Technical Lead-Android

We are seeking extremely smart Android developers who are passionate about pushing mobile technologies to the limits.

• Design and develop products by working closely with business teams.
• Design super intuitive experiences in the next generation of our mobile applications.
• Build performant, scalable, yet secure, enterprise-ready android applications with architecture that is fast yet lean on the backend servers enabling them to support millions of users in parallel.
• Build enterprise-ready back end architectures that can support millions of users in parallel.
• Gain experience with hands-on coding and independent ownership of software components.
• Follow strong engineering best practices and champion their adoption.

• 2+ years’ experience in android software development and delivery.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in engineering from a reputed institute(preferably IITs, NITs, or other top engineering institutes).
• Strong grasp of CS fundamentals, algorithms and excellent problem-solving abilities.
• All experience should be from good product development or e-commerce background.
• Must have shown good stability in all your previous associations.
• Knowledge of UI architectural patterns like MVVM(preferable), MVC, MVP, data binding, activity & fragment lifecycle, recycler view, navigation component, layouts (constraint layout preferable), theming etc.
• Should have actively used retrofit, work managers, android jetpack, Rx java, dagger, retrofit, android sdk, GIT/bitbucket, gradle/ant and very keen on exploring other proven tech stacks.
• Comfortable with test-driven development in android with UI testing, instrumented unit testing and unit testing using junits, mockito or other tools.
• Willingness to learn and write simple backend REST API’s (preferably in Java, spring boot & hibernate) without having to completely depend on backend engineers for delivery.
• Has worked in a fast-paced agile organization building stateless and re-entrant/resumable android applications.

Requirements:

• Design and develop scalable IONIC applications using open source technologies.
• Develop a hybrid application with IONIC, cordova.
• Experience in HTML5 CSS, JQuery and Javascript.
• Experience in hosting application on Appstore.
• Work as part of an agile team on leading edge technologies.
• PHP & Apache stack with JavaScript, JQuery.
• Responsive Web design with HTML5 CSS3 Bootstrap.
• Social media APIs and third party widgets integration.
• Web services Integration - JavaScript and XML (Ajax), Representational state transfer (REST), Javascript Object Notation (JSON).
• End to End Role - Analyze Design, Develop, Deploy, Monitor, Enhance
• Experience on database systems.

Krafty Solutions is looking for an enthusiastic, energetic, young-minded mobile application developer who take pride in the work they do.

Krafty Solutions is a product design and development studio where you will learn a lot in your field by working in a very friendly environment. An opportunity will be given based on your preference.

About You

If you're the guy who has a strong bias for making things happen, always wears a smile on your face, with a proactive attitude then we would like to meet you. You will work closely with your team leader who will help you to learn new things as well as resolve your doubts. If you're interested in creating a user-friendly environment by writing code and moving forward in your career, then this job is for you. We expect you to be a tech-savvy professional, who is curious about new digital technologies and aspires to combine usability with visual design.

Knowledge

• Strong knowledge of OOP, Java and Android SDK.
• Experience in RESTful, JSON and XML parsing, SQLite, Push Notification, Payment Gateway Integration, In app Purchase
• Experience of integrating third-party libraries.
• Hands on with Kotlin, Android-KTX libraries and Unit testing (Junit, Espresso, Mockito, Firebase Test-case)
• Hand on experience on Android UI Development (Material Design Component), multiple device resolution support, landscape and tablet support, multi-language & RTL support in layout.
• Understanding of App Lifecycle, Activity, Fragment, Background Service, Broadcast, Gradle, Memory management, Threading etc.
• Understanding of architecture design patterns like MVP and/or MVVM
• Android jetpack component(Room, DataBinding, LifeCycle, LiveData, Navigation, Paging, ViewModel, WorkManager)
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (e.g. GIT)
• Data binding library, constraint layout, RxJava concepts,
• Experience with publishing app on Google Play Console and managing the app lifecycle
• GraphQL knowledge is a plus

Responsibilities and Duties

• Overall responsibility and accountability for Android App
• Hands-on coding, systems analysis, design, and delivery of projects assigned.
• Overall App Design - code, performance, security, size
• Deliver new features, execute on the roadmap and plan for the future.
• Convert app requirements into actionable and tangible items for all stakeholders
• Release planning and timely integration with other stakeholders (product, backend, frontend, ui/ux etc)
• Proactive ANR, other crash fixes etc
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development/performance etc
• Improve product quality through code reviews, writing effective unit tests, and collaborating with QA

Key Skills

• Kotlin, Java, RxKotlin, RxJava, Android SDK, Android Studio, Git Required
• Education - B.E/ B.Tech/BCA/MCA/MSc IT degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject
• Experience - 3-6 yrs

Benefits

• Great Company Culture - A relaxed, friendly and positive company culture with a dynamic young team
• Work-Life Balance - Genuine work/life balance served at Krafty.
• A Well Earned Rest - You will get 11 paid public holidays as well as 12 paid leaves. So, a total of 23 HOLIDAYS
• Flexible working hours - Reaching late at the office would never be an issue for you. Fully remote culture
• Weekends Off - Saturday & Sunday Fixed Off

The Role

We are looking for an experienced Software Engineer (React Native) who will lead the development for Jackett's mobile apps. Each day you'll design, build and ship features that will directly improve teachers' lives. You will shape our product direction and technical architecture for the years to come.

You'll report directly to the CTO and partner closely with teams across product and design to build React Native apps for Android and iOS from scratch. And we'll work together to create an environment where you can grow professionally. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Own the architecture, development and implementation of our mobile app to enable the team to quickly iterate a high-quality product.
• Implement clean, modern, smooth animations and transitions that provide an excellent user experience.
• Implement pixel perfect Ul's that match the designs.
• Create our iOS and Android deployment CI/CD pipeline to ship reliable features daily.
• Engage in technical research and champion best practices for writing clean, maintainable and reusable code with clear documentation.
• Accurately estimate time and effort required to deliver high quality features.
  Required Skills/Abilities:
• 4 + years of experience as a software engineer.
• Built and shipped high-quality mobile apps (android and iOS) using React Native.
• Production-level experience with Mobile C l / C D , unit testing and automated E2E testing
• Proficiency working with RESTful APIs.  
• Ability to take extreme ownership of your work and to deal with high pressure situations in a fast paced environment and meet targets without compromising the quality of the deliverables.
• Product understanding to break down user stories into high impact features.
• Excellent organisational and communication skills, especially for a remote first work environment   

Extra Credits for:

• Knowledge of AWS cloud infrastructure - CodePipeline, Amplify, CDN etc.
• Knowledge of TypeScript.
• Knowledge of SCORM and Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) framework
• Experience of React Native development at an early stage EdTech startup

1. Minimum 4+ years of mobile application development experience in native and excellent coding skills in Swift, RxSwift, RxCocoa, Objective-C
2. Any experience on MVVM, VIPER
3. Should have deep knowledge of the iOS SDK and IDE development tools.
4. Experience developing client-server applications using technologies and web services APIs such as JSON, REST.
5. Has hands-on experience with unit testing.
6. Extensive experience in using various architecture, frameworks, and design patterns in designing/refactoring a highly optimized mobile is a must.
7. Solid understanding of the agile development process and experience.
8. Experience working in TDD (Test Driven Development) and CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Deployment) environment is a plus.
9. Implement clean and manageable code incorporating best practices on security
10. Collaborate with cross-functional teams from both offshore and onsite to define, design, and ship new features.
11. Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability.
12. Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.
13. Review code, bug triage and execute multiple releases as per business demand
14. Involvement with API team to design request / response contract
15. MVVM & VIPER is a must
16. Background fetch
17. Swift latest or minimum version 4 and Swift basics

• Relevant experience in building a mobile application using React Native.
• Your primary focus will be on developing user interface components for mobile and implementing them following well-known React workflows. (such as Flux or Redux)
• You will ensure that these components and the overall application are robust and easy to maintain. 
• You will be coordinating with the rest of the team working on different layers of the infrastructure. 
• Should have published at least 2 live hybrid mobile applications. 
• Good understanding of Android / iOS / Web design guidelines, SDK and excellent JavaScript skills. 
• Expertise in RESTful APIs development. 
• Expertise with code testing best practices, including unit and integration testing to ensure a quality of code. 
• Familiarity with code versioning tools such as Git, TFS and Agile/SCRUM Development methodologies