Senior android developer - 8 years

About Us:

Flick.it is a dynamic and innovative sports tech startup passionate about leveraging technology to enhance player development in sports. Our AI-powered Biomechanics Analysis for Peak Athletic Performance empowers athletes and coaches with accessible data and cutting-edge technology, providing clear insights for athletes and their coaches.

Position Overview:

We are seeking a highly skilled Mobile Application Developer with some knowledge of Full Stack development to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in mobile app development, along with proficiency in both frontend and backend technologies.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and develop mobile applications for iOS and Android platforms.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
• Implement user interfaces and features based on wireframes and design specifications.
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code across the full software development lifecycle.
• Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to peers.
• Maintain code quality, organisation, and automation. Troubleshoot and debug applications to resolve issues and optimise performance.
• Stay updated with the latest trends and technologies in mobile and full stack development.
• Work closely with product management and design teams to translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.

Requirements:

• 1-5 years of experience with mobile application development.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• Proven experience as a Mobile Application Developer with a strong portfolio of mobile applications.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Swift, Kotlin, JavaScript.
• Experience with mobile frameworks such as React Native, Flutter.
• Solid understanding of frontend technologies, including HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript frameworks.
• Familiarity with backend technologies such as Node.js, Express.js, Django, or Flask.
• Experience with database systems such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Firebase.
• Knowledge of RESTful APIs and web services integration.
• Knowledge of handling video applications would be an advantage.
• Understanding of version control systems like Git.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to work independently and in a team environment.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary based on experience.
• Opportunities for professional growth and development.
• Collaborative and supportive work environment.
• Flexible work hours and remote work options.
• Health insurance and other benefits.

If you're passionate about sports and technology and ready to take on exciting challenges in the sports tech industry, we'd love to hear from you!

Responsibilities:

• Writing clean and efficient codes for Android applications
• Monitoring the performance of live apps and work on optimizing them at the code level
• Identifying and resolving bottlenecks, rectifying bugs and enhancing application performance
• Performing unit and instrumentation tests on code
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to define and design new features
• Staying up to date with new mobile technology trends, applications, and protocols

Key Requirements:

• You have experience in publishing an application on the Google Play store
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to effectively integrate Android applications
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git
• Familiarity with various testing tools
• You are a problem solver with good analytical skills

Skills: Java, Android SDK & NDK, MVVM/MVC/MVP

About the Role

A highly motivated and passionate individual who has experience in executing end to end web based products and applications; bringing them to production quickly and with high quality. Passionate about building flexible and scalable solutions with an eye for detail and can weigh pros and cons to find best possible solutions. 

Role and Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product Managers to plan, implement and deliver tasks and modules on a timely basis with best practices and adherence to SOPs.
• Understand the product requirements, ask questions, and gather information and feedback to design and deliver features both on Android and iOS.
• Create a roadmap of tasks to be delivered for both iOS and Android applications in sync, such that new features go to the end-user at same time. 
• Lead the design of Android and iOS applications in a modular fashion with reusable components.
• Proactively identify issues related to memory consumption, battery drain and multi-threading in the application by planning regular tests and analysis.
• Deliver Android and iOS applications with integration to backend services deployed on the cloud with high quality and responsiveness. 
• Create strong practices around test driven development, automating delivery of apps to the marketplace with strong CI/CD practices.
• Manage a highly skilled and efficient team by hiring, keeping the team motivated, and managing performance.
• Play the role of an unblocker in a tight scrum environment. Should be able to help other developers with challenges, problem solving, and help achieve milestones as per plan.
• Prioritize to manage ad-hoc requests in parallel with ongoing projects.
• Hands on with programming with 50%+ of bandwidth going into modules owned.

Skills/Experience

• A highly talented developer with 10+ years of hands-on experience in building apps that have been released to the Play Store(Android) and Appstore(iOS). 
• Demonstrated experience managing teams of 5-10 or more engineers in mobile application teams.
• Strong knowledge of Android, Kotlin, iOS, Swift, Objective C and working with MVVM, MVP, MVC patterns.
• Experience building mobile applications which lean heavily on connecting to cloud services to gather data and stream videos/content. 
• Working knowledge of Xamarin or Flutter (cross platform frameworks) is highly preferred. 
• Practitioner of test driven development practices. Experience in creating and adhering to best practices for development.

• Apply knowledge of Javascript (ES6) including all the latest features
• Usage of third party libraries for Maps, UI scaling, Styles, Secure storage, Permissions, Navigation, Splash screen, Network. Analytics. Push notifications, Localization, Calendar, etc.
• Build and run apps using Xcode, and Android Studio
• Persistence support using frameworks like Realm
• Comprehend performance issues and solve them
• Knowledge of Git (including merging, branching and resolving merge conflicts)

• Ability to create flexbox driven UI layout
• Configuring ESLint for JS code linting
• Being aware of alternate state management mechanisms like MobX
• Is proficient in either iOS or Android programming too.

• Knowledge of all aspects of React framework
• Components, containers, JSX specification of component UI layout, Component lifecycle
• Props and State mechanism used for data flow
• Various kinds of views (text, button, scroll view, flat list, etc.)
• Navigation
• RN animations and gesture system fundamentals
• Redux state management library
• React Router usage
• JSON/XML parsing

Hey 

We are looking for freelance iOS Developers for our new startup. 

If you believe you are a developer who can follow all best practices and create quality apps, only then apply for this job. 

We can allow you to work on your desired time frames each week, but we are strict about deadlines. 

We expect you to be good at

- Managing rest services 
- Managing cache and permanent storage

- Preparing pixel perfect UI which is compatible with all screen sizes (designs will be given)

- Daily pushing your code using Git 

- Writing clean and understandable code

All the best!

• Can work independently on the Android Development platform
• Must have knowledge of both Java and Kotlin
• Good understanding of Architecture such as MVVM and MVP.
• Must have at least 3 Good quality Android apps in the portfolio to showcase