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.






