile Apps and well-versed with the Android SDK.
• Have a good knowledge of Java Application development.