Technical Product Manager

We are looking for an Android Developer responsible for the development and maintenance of applications aimed at a range of devices including mobile phones and tablet computers. Your primary focus will be development of applications and their integration with back-end services. You will be working alongside other engineers and developers working on different layers of the infrastructure. Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and the creation of quality products is essential

Roles and Responsibilities

² Design and build applications.

² Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications

² Collaborate with a team to define, design, and ship new features

² Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs

² To maintain the code quality, organization, and automation

² Work with the development team consisting of architects, UI designers, product managers, testers to deliver high quality mobile product & services

² Develop, test and rollout optimised UIs for diff versions/device

² Translate designs and wireframes into high quality code

² Build for multi device & multi platform scenario i.e mobile website along with mobile app

² Design, build, and maintain high performance, reusable, and reliable Java code

² Ensure the best possible performance, quality and responsiveness of the application

² Adaptability is a key factor to becoming a great Android app developer

² Identify the bugs ,correct bottlenecks and fix bugs

Skills Required:

² Prominent hands on experience in Native Android, Native iOS or Both.

² Strong knowledge of Android SDK, different versions of Android, and how to deal with different screen sizes

² An Android app developer must be well-versed with Java programming language.

² Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect applications to back-end services

² Strong knowledge on UI design principles, patterns, and best practices

² Having knowledge about offline storage, threading, and performance tuning

² Knowledge of the open-source Android ecosystem and the libraries available for common tasks

² A knack for benchmarking and optimization

² Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements

² Understanding of Google’s Android design principles and interface guidelines.

² Proficient with Objective-C or Swift.

² Understanding of Apple’s design principles and interface guidelines

² Knowledge of low-level C-based libraries is preferred

² Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications

² Knack for benchmarking and optimization

² Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (such as Git, Mercurial or SVN)

² Familiarity with continuous integration.

• Experience building large scale, large volume services & distributed apps., taking them through production and post-production life cycles
• Experience in Programming Language: Java 8, Javascript
• Experience in Microservice Development or Architecture
• Experience with Web Application Frameworks: Spring or Springboot or Micronaut
• Designing: High Level/Low-Level Design
• Development Experience: Agile/ Scrum, TDD(Test Driven Development)or BDD (Behaviour Driven Development) Plus Unit Testing
• Infrastructure Experience: DevOps, CI/CD Pipeline, Docker/ Kubernetes/Jenkins, and Cloud platforms like – AWS, AZURE, GCP, etc
• Experience on one or more Database: RDBMS or NoSQL
• Experience on one or more Messaging platforms: JMS/RabbitMQ/Kafka/Tibco/Camel
• Security (Authentication, scalability, performance monitoring)

Core Competency:

Professional development experience, working the full stack on large scale B2B, SaaS products. • Expertise with learning new technologies and strong experience with our tech stack AngularJS, JavaScript, Node.js, Go, React.js and Postgres. • Bachelor’sin Computer Scienceorsolid knowledgeof CS fundamentals(OOP, designpatterns, algorithms, etc...) • Experience and adesire towork in a fast-paced environment. • We are a leading cloud-based open platform used by some of the most prestigious companies around • You will get to work with some of the most complex technologies on the market today • You will have an opportunity to work at all levels of the organization.

"Prior experience should be in client servicing."
"Must be from Digital Agencies."
He/She will be responsible for assisting the “COO” in driving strategy, planning, execution, and performance for the agency's strategic practice. Driving insights that define prime prospects, needs, attitudes, and values as per client requirements to engage a stronger and more impactful brand experience. Monitoring and evaluating implemented brand strategies and marketing actions and amending them based on deviations.

Strategy

• Ability to identify strategic needs, lead all aspects of planning with sound business recommendations, and generate alignment with key business partners

• Understand business objectives, challenges, and opportunities of target and industry
• Developing a comprehensive context for digital strategies through analyzing a wide range of information in detail, as part of situation assessment.

• Facilitate existing client relationships and mandate via the role of strategy

Insights & Ideas

• S/he will be responsible for driving consumer understanding and insights that define prime prospects, needs, attitudes, and values for consumers to have a stronger and more impactful brand experience.

• To build digital solutions encompassing technology, content marketing, and development and executing the same effectively

• Implementing new processes to increase efficiencies and effectiveness of research, measurement, and strategy work for teams.

• Cross functioning with digital media, content planning and, social media teams to drive brand innovation, engagement, and penetration across marketing ecosystems along with head strategy.

• Collaborate with the Account Supervisor or Manager, Client Services, on the preparation of marketing recommendations, strategies, and actions for the client.

• Review, analyze and evaluate the following, relative to the client’s needs and objectives: media output, creative output, research reports and, client data
• Share input on content and presentations, approve/reject ideas, provide feedback to the team
• Lead brainstorming sessions to generate ideas
• Provide market research, analyses, and insights into the latest industry trends
• Developing actionable marketing strategies driven by insight, channeled by cultural understanding, and,powered through research

New Business Development

• S/he will maintain and grow our agency's business and client base on an ongoing basis.
• S/he will create and maintain relationships with existing and potential clients, developing strategic solutions and plans that best fit the agency and clients’ needs.

• Responsible for creating brand identities through research and applying experience to uncover an in-depth knowledge of the organizational process, competitive threats, and opportunities of a client’s business.

• Responsible for departmental vision, structure, and management while providing leadership, accountability, and mentorship to brand strategy.

• Develop integrated marketing strategies and tactical plans to meet and exceed the client’s marketing and business goals and objectives

• Monitoring and enforcing new business risks and constraints (schedule/scope/resources)
• Manage agency strategy efforts and projects, get involved with projects from start to finish, and ensure successful project completion against deadlines.

• Provide strategic branding thought leadership and expertise to expand business relationships
• Oversee development of marketing plans and creative briefs
• Develop and implement new processes to increase efficiencies and effectiveness of research, measurement, and strategy work for teams

• Work with all departments to develop integrated solutions and expand the services Grapes provides to clients

• Seeking new opportunities to add value to existing clients, helps with identifying and nurturing new business opportunities

Leadership / Cultural Competencies:

We person should have the following characteristics and company values:

• Self-driven, proactive, and motivated, who looks to take initiative
• Looks to ask questions / has a spirit of inquiry
• Ability to lead the Team
• Ability to think strategically
• High-energy individual with a strong work ethic and high expectations for performance, but who can lead by example

• Ability to earn the trust of co-workers, maintain confidence, and put the company’s self-interest above one’s self

• Interpersonally savvy, relates well to people throughout the organization
• Committed to building strong teams, looks to develop solid relationships and elicit collaboration
• Someone with a level of self-awareness and the ability to bond easily with others

Skillsets

• Hands-on experience in social media and/or content marketing, preferably in a social or digital agency.

• A wide interest in the intersection between technology and culture/human behavior.
• Experience in a social media or content marketing agency with a proven portfolio in managing social media accounts is imperative.

• Possess the ability to create a well thought out, data-backed strategic plan of action for clients for campaigns and their always-on content.

• Developed more digitally-oriented planning skills alongside the core craft e.g. social listening, web analytics content planning.

• Strong analytical skills and ability to mine large sets of data for actionable insights.
• Strong strategic and creative thinking with a passion for delivering best-in-class work.
• Extroverted with well-developed interpersonal, team building, and relationship management skills.
• Excellent command of English, both verbal and written communication
• Independent, determined, loves taking responsibility and problem-solving.
• Pushes for the best possible work and stands up for problem-solving real ideas.

Mutual Mobile is a world-leading agency in mobile and emerging technology innovation, and we are looking for an accomplished and capable engineer to join our team!

We have built our success through timely bets on emerging technology and the rapid execution of targeted marketing campaigns and skills development. This approach has resulted in a list of premier clients that come to us to build innovative experiences using emerging technology (Nike, Google, GM, Nestle, UnderArmour). We’ve seen this happen with iOS, Android, Wearables, and IoT. We continue to evolve - it’s in our DNA - we stay at the forefront of innovation. Now, in 2019, we stand at the foot of a massive transition in emerging technology with the growth of Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Voice, Bots, and more. We are ready to embrace these changes and to help our clients make the most of the opportunities they bring.

At Mutual Mobile, Engineers are highly-capable, experienced producers of high-quality, extensible code. They know the ins-and-outs of their field, apply that knowledge to solve the most difficult problems, and pass along that knowledge to the next generation through mentorship. They:

• Improve the structure, quality, and extensibility of code bases
• Implement tools and best practices
• Create reusable libraries and frameworks
• Discover and evaluate new tools and technology partners

We expect Engineers to:

• Be highly-capable experts in at least one technology
• Build breadth across multiple tech stacks
• Write high-quality, extensible, testable code
• Participate in planning activities and provide accurate story estimates
• Conduct code reviews and act as a role model on the team
• Proactively breakdown work, identify risks, and explore solutions

Engineers have experience:

• Expert experience with hybrid mobile application and plugin development using Cordova, PhoneGap
• Solid understanding of vanilla JavaScript independent of any framework
• Proven expertise in JavaScript tooling—debugging and build tools
• Good to have some experience with OpenCV and creating Cordova plugins. Awesome, if worked on some camera vision-related apps in the past.
• Experience with upgrading Cordova projects on iOS and Android.
• Experience with task automation frameworks like grunt in mobile app development tooling together with Xcode and Android SDK
• Experience with salesforce mobile cloud iOS and Android SDKs is a plus
• Experience with Native iOS & Android development is a plus
• Should have expert level knowledge of HTML5, CSS3
• Should have strong debugging skills on Developer Tools of the browser and working with cross-browser UI.
• Unit and UI testing frameworks like Karma, Jasmine, Mocha, Protractor, etc.
• Should have experience in Response / Adaptive Web Design for desktop, tablet, and mobile
• Good understanding of CSS preprocessors LESS/SASS.
• Must know about the complete deployment cycle (Alpha - Beta - Prod) on the App Store and Play Store.
• Provisioning DevOps tooling and continuous integration
• Driving development best practices, including unit testing, coding standards, and code reviews
• Capable of implementing industry best-practices related to mobile application development concepts, design, and architecture

Preferred experience includes:

• Familiarity with other front-end development such as Angular,  React or Vue
• Good to have task automators like Gulp and Grunt
• System monitoring and security design and implementation

Why work for Mutual Mobile? We make great products. We craft beautiful mobile interfaces and solve complex software challenges. Clients such as HEB, Google, lynda.com, Citi, Nike, and Under Armour come to us for our deep experience in mobile and emerging technology — from establishing a mobile strategy that provides impactful business value, to build those solutions from the ground up. We bring together the brightest minds in interactive & visual design, engineering, and business management to deliver solutions that actually matter.

You’ll love working here, because this isn’t a company of silos. Team members are empowered and encouraged to pursue cool ideas, think for themselves, and make mistakes. If your passion extends beyond the role, we’ll invite your views and assistance with improving our culture, systems and processes. We know you’re smart, and that you love learning new technologies--so you’ll be able to work on a variety of projects with many different types of people.

• Support the entire application lifecycle (concept, design, test, release and support)
• Produce fully functional mobile applications writing clean code
• Gather specific requirements and suggest solutions
• Write unit and UI tests to identify malfunctions
• Troubleshoot and debug to optimize performance
• Design interfaces to improve user experience
• Liaise with Product development team to plan new features
• Ensure new and legacy applications meet quality standards
• Research and suggest new mobile products, applications and protocols
• Stay up-to-date with new technology trends