Senior Software Engineer - Android

Job Description

• Translate designs and wire-frames into high quality code.
• Design, build and maintain high performance, reusable, and reliable Java / Kotlin code.
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality and responsiveness of the application.
• Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including managers, designers, and back-end developers to deliver scalable and robust solutions.
• Mentor and guide junior developers, providing technical expertise and support.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest Android development trends, tools, and technologies.
• Conduct code reviews, identify areas for improvement, and drive continuous optimization of development processes.

We are looking for

• Education: BS/MS (CS, SE, IT, CE) or relevant
• Experience: 3-5 years

Skills

• Strong knowledge of Android SDK, different versions of Android, and how to deal with different screen sizes.
• Understanding of code obfuscation with Pro-Guard, Security tools and encryption decryption techniques.
• Hands on experience of user interface guidelines.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum models, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives.
• Familiar with RESTful APIs to connect Android applications to back-end services and Json parsing using Retrofit.
• Working of OkHttp client, SSL certificates and coroutines.
• Hands on experience with Groovy DSL or kotlin DSL.
• Strong knowledge of Android UI design principles, patterns and best practices (Compose UI framework will be a huge plus).
• Experience with offline storage & SQLite DB, loading dynamic classes wrt to data. (DB browser and DB Visualizer tools will be plus points.)       
• Understanding of Google’s Android design principles.
• Strong understanding of MVVM and live data.
• Working with well designed Custom Views or Custom Widgets development approach.
• Hands on experience of dependency framework such as hilt would be a huge plus.
• Create SDK for code, available to use for outside & inside organization.
• Familiarity Firesbase or other platform for cloud message, push notifications and crashlytics.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git, SVN.
• Worked on libraries like, Google maps, Sentry, Socials, JCryptor, TapnPay, Picasso, Androidx, Biometeric, Event Bus, Google Re-Captcha, Graphs.
• Familiar with continuous integration.
• Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications.

Good to have 

 

• Experience with Swift, Cocoa Touch, Quartz, storyboards and SwiftUI is a plus.
• Experience with instrumentation and Profiling with XCode is a plus. 
• Experience in Data Structures, Multi-threading, ML, Webservices (Axis2 especially), Eclipse IDE and PL/SQL is a plus.
• Familiarity with Apache Tomcat, Apache Web Server, UNIX commands and scripting, Ant, Aspect-J, JUnit is a plus.
• Knowledge of SpringBoot, Struts 2, JDBC and J2EE is a plus.