Sr. React Native Developer

Job Overview:

We are looking for a passionate and experienced Android Developer with strong expertise in Kotlin to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have a firm understanding of mobile development principles and will be responsible for delivering high-quality, accessible, and scalable Android applications.

Key Responsibilities:

·         Design, develop, and maintain Android applications using Kotlin

·         Collaborate with cross-functional teams throughout the software development life cycle

·         Integrate RESTful APIs and third-party libraries into mobile applications

·         Ensure mobile applications meet accessibility and usability standards

·         Participate in agile ceremonies and contribute to continuous improvement

·         Engage in the full software development lifecycle including design, coding, testing, build, deployment, and maintenance

·         Follow DevOps practices for CI/CD and automation

·         Apply methodologies such as BDD (Behavior-Driven Development), ATDD (Acceptance Test-Driven Development), and TDD (Test-Driven Development) in day-to-day development

·         Actively participate in code reviews, design discussions, and team meetings

·         Lead and influence key stakeholders when required

Required Qualifications & Skills:

·         5+ years of hands-on commercial software development experience in Android using Kotlin

·         BS/MS in Computer Science or related discipline

·         Solid understanding of software development principles and mobile platform limitations

·         Proven experience in building and publishing Android applications

·         Strong knowledge of RESTful APIs and integration techniques

·         Deep understanding of mobile accessibility standards and implementation

·         Experience working in Agile/Lean environments

·         Exposure to DevOps models and CI/CD pipelines

·         Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

·         Strong team player with leadership potential

About WeSkill: WeSkill is an early-stage funded EdTech startup. Founded by alums from IIMA, IITB and IITD. We are on a mission to reimagine holistic education for kids in India.

As a Full Stack App Developer, you will:

• Be a core team member and ride alongside the founders in a high-growth journey

• Play the role of a tech-lead on various projects, and establish yourself as an SME in certain areas

• Design, build and maintain high performance, reusable, and reliable code

• Write Unit & UI tests, set up dashboards and alerting, uncover and fix bugs, crashes, and other issues, in order to ensure a robust app

• Analyze and optimize UI and infrastructure application code for quality, efficiency, and performance

• Mentor, coach and develop engineers and lead by example

• Collaborate with Product Designers to deliver compelling consumer-facing products on the Android Platform

We are looking for:

• Minimum experience of 3 years in developing android applications with proficiency in Kotlin/ Flutter
• Strong preference for candidates who've worked for a consumer-facing product company or social media or EdTech company
• Experience in defining system architectures and exploring technical feasibility tradeoffs.
• Have experience with common Android libraries like Retrofit, OkHttp, Picasso, RxJava, Gson, Arch-components, etc.
• Debugging skills, including identifying memory leaks, performance bottlenecks, and using tools like adb, proguard, etc
• Experience with multithreading programming and mobile memory management is a plus

Pay range: Competitive salary with generous ESOP pool

Position: Senior Android Developer

• 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.  

• Part of the core team responsible for powering the various apps and moving parts of the product
• Architect, build and maintain excellent React Native applications with clean code.
• Integrate third-party API's.
• Release applications to the Apple and Google Play stores.
• Design new and re-design existing user-facing features
• Design, build and own key technology decisions and implementations
• Wear multiple hats - that of an architect, developer or product owner
• Collaborate with other team members to find optimal solutions and engineering workarounds based on resource/time constraints
• Communicate development status and features to the rest of the team members
• Manage interactions with designers, testers and other developers
• Define and enforce front end coding standards, accessibility and other technical standards

Required Skills :

• 4 - 6  years of overall software development experience
• 3+ years of professional experience in Native React
• Highly proficient in rendering components with Native APIs
• Highly proficient in JavaScript, modern JavaScript, HTML, 
• Highly proficient in one or more libraries (e.g. Redux, React Router, etc) for state managing and routing in addition to React.
• Proficient in using Git as a control system 
• Experience with collaborative code development in small agile teams and managing releases (Git, Gerrit, Continuous Integration)
• Outstanding understanding of software design and architecture
• An understanding of React Native best practices and a commitment to following them.
• Ability to work through new and difficult React Native issues and contribute to libraries as needed.
• Ability to create and maintain continuous integration and delivery of React Native applications.

We are looking for someone having 4-7 years of experience in Android development with good work experience in writing & debugging Android applications, experience in OOPs fundamentals, Java, Kotlin, SQLite, MySQL database management system.

Responsibilities 

- Be involved in all aspects of development: playing a critical role in design, planning, development and deployment and help develop best practices for future development.

- Fast prototyping of proof-of concept features/applications based on a brief.

- Develop and maintain new features in Mobile Application development.

- Own the delivery of an entire piece of a system or application.

- Use technical knowledge and creative thinking to provide the most innovative solutions.

- Optimize the performance of the apps and keeping up to date with the latest industry trends in mobile technologies.

Technical Skills

- Comprehensive understanding of Android application architecture, Activities, Services, Intents, Content.

- Strong Kotlin development experience

- Strong OO design and programming skills in Java (J2EE/ J2ME)

- Familiar with the Android SDK and Studio.

- Experience in web service integration (SOAP, REST, JSON, XML) is desired.

- Architecture: MVP, MVC.

Non-Technical Skills

- Must have excellent oral and written communication skills

- Must be dedicated to delivering high-quality work and adhering to timelines

- Must be a good team player, good learner and a self-starter

- Must have the ability to work independently

- Must have good analytical and problem-solving skills

Punchh creates the consistent, modern experiences consumers expect by bringing the power of identity resolution into physical retail. Punchh is the leader in delivering one-to-one customer engagement and loyalty beyond mobile devices for a consistent brand experience through every channel. The Punchh Loyalty and Engagement Platform, powered through artificial intelligence, guides consumers through their lifecycle from first-time customer to superfan, building meaningful relationships and dramatically increasing lifetime customer value. Nearly 200 global enterprise brands rely on Punchh to grow revenue by building customer relationships. The company is based in Silicon Valley, California with a second US office in Austin, TX and global offices across Canada, India, the United Kingdom, and Singapore.

About the role:

Punchh Tech India (Fully Owned Subsidiary of Punchh Inc., USA) is looking for creative React Native developers who think outside the box and can push the limits at times! These positions are about someone who is really passionate about creating world-class mobile apps in Android and/or iOS and has a serious app store portfolio to prove it. You will be in deep at every step of the development process and must be hands-on. Involvement from brainstorming to pushing ideas to the team and getting the apps out of the door in as little time as possible. You will also be a devil's advocate and look for flaws, suggest the remedy and motivate team members.

Job Location: Jaipur / Delhi NCR

Experience Required: Relevant 2+ years in React Native.

Skillset Required:-

• Good knowledge of JavaScript, OOPS, React- Native, mobile app lifecycle, GIT/SVN.
• Good understanding of UI/UX, app preformation, memory optimisation, delivery feasibilities, coding best practices, design principles.
• Ability to integrate existing components and make custom react - native components
• Ability to think laterally and contribute to problem-solving.
• Must be skilled and enthusiastic to explore new technologies and techniques to achieve project requirements.
• Understanding requirements and functional specifications and well versed with design programming principles.
• Knowledge of react native(RN) as a primary and knowledge of Android or iOS development as secondary skills required.

Benefits:

• Medical Coverage, to keep you and your family healthy.
• Compensation that stacks up with other tech companies in your area.
• Paid vacation days and holidays to rest and relax.
• Healthy lunch provided daily to fuel you through your work.
• Opportunities for career growth and training support, including fun team building events.
• Flexibility and a comfortable work environment for you to feel your best.

- 2+ years of hands-on programming experience in building native iOS apps, with deep focus on usability, performance, Core Data and integration with REST APIs & services.

- Built real world apps that are published on the app store.

- Experience in OO design, design patterns & fluency in Objective-C programming (exposure to Swift or React Native would be a plus)

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

- Experience with third-party libraries and APIs, consuming REST Web Services

- Unit/Integration tests

- 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

- Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance UI development with Interface Builder and Code, including Auto Layout