Software Development Engineer Testing (SDET)

A bit about us

WeatherBug is a popular weather site and mobile app providing hyperlocal, live weather data and proactive alerting to consumer users. With over 15 million unique users per month, across all platforms, WeatherBug’s vision is to provide environmental intelligence for all aspects of people’s lives. The WeatherBug app is a top-rated weather app in the app stores. In 2019, WeatherBug was named the best weather app by MediaPost’s Appy Awards. WeatherBug is owned and operated by GroundTruth, a media company that turns real-world behavior into marketing that delivers real business results.

Learn more at 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.

A bit about you

A recognized expert in their professional discipline, with significant impact and influence on organizational policy and program development. Establishes critical strategic and operational goals, and develops and implements new products, processes, standards, or operational plans to achieve organizational objectives. Regularly leads projects of critical importance to the organization—projects that carry substantial consequences for success or failure. Requires strong influence and communication with executive leadership. Problems encountered are often complex and multidimensional, requiring broad-based consideration of variables that affect multiple areas of the organization.

You will:

• Develop production-ready code to meet scope of requirements.
• With guidance, update and create documentation as needed for new and existing solutions.
• Participate in code-reviews with comments to improve code quality, stability, and maintainability.
• Create and maintain unit and integration testing solutions. Be able to run your code in lower environments.
• Run tests on the mobile device to ensure code meets requirements
• Watch mobile releases for Android or iOS for features you developed
• Teardown your solutions across multiple environments and platforms.
•  Provide operational support of your deployed code
• Determine issues within your areas of expertise.
• Work with teams across the engineering organization to understand and incorporate client requirements into final solutions.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.

You have:

• Bachelor’s degree (4 years) in Computer Science or a related field, OR 5+ years of relevant software development experience.
• 3+ years of professional experience in software engineering.
• 2+ years of hands-on Android application development using Kotlin and Android Studio.
• Experience with modern Android libraries and frameworks, including Jetpack components (e.g., Navigation, Room, ViewModel, LiveData), Retrofit for networking, and image loading libraries (e.g., Glide, Coil).
• Proficiency with asynchronous programming using Kotlin Coroutines and Flow.
• Familiarity with dependency injection frameworks such as Dagger/Hilt or Koin.
• Experience with app architecture patterns such as MVVM or MVI, and clean architecture principles.
• 2+ years of experience working in Agile teams and participating in iterative development cycles.
• Strong understanding of object-oriented design principles, design patterns, best practices, performance optimization, and memory management.
• Experience with unit and UI testing frameworks (JUnit, Mockito, Espresso).
• Familiarity with Git and collaborative version control workflows.
• Exposure to CI/CD tools and automated build/deployment pipelines.
• Ability to independently take ownership of tasks and deliver robust solutions.
• Commitment to writing clean, maintainable, and well-documented code.

Would be great if you have:

• Experience with React Native, including building function components, using hooks, and working with JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Knowledge of Play Store processes, including app signing, publishing, and release management.
• Familiarity with ingesting and exposing large datasets in the weather industry.
• Experience in the advertising industry.
• Proficiency with tools like GitHub, Jenkins, Artifactory.

You are:

• A team player who is organized, flexible and willing to adapt
• Not afraid of new technologies and driven to learn
• A detail-oriented person, who catches problems early and adjusts
• A strong communicator who is able to collaborate with multiple business and engineering stakeholders and work through conflicting needs
• A problem solver who likes to dive deep into a problem, diagnose root causes and work with multiple teams to come up with a solution
• Organized with demonstrated ability to prioritize and deliver timely work
• A team player and not afraid to roll up your sleeves and help when needed
• Self-sufficient and not afraid to take the lead and manage tasks independently
• Coachable and open to feedback
• Respectful–-we treat each other with respect and assume the best of one another
• Not afraid to have fun!

What we offer

At GroundTruth, 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

● Covid home quarantine cover

● 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

●  Home office set up

●  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

●   New joiner relocation

Key Responsibilities

The Mobile Lead Developer with a minimum of 3-6 years of experience to develop a React Native Mobile App

Job Overview

The primary role of this position will be to develop rich Mobile/Web applications for a new Reillo product.

Primary Skills

·        Experience with popular application development frameworks such as React Native with excellent JavaScript, Typescript, ES6 or greater, HTML5, and CSS development skills

·        Experience in iOS and Android Application development

·        Experience with modern front-end build pipelines and tools such as Webpack

·        Solid understanding of MVC, stateless APIs, Redux and building RESTful APIs

·        Experience on tools like Jest or React Testing Libraries

·        Familiarity with code versioning tools such as Git

·        Ability to communicate effectively and make effective presentations

·        Experience with ReactJS for Web App development will be an added advantage.

JD- Senior Flutter Developer

We are seeking an experienced Senior Flutter Developer with 3-5 years of experience to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in mobile app development using Flutter, with a focus on building high-quality, performance-driven applications.

Key Responsibilities:

• Mobile App Development: Design and develop mobile applications using Flutter framework, ensuring high performance, responsiveness, and scalability.
• UI/UX Design Implementation: Translate UI/UX designs into high-quality code, with a focus on maintaining consistency and adherence to design guidelines.
• Cross-Platform Development: Leverage Flutter's cross-platform capabilities to develop applications that run seamlessly on both iOS and Android platforms.
• API Integration: Integrate with backend services and APIs to fetch and process data, ensuring seamless communication between the mobile app and server-side components.
• Code Optimization: Identify and address performance bottlenecks and optimize code for maximum efficiency and speed.
• Testing and Debugging: Conduct thorough testing and debugging to ensure the stability and reliability of the mobile applications.
• Version Control: Collaborate with the development team to manage code repositories using version control systems such as Git.
• Documentation: Maintain comprehensive documentation for codebase, APIs, and development processes to facilitate collaboration and knowledge sharing.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 3-5 years of experience in mobile app development, with a focus on Flutter framework.
• Proficiency in Dart programming language and Flutter SDK.
• Strong understanding of mobile app architecture and design patterns.
• Experience with state management solutions such as Provider, Bloc, or Redux.
• Knowledge of RESTful APIs and asynchronous programming.
• Familiarity with mobile app testing frameworks such as Flutter Test or Mockito.
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills.
• Strong communication and collaboration abilities.
• Experience with agile development methodologies is a plus.

• Writing clean and efficient code for Android applications.
• Atleast published 1-2 apps on play store.
• Identifying and resolving bottlenecks, rectifying bugs and enhancing application performance.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to define and design new features.
• Staying up to date with new mobile technology trends, applications, and protocols.

• You have prior exposure to Kotlin, Android SDK.
• Understanding of design patterns and mobile architecture using frameworks such as MVVM / MVC / MVP.
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to effectively integrate Android applications.
• Understanding of code versioning tools such as Git.
• You are a problem solver with good analytical skills.
• Prior experience in accessibility applications or voice-based applications will be a plus not a necessity
• Passion to work in dynamic, start-up environment

Office Location: Goregaon Mumbai

Position description:

2+ years of development experience with mobile application development for Android.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Work closely with the core team for coming up with new features and implementing them
• Work on new products and services
• Provide support to existing applications
• Integrate REST services into mobile applications

Required Skills:

Mandatory: Passionate about sports, Problem solving, Team player, Target & Result oriented.

Functional Skills: Kotlin, Retrofit, Room Db, GSON, (Room/SQLite), MVVM, MVP, MVC, Work Manager, Rx java, Dagger 2, Recyclerview, Custom Solutions & Custom Views, GIT & JIRA.

• HTTP APIs 
• SQLite
• Firebase
• Git

• AWS
• MQTT
• IoT
• AWS Cognito 
• Knowledge about Hardware IoT, ESP32, ESP8266, NodeMCU etc.