Our Mission
Mercari is a Japan-based company with the mission of “create value in a global marketplace where anyone can buy & sell.” Having continuously worked toward this goal since our founding in 2013, we are now transforming from a startup into a global player. While this transformation brings its own specific set of challenges, we believe that solving them one after another will allow us to fully achieve our mission. Are you interested in working together to take on these exciting challenges?
Our Culture
To achieve our mission at Mercari, our organization and each of our employees share the same values and perspectives. Our individual guidelines for action are defined by our three values: Go Bold, All for One, and Be a Pro. Our organization is also shaped by our four foundations: Sustainability, Diversity & Inclusion, Trust & Openness, and Well-being for Performance. Regardless of how big Mercari gets, the culture will remain essential to achieving our mission and something we want to preserve throughout our organization. We invite you to read the “Mercari Culture Doc,” which summarizes the behaviors and mindset shared by Mercari and its employees. We continue to build an environment where all of our members of diverse backgrounds are accepted and recognized, and where they can thrive while holding dear to Mercari’s culture.
Work Responsibilities
- Native Android app development for Mercari and group companies' apps
- The development environment is as follows.
- Development language: Kotlin
- Development environment: Android Studio
- Build tool: Gradle
- CI/CD: CircleCI
- Others: GitHub, Firebase, Slack, Figma, JIRA, Confluence
Minimum Requirements
- Shared understanding and belief in Mercari Group mission and values
- At least 3 years of experience developing native Android applications with Kotlin Developing, operating, making decisions when selecting technology, and continuous improvement of large-scale product codebases
- Ability to design and develop with performance and scalability in mind
- Extensive knowledge of object-oriented software development, networking, memory management, and software testing
- Good communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate with multiple stakeholders
- Familiarity with architecture frameworks like MVVM, MVP, declarative UI, or similar architectures
Preferred Requirements
- Experience using and installing Jetpack functions such as Android Architecture Components
- Understanding of UI development
- Familiarity with Agile methodologies like Scrum, Kanban, etc
- Experience in iOS or web development
- OSS contribution experience/familiarity with the OSS community
- Customer-centric product development in E-commerce/Fintech
- Working in multi-cultural and diverse teams
- Team Leadership experience
Working Conditions
Employment Status
Full-time
Office
Bangalore
- Hybrid Workstyle
Work Hours
- Full flextime (no core time)
- *Does not apply to all positions
About Mercari, Inc
Launched in 2013 and becoming the first Unicorn company in Japan, Mercari Group is a Japan-based corporate group operating in both Japan and the US. Our mission is to create value in a global marketplace where everyone can buy and sell.
Mercari is the largest marketplace platform with over 20 million monthly users in Japan. Through the Mercari app, users can sell their used or unwanted items to those who need them just by taking a photo and entering in some basic information. We are constantly developing our app to provide an environment where anyone can conduct transactions easily, safely, and securely. As part of these efforts, we have invested in the latest technologies such as AI and machine learning, and have released various functions such as escrow payment, AI listing, and barcode listing.
The app currently operates in Japan and the US, with 5.6 million monthly users in the US (as of 2022.3).
We have also successfully launched new businesses such as our mobile payment service Merpay. Today, Mercari Group is made up of multiple subsidiary businesses, including those involved in logistics, B2C e-commerce, blockchain, and sports team management.
Mercari India located in Bengaluru will harness the infinite power of technology to create high-quality service where our people come together to build products that will further strengthen our leadership position in a global product market.
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Technology, Information and Internet
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Your primary focus will be the development of Android applications and their integration with back-end services.
Objectives of this Role
● Possesses a passion for pushing mobile technologies to the limits.
● Work with our team of talented engineers to design and build the next generation of our
mobile applications.
● Can work in a creatively driven organization with an analytical and focused approach to
development and can support, understand, and improve the creative process.
● Self-motivated and flexible with strong interpersonal and organizational skills.
Responsibilities
● Translate designs and wireframes into high-quality code
● Design, build and maintain high performance, reusable, and reliable Java code
● Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the application
● Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs
● Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization
● Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize
development efficiency
● Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability
Skills and Qualifications
● Strong knowledge of Android SDK, different versions of Android, and how to deal with different screen sizes
● Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect Android applications to back-end services
● Strong knowledge of Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices
● Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning
● Strong understanding of the OOPS concept
● Working experience in Java and Kotlin language
● Knowledge of Offline Sync, Multithreading, Realm/Room/SQLLite databases, Live data, Socket Programming
● Good to have experience working with IOT projects, Bluetooth technologies
● Ability to design applications around natural user interfaces, such as “touch”
● Familiarity with the use of additional sensors, such as gyroscopes and accelerometers
● Knowledge of the open-source Android ecosystem and the libraries available for common tasks
● Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
● Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications
● A knack for benchmarking and optimization
● Understanding of Google’s Android design principles and interface guidelines
● Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
● Familiarity with continuous integration
Preferred Qualifications
● Bachelors/Masters (Computer Science)
● 2-3 years of experience in Java Development
● Deep understanding of the internals of Android frameworks, design guidelines, and best practices
● Track record of developing excellent Android apps that are published on Google Play
Store
Job Description:
1.Design mobile application interface design, navigation, and presentation along with developing
custom controls as required by the application.
2. Understand product development road map and execute rapidly to build mobile applications with
high quality.
3. Utilize native APIs to enable maps, in-app SMS and email features
4. Develop applications that controls handset resources
5. Able to lead and mentor team members
6. Troubleshoot to solve customer problems with help of Catalytic/firebase among other tools.
7. Deployment / Release understanding
8. Unit Testing
9. Good to have exposure to Kotlin, flutter, react native
10. Implement Deep Links and Notification Libraries
11. Understanding of battery/ram/network and other system resource saving strategies
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.
• 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).
• Should be comfortable in building a great consumer user interface.
Roles and Responsibilities
• Overall experience of 2-4 years in native Android.
• Android Developer with 2+ years of experience.
• Experience in Android (Android Studio, Java, Kotlin).
• 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.
❖ As an Android Engineer you will design, build and maintain an Android
app with the potential to unlock financial services for billions of people
in emerging markets.
❖ As a member of a small, nimble team, you'll work directly with our
product team to create beautiful, inspiring financial experiences for
our customers.
❖ One must be able to Contribute to design and development of
Android applications. (written in a mix of Java and
Kotlin).
❖ One must be able to Scope new projects and features with the
product team, and implementing them (including contributing to
some parts of our backend systems when needed).
❖ One must be able to Manage multiple projects simultaneously.
❖ One must Contribute to the overall engineering roadmap, including building out new
products for the Indian market and beyond.
❖ One must Mentor and teach other team members.
❖ One must be a passionate coder. He/She must start and/or contribute to projects
they’re excited about.
❖ One must be curious about new technologies and are eager to learn about and
contribute to all parts of the technology stack.
❖ One should be an excellent collaborator & communicator. He/She know that startup
are a team sport. He/She listen to others, aren’t afraid to speak your mind and
always try to ask the right questions.
QUALIFICATIONS
❖ One must have an experience architecting high-quality Android apps that
interact with RESTful APIs and enjoy keeping up with the latest frameworks
and development practices.
❖ One should understand the value of writing thorough test cases, and is
passionate about code quality and bug fixing.
❖ One should be excited by the prospect of working in a distributed team and
company, working with teammates from all over the world.
US A INDI A C ANADA PHI L I P P INE S Z YV K A . CO M
MUST TO HAVE
❖ Android application development
❖ Kotlin+java
❖ Product based experience
❖ Must have scaled up one project on your own.
GOOD TO HAVE
❖ Startup experience
❖ Python, ROR
Roles and Responsibilities
At least 5+ Yrs of experience of Android Java and Kotlin programming application development,
Experience of design and development of Enterprise grade Mobile application
Hands on experience in performance tuning, debugging, monitoring
Experience designing clean and maintainable APIs
Experience with multithreaded programming, reusable frameworks, UI components, Android Jetpacks
tools and optimization techniques
REST API based web service and other system integration, web service integration,
Preferably have working experience of technologies like webRTC, ReactJS, NodeJS, JSON, Other hybrid
application development platform
Previous experience of developing VoIP based solution, live streaming/video calling based application
Nice to have: experience on Server side technologies like: J2EE, PHP. RDBMS knowledge on
MySQL/Oracle; Other associated technologies like: Git, JIRA, AWS technologies, Linux; Agile development
methodologies; Design Patterns like: MVC, MVVM ; Knowledge on various Security standards
DevOps understanding is a plus.
Previous experience of working in Product/Solution development or Start-ups will be added advantage
Domain Knowledge: Health care
Good Communication skil
2. Worked on Android applications from scratch. Exposure to audio video content based applications is
preferred.
3. Up to date on upcoming trends in android and its ecosystem.
4. Sound knowledge about application performance tuning on all parameters like network utilization,
application size and battery usage.
5. Experience with dagger, retrofit, rx-android, android architecture components etc.
6. Hands on experience with test driven development, mock frameworks, modular code design and popular design patterns.
- Be psyched to push the boundaries of what an Android app can do
- Be comfortable digging around in Android source code
- Be an independent self-starter seeking innovation
- Like to ship fantastic products
- Have really good taste, considering form not just function.
- Be able to show published Android applications
- 4+ years of android experience
Big plus if you're experienced:
- In design and development of SDKs in Android
- Experience with messaging apps
- Experience with audio and video processing
- Working knowledge of Exoplayer
- Experience with NLP
- C/C++ and/or OpenGL
Skills
Dagger 2, Rxjava, Java, design patterns, software testing
We are looking for immediate joiners for the Android Developer position with our own organization.
Experience Required: 1+ years of Experience
The candidate must have:
Good Knowledge of Core JAVA
knowledge of Kotlin
Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle.
Knowledge of Integration any Payment Gateway
Knowledge of Integration of 3rd party SDK using Gradle
Good knowledge of Activity, Fragment, Services, Broadcast Receiver, and content provider.
Experience with offline storage e.g. SQL LITE
Strong knowledge of Android SDK
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