SSE - Android Developer

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 ixigo’s 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 travellers 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.

Job Description

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

Roles & Responsibilities

Developing, releasing, and maintaining native Android Applications and overseeing 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 conceptualise, build, test and release products

Responsible for safeguarding sensitive company data against unauthorised access, use, or disclosure, and for reporting any suspected security incidents in line with the organisation'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 maximise development efficiency

Optimising performance for the apps and keeping up to date on the latest industry trends in 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 Android’s 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 organisations or startups with a 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