iOS Developer - SWIFT/REST API

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

• 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

CLIENT:MNC WFO

ROLE: Android Developer

EXPERIENCE:2 YEARS TO 8 YEARS

CTC:7LPA TO 26 LPA

NOTE:Candidates from bangalore,HYDERABAD,GURGAON should only apply.

Serving notice periods (30days)/ Immediate Joiner.

If you have an interesting portfolio of apps and have excellent communication and team skills and you fit

the description below - you are the one we are looking for

- Knowledge of Leanback, Dagger, Retrofit, RxJava, Butterknife, Glide/Picasso

- Excellent working knowledge of Android Studio

- Expertise in code profiling, debugging, and optimization

- Familiar with Unit Testing and Automation

- Excellent in Java and Knowledge of Kotlin language

- Deep Knowledge of Exoplayer

- Should have worked or knowledge of creating Libraries/SDK

- Cares about testing and writing testable code eg. Unit Testing.

- Familiar with MVP

- Should have worked or familiar with Firebase, FCM, IMA, Google Services and Facebook SDK

- Experience in working with Android AOSP or Android TV Application is a plus

- NDK Knowledge or experience is a plus

Required Candidate profile

You are a go-getter with excellent learning, communication and team skills. You revel in working with

cutting edge technology and has an eye for detail.

Perks and Benefits

Perks include stock options and Flexi hours

Requirement: -

• Managing a team of 3-4 engineers 
• Hands on experience in Web applications and Mobile applications.
• 2+ years of professional experience working with React Native.
• 4+ years of professional software development experience.
• Should have experience in React.js as well
• Experience working with Swift, Objective C, and Java a plus.
• Meaningful experience working on large, complex systems.
• Familiar with Agile development methodology
• Should have strong fundamentals in React Native
• Should be good at Languages React Native, iOS, Android mobile
• Should be well versed with mobile application architecture
• Ensure and apprise stakeholders of technical feasibility, effort, and impact of implementations.
• Interact with clients to understand requirements.
• Able to convert business requirements to sizable tasks for developers to implement.

• Leads a project end-to-end and collaborates across functions. Drives planning, estimation and execution.
• Understands requirements well and comes up with efficient design
• Develops complex, well backed and bug-free products. Estimates accurately.
• Takes well-reasoned tech decisions keeping in mind goals and trade-offs
• Becomes a go-to person in more than one area. Provide technical mentoring to team
• Communicates clearly, gets clarifications and establishes expectations for all parties
• Helps establish SDLC best practices and high standards of code quality
• Demonstrates excellent problem solving & debugging skills
• Proactively identifies and resolves issues in requirements, design and code
• Perform peer code reviews and help us all get better.

• 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

1. Proven working experience in software development
2. Working experience in iOS development
3. Have published one or more iOS apps in the app store
4. Deep familiarity with Objective-C, SWIFT, and XCODE
5. Experience with third-party libraries and API

Additional Skills Required:

- Strong fundamentals in Algorithms, OOP's and Data Structure

- Analytical Thinking

- Team Player

- Motivated & Career-Driven

• 5-7 years of experience on Android Java-based mobile applications and systems development
• Strong command of Android Java. Exposure towards Android SDK
• Strong knowledge of the various packages on the Android App development stack layouts, intents, widgets, content providers, touch handling, drawing, location services, media interfaces, network, storage, security/cryptography, SQLite, etc.
• Knowledge of web services and serialization techniques like REST, SOAP, XML, JSON & framing
• A strong penchant for Object-Oriented Design and CS fundamentals
• Experience in working with version control, bug tracking, continuous integration, and other productivity enhancement software like TFS, Bugzilla, Jira, etc.
• Prior experience in working in Agile software methodologies
• Taking responsibility and ownership in the team's work, team player, and good communication skills
• Hands-on experience in developing native Android applications.
• Understanding of Android design patterns, memory management, file I/O, concurrency, and multithreading.
• Knowledge of working with network & battery optimizations, APIs, external libs, SDKs, Analytics, UI, visualizations & animations
• Preferred knowledge on Connectivity, Bluetooth protocols/ BLE.
• Working knowledge and hands-on with Database management such as SQL and contemporary technologies at their backend
• Experience in Unit Testing and TDD practices. Usage of Junit/Mockito/Espresso kind of test frameworks
• Eclipse or any IDE usage
• Published one or more applications in an Android marketplace and knowledge on the process of making the app live.
• Experience in working on applications with react native is a plus.
• Able to create a UI and UX that would make the app simple to use and delight users.
• Able to fix the occurring bugs and iteratively improve the app, include newer features, and keep the app up to date with all the Android updates/ libraries that will be released.
• Have an eye for new upcoming technologies and be able to evaluate and implement the same to enhance development efficiency.
• To succeed in this role, you should have the following skills and experience
• B.E/B.Tech/M.Tech/MCA or equivalent qualification

Mandatory: Hands on experience working with Swift 3 , Swift 4. Very strong logical skills. Good hold on operating system concepts and data structure. Experience with web services , core-data , camera kit , image caching concepts, keychain , past experience working with one of the design patterns like MVC / MVVM / Viper , network check.