Rapido - Android Developer - Kotlin

Overview

Founded in 2015, Rapido is Indias 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% shareestablishing 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, were 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
  
  

• B.Tech. / B.E. degree in Computer Science or equivalent software engineering degree/experience.
• At least 1 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
  
  

Be part of the team that powers Indias largest bike taxi and mobility platform. At Rapido, youll:

• 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.
  
  

Excited to solve challenges? Join Rapido & chase bigger milestones too!

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