Technical Lead

Company: Barcadly Services (www.barcadlyservices.com)

Job Title: Android Developer

About Us:

Barcadly Services is a full fledge "Digital Marketing Agency" Our head office is in Mumbai & Kolhapur, the company was established in the year 2018.

We strongly support and follow the mission of Digital India laid down by Prime Minister Shri. Narendra Modi and provides cost-effective branding solutions for start-ups & big companies in India. At Barcadly services, you will get an insight regarding what is it like to work with a pioneering Digital Marketing Agency in India.

After all, you will only seldom find someone as efficient as we are, when it comes to offering personalized performance marketing.

Thanks to our tight-knit team we have been able to assist over 170 + businesses and establishing themselves in the digital arena.

Position Overview:

The Android Developer will be responsible for the development, maintenance, and enhancement of applications aimed at a vast number of diverse Android devices. The role involves working alongside other developers, designers, and business analysts to create and optimize mobile applications, ensuring they are user-friendly, performant, and in line with the company's goals and user needs.

Key Responsibilities:

- Application Development: Design and build advanced applications for the Android platform.

- Collaboration: Work with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.

- Testing: Conduct unit-testing for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability.

- Bug Fixing: Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs to improve application performance.

- Code Maintenance: Maintain code quality, organization, and automatization.

- Continuous Improvement: Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.

- Documentation: Write clear, concise, and comprehensive documentation for ongoing projects.

- User Feedback: Gather and address user feedback promptly to improve application performance and user experience.

- Compliance: Ensure applications comply with company policies and regulatory standards.

 Required Qualifications:

- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

- Experience: Proven software development experience and Android development skills.

Technical Skills:

·      Good experience in React Native (0 - 1 years)

·      Must have knowledge of building Ul in React Native

·       Must have knowledge of CSS property.

·       Must have good knowledge of class and functional components.

·       Must have knowledge of 3rd party module integration in React Native,

·       Knowledge of Redux state management library • Familiarity with code versioning tools such as Github

·       Knowledge of deploying apps on the Apple store and PlayStore.

·       Excellent Communication and teamwork skills.

·       Knowledge of integration of native android/iOS modules in react native.

·       Knowledge of typescript and latest ES features

·       Knowledge of React native Ul library (react native paper, react native element, native base).

 Preferred Qualifications:

- Additional Experience: Experience with React.js, React Native.

- Portfolio: Previous apps published on Google Play Store

- Framework Knowledge: Experience with Android Jetpack components.

By detailing the key responsibilities, qualifications, and working conditions, this position overview aims to attract skilled Android developers who are passionate about creating high-quality mobile applications and contributing to a dynamic team environment.

About Hop:

We are a London, UK based FinTech startup with a subsidiary in India. Hop is working towards building the next generation digital banking platform for seamless and economical currency exchange, with technology at the crux of it. In a technology driven era, many financial services platforms still lack the customer experience and are cumbersome to use. Hop aims at building a ‘state of the art’ tech-centric, customer focused solution.

moneyHOP is India’s first cross-border neo-bank providing millennials the ability to ‘Send’ & ‘Spend’ conveniently and economically across the globe using HOPRemit (An online remittance portal) and HOP app + Card (A multi-currency bank account).

This position is a crucially important position in the firm and the person hired will have the liberty to drive the product and provide direction in line with business needs.

About Individual

Looking for an enthusiastic individual who is passionate about technology and has worked with either a start-up or a blue-chip firm in the past.

The candidate needs to be a multi-tasker, highly self-motivated, self-starter and have the ability to work in a high stress environment. He/she should be tech savvy and willing to embrace new technology comfortably.

Ideally, the candidate should have experience working with the technology stack in the scalable and high growth mobile application software.

General Skills

• 3-4 years of experience in Frontend development.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Science, or equivalent practical experience.
• Exposure to Behaviour Driven Development and experience in programming and testing.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Good time management and organizational skills.
• Dependability
• Accountability and Ownership
• Right attitude and growth mindset
• Trust-worthiness
• Ability to embrace new technologies
• Ability to get work done
• Has good code reviewing skills for conformance.
• Has good software testing skills and good code writing skills.

Technical Skills

• Relevant work experience as a UI Developer. Proficient in JavaScript , ReactJS and/or React Native, Angular , JQuery Experience with HTML, CSS, Knowledge of web services and related technologies (REST) Experience with Web Services and API integration
• Candidate should have a stronghold on HTML & CSS
• Can understand and troubleshoot REST APIs calls
• Database administration and management of a hosting environment such as AWS.
• Knowledge of SASS & LESS will be a plus as well
• Sound understanding of relational and non-relational DB systems such as MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB etc.
• Has experience dealing with JIRA (issue tracking tools), Confluence (knowledge management) tools.
• Experience with building and maintaining microservices.
• Experience with building and integrating the core system with external APIS.
• Good to have: Domain knowledge in the BFSI tech stack.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities 

1. Use JavaScript and cutting-edge JS frameworks to develop front end applications that follow industry-standard design patterns, development methodologies, and deployment models
2. Solve and articulate complex problems through application design, product development, and user experiences. 
3. Develop software used by people who are not software developers--ensure the exceptional software you create influences them to be exceptional professionals in their respective fields
4. Collaborate with other programmers and mentor junior engineers through the development process
5. Leverage the knowledge of your peers to better understand business trends, customer communities, and technology adoption patterns
6. Evolve your language skills in JavaScript by staying current with complementary programming languages, development methodologies, user interface design techniques, and database tools.

Responsibilities

• Delivering a complete front end application
• Ensuring high performance on mobile and desktop
• Writing tested, idiomatic, and documented JavaScript, HTML and CSS
• Coordinating the workflow between the graphic designer, the HTML coder, and yourself
• Cooperating with the back-end developer in the process of building the RESTful API
• Communicating with external web services

Skills and Qualifications

• Proficiency with JavaScript and HTML5
• Professional, precise communication skills
• Deep knowledge of AngularJS practices and commonly used modules based on extensive work experience
• Creating self-contained, reusable, and testable modules and components
• Ensuring a clear dependency chain, in regard to the app logic as well as the file system
• Ability to provide SEO solutions for single page apps
• Extensive knowledge of CSS and JS methods for providing performant visual effects and keeping the framerate above 30fps at all times
• Thorough understanding of the responsibilities of the platform, database, API, caching layer, proxies, and other web services used in the system
• Validating user actions on the client side and providing responsive feedback
• Writing non-blocking code, and resorting to advanced techniques such as multi-threading, when needed
• Creating custom, general use modules and components which extend the elements and modules of core AngularJS
• Experience with all levels of operation available to the front-end, such as from creating XHRs in vanilla JS to using a custom wrapper around $resource
• Experience with building the infrastructure for serving the front-end app and assets
• Architecting and automating the build process for production, using task runners or scripts
• Documenting the code inline using JSDoc or other conventions
• Writing extensive unit tests using automated TDD tasks
• Creating e2e test suites for all components, and running them with Protractor (or a well reasoned alternative)
• Creating configuration, build, and test scripts for Continuous Integration environments