Senior Software Engineer (React Native)

About HeyCoach:

We are an exceptional group of highly skilled individuals, passionate about addressing a fundamental challenge within the education industry. Our team consists of talented geeks who possess a deep understanding of the issues at hand and are dedicated to finding innovative solutions. In our quest for excellence, we are constantly seeking out remarkable individuals who can contribute to our growth and success. Whether it's developing cutting-edge technologies, designing immersive learning experiences, or implementing groundbreaking teaching methodologies, we consistently strive for excellence.

Job Description:

• Mobile App Development: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, test, and deploy robust and scalable Android applications.
• Code Optimisation: Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code, with a focus on performance and responsiveness. Identify and address bottlenecks and bugs.
• UI/UX Implementation: Work closely with designers to implement visually appealing and intuitive user interfaces. Ensure seamless integration between the front-end and back-end components.
• API Integration: Integrate with RESTful APIs and third-party services to enhance app functionality and data exchange.
• Testing and Debugging: Conduct thorough testing of applications, including unit testing and debugging. Collaborate with quality assurance teams to ensure the delivery of high-quality software.
• Platform Compatibility: Stay updated on the latest Android platform updates and ensure compatibility with various devices and screen sizes.
• Performance Optimization: Continuously optimize application performance, keeping up with best practices and industry standards.
• Collaboration: Work closely with other developers and team members to achieve project goals. Participate in code reviews and knowledge-sharing sessions.

Requirements:

• Engineers with 1-6 years of experience in shipping consumer-facing Android apps with the large user base, ideally currently available on the Google Play Store.
• Top-notch programming skills in Java, Kotlin and Android along with MVVM, Dagger2, Room, LiveData, Coroutine & JetPack-Components.
• Command of memory management, view hierarchy, battery optimisation and in-depth experience with multi threaded and networked applications.
• Worked with Restful APIs, third-party SDK Integrations and common technologies like HTTPS, JSON, OAuth, and SQL.
• Thorough working knowledge of Android Studio with the Gradle build system.
• Understanding the quirks of the fragmented ecosystem of Android OS versions and devices.
• Focus on Material Design principles and pixel-perfect implementation of the design into code.
• Solid experience with Git Care for quality with an obsession for performance and willingness to spend time testing the team's work as well as yours.

Job Functions / Responsibilities:              

• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other developers to define and implement new features for our iOS mobile applications.
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code using React Native and JavaScript, ensuring the best possible performance and user experience.
• Troubleshoot and debug issues in the application to maintain its stability and reliability.
• Optimize mobile applications for performance and responsiveness.
• Stay updated with the latest industry trends and technologies to improve the mobile application continuously.
• Participate in code reviews to maintain code quality and provide constructive feedback to team members.
• Work closely with QA teams to ensure rigorous testing of the application.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior developers when necessary.

Skills:

·        4-6 years of professional experience in mobile application development.

·        Strong proficiency in React Native and JavaScript.

·        Extensive experience with iOS development, including Swift and Objective-C.

·        Knowledge of native iOS libraries and frameworks. Experience with third-party libraries and APIs.

·        Familiarity with RESTful APIs and integration.

·        Solid understanding of mobile app design principles and user interface guidelines.

·        You can work independently on solving complex problems and troubleshooting cryptic

bugs

·        Fluent in both spoken and written English

·        You're a team player and pragmatic programmer.

·        Proven ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

·        Strong attention to detail and a commitment to delivering high-quality code.

·        Knowledge of Redux or similar state management libraries.

·        You're an avid clean coder, and refactoring is part of your normal workflow. 

Key Responsibility Areas:

• Design, build and deliver enterprise level mobile applications
• Write code with standards and conventions and follow best practices
• Encourage and lead innovation and solid lifecycle processes
• Collaborate with team on work definition, estimation and prioritization
• Lead and grow as a professional software engineer.
• Full ownership of product deliveries and mentoring junior team members.
• Strong client interactions to provide excellent Quality of Service.
• Owning the code base and making sure all code is reviewed and is of very high quality.
• Write and modify coding conventions and standards documents for all development

Required Skills:

• 2-4 years experience in developing Android applications using Java and Kotlin

Technologies/Frameworks – 

• Java, Kotlin
• Maven, Git, Bitbucket
• Knowledge Data Structures
• SQLite, Room Database 

• Must have strong knowledge and experience in Agile based software development methodologies. Knowledge of an Agile tool like Jira.
• Must have a very strong knowledge of integrating various system and APIs (both REST and SOAP)
• Good to have: Experience of Payment Gateway Integration, Third Party SDK integrations
• Domain Preference
• FinTech, Banking, IoT

Vah Vah! is an ed-tech company that offers online makeup courses in micro-batches to students across India to learn from the leading teachers in top cities. We provide holistic education with lots of practical training that makes our students job-ready with not just the base skills but also the soft skills for great customer service. Our teachers have more than 15+ years of experience in training makeup and have certified more than 1000+ students. Vah Vah! is founded by executives with extensive experience running consumer business and mobile games at scale (over 100 million players) at Zynga. Vah Vah! is backed by a leading investment firm.

Website Link: https://vahvah.com/

The Mission

Vah Vah teaches professional makeup to budding makeup artists and influencers through live online classes. We have students from Srinagar, all the way to the Andamans. And experienced teachers who have worked in Bridal Makeup, Ramp Shoots, Film and more. We empower our students to join the workforce as fully trained makeup artists. This is the future of vocational education, and you can help build it.

Our Culture

• Amazing workplace and colleagues to work with
• We have the right mixture of creativity, analytics and hustle to move fast in the right direction.
• You will work with colleagues who don’t take themselves too seriously but move mountains.
• See yourself evolving every month with new problems to solve and new skill to master.
• Work with the smartest engineers so you can learn from them.
• Competitive salary at par with the best in the industry
• Great stock options so you can benefit from the company's growth.
• Immense exposure to new technologies

Responsibilities:

• Complete ownership of building and maintaining mobile APP.
• Deliver across the entire app life cycle design, build, deploy, test, release to app stores and support.
• Should be comfortable working on Android (Kotlin/Java) OR iOS(swift) platform.
• Should be comfortable in building a great consumer user interface.

Requirements:

• Overall experience of 2-4 years in native Android or iOS Platform
• Android Developer OR iOS developer with 2+ years of experience
• Experience in Android (Android Studio, Java, Kotlin) OR iOS development (Xcode, Swift)
• Basic understanding of Backend services, API implementation and database systems.
• We encourage all our devs to have base level of knowledge on DevOps, Source Control, CI/CD systems, Cloud Services such as AWS, Firebase, GCP
• Ability to implement designs and functionality provided by UI/UX teams
• Understanding of production deployment of the app in Play Store/App Store

• Android Studio, Java, Kotlin OR Xcode, Swift, Objective-C
• Familiarity with Analytics integrations
• Conversant with Github, CI/CD pipeline

What you get:

• Amazing workplace and colleagues to work with
• Work with the smartest engineers so you can learn from them.
• Competitive salary at par with the best in the industry
• Immense exposure to new technologies

Android Mobile Developer

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 Android mobile devices.  You’ll instrument, measure, optimize and build high quality architectures and code in areas such as Search, Transaction Management and Profile Management.

General Responsibilities:

• End-to-end Android 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:

• 5+ years developing extensively with Java 
• 7+ 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 mobile applications using Google’s Android SDK( e.g. packaging, emulators, adb, etc)
• Familiar with deploying to Google’s app store and staged rollouts
• Extensive programming experience in Java and/or Kotlin
• Experience with relational databases (transactional and non-transactional), database architecture, and distributed transaction management
• Experience with consuming third-party libraries and APIs
• 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.

• Designing and building mobile applications for Apple’s iOS platform.
• Collaborating with the design team to define app features.
• Ensuring quality and performance of the application to specifications.
• Identifying potential problems and resolving application bottlenecks.
• Fixing application bugs before the final release.
• Publishing application on App Store.
• Maintaining the code and atomization of the application.
• Designing and implementing application updates.

• 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.