iOS App Developer

A bit about us

WeatherBug is a popular weather site and mobile app providing hyperlocal, live weather data and proactive alerting to consumer users. With over 15 million unique users per month, across all platforms, WeatherBug’s vision is to provide environmental intelligence for all aspects of people’s lives. The WeatherBug app is a top-rated weather app in the app stores. In 2019, WeatherBug was named the best weather app by MediaPost’s Appy Awards. WeatherBug is owned and operated by GroundTruth, a media company that turns real-world behavior into marketing that delivers real business results.

Learn more at WeatherBug.com

At GroundTruth, we believe that innovative technology starts with the best talent and we have been ranked one of Ad Age’s Best Places to Work for three years in a row (2021, 2022 & 2023). Learn more about the perks of joining our team here.

A bit about you

A recognized expert in their professional discipline, with significant impact and influence on organizational policy and program development. Establishes critical strategic and operational goals, and develops and implements new products, processes, standards, or operational plans to achieve organizational objectives. Regularly leads projects of critical importance to the organization—projects that carry substantial consequences for success or failure. Requires strong influence and communication with executive leadership. Problems encountered are often complex and multidimensional, requiring broad-based consideration of variables that affect multiple areas of the organization.

You will:

• Develop production-ready code to meet scope of requirements.
• With guidance, update and create documentation as needed for new and existing solutions.
• Participate in code-reviews with comments to improve code quality, stability, and maintainability.
• Create and maintain unit and integration testing solutions. Be able to run your code in lower environments.
• Run tests on the mobile device to ensure code meets requirements
• Watch mobile releases for Android or iOS for features you developed
• Teardown your solutions across multiple environments and platforms.
•  Provide operational support of your deployed code
• Determine issues within your areas of expertise.
• Work with teams across the engineering organization to understand and incorporate client requirements into final solutions.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.

You have:

• Bachelor’s degree (4 years) in Computer Science or a related field, OR 5+ years of relevant software development experience.
• 3+ years of professional experience in software engineering.
• 2+ years of hands-on Android application development using Kotlin and Android Studio.
• Experience with modern Android libraries and frameworks, including Jetpack components (e.g., Navigation, Room, ViewModel, LiveData), Retrofit for networking, and image loading libraries (e.g., Glide, Coil).
• Proficiency with asynchronous programming using Kotlin Coroutines and Flow.
• Familiarity with dependency injection frameworks such as Dagger/Hilt or Koin.
• Experience with app architecture patterns such as MVVM or MVI, and clean architecture principles.
• 2+ years of experience working in Agile teams and participating in iterative development cycles.
• Strong understanding of object-oriented design principles, design patterns, best practices, performance optimization, and memory management.
• Experience with unit and UI testing frameworks (JUnit, Mockito, Espresso).
• Familiarity with Git and collaborative version control workflows.
• Exposure to CI/CD tools and automated build/deployment pipelines.
• Ability to independently take ownership of tasks and deliver robust solutions.
• Commitment to writing clean, maintainable, and well-documented code.

Would be great if you have:

• Experience with React Native, including building function components, using hooks, and working with JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Knowledge of Play Store processes, including app signing, publishing, and release management.
• Familiarity with ingesting and exposing large datasets in the weather industry.
• Experience in the advertising industry.
• Proficiency with tools like GitHub, Jenkins, Artifactory.

You are:

• A team player who is organized, flexible and willing to adapt
• Not afraid of new technologies and driven to learn
• A detail-oriented person, who catches problems early and adjusts
• A strong communicator who is able to collaborate with multiple business and engineering stakeholders and work through conflicting needs
• A problem solver who likes to dive deep into a problem, diagnose root causes and work with multiple teams to come up with a solution
• Organized with demonstrated ability to prioritize and deliver timely work
• A team player and not afraid to roll up your sleeves and help when needed
• Self-sufficient and not afraid to take the lead and manage tasks independently
• Coachable and open to feedback
• Respectful–-we treat each other with respect and assume the best of one another
• Not afraid to have fun!

What we offer

At GroundTruth, we want our employees to be comfortable with their benefits so they can focus on doing the work they love.

● Parental leave- Maternity and Paternity

● Flexible Time Offs (Earned Leaves, Sick Leaves, Birthday leave, Bereavement leave & Company Holidays)

● In Office Daily Catered Lunch

● Fully stocked snacks/beverages

● Health cover for any hospitalization. Covers both nuclear family and parents

● Covid home quarantine cover

● Tele-med for free doctor consultation, discounts on health checkups and medicines

● Wellness/Gym Reimbursement

●  Pet Expense Reimbursement

●  Childcare Expenses and reimbursements

●  Employee assistance program

●  Employee referral program

●  Education reimbursement program

●  Skill development program

●  Cell phone reimbursement (Mobile Subsidy program)

●  Internet reimbursement

●  Birthday treat reimbursement

●  Home office set up

●  Employee Provident Fund Scheme offering different tax saving options such as VPF and employee and employer contribution up to 12% Basic

●  Creche reimbursement

●   Co-working space reimbursement

●   NPS employer match

●   Meal card for tax benefit

●   Special benefits on salary account

●   New joiner relocation

We are a lab building products for the creator economy. Why so, because we are on a mission to empower the individual to realize/unleash their full potential

Job Description:

We are looking for a passionate iOS developer who is keen to work in a startup and wants to Build something on his/her own.

Responsibilities

● Produce fully functional iOS applications by writing clean code

● Gather specific requirements and suggest solutions

● Write unit and UI tests to identify malfunctions

● Developing new features and user interfaces from wireframe models ● Ensuring the best performance and user experience of the application ● Fixing bugs and performance problems

● Writing clean, readable, and testable code

● Cooperating with back-end developers, designers, and the rest of the team to deliver well-architected and high-quality solutions Requirements ● Proven work experience as an iOS developer

● Demonstrable portfolio of released applications on the App Store

● In-depth knowledge of at least one programming language like Swift or Objective-C

● Experience with iOS frameworks such as Core Data, Core Animation, etc.

● Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect iOS applications to back-end services

● Understanding of Apple’s design principles and interface guidelines

● Experience with profiling and debugging mobile applications

● Experience with third-party libraries and APIs

Benefits:

● You will be building a team that will be working on the most innovative technologies in the creator space

● You will get to be a part of the initial team while we build this rocketship

● You get to work directly with the Founders on a completely revolutionary idea and most likely end up defining the course of history.

Why work with us?

You get to work directly with the core team on a completely revolutionary idea and most likely end up defining the course of history. If getting known for your talent, skills & work ethic is what drives you, we make sure that that happens

What's the company culture like?

Extremely passionate.

We’re only looking for people who want to prove to the world how gifted they are or who want to truly democratize access to capital.

• Excellent mobile app development experience
• Strong CS fundamentals OOPS concepts, algorithms data structures Core Java
• Deep knowledge of basic React Native components and Android Studio
• Ability to write well-documented, clean Java and Javascript code
• In-Depth knowledge of building tools like XCode, and Android Studio
• Knowledge of Android Studio and React Native Lifecycle and publishing cycles on Google and Apple app stores.
• Experience with Git and ES6
• Experience in the kotlin  and flutter  

🏆 Benefits

• Remote Possible - Work from anywhere in India though we promote Work From Office like revered Narayan Murthy is appealing. https://trak.in/tags/business/2022/03/14/infosys-founder-narayan-murthy-wants-all-employees-back-to-office-says-work-from-home-is-bad-for-productivity/">Read it
• Flexible work hours
• Annual Appraisal Cycles
• Healthcare plans are on the way
• Free e-learning courses and external training plus certifications
• Fewer deductions so In Hand, Salary is more
• Special Guidance on Financial Investment planning to help you save more
• Healthcare sessions with our Doctors
• We promote employees to take timely leaves and take care of family

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
• Develop and maintain high-quality Android applications using Kotlin programming language.
• Design, build and maintain high-performance, reusable, and reliable code.
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the application.
• Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs.
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.
• Work with external data sources and APIs.
• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field.
• 2+ years of experience in Android development using Java and Kotlin.
• Strong knowledge of Android SDK, Android UI design principles, and Material Design.
• Experience with RESTful APIs, JSON, and XML.
• Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications.
• Understanding of code versioning tools such as Git.
• Familiarity with continuous integration.
• Good understanding of object-oriented programming, software design patterns and algorithms.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

Android Developer 

JD:- 

We are looking for an Android Developer who possesses a passion for pushing mobile technologies to the limits. This Android app developer will work with our team of talented engineers to design and build the next generation of our mobile applications. Android programming works closely with other app development and technical teams. 

Responsibilities: 

• Design and build advanced applications for the Android platform
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features Work with outside data sources and APIs
• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability • Work on bug fixing and improving application performance
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency

Requirements: 

• Proven software development experience and Android skills development • Proven working experience in Android app development and
• Have published at least one original Android app
• Experience with Android SDK
• Experience working with remote data via REST and JSON
• Experience with third-party libraries and APIs
• Working knowledge of the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies

• 3+ Years of experience in developing iOS applications
• Experience in defining system architectures and exploring technical feasibility tradeoffs.
• Should have experience with Swift, Autolayout, MVVM / MVP Design pattern.
• Should have experience with common iOS libraries like RxSwift, Alarmofire etc
• Debugging skills, including identifying memory leaks, performance bottlenecks.
• Good command over Data Structures and Algorithms.
• Understanding of design for scalability, performance and reliability
• Experience working in an Agile environment and project management tool like Jira
• Good to have experience in working with Google Maps and have published one or more app on app store.
• Good to have experience in CI/CD, Core Data, Swift UI, App Clips, Integrating with Payment Gateways