Senior Software Engineer (React Native/Android)

**This role requires Core Work Hours from 8:30 pm to 12:30 am IST (will change as per daylight saving in US). The remaining hours are completed at individual discretion.**

Role Characteristics:

Recognized subject matter expert who knows how to apply theory and put it into practice with in-depth understanding of the professional field with limited oversight from managers. Independently performs the full range of responsibilities within the function; requires deep job knowledge of areas typically obtained through higher education combined with experience. Manages large projects or processes and problems faced are difficult and often complex; analyzes problems/issues of diverse scope and determines solutions. May manage programs that include formulating strategies and administering policies, processes, and resources; functions with a high degree of autonomy. Influences others regarding policies, practices and procedures. 

You will:

• Design, architect and create the documentation for the entire system down to the details to meet team needs.
• Code entire software solutions to solve current problems, identify and fix issues within their areas of expertise.
• Participate as a CodeOwner within their expertise and stakeholder throughout in code-reviews.
• Automate unit, integration, and end to end testing solutions and incorporate with the testing team flow. 
• Be able to run you code in pre-production and ensure quality.
• Help maintain debugging tools for team.
• Work with vendors to ensure 3rd party SDKs are working properly.
• Perform and monitor mobile releases for Android
• Teardown and destroy old solutions, products, and resources when no longer needed.
• Provide operational support of your deployed code and all code within your domain of expertise.
• Determine issues within the entire team and prevent problems from occurring
• Coordinate across all business teams to identify, resolve, mitigate and prevent technical issues, risks, and provide solutions.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.

You have:

• 4 year degree in Computer Science or related field OR 9+ years of experience in Software Development
• 7+ years of experience in software engineering
• 5+ years of experience using Android application programming tools (Android, Android Architecture, Kotlin/Java, Android Studio, OkHttp, RxJava, Image Loaders, SQLIte)
• 2+ years fo experience in Jetpack Compose
• 3+ years of experience on an Agile team
• Proficient in Kotlin Coroutines, Concurrency and Multithreading.
• Knowledge of object-oriented design principles, patterns, best practices, performance optimizations, and memory management.
• Ability to communicate across all teams within the organization to provide solutions
• Ability to take a given problem and execute a solution.
• The ability to troubleshoot high complexity issues.
• demonstrate strong self-driven skills alongside technical expertise
• Ability to mentor and guide junior and mid-level engineers.
• Effective communication and documentation skills.
• Problem-solving and critical-thinking ability to handle edge cases and unexpected issues.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams (designers, product managers, QA).

Would be great if you have:

• Experience using React Native(Function Components, Hooks, Redux, Java Script/TypeScript)
• Experience in ingesting and exposing large datasets in weather industry
• Experience in advertising industry
• Experience with GitHub, Jenkins, Spinnaker, Artifactory

What we offer:

At Weatherbug, we want our employees to be comfortable with their benefits so they can focus on doing the work they love.

• Parental leave- Maternity and Paternity
• Flexible Time Offs (Earned Leaves, Sick Leaves, Birthday leave, Bereavement leave & Company Holidays).
• In Office Daily Catered Breakfast, Lunch, Snacks and Beverages
• Health cover for any hospitalization. Covers both nuclear family and parents
• Covid home quarantine cover
• Tele-med for free doctor consultation, discounts on health checkups and medicines
• Wellness/Gym Reimbursement
• Pet Expense Reimbursement
• Childcare Expenses and reimbursements
• Employee assistance program
• Employee referral program
• Education reimbursement program
• Skill development program
• Cell phone reimbursement (Mobile Subsidy program)
• Internet reimbursement
• Birthday treat reimbursement
• Home office set up
• Employee Provident Fund Scheme offering different tax saving options such as VPF and employee and employer contribution up to 12% Basic
• Creche reimbursement
• Co-working space reimbursement
• NPS employer match
• Meal card for tax benefit
• Special benefits on salary account