Sr. Mobile Developer (Android + IOS)

• Design and develop mobile applications in true service oriented architecture.
• Building mobile applications on Android platform using Java, Kotlin, etc
• Worked on major architectures like MVVM, MVP

• Deep tech skills in flutter
• Good programming knowledge of DART
• Knowledge of REST API and JSON
• Self start and dynamic 

Our Engineering Team 

Keka Engineering Team follows modern engineering practices and works with latest stack. Refactoring is central to our philosophy to evolve the design, maintain code consistency and adapt to dynamic business needs. We believe in DevOps practices, there is no fixed release cycle; our CI/CD pipeline, deployment automation, blue-green deployment and other related practices gives us flexibility to deploy multiple times a day (if required). Our Engineering team is made up of small cohesive teams embracing Agile; working on focus areas to deliver awesome experiences to our Customers. Keka Engineering Team works on complex technical challenges, learns & adapts and most importantly; we have fun along the way.  

As a Mobile developer you are required to work with a team of architects, and developers to create mobile applications.

·       Design and build applications for the iOS platform

·       Ensure the performance, quality, and knowledge of best practices

·       Collaborate with a team to define, design, and ship new features

·       Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs

·       Help maintain code quality, organization, and automation.

·       Working knowledge of the general mobile orientation, architecture, trends, and emerging technologies.

·       Solid understanding of the full mobile application development life cycle.

·       Must have good analytical, debugging, and problem-solving skills.

·       Self-starter having the ability to independently acquire the knowledge required in succeeding his job.

·       Good communication skills. Should be able to discuss requirement for stake holders like, Product Owner and other Business stakeholders

·       Proficient with Swift 5 & above

·       Strong understanding of MVVM Architecture and should be able to demonstrate working experience

·       Strong knowledge of Design patterns

·       Strong with Auto layout and Storyboard for proficient user interface creation

·       Experience with iOS frameworks such as Core Data, Core Animation, etc.

·       Experience with Online/Offline storage, threading, and performance tuning

·       Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect iOS applications to back-end services

·       Knowledge of UX standards

·       Should have experience with Unit Testing

·       Understanding of Apple's design principles and interface guidelines.

·       Review code, follow best practices for coding guidelines

·       Proficient with writing reusable code

·       Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications, social media integration, and integration of analytics

·       Knack for benchmarking and optimization

·       Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (Git / SVN, Swift Package Manager, Cocoa Pods)

·       Familiarity with continuous integration

·       Knowledge of Appstore Deployment process/norms

·       Good knowledge of Certificate and Profile creations

·       Good knowledge of distribution builds for testing over TestFlight or similar distribution tools.

• Design and build advanced applications for the iOS platform

• Experience is required in IOS

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.

• 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.

• Working experience in iOS development using Swift, RX Swift,

• Have published one or more iOS apps in the app store

• A deep familiarity with Objective-C and Cocoa Touch

• Experience working with iOS frameworks such as Core Data, Core Animation, Core Graphics and Core Text

• Experience with third-party libraries and APIs

• Working knowledge of the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies

• Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle

• working experience on Media streaming

• Working experience on Modular programming, RX Swift, Auto layout, Push Notification & Deep Linking.

Lead Engineer - 

Responsibilities:

• Leads a project end-to-end and collaborates across functions. Drives planning, estimation and execution.
• Understands requirements well and comes up with efficient design
• Develops complex, well backed and bug-free products. Estimates accurately.
• Takes well-reasoned tech decisions keeping in mind goals and trade-offs
• Becomes a go-to person in more than one area. Provide technical mentoring to team
• Communicates clearly, gets clarifications and establishes expectations for all parties
• Helps establish SDLC best practices and high standards of code quality
• Demonstrates excellent problem solving & debugging skills
• Proactively identifies and resolves issues in requirements, design and code
• Perform peer code reviews and help us all get better.

Requirements:

• Solid experience in JAVA and Kotlin.
• Should have experience in Reactive programming, Asynchronous programming and Unit Testing.
• Has an ability to quickly learn and contribute in multiple codebase.
• Overcomes roadblocks and requires minimal oversight
• Takes initiatives to fix issues/tech debts before assigned to him/her.
• Able to deep dive into codebase and advise QA of possible regression impact.
• Communicates tech decisions through design docs and tech talks.
• Has delivered projects with end-to-end accountability.
• Keeps track of industry trends and introduces right tech/tools for a given job.
• Excellent understanding of software engineering practices, Design Patterns, Data Structures, Algorithms.
• 5+ years of experience in a product-driven organisation.

• 2+ years of relevant experience in Android Development.
• Should be strong in Android fundamentals (including UI design), OOP & Java fundamentals.
• Should be strong in Kotlin fundamentals and coroutines.
• Familiar with Android Architectures, Multithreading Concepts, Testing framework like JUnit, Espresso, Mockito and Reactive Programming.
• Familiar with Dependency Injection and memory optimization techniques.
• Practitioner of SOLID principles.
• Working experience in Compose and KMM (Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile) is an addon
• Should have been part of a team which has shipped at-least one App and lived through the process without too many scars
• Stellar problem solving skills
• Hunger to learn new things and ability to grasp new concepts quickly
• Ability to move quickly without breaking things too much (we are dreamers)
• Passion for developing awesome user experiences
• Ability to work under pressure which is balanced by a sense of responsibility and ownership.

Here’s what you will do day-to-day:

Brainstorm, contribute new ideas, conceive innovative strategies, and implement solutions to difficult problems

Work with fellow designers and developers in an iterative environment with short and impactful development cycles 

Exploit the most advanced Android APIs and platform features to build innovative solutions to real-world problems 

Build all the necessary tools and infrastructure to enable rapid mobile development 

Work closely with our backend team to interface with RESTful API services 

Work with real-time feedback from our users to make the product better 

Discover, design, develop, deploy, debug. Repeat! 

Why work with us?

Work in a very small, highly talented team consisting IIT alumnus and rockstar developers

High standard of engineering quality 

Work on cutting edge technologies in android development so that you are always updated with the trends in android community. P.S. We hate outdated technologies! 

High impact role at fast paced growth company 

Skills we are looking for - Android Engineer:

Must be able to independently design, code and test major features, as well as work jointly with other team members to deliver complex changes.

Strong object-oriented design and coding skills (Java, Kotlin) 

Solid software development background including design patterns, algorithms, data structures 

Experience with MVVM or MVP or Clean architecture 

Experience with mobile data storage with SQLite/Room or other DBs including no-SQL 

Understanding of RxJava, Dependency Injection frameworks like Dagger 2 

Good experience in memory management, performance tuning, and resource optimizations 

Has published at least one app in play store 

Few Good to Haves:

Kotlin experience is a big plus

Experience working in a startup 

Experience with Camera and Google Maps apis 

Published apps in play store 

Github/Medium/StackOverflow presence 

Our Android Tech:

Clean architecture with best practices in MVVM 

Latest jetpack components 

Reactive programming 

Kotlin