iOS Developer

Must Good to Have Details :

- Must have at least 1 year of experience on React Native along with architecture experience in Mobile Applications.

- Have strong knowledge of App UI design principles, patterns, and best practices

- Familiarity with native build tools, like XCode, Gradle, Android Studio IntelliJ, VsCode

- In-Depth Knowledge of React, React Native, TypeScript or JavaScript Redux, Hooks, ECMAScript (ES6, ES7 etc.), Node, NPM and iOS & Android Build systems

Must have :

- Understanding of REST APIs, the document request model, and offline storage and must have on React Native chart Library

- Working knowledge on Sending Notifications with APNs & FCM

- Experience working with Backend Web Services (like REST etc), Fetch API, and Axios and knowledge of Databases (Relational, Distributed etc.)

- Experience in integrating libraries like React Navigation, React Native, Firebase, Social Logins (Facebook, Google, Apple etc.), Push Notifications etc.

- Responsive layouts in both platforms in reactive native using Media Query & Flexbox

- Sound knowledge of Design Patterns like Creational, Structural, and Behavioral

Good to have :

- Working experience on third-party dependencies and debugging - dependency conflicts

- Must be able to integrate native code in react-native and expo Modules

- Able to generate builds for both IOS(.IPA) and Android (APK) Platforms and experience in hosting apps on respective Stores(AppStore, PlayStore).

- Professional Communication (written, verbal presenting)

- Open to learn and adapt to new technologies

- Go-getter, Result oriented Creative & Innovative approach

- Excellent Communication Skills

• Write clean, high-quality, high-performance and maintainable code
• Solve complex technical problems
• Perform an objective analysis of the problem statement and come up with an unbiased technical solution before writing a single line of code
• Coordinate cross-functionally to ensure the project meets business objectives and compliance standards
• Participate in and drive code reviews

• Excellent attention to detail.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated expertise in building production-grade and high-performance applications.
• Must be a self-starter who can work well with minimal-to-no guidance in a fluid environment.
• Must be excited by challenges surrounding the development of highly scalable & distributed systems.
• Agility and ability to adapt quickly to changing requirements and scope and priorities.
• Object-oriented software development experience.
• Experience building Android applications in Java/Kotlin using Android SDK.
• Strong focus on high-quality mobile UI experiences.
• Experience building maintainable and testable code bases, including API design and unit testing techniques
• Experience with multithreading programming and mobile memory management.
• Experience with open source libraries like Retrofit, RxJava, Dagger 2, Lottie.

• Experience in Javascript/React JS/Flutter is a plus.
• Bonus points for open-source contributions, side-projects, blog posts, and YT tech videos.

• BS in Computer Science (or related field)
• 4-5 years of relevant work experience

tl;dr

🤓 An early employee of an experienced team. A lot of impact and opportunities to learn or deepen new technologies like GPT3, Amazon Rekognition, FFmpeg and more.

💰 Fixed Salary + Stock-Options

About

Blend is an AI-driven graphic design tool for entrepreneurs that removes decision making to create professional-grade product catalogs. Entrepreneurs can now create product marketing material in a few seconds to stand out and sell better online. Instead of manipulating pixels, users edit objects. Deep learning models ensure the translation of pixels into objects.

What you'll do

Blend app, an AI-driven design tool, will help its users create stunning designs within seconds.

To help us get to our vision faster, we are looking for an Engineer to join us on our app development front. This developer:

• 👩‍💻 Would work on our Flutter codebase writing cross platform code for both Android and iOS.
• 🎨 Work closely with product and design to create amazing user experiences.
• 🐜 Watch out and fix production issues, and target on running a smooth experience.
• 📈 With the help of the rest of the team, you maintain a great app with few bugs and trustable analytics: KPIs, logs, crash logs, boards.

Above all, you would be the owner of the app side of things. Drive it to success. That will be the goal.

We are tech/langugage agnostic when it comes to developers, so the only hard requirement is to be smart and passionate. That being said, having the skills below will be an advantage:

• Experience working with Flutter and/or Dart
• Experience with React/React Native (makes it easier to pick up flutter)
• Experience with Native app development (sooner or later you might get to a point where you need to write native modules as well)

How we work:

• Team: you are humble, open to challenge, and like to help others grow. The most important is the progress of the team and the product.
• Impact: you can prioritize your time to build what will give users superpowers or wow them.
• Learning: learning and sharing knowledge makes you happy. At Blend, this holds true as a team, with machine learning, and with our users.

Hiring process:

3-steps process:

• Screening call
• Technical Interview
• Cultural fit interview with the founders

• Own Android SDKs, working hand-in-hand with the founding team
• Design and build delightful user interfaces for native apps on Android
• You will be (co-) responsible for our software development kit (SDK) for Android
• Building mobile apps in both Swift and Kotlin.
• You work independently on your own code, but you also spend time collaborating with others.
• You are involved in all stages of app development and contribute to the roadmap.
• You get the freedom to experiment with new Android technology.
• Ownership — advocate for projects and solutions that need to be launched ground up.

• Min 2 to 4 years in developing Android applications in Java / Kotlin / C++ /
• Gradle/Groovy.
• Worked on SDKs/Frameworks.
• Strong understanding of software design patterns as well as Android specifics.
• Experience with authenticated sessions using authentication tokens and have at-least
• fundamental knowledge of app security.
• Good to have:-
• Experience with Cross-platform frameworks is a plus (React Native, Flutter, Cordova,
• Xamarin).
• Have implemented security standards and guides.
• Experience building applications at scale.
• Experience with third-party libraries and APIs like Mobile Vision, MLKit and/or
• Camera API.
• Good understanding of garbage collection, design patterns and continuously
• discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximise development
• efficiency.
• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general
• reliability

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

• Own the delivery of multiple features of the product end to end while hands-on in development as well
• Advocate best development practices such as continuous integration/continuous delivery, automation (testing and infrastructure) and code modularity, extensibility, quality
• Adopt security- first approach in the product development and ensure automated and manual security checks in place across the delivery pipeline
• Lead by example and mentor other developers in the team both technically and professionally
• Support other Senior Product Engineers and contribute to their growth professionally
• Work with  tech leads and the team to ensure shared technology vision and develop state of the art design and architecture for any product development
• Work with other functions such as testing, analysis, infra management, support to ensure faster delivery of products
• Ensure timely and accurate communication with broader team in order to share understanding of product functionality, features, and technology vision
• Look out for technology trends across the industry and apply relevant developments to the products
• Work with the decentralised application business owners to ensure their vision is realised through efficient technology and delivery timelines
• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, transparent, non-hierarchical, and ego-free culture where your talent is valued over a role title 
• Develop personally and professional outside of the confinement of a traditional career path by focusing on what you’re passionate about rather than a predetermined one-size-fits-all plan 

• Must have extensive hands on experiencing designing and building mobile applications on Android
• Must have excellent programming, debugging and scripting skills with a solid understanding of Object-Oriented Design principles
• Must have ability to learn/iterate quickly in a rapidly changing technical stack with nascent codebase and developer tools
• Must possess a passion for delivery-focused development, and overcoming challenges through teamwork and self-motivation
• Ability to work in a variety of client settings and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment 
• Ability to communicate technical vision and direction of the product and make significant impacts to technology and design choices

• Architectural design while leading and inspiring software development teams 
• Leading development of large, custom-built object-oriented applications 
• Continuous integration tools and test automation
• Managing systems in production and understands release process, monitoring, and debugging
• Working and developing in agile environment working with XP/Scrum development practices

• Expertise in end to end Android development and release management
• Proficiency in at least two of the following: Java,  NodeJS, Go, JavaScript, Python programming stacks, and passion for software engineering and craftsman-like coding prowess 
• Knowledge of software practices like refactoring, clean code, domain driven design, Encapsulation etc 
• Hands on experience managing databases like MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis
• Exposure to event driven systems and event streaming engines like Kafka
• Good knowledge of DevOps tooling like docker, kubernetes, ansible/chef, AWS.
• Solid OO skills, including strong design patterns knowledge and enterprise integration

Location : Andheri East

Experience : 1-3 years

Notice Period : Immediate - 15 days

Responsibilities : 

1. Integrate the design into high-quality code. 

2. Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of the application. 

3. Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs. 

4. Work along-side other developers working on different platforms for the Application.

Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, design implementation, and creating quality products is essential.

Skills Required : 

1. Minimum 1 year of experience in iOS Application Development.

2. Proficient with iOS SDK, Swift, and Cocoa Touch. 

3. Understanding of Apple's design principles and interface guidelines. 

4. Must have already deployed at least one app on AppStore. 

5. Working knowledge of Web Services & REST (JSON) APIs, SQLite, Google API Integration, Firebase. 

6. Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications. 

7. Experience with third-party libraries and APIs. 

8. Strong mobile UI design and implementation experience. 

9. Understanding of code versioning tools.