Technical Architect/Senior Software Engineer: Android

To be successful in this role, you’ll need to have the following skills:

● Love for coding: A fanatic about writing beautiful and scalable code.
● A sense of analytics: Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills. Should be resourceful,
innovative and inventive.
● Dynamic: Should be comfortable in dealing with lots of moving pieces. Have exquisite
attention to detail, and are comfortable learning new technologies and systems.
● Team player: Knack for influencing without being authoritative. Pitch in wherever the
team needs help, from writing blog posts to supporting customers.
● Accountability: High sense of ownership for your code and relentlessness to deliver
projects with high business impact.

KEY QUALIFICATIONS

● BE/BTech in Computer Science or related field.
● You have a minimum 3+ years of Android development and a strong understanding of
building complex layouts using Android SDK.

KEY SKILLS

● Strong computer system analysis and design skills in current methodologies and
patterns including object-oriented programming, MVC, MVP, MVVM etc.
● Proficient in working with multi-threaded apps, XML, JSON, web services, Android
development tools, and SDK.
● Experience in Kotlin, Dagger2 and RXJava and third-party libraries and APIs.
● Skilled in writing Unit Tests and/or Test Driven Development (TDD) preferred.

 

What you need to have:

We are looking for someone to own our Android app. This means leading the entire development process so that shopping from local stores through the app is a seamless experience.

Some basic requirements for the role:

● Strong core Java skills.
● You know the Android ecosystem inside and out and follow the latest improvements.
● You care about user experience and sweat all the little details.
● You understand the larger context of running a growing mobile + web service.
● Knowledge of RESTful web services, JSON, Postman.
● You’ve thought about how to bring great performance from an app that needs network access.
● You can point to your involvement in a working app in the Google Play.
● Strong knowledge of Android SDK, different versions of Android, and how to deal with different screen sizes.
● 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.
● 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 will be a plus.
● Should have published at least one or more original Android apps.

We Would Love If:

● You have worked on a live Android app, through scaling and performance issues.
● Develop and Manage Mobile Application for the Android Platform.
● Should have handled native device features, Map integration, Push Notification, and use of GIT for source code management
● Have excellent problem solving/ Debugging skills and manage technical challenges.
● Should have experience in developing web-services to integrate data from DB servers.
● Experience with JSON, XML, JavaScript, and interfacing applications with backend rest API integration.
● Solid grasp of algorithms, memory management, object-oriented programming, MVC programming, and concurrent programming.
● Should be a stickler for a clean and efficient Code.
● Create detailed technical documentation with architecture, UI design flows, and technical specifications.
● Knowledge & experience in Android, Java, Kotlin, Flutter



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