Software Engineer - IV - Android at Plumhq · Bengaluru (Bangalore) · 5 - 7 years · ₹15L - ₹30L / yr · Raised funding · Posted 29 Jul 2022

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. Majority of Indians won't be able to afford a 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 a group insurance. The platform enables realtime insurance design & pricing to enable companies to buy insurance in 3-clicks. And offers employees a 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)
Role and Responsibilities
- 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 Android 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.
Qualifications
- 3 + years of experience of Android SDK, different versions of Android, and how to deal with different screen sizes.
- Experience with local databases, offline storage, threading, and performance tuningExperience with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose is desirable.
- Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect Android applications to back-end services
- Familiarity with the use of additional sensors, such as camera, 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

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Position: Senior Android Developer
Experience: 5+ Years
Location: Gurugram
Employment Type: Full-Time
Work Mode: Onsite
About the Role
We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced Android Developer with 5+ years of strong hands-on experience in Android application development. This role will involve designing, developing, maintaining, and enhancing high-quality Android mobile applications. Strong expertise in Android development, application architecture, API integration, debugging, performance optimization, and production deployment.
Mandatory Skills & Experience
· 5+ years of professional experience in Android application development.
· Strong hands-on Android development experience is mandatory.
· Strong proficiency in Kotlin and/or Java.
· Strong understanding of the Android SDK, Android Studio, Android application lifecycle, UI components, layouts, and navigation.
· Experience developing and deploying production applications on the Google Play Store.
· Strong experience with REST APIs, JSON, API integration, and third-party SDK integration.
· Good understanding of mobile application architecture and design patterns.
· Experience with Git and modern version-control practices.
· Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and problem-solving capabilities.
· Good working knowledge of React Native is required.
· Ability to understand, debug, maintain, and contribute to an existing React Native codebase.
· Good understanding of React Native components, navigation, API integration, and state management.
Key Responsibilities
· Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable and high-performance Android applications.
· Take complete ownership of Android application development from requirement analysis to production deployment.
· Develop clean, maintainable, reusable, and efficient code following Android development best practices.
· Integrate REST APIs, third-party APIs, SDKs, payment gateways, push notifications, analytics, and other mobile services.
· Troubleshoot and resolve application crashes, performance issues, memory leaks, UI issues, and other production problems.
· Perform code reviews and contribute to improving development standards and engineering practices.
· Optimize applications for performance, scalability, security, responsiveness, and reliability.
· Implement new features and enhancements based on business and product requirements.
· Work with existing React Native applications and contribute to feature development and maintenance when required.
- Experience working on SaaS, enterprise, or large-scale mobile applications.
- Understanding of Agile/Scrum development methodologies.
· Experience working on both Android and iOS applications.
- Experience integrating payment gateways and third-party SDKs.
Experience and Required Skill Sets:
1 Solid experience in software design and development using Microsoft ASP.NET framework, C#, Visual Studio, and in writing clean, readable, and easily maintainable code
2 5+ years of experience in WCF, WPF, VB.NET, SQL Server, JQuery, Angular 10 and above.
3 5+ years of experience in developing highly scalable REST/Web APIs
4 5+ years of experience in developing highly efficient SQL/NoSQL Queries
5 5+ years of experience in Relational and Document databases
6 Strong understanding of object-oriented programming and possess strong fundamental design principles for building a scalable application.
7 Experience in using the MVC framework, working knowledge in APIs, and Service Oriented Architecture
8 Strong understanding of object-oriented programming and possess strong fundamental design principles for building a scalable application.
9 Experience in Angular version 10 and above is required
10 Expert in SQL programming & Database Design (Stored procedure, Function, Trigger, Constraints, Replication)
11 Strong ability in HTML and JavaScript (AJAX, DOM)
12 Development experience with data integration technologies including REST, SOAP, JSON, XML
13 Expertise in programming and usage of any unit testing framework. Expertise in integration testing and continuous integration.
14 Experience working in a DevOps environment will be an added advantage.
Responsibilities:
• Ability to create complex, enterprise-transforming applications that meet and exceed client expectations.
• Responsible for the bottom line. Strong project management abilities. Ability to encourage the team to stick to timelines.
• Follow best-in-class coding practices and review the solutions vis-à-vis the requirements and technical specifications.
• Should demonstrate strong client interfacing capabilities like emails and calls with clients in the US/UK







