Skill Set: Android, Java, Kotlin, Restful APIs, MVVM, GIT, DataBinding, UI Frameworks, FireBase, SQLite, MySQL, NoSQL, Testing Frameworks like Selendroid, Robotium, Kobiton etc., and Devops tools Jenkins, CI/CD, Dockers, AWS

Job Responsibilities

The Role requires an experienced and knowledgeable android developer to support and drive a suite of Mobile Applications on Android. You will work with a team of talented engineers and cutting-edge technologies to design, develop, test and build the next generation of our mobile applications.

The Candidate must be a technically strong, and significantly hands-on developer, who is passionate about building easy-to-use mobile applications. You will help to steer and drive the future technology offering of best-in-class mobile applications.

As a Senior Android developer, you will be responsible for the quality, architecture, scalability, security, memory usage, patterns, and re-use opportunities for development work completed by the teams and yourself, as well as guiding and developing innovative solutions that can be used by the teams.

Required Experience in:

• Design patterns understanding
• Experience in Android architectures like MVP and MVVM.
• Hands-on Android / Kotlin.
• Material design.
• GIT or other version control
• Unit testing 
• Memory leak fixing
• Code reviews
• Bitbucket/Sourcetree
• Retrofit/GSON
• CI/CD pipelines ( Jenkins )
• Proven capability in API development (REST, SOAP, XML, JSON).
• Expert knowledge of the web protocols and security basics
• Knowledge of android app distribution
• Crash & Performance Monitoring

Technical Skills:

• Strong Coding Skills in Android / Kotlin is a must (including coroutines) and Java on Android.
• Experience with Android UI Patterns (Fragments, custom view components).
• Experience writing multithreaded and networked apps and Knowledge of design patterns such as MVVM.
• Experience with version control
• Have designed and developed a few complete Android applications end to end and experience with the automation and build scripting.
• Web Services experience as it relates to mobile apps and knowledge of how to optimize and build for limited resource hardware and build a smooth experience.
• Good code design skills (Low level design). Professional experience with native Android app development.
• Experience or an interest in cross platform development is ideal but not required.
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Experience in utilizing Mobile design patterns, building mobile frameworks/SDKs, building custom UX widgets and optimizing apps for performance.
• Experience in using the Atlassian suite of developer productivity tools, JIRA, Confluence, and BitBucket
• Solid understanding of Android architecture components like Live data, ViewModel, Databinding, etc.
• Extensive experience developing Android apps with Android SDK, Kotlin, Java.
• Building reusable and adaptable UI components using Google Material design guidelines.
• Local database management using SQL, RoomDB, RealMeDB for offline support.
• Writing clean and highly efficient code using Clean architecture and design patterns like MVVM, MVP.
• Knowledge on Reactive programming using RxJava, RxAndroid, RxKotlin when needed
• Experience with third-party APIs and libraries for Image loading like Glide, Picasso. Networking libraries like a retrofit, JSON parsing libraries like gson, moshi, etc
• Working knowledge of GIT version control and repository clients like GitHub, GitLab, bitbucket.
• Knowledge of Continuous Integration/deployment process and tools like Circle CI, Gitlab
• Good understanding of Firebase and other analytical tools.
• Good debugging skills and tracing the root cause of the issues on production

You will be part of the Multi-Channel Platform Android Team at the Sciflare Technologies Pvt Ltd office in Chennai. (careers@sciflare.com), The role is office-based, working from Monday to Friday 10:00 AM to 07:00 PM with the flexibility required to operate with US timings. May require occasional working on Saturday.