SSE - Android Developer

Full-time

Company Description

Launched in 2007 by Aloke Bajpai & Rajnish Kumar, ixigo is a technology company focused on empowering Indian travelers to plan, book and manage their trips across rail, air, buses, and hotels. ixigo assists travelers in making smarter travel decisions by leveraging artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science-led innovations on ixigos OTA platforms, including websites and mobile applications. ConfirmTkt and AbhiBus became a part of ixigo in 2021. ixigo is headquartered in Gurugram with offices in Bangalore (ConfirmTkt) and Hyderabad (AbhiBus). The ixigo, ConfirmTkt, and AbhiBus apps allow travelers to book train tickets, flight tickets, bus tickets, hotels, cabs, and provide travel utility tools and services developed using in-house proprietary algorithms and crowd-sourced information. In 2022, as per data.ai, ixigo was featured in the Top 10 most downloaded travel apps worldwide.

You will be involved in all aspects of development playing a critical role in the design, planning, development, and deployment and help develop best practices for future development. You will be part of a young and multicultural team which builds a cutting-edge travel consumer-facing product.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Developing, releasing, and maintaining native Android Applications and oversee mobile application development efforts
• Deliver across the entire app life cycle, design, build, deploy, test, release to app stores and support
• Working directly with developers and product managers to conceptualize, build, test, and release products
• Responsible for safeguarding sensitive company data against unauthorized access, use, or disclosure, and for reporting any suspected security incidents in line with the organization's ISMS (Information Security Management System) policies and procedures
• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance.
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency
• Optimizing performance for the apps and keep up to date on the latest industry trends in the mobile technologies
  
  

Must have:

• Deep understanding of Android development SDK and strong problem-solving skills
• Good understanding of Kotlin/ Core Java, Android Architecture Components, Dagger 2/Hilt, MVVM architecture
• Good grasp of algorithms, design patterns, memory management, network interaction, debugging, concurrency, and multi-threading in Android.
• Understanding of complete application development, continuous integration & testing, deployment, app distribution infrastructure, and maintenance
• Hands-on experience with Androids debugging, unit testing, app security, and performance optimisation tools
• Great people skills and strong passion for programming in general.
  
  

Qualifications

• Have at least an undergraduate degree in Computer Science or Engineering, preferably from IITs or top institutions.
• Have 3-5 years of experience at cutting edge organizations or startups with strong Product background.
• Extensive experience in developing mobile apps using Android SDK with proficiency in Core Java and design patterns
• Experience with e-business/e-commerce applications and business environment is a must
• Any experience with internet companies or the travel industry will be a plus
  
  

Additional Information

Candidates are responsible for safeguarding sensitive company data against unauthorized access, use, or disclosure, and for reporting any suspected security incidents in line with the organization's ISMS (Information Security Management System) policies and procedures.

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