Sr. Android Developer

About AbleCredit:

AbleCredit uses Generative AI with Voice, Vision, and Language capabilities, to solve the Credit Gap of emerging economies. In India alone, the Credit Gap is over USD 5T (Trillion!). This is the single largest contributor to poverty, poor genie index, and lack of opportunities. Our Vision is to deploy AI reliably, and safely to solve some of humanity's greatest problems. We believe in Impact and integrity above all else.

Overview:

We are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to build & lead our technical team in developing scalable systems using Node.js, MongoDB, Kafka, Elasticsearch, and other cutting-edge technologies. This role will involve close collaboration with the founders and product team to drive the technical vision and roadmap of our products. Fintech experience will be a significant advantage, particularly in areas involving machine learning and AI applications. If you have a proven track record of building and leading high-performing engineering teams and are passionate about creating innovative solutions in the fintech space, we want to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop high-quality, responsive, and performant mobile applications.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
• Maintain and improve existing codebases, ensuring the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the applications.
• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code following best practices and design patterns.
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Troubleshoot and debug applications, identifying and fixing bugs and performance issues.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends, technologies, and best practices to ensure continuous improvement.
• Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to peers.
• Assist in the planning, design, and implementation of application features and architecture.
• Work closely with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to deliver a seamless user experience.

What you should have:

• Proven experience as a Android Developer with at least 8 years of experience in mobile application development.
• Experience in building, deploying and scaling an Android or Flutter with more than 10000 users.
• Any experience with Flutter will be a huge bonus.
• Solid understanding of mobile application architecture, design principles, and best practices.
• Experience with third-party libraries and APIs.
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs and integration with backend services.
• Proficient in version control systems like Git.
• Experience with continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) practices is a plus.

Benefits:

• Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance
• PTO & Holidays
• Life Insurance

Note on Compensation Policy:

Hiring and nurturing the best talent is the central part of our business focus. As a result, we try and provide not just better than market salary, but have a strong, performance-based incentive structure for all the employees. The quoted salary is based on our best understanding of the market and is subject to increase for the right candidate depending upon their fitment, skills, and experience.

• Design and build application for iOS platforms
• Writing well designed, testable, efficient code by using the best software development practices
• Responsible for working on iOS frameworks, Xcode, Swift, Rxswift, Xcode SDK Platform tools
• Responsible to work on bug fixing and improving application performance
• Create and maintain software documentation
• Stay plugged into emerging technologies/industry trends and apply them into operations and activities 

As part of the Mobile SDK Engineering team at Flyy, here are some things you can expect:

• Take ownership and be responsible for what you build - no micromanagement
• Work with customer success team to enable Flyy customers to adopt Insights-led engagement in different industry sectors like e-Commerce, FinTech, OTT, Social, entertainment, travel, telco, food-tech etc.
• Explore the latest in topics like Mobile development, SDK, iOS, Android, tvOS various mobile hybrid frameworks and share with the team and more importantly, have fun while you work on scaling Flyy.

Skills Required :

• Minimum 1 years experience in iOS Development
• Minimum 6 months or 1 year of experience in Native Mobile Development
• Minimum 6 months or 1 year of experience in React-Native/Flutter framework
• Should be thorough with different architectures used in Mobile Development
• In-depth knowledge and understanding of Android/iOS framework:
• Multithreading concepts
• Persistent data storage
• Rest APIs Implementation
• Should know the internals of the mobile build and distribution processes
• Ready to learn and develop in any cross-platform frameworks
• Should be able to capture bottlenecks and improve them without or little supervision
• Awareness of Secure Development process and practices
• Awareness on Information Security concepts and Best Practices

Good to Have:

• Knowledge of other cross-platform frameworks i.e., Cordova, Unity, etc
• Experience in working and shipping SDKs/plugins

• Designing and building mobile applications for Apple’s iOS platform.
• Collaborating with the design team to define app features.
• Ensuring quality and performance of the application to specifications.
• Identifying potential problems and resolving application bottlenecks.
• Fixing application bugs before the final release.
• Publishing application on App Store.
• Maintaining the code and atomization of the application.
• Designing and implementing application updates

• Proven software development experience and ANDROID skills development
• Proven working experience in ANDROID app development and
• Have published at least one original ANDROID app
• Experience with ANDROID SDK
• Experience working with remote data via REST and JSON
• Experience with third-party libraries and APIs
• Working knowledge of the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies
• Experienced in SWIFT Language

• Design and build advanced applications for the Android platform
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features
• Work with outside data sources and APIs
• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability
• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency

• Translate designs and wireframes into high quality code for TV, tablets and mobile
• Design, build, and maintain high performance, reusable, and reliable Kotlin 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

Android Developer Requirements:

• Proven experience as an app developer (2 - 4 years).
• 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
• 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

Responsibilities and qualifications

• 5+ years of Android development experience
• Will own several parts of our tech stack, but primarily our Android app
• Build new functionality to the Android app and regularly re-architect it to keep up with latest technologies (e.g., Kotlin)
• Work on new tech that we are already a leading user of (e.g., Google Firebase)
• Work closely with the backend team to construct creative solutions
• Optimize, improve efficiency, scalability, stability of application
• MUST BE reliable, and be able to communicate clearly
• MUST BE able to own and deliver their own work within deadlines, professionally
• Should be passionate about building a strong engineering culture

Bonus Points for experience building high-scale applications, SDKs and other web technologies (like JavaScript).

Who we are

• Fast growing Chennai-based startup (with venture funding)
• Led by strong engineers with significant experience at top tier firms like McKinsey, Oracle, Morgan Stanley, and authors of multiple Java Standards
• Building an awesome product already used by Swigg etc.
• Raised investment, so this role will not vanish in a few months
• Mentors include the Vice Chairman of HCL, Chairman of Singapore Airlines, Senior leaders from LinkedIn etc.

Other background information

• Looking for strong, passionate developers who want to join our team and grow
• We move fast, and will make you an offer in a few days for the right person
• The job location will be in Chennai (it is the SaaS capital of India)
• Please only apply if you are open to moving to Chennai (or are already here)
• This won't be a 10 - 6 job, but you will be given amazing responsibilities
• You will learn a ton, have a lot of flexibility, and have fun while doing it!

Job Perks

• Daily breakfast
• Friday team lunches
• Macbook 
• Office near beach (for when people return after COVID)
• Potential for stock options (in lakhs)
• Stipend to attend conferences
• Potential travel to Singapore and other client locations