Android Developer

Principal Software Engineer Android Developer - Bangalore- 6+ years

Lead the design, development, and delivery of high-scale, production-grade Android applications. This role involves hands-on coding, system design ownership, and technical leadership with a strong influence across product, engineering, and operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end development of complex Android components using Kotlin/Java.
• Provide technical leadership to agile teams and drive best practices in CI/CD, automated testing, and SDLC improvements.
• Lead system design, architecture decisions, and technical estimations aligned to business goals.
• Translate business requirements into clear technical specifications and implementation plans.
• Drive code quality standards, unit/UI automation, performance optimization, and debugging practices.
• Oversee production support, root cause analysis, post-mortems, and continuous reliability improvements.
• Mentor mid-level engineers and grads; act as a technical advisor across teams.
• Collaborate closely with Product, QA, and Operations to meet functional and non functional requirements.
• Lead product initiatives and contribute to next-generation prototypes.

Must-Have Skills

• Android development using Kotlin and Java
• Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, and Android Jetpack components
• MVVM, Clean Architecture, and Dependency Injection (Hilt/Dagger)
• REST APIs, Retrofit, WebSockets, and third-party SDK integrations
• Performance tuning, profiling, and debugging
• JUnit, Espresso, Mockito, and test-driven practices
• Gradle, Git, and CI/CD pipelines
• Firebase or client-side configuration management
• Design secure, scalable, highly available mobile systems
• Analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Experience in Fintech or financial systems
• Exposure to reactive/functional programming paradigms
• Understanding of scalable, data-intensive architectures
• Awareness of ML use cases in Fintech and productionization concepts