Technical Architect / Principal Engineer - Android SDK

Company Description

iCloudEMS, a market leader in providing cloud-based end-to-end comprehensive education management solutions, empowers learner-centric approaches in India, UAE, and Africa. Since 2011, iCloudEMS has been committed to revamping education through technology, offering integrated digital platforms for educational institutions. Our mission is to automate and streamline academic activities, making education management efficient and hassle-free. We aim to expand our reach in Asia and the Pacific, fulfilling diverse educational needs with innovative solutions.

Role Description

This is a full-time remote role for a We are looking for a Mobile Application Developer with strong expertise in PHP development to join our fast-growing EdTech product-based company. The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience in developing scalable mobile applications and be able to join immediately.

• Required Skills & QualificationsStrong knowledge of PHP and backend development.
• Experience in mobile application development (Android/iOS or hybrid frameworks).
• Hands-on experience with RESTful APIs and database management.
• Good understanding of software development life cycle (SDLC).
• Ability to write clean, maintainable, and efficient code.

• Preferred QualificationsExperience working in a product-based company, preferably in the Educational Technology (EdTech) domain.
• Candidates who can join immediately will be highly preferred.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms and version control systems (Git).

Industry

• Software Development

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• Provident Fund
• Work from home

1. Engineer with 4 - 10 years of experience in Android Framework /HAL/ driver development
2. Strong C/C++ development skills with a good understanding of object-oriented design
3. Good understanding of Android framework, overall Android Architecture.
4. Proficient in any one of following:
5. Android HAL amongst Audio, Graphics, Camera, Power etc.
6. Desirable experience with Multimedia framework such as OpenMAX, Codec2.
7. Experience with Android ML runtimes such as TFLite, ONNX Runtime, or custom delegates. Hands-on experience with hardware acceleration frameworks (e.g., NNAPI, OpenCL, VIRTIO, or custom IPC mechanisms).
8. Compliance to CTS/VTS and support in resolving defects
9. Strong background in embedded systems development
10. System knowledge, System Debugging

My Client's India is its largest studio outside USA with 400+ people and growing rapidly. It manages some of the biggest global games in the Casual Gaming, Action Strategy, Match-3, Slots, and Invest Express genres. The game teams are responsible for the long term-vision of the game, its entire Game Design & Tuning, Product Roadmap, Features, Content & Creative decisions, Art work (2D, 3D, Animation), Development, QA/Testing, Analytics & Performance Tracking, User Acquisition & Live Operations.

The India team is full of passionate gamers, who love to play, build great products, and have fun doing it. Studio I expect continued growth and is looking for strong leaders to expand the studio into this next growth phase.

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will be responsible for the software design of large scale applications and features & enhancements which reaches millions of players. You should be passionate about players, performance, scalability and holds a very high bar for quality of the game.

Responsibilities

• Work with Product Management to translate business requirements into technical requirements.
• Owns technical roadmap, design and review for end-to-end games, ensure design quality and integrity
• Modernizing the tech stack
• Bring tech innovations in the game which will help in growth of the games
• Design, code, and develop new features/fix bugs/add enhancements
• Analyze and improve efficiency, scalability and stability of various system resources
• Lead and Mentor junior engineers and drive a culture of technical perfection.
• Drive creative and innovative solutions to complex problems, exemplifying good technical discernment.
• Drive improvements and new approaches to address potential systemic pain points and technical debt, anticipate and avoid problems.
• Take a hands-on approach in the development of prototypes, independently and with others, to establish design decisions and/or technical feasibility.

Required Skills

• Masters or Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent
• A minimum of 7 years of professional experience in software development, mobile, desktop or web application development with hands on coding experience covering full stack
• Experience coding in C#, C++, Python, Javascript and SQL
• Working knowledge of mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies.
• A proven foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, OOPS and software design
• Strong problem solving and debugging skills
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a team environment.

Desired Skills

• Experience with mobile development – Android/iOS/Native OR on game engines such as Cocos-2D, Unity or other.

• Experience with Amazon Web Services (EC2, ELBs, ElastiCache, DynamoDB, terraform etc)
• Experience with setting up server monitoring, alerting and server provisioning
• Familiarity with micro service architecture, containers and related technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS)
• Experience with development tools & integrated build systems: XCode, IntelliJ, Git/Jenkins
• Experience of driving activities, review process to ensure software and product quality.
• Willing to pick up any languages, technologies, or methodologies necessary to smite a challenge—and if a conventional solution does not exist, then innovate as necessary.

What we offer you:

• Work in a studio that has complete P&L ownership of games
• Competitive salary, discretionary annual bonus scheme and  RSUs
• Full medical, accident as well as life insurance benefits
• Catered breakfast, lunch and evening snacks
• Child care facilities for women employees and discounted facilities for male employees
• Well stocked pantry
• Generous Paid Maternity/Paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Programs
• Active Employee Resource Groups – Women 
• Frequent employee events
• Additional leave options for most employees
• Flexible working hours on many teams
• Casual dress every single day
• Work with cool people and impact millions of daily players!

About Us

Instavans is a Logistics tech startup focused on the development of SaaS products for the Road Trucking industry. Instavans has built and rolled out SmarTruck™, a SaaS based TMS with a private marketplace. SmarTruck has customers in India & the MENA region and is poised to enter Latam and Sub-saharan Africa.

The company’s innovative go-to-market plan involves working with large Shippers and 4PLs (Fourth Party Logistics Service Providers) to synergistically bring their Carriers on board.

We are looking for people to help us supercharge our growth, while we continue to embody the values that have got us so far already. As we are a rapidly growing company you will gain exposure to all areas of the platform, understanding the key success drivers at an engineering team and gaining invaluable experience for your future career. Success in this role will lead to opportunities for growth across the entire engineering team with significant scope for future development.

We have openings in Frontend (Angular 8+), Backend(Node.js), Android (Kotlin) and QA (Automation)

Today, MoEngage is an industry pioneer in the space and engages more than 350M devices. This includes approximately 40B events tracked per month, 30B+ messages sent, to millions of users across the globe.

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

• Take ownership and be responsible for what you build - no micro management
• Work with A players (some of the best talent in the country), and expedite your learning curve and career growth
• Make in India and build for the world at scale of 350M active users, which no other internet company in the country has seen
• Learn together from different teams on how they scale to millions of users and billions of messages. 
• Explore the latest in topics like Data Pipeline, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Kafka, Spark, Samza and share with the team and more importantly have fun while you work on scaling MoEngage.

Skills required:

- Minimum 2 year experience in Android Development

- Good understanding of Java Programming language

    - OOPs concepts

    - Multi-threading

- Good understanding of Android Framework

    - Framework Components

    - Data Storage/Persistence

    - Offline support for application

    - Rest APIs

Good to Have:

- Knowledge and understanding of Kotlin

- Experience in building dynamic UI

- Knowledge of hybrid frameworks like React-Native/Cordova/Xamarin/Flutter, etc.