Mobile Application Developer - Android

Overview

About Rapido

Founded in 2015, Rapido is India’s leading multi-modal mobility platform. What began with bike taxis has rapidly evolved to include auto-rickshaws, cab-hailing, and peer-to-peer deliveries. Today, Rapido commands a dominant 70% market share in bike taxis, 40% in auto rides, and holds the second-largest position in the cab segment with a 22% share—establishing us as the overall market leader in ride-hailing. With over 4 million rides completed daily and more than 2 billion rides served to date, Rapido operates in 200+ cities and is aggressively expanding toward a presence in 500 cities. In 2024, we proudly achieved unicorn status with a valuation of $1.1 billion. Driven by technology and innovation, we’re expanding into new categories while remaining committed to improving last-mile connectivity and empowering livelihoods at scale.

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Job Summary:

As a Mobile Engineer at Rapido, you will work on some of the core mobility features in the Customer and Rider Mobile app. As a part of this team, you will get to work first-hand with the latest mobile technologies and solve the challenges of scale, performance, security, and cost optimization. Your efforts will directly ensure our users get quality service and a seamless experience. Most importantly, what you do every day will have an impact on millions of people using our app.

Job Responsibilities:

• Design and build applications for the Android platform.
• Closely collaborate with product, design, and business teams to understand product ideas and business needs and help deliver them.
• Continuously improve code base ensuring optimal performance of the app to meet our quality guidelines.
• Developing high-performance components while driving the adoption of best practices by writing reusable, and efficient code.
• Work with 3rd party data sources and APIs to be integrated into our Android app.
• Identifying and resolving bottlenecks, rectifying bugs, and enhancing application performance.

Job Requirements:

• B.Tech. / B.E. degree in Computer Science or equivalent software engineering degree/ experience.
• At least 4 year of experience in Android development with excellent skill in Kotlin.
• Experience working with android SDK, unit testing.
• Understands and follow practices from a code base.
• Adept in the craft of writing maintainable, reusable, and easily understandable code.
• Good understanding of application lifecycle.
• Hands-on experience with application performance monitoring.
• Strong sense of ownership and passion for crafting delightful user experiences.
• Passion for learning new things and solving challenging problems.

Why should you join Rapido?

Be part of the team that powers India’s largest bike taxi and mobility platform. At Rapido, you’ll:

• Build apps used by millions daily across diverse cities.
• Solve complex engineering challenges in real-time rides, GPS, and payments.
• Work with the latest Android (Kotlin, Jetpack Compose) and iOS (Swift, SwiftUI) tech stacks.
• Take end-to-end ownership of features that directly impact users and captains.
• Grow in a fast-paced, product-first culture where your work makes a real difference.

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