iOS Developer

Job Description
We are looking for a skilled macOS Engineer to join our MAC Desktop team. If you want to contribute your expertise to the development of a global product with an impressive client base, do reach out!

Egnyte is a product-focused company, not a software outsourcing business. We build and maintain our flagship software: a secure content platform called Egnyte, used by companies like Red Bull and Yamaha. By joining our team you will cooperate directly with SW developers, QA engineers, Product Owner as well as UI/UX designers.  We work according to the agile methodology, and we consider reliability and performance as the main focus areas to deliver business value to our customers around the globe.

Your job will be to make meaningful contributions to Egnyte. On one hand, you’ll work on a global product used by 16k+ companies and over 200k active users, on the other hand, you’ll join a close-knit team where everyone is eager to help you out and share their expertise. 

Your day-to-day at Egnyte:

• Designing and developing new features for our macOS Desktop App
• Owning, improving and enhancing code of a Desktop client application with a native look and feel for MAC, one of the primary access points for users to Egnyte’s cloud-based solution
• Collaborating with other developers, product owners and QA in bringing releases in a SaaS delivery model
• Validating and deploying code changes in production
• Developing system components throughout all phases of the product life cycle

About you:

• Experience in software development for macOS platform 
• Solid grasp of Swift programming language
• Experience with unit testing
• Familiar with Object Oriented Programming concepts
• Openness to new ideas connected with software development
• Good understanding of macOS development environment and SDKs  (Xcode, etc.) 
• Experience in using git
• Good English skills

Nice to Have:

• Experience in desktop application development (Windows, Linux)
• Understanding of CI/CD process
• Experience in developing multithreaded applications, application profiling for performance, and debugging
• Knowledge of client-server architecture

• Strong knowledge of Android SDK, different versions of Android, and how to deal with different screen sizes
• Kotlin, Java
• Important libraries include Dagger, RxJava, Realm
• MVVM Clean Architecture
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect Android applications to back-end services
• Strong knowledge of Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices
• Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning
• Knowledge of the open-source Android ecosystem and the libraries available for common tasks
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications
• A knack for benchmarking and optimization
• Understanding of Google’s Android design principles and interface guidelines
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git

We're building a game tech platform for discovering and creating engaging gaming experiences.

We need a driven, enthusiastic and passionate Android developer who is still fascinated and excited about the potential of great apps and mobile-based games. Devs who are or have been gamers will be a better fit for this role. You'll build something that sits at the intersection of TikTok, Steam and Roblox. 

We promise a great learning and working experience with a team of entrepreneurs, devs, gamers, animators, award-winning UI/UX designers and advisors who have been CXOs of billion-dollar companies. You'll be in the company of many highly accomplished yet humble individuals who want to build something amazing together.

We are building our platform with a mobile-first approach for the mobile-first world, so we naturally focus a lot on UI topics like intelligent user nudges, app micro-interactions and in-app animations far more than normal app dev roles. You'd have a fun-filled and fantastic growth curve with us.

We have built an interesting and engaging gaming-based culture and you'd be required to play games and build gaming experiences as a part of your job here. 

Our startup hires with a talent-first approach and we value skill and drive levels far more than just brand-name colleges on your resume. We have hired many people from these top colleges, but we hired them purely based on their skills and cultural fit. We find it worth mentioning that many people from these top colleges couldn't make it through our interview process too. 

We want this to be your first or second job and we'll work tirelessly to make this your last one. 

1. Proven working experience in Android app development and published at least one original Android app.
2. 1-3 years of experience in Android using the java language 
   Familiarity with architecture styles/APIs.
3. Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle.
4. Knowledge of MVVM and other Mobile design patterns and best practices.
5. Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
6. Work in Agile, cross-functional teams and taking responsibility for deliverables
7. Excellent communication skills in both technical and non-technical discussions

Role Description for the 3 month internship:-

• Create multi-platform apps for iOS & Android using Google's new Flutter development framework
• Strong OO design and programming skills in DART and SDK Framework for building Android as well as iOS Apps.
• Good expertise in Auto Layout and adding constraints programmatically
• Must have experience of Memory management, caching mechanisms., Threading and Performance tuning.
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect Android & iOS applications to back-end services
• Experience with third-party libraries and APIs
• Collaborate with the team of product managers, developers, to define, design, & deploy new features & functionality
• Build software that ensures the best possible usability, performance, quality, & responsiveness of features
• Work in a team following agile development practices (Scrum)
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git, Mercurial, or SVN, and Project Management tool (JIRA)
• Utilize your knowledge of the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends, & emerging technologies
• Get Solid understanding of full mobile development life cycle and make use of the same
• Help Develop and Deploy Good Quality UI
• Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle.
• Good written, verbal, organizational and interpersonal skills
• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability.
• Excellent debugging and optimization skills
• Strong design, development and debugging skills.

As a Mobile Software Developer your primary objective will be to design and build mobile applications for iOS platforms while actively participating in application design discussions and decisions. You will be an integral part of the development and maintenance of numerous cutting edge mobile applications. You'll utilize your expertise and your familiarity with iOS and XCode. Additionally, experience with Agile or XP methodologies or related iterative development processes will be necessary to hit the ground running and make an immediate impact. You will also utilize your knowledge of Software Development Lifecycle Tools - source control (Git, SourceTree, SVN), issue tracking, and web service integration (REST, JSON and HTTP).

Our organization moves at light speed, so the ability to work with minimal supervision while delivering excellent results will be a priority. Strong communication and information gathering skills are required to capture and interpret business and functional requirements, fill in the gaps intelligently, interpolate designs and functionality as necessary, and identify opportunities for process improvements/efficiencies. This is your opportunity to work with our talented team to design and build the next generation of our mobile applications and server backend.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design and build advanced applications for iOS platforms communicating with our servers
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features
• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability
• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance and maintenance
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency

We are looking for a strong mobile app developer who welcomes both engineering and maintenance tasks. The primary focus will be to implement new user interfaces and features together with automated unit and integration tests.

You will be working with our candid and collaborative team, where your knowledge and advice about application architecture and the newest mobile technologies will be highly appreciated. The code you write will need to be cleanly organized and of the highest quality. You’ll also help ensure solid application performance and an excellent user experience.

Responsibilities

- 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

- Strong knowledge on LAMP Stack and Python

Skills

- Extensive knowledge about mobile app development. This includes the whole process, from the first line of code to publishing in the store(s)

- Deep knowledge of Android & iOS

- Proficiency with writing automated tests in JUnit, Espresso, Mocha, Jest, Enzyme, XCTest, etc.

- Familiarity with RESTful APIs and mobile libraries for networking, specifically - Retrofit, axios, Alamofire, etc.

- Familiarity with the JSON format

- Experience with profiling and debugging mobile applications

- Strong knowledge of architectural patterns—MVP, MVC, MVVM, and Clean Architecture—and

the ability to choose the best solution for the app

- Familiarity with Git

- Familiarity with push notifications

- Understanding mobile app design guidelines on each platform and being aware of their differences

- Proficiency in Kotlin/Java/Swift/Objective-C/JavaScript/Python

- Proficiency in Django & NoSQl