Technical Architect / Principal Engineer - Android SDK

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!

Responsibilities

Understand systems enabling third party integration 

Translate business requirements to the APIs and SDKs exposed by these systems. Figure out the optimum interfaces to interact with these. 

Build generic connectors to interact with these technologies. 

Design, implement, deploy and maintain the connectors. 

Minimum Qualifications 

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related fields. 

Experience needs to be around 8+ years 

Strong problem-solving skills. 

Ability to understand the technology and its APIs in quick time. 

Strong design pattern fundamentals. 

Good core java skills like Multi-threading, collection framework. 

Good communication and mentorship skills 

Ability to put together architecture diagrams and designs 

NIRA is a new fintech venture, on a mission for financial inclusion. Our vision is a world where everyone can get access to credit in a manner that is fast, frictionless and fair. This statement of intent guides all our decisions and strategy. We are planning to launch in Q1 2018. Currently, only 10% of Indians can use banks when they need credit: banks typically require a high credit score or collateral, something most people don't have. It need not be this way. Using a combination of traditional data and the vast amount of digital data available, it is now possible to score the unscored. We want to reimagine the way loans are underwritten and bring access to credit to millions of underbanked in India. We can economically empower them to have greater control of their lives and provide downside protection in difficult times. We are addressing head-on a big challenge. It's also a great opportunity from both a commercial and societal impact perspective. We can improve lives for millions. It is no exaggeration to say that our addressable market will be 400mm within 5 years. It's pretty exciting we think. If our mission resonates with you, and you are a talented and hardworking individual that wants to commit yourself to an incredible yet surmountable challenge, then we want to hear from you. You'll work closely with the founders and share the responsibility to ensure the alignment of the technology strategy with the long term goals of the business. Within a small team of engineers, you'll facilitate the in house migration of product from software development partners, while managing business continuity during the launch phase. Roles & responsibilities: *Execute lean and fast experiments on a serverless microservices architecture *Understand the first product that has been built *Build new features in the existing product and launch new products *Contribute to instating the early internal security policies *Contribute in building the initial data infrastructure to process and consume the growing streams of data *Contribute to hiring and engineering team building efforts Skills & Qualifications: *Strong experience with Java *Experience with Android SDK gained while building and scaling mobile consumer products *1-2 years of experience in software development on AWS Lambda and NoSQL databases *Familiarity with AWS products - EC2, DynamoDB, S3, EMR etc *Familiarity with multiple layers of infrastructure and application stack - UI, application layer, database *Comfortable dealing with operational aspects like reporting, and infrastructure sizing *Be excited about the power of technology to transform finance for the better! Other keywords to help you find the job: fintech, India, social impact, early stage, lead engineer, senior engineer, Android engineer, Java engineer, consumer credit, startup

Job Responsibilities: 1. Design and build advanced applications for the Android platform 2. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features. 3. Work with outside data sources and APIs 4. Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability. 5. Work on bug fixing and improving application performance. 6. Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency. Must Haves: 1. 5 + years of experience in designing and building native applications in Android platform 2. Extensive experience in various Android versions, Android SDK and Android Studio 3. Hands on experience in developing Android applications using Kotlin 4. Knowledge of Reactive paradigm (RxJava/ RxAndroid framework), data binding and Android Lifecycle components 5. Strong on design patterns and coding standards 6. Unit test development experience or Test Driven development with use of tools like Robo electric 7. Experience in Github, code reviews and PRs 8. High proficiency in Web services integration using HTTP, REST, JSON and XML 9. Familiarity with Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices Expert in Layouts 10. Good understanding of push notification services 11. Proficient in designing clean and maintainable APIs 12. Strong Debugging skills required 13. Experience with multi-threading and memory management specific to mobile devices 14. Deep knowledge of the full mobile development life cycle 15. Strong problem solving skills needed to identify, research and resolve problems 16. Fluent in written and spoken English 17. Curiosity, Willingness and Ability to learn new technologies

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.

We are the fast growing company in the field of IOT and other core hardware equipment.

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Responsibilities: ● Setup the Eatery technology team over the course of time as the app scales. ● Will be initially responsible for development related fixes which can be later delegated to the team once hired. ● Should be able to do QC for work executed from third party vendors. ● Responsible for design, architecture and delivery for a feature/component/product with the highest quality ● Mentor and coach engineers to facilitate their development and provide technical leadership ● Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams to deliver end-to-end products & features ● Demonstrate the ability to multi-task and prioritize responsibilities based on changing requirements ● Estimate efforts, identify risks, device and meet project schedules & deadlines ● Runs review meetings effectively and drive the closure of all open issues on time ● Provide functional, design, and code reviews in relate d areas of expertise within team and cross-team ● Inculcate best software engineering practices, standards of code and help t he team deal with complexity and ambiguity ● Keep abreast with & provide guidance on the latest & emerging trends in web, mobile & associated spaces Requirements : ● 7 to 8 years of design and development experience buil ding highly scalable & distributed systems, performance benchmarking & tuning. ● 2 to 5 years of experience in building Tech Products with user focus ● 2 to 4 years of experience in managing small teams ● Development experience and proficiency in one or more languages/frameworks such as Java, Angularjs, Hibernate, JPA and a strong understanding of web fundamentals ● Understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, and CSS3 ● Active knowledge of web technologies (like AngularJS), DOM Components and Stylesheets ● Knowledge of Node.js and frameworks like Express. ● Knowledge of MongoDB ● Familiarity with core programming concepts and knowledge in Data Structures, Database management system(DBMS), Operating System and software development life cycle(SDLC) ● Experience with NoSQL and distributed database like Cassandra or Redis ● Strong understanding/expertise in building REST APIs/ Microservices architecture ● Familiar writing automated test cases for iOS providing adequate code coverage. ● Familiarity with Android application development & combined programming experience such as Objective C and/or Swift. ● Strong understanding of Android framework design patterns Who you are: ● You’re an active participant in the innovation & evolution of products in that you actively think about ways to improve things ● Thinking of problems & seeking plausible solutions comes naturally to you ● You set your own deadlines & don’t stop until you’ve smashed them ● You prefer to roll-up your sleeves & get down to business rather than stand back & orchestrate ● You hold a passion for products, empathy for users and aspire to make a big impact

If you're up for a challenge and willing to dive deep into fast paced and robust technologies driving every facet of our world. Shoot a mail and join us. [email protected]