UX Designer (Part Time/Freelancer) for Mobile App

• Roles & Responsibilities
• AS OUR NEW SENIOR ANDROID ENGINEER, YOU’LL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO:
• Designing and developing our cutting-edge products, delivered to millions of sports fans around the world.
• Be an essential part of a team working in a fast B2C paste product delivery pipeline.
• Work with the most talented individual on features that cross platforms, languages, and protocols to deliver social engagement to sports fans.
• Learn from the best in the field, and teach others.
• Own the full product feature cycle from being a part of the product brainstorming through all dev cycles and up to take the responsibility for the feature when rolled to production.
• YOU’LL BE SET UP FOR SUCCESS IF YOU HAVE:
• B.Sc. in Computer Science or equivalent.
• At least 4 years of experience in Android Kotlin/Java development.
• Experience with RxJava development.
• Senior-level understanding of design patterns and architectures.
• Extensive knowledge in UI/UX development.
• Verse in 3rd party libraries and solutions.
• Senior-level understanding of server-client fundamentals.
• Senior-level understanding of multithreading.
• Experience in writing unit tests.
• Conduct design and code reviews.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Can-do attitude!

Requirements

• Development experience in React Native
• Experience in developing UI in HTML, CSS, and JS and integration with the backend using REST API.
• Experience with Object-Oriented Programming • Ability to multitask and work in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to document their code.
• Understanding accessibility and security compliance.
• To translate storyboards and various use cases to create high-performing apps
• Write, execute, and maintain clean, reusable, and scalable code • Integrate our various data storage solutions
• Ensure the responsiveness and boost the performance of our apps
• Find and address the various bottlenecks and bug-fixes
• Help in code automatization
• Proficient in GIT

Responsibilities

• As a Hybrid Mobile App Developer, you will be responsible for creating compelling concepts for customer products and offerings as well as engage user experience across varied platforms.
• You shall be involved across all stages of the application life cycle, from requirements specification, wireframes, mockups, development, testing to deployment.
• You shall be expected to work in a team, assigning and delegating tasks and responsibilities among your co-developers.
• You will also be engaged in providing regular updates on project status & progress to non-technical stakeholders.

Hiring Process

• After getting shortlisted from here, a member of our team will contact you.
• We will schedule a interview as per mutually convenient time.

Job Description:

• Min 4-5 years of experience in Mobile application development
• Min 2-year Experience in React Native app development
• Firm grasp of the JavaScript and TypeScript language and its nuances, including ES6+ syntax
• Follow best practices using Android Guidelines
• Knowledge of functional or object-oriented programming
• Technically strong in React-Redux/Mobx development and deep understanding of core mobile concepts such as lifecycle, UI, networking, caching, device features, etc
• Experiences with automated testing suites, like Jest or Mocha
• Experience integrating third-party frameworks. Worked with logging and capturing user navigation and app usage to Analytics and Crashlytics for understanding the most used features by users.
• Knowledge of mobile security and cryptography is an advantage.
• Good working knowledge of tools such as Git, JIRA, Jenkins, or any tools that are similar to these.
• Experience with agile methodology is preferred
• Good communication skills
• Good knowledge of app telemetry integration & app performance management
• Have published at least 2 React Native apps on Play Store & Appstore

• Implement robust app architectures and complex user interfaces
• Component Design and coding new features. includes unit tests, debugs, and solves defects
• Component Design/Coding/Unit Testing/Debugging
• Responsible for designing app architecture and integration design to various external systems (APIs, 3rd Party SDK)
• Follow best practices using React Native Guidelines
• Understand reacting design patterns like HOC, Render Props, and their applications.
• Good understanding of atomic design principles
• Experience with CSS-in-js / styled-components
• Good understanding of Android & iOS working principles, Release process
• Ability to multi-task under pressure and work independently with minimal supervision
• Work on high-performance consumer-facing apps
• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds.
• Good understanding of server-side templating languages (such as jade, EJS, and pug).
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes.
• Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests.
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, SCSS, and CSS3.
• Ability to make recommendations on UI design and UX best practices.

Why FabHotels? Budget hotels is the largest and fastest growing segment of the Indian travel market. Despite attracting billions of dollars in last few years, online penetration in hotel bookings is still sub-20%. Supply of budget hotels is fragmented and lacks any brand of scale. At FabHotels, we’re building a millennial traveler focused budget hotel brand that leverages people, technology and processes in an asset-light, scalable model to deliver delight to consumers and segment-leading returns to asset owners. In ~4 years since inception, we have become larger than many established traditional hotel chains. Currently we have a fast growing network of 550+ hotels and 11,000+ rooms across ~50 cities pan-India.

Who? Founded by Bain & Wharton alumni, Vaibhav Aggarwal & Adarsh Manpuria,

FabHotels has raised >$35Mn. till date from leading VC firms Goldman Sachs, Accel Partners, Qualcomm Ventures. We're always looking for young, hungry & self-driven individuals, who want more than a 10-7 desk job and to make a significant contribution in creating a first-in-class Indian hospitality brand.

About the role: One key differentiator of FabHotels brand for our asset partners is bestin-class returns. While our online & offline demand teams drive higher occupancies for our partners, this role entails ownership of developing and work on react native side of application development.

Key responsibilities:

• Knows how to embed React-Native in a native (iOS/Android) component and vice versa.
• Firm grasp on JS/CSS fundamentals
• Build pixel-perfect, battery smooth UIs ((layouts, animations, etc.))across both mobile platforms
• Good understanding of Design and Architecture Patterns
• Strong focus on app performance
• Familiarity with native build tools, like XCode, Grade, Android Studio
• Good at working with third party libraries and debugging dependency conflicts
• Experience in unit testing is preferable.

Individuals who would connect best with the job requirements are those who:

• Are excited to be part of a young, dynamic team that is building a disruptive, sustainable business
• Are willing to go the extra 100 miles it takes to win in a super competitive market
• Are innovative, resourceful and comfortable with dynamic business requirements
• Fulfil below minimum criteria:

- 4+ years experience in Mobile app development.   

- Must have published at least 1 major React-Native app

- Experience with CodePush (appcenter)

- Hands on experience in Redux