Software Engineer I (React Native-Android UI Development)

About Plum

We are making health insurance - simple, accessible and affordable. Hundreds of businesses of all sizes from startups to large corporates trust Plum for their employee's health protection.

Healthcare in India is seeing a phenomenal shift. Healthcare cost is seeing an inflation that is three times the general inflation. Treatments of diseases including Covid-19 can wipe out entire household savings. The majority of Indians won't be able to afford health insurance on their own. As many as 600mn Indians would depend on employer-sponsored insurance.

Enter Plum. Plum is re-imagining the health insurance stack and accelerating the penetration of health insurance in India to 100%. Plum has forged new underwriting and fraud detection algorithms to enable companies as small as 2 to benefit from group insurance. The platform enables realtime insurance design & pricing to enable companies to buy insurance in 3-clicks. And offers employees hassle-free claims experience through an integrated digital process.

Plum is backed by leading global investors including Tiger Global, Sequoia Capital, Tanglin Ventures and Incubate Fund (read more https://www.plumhq.com/blog/plum-series-a-funding">here)

• Design, build, and maintain high-performance, reusable, and reliable Java code. 
• Translate designs and wireframes into high-quality components and modular code, ensuring the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the application
• Strong advocate of Google’s iOS design principles and interface guidelines
• Strong sense of ownership and integrity demonstrated through clear communication and collaboration.
• Having experience with building and maintaining an open source project or design library is a plus. 

• 3 + years of experience of iOS SDK, Swift and how to deal with different screen sizes. 
• Experience with local databases, offline storage, threading, and performance tuningFamiliarity with RESTful APIs to connect iOS applications to back-end services
• Familiarity with the use of additional sensors, such as camera, gyroscopes and accelerometers
• Knowledge of the open-source iOS ecosystem and the libraries available for common tasksAbility to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements

• Designing and building advanced applications for the Android platform
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features
• Unit-test coding for robustness, including edge cases, usability and general reliability
• Working on bug fixing and improving application performance
• Continuously discovering, evaluating and implementing new technologies to maximize development efficiency

Desired Candidate Profile

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related technical discipline
• 3-6 years Android app development experience
• Strong hands on experience in developing high performance mobile applications
• Strong knowledge of Java, Kotlin, 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
• Ability to design applications around natural user interfaces, such as touch
• Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications
• Familiarity with the use of additional sensors, such as gyroscopes and accelerometer
• Experience in BLE and BT
• Good understanding of unit, system and end to end testing and automation of mobile applications / Android applications
• Familiarity with the MVC and MVVM design patterns
• Knowledge of the open-source ecosystem and the libraries available for common tasks
• Experience building, testing and distributing native apps that consume RESTful services
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as GIT
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Good logical sense, strong technical skills and the ability to learn new technologies quickly    

• Create games in Unity for iOS and Android.
• Write super-clean, testable, and well-documented code in C#
• Collaborate effectively with a small, high-energy team of illustrators, designers, and programmers.
• Work with other developers to devise customized solutions to difficult problems.
• Self-motivation with a strong desire to learn and stay up to industry standards.
• Ability to prioritize tasks and contribute to multiple projects.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Capable of working independently and within teams.
• Deadline-oriented contributes to team efforts by accomplishing tasks on time.

• Engineering Graduates or Postgraduates with 2-5 years of experience in mobile development, who have designed and developed advanced applications for the Android platform in B2C domain. Experience of development of app for retail domain is an added advantage.  
• Must have working skills:  
  • Kotlin, RXJava, Dependency injection (Koin/Dagger) 
  • Unit Test 
  • Worked on multi-threaded applications 
  • MVP and MVVM 
• In depth understanding of Android recommended design principles, interface guidelines and coding best practices.  
• Experience with performance and memory tuning of complex apps.