Senior Software Engineer (Android)

Role : Senior Software Engineer (Android)

Location : Remote, India

*This role requires Core Work Hours from 8:30 pm to 12:30 am IST (will change as per daylight saving in US). The remaining hours are completed at individual discretion.*

Role Characteristics:

Recognized subject matter expert who knows how to apply theory and put it into practice with in-depth understanding of the professional field with limited oversight from managers. Independently performs the full range of responsibilities within the function; requires deep job knowledge of areas typically obtained through higher education combined with experience. Manages large projects or processes and problems faced are difficult and often complex; analyzes problems/issues of diverse scope and determines solutions. May manage programs that include formulating strategies and administering policies, processes, and resources; functions with a high degree of autonomy. Influences others regarding policies, practices and procedures. 

You Will:

• Design, architect and create the documentation for the entire system down to the details to meet team needs.

• Code entire software solutions to solve current problems, identify and fix issues within their areas of expertise.

• Participate as a CodeOwner within their expertise and stakeholder throughout in code-reviews.

• Automate unit, integration, and end to end testing solutions and incorporate with the testing team flow. 

• Be able to run you code in pre-production and ensure quality.

• Help maintain debugging tools for team.

• Work with vendors to ensure 3rd party SDKs are working properly.

• Perform and monitor mobile releases for Android

• Teardown and destroy old solutions, products, and resources when no longer needed.

• Provide operational support of your deployed code and all code within your domain of expertise.

• Determine issues within the entire team and prevent problems from occurring

• Coordinate across all business teams to identify, resolve, mitigate and prevent technical issues, risks, and provide solutions.

• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.

You Have:

• 4 year degree in Computer Science or related field OR 9+ years of experience in Software Development

• 7+ years of experience in software engineering

• 5+ years of experience using Android application programming tools (Android, Android Architecture, Kotlin/Java, Android Studio, OkHttp, RxJava, Image Loaders, SQLIte)

• 2+ years fo experience in Jetpack Compose

• 3+ years of experience on an Agile team

• Proficient in Kotlin Coroutines, Concurrency and Multithreading.

• Knowledge of object-oriented design principles, patterns, best practices, performance optimizations, and memory management.

• Ability to communicate across all teams within the organization to provide solutions

• Ability to take a given problem and execute a solution.

• The ability to troubleshoot high complexity issues.

• demonstrate strong self-driven skills alongside technical expertise

• Ability to mentor and guide junior and mid-level engineers.

• Effective communication and documentation skills.

• Problem-solving and critical-thinking ability to handle edge cases and unexpected issues.

• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams (designers, product managers, QA).

Great if You Have:

• Experience using React Native(Function Components, Hooks, Redux, Java Script/TypeScript)

• Experience in ingesting and exposing large datasets in weather industry

• Experience in advertising industry

• Experience with GitHub, Jenkins, Spinnaker, Artifactory

What we offer

At WeatherBug, 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
• 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
• 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