Mobile App Developer - Android

The Company - ShawAcademy.com

Design and technology are at the forefront of our focus to deliver the best, live, online education on the planet. As the largest provider, we must deploy complex engineering solutions, while being in a ground-breaking sector of education requires innovation in UI/UX, graphical and interaction design. We're always looking for the best candidates and love to work with the most technically strong and most creatively minded individuals.

The Position

We are building the next generation platform for delivering education and training on-line. Hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS), this platform needs to offer webinar capabilities that can scale at a global level. This will also offer world class user experience across all mobile devices. 

This role will suit an ambitious, hard-working and highly driven individual who has a proven track record of delivering high quality products. Come and be part of this dynamic team we are building in Bangalore with a great opportunity to work with the latest technology and a great deal of creative freedom.

We like to work in small teams so any work you do will have a massive impact on the business!

Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities:

As a Senior Mobile App Engineer, you will own and build the mobile solutions on iOS/Android for phones and tablet devices. 

What you will do:

• Work in an agile team of 3-7 software engineers, QA engineers and product owners
• Play a central role in creating the best mobile online education environment in the world
• Assess and communicate how your work impacts business and other systems
• Write and test clean, secure and scalable features and services
• Solve non-trivial coding and architecture problems with simple and innovative solutions
• Mentor less experienced members of the team

Skills & Experience Required:

• A recognised third-level degree in Computer Science, Engineering or similar 
• You have a minimum of 3 years of hands-on software development experience
• You have a minimum of 1 year’s hands-on experience building, testing and maintaining mobile apps in iOS or Android with significant real customer downloads
• Hands-on knowledge of supporting multiple mobile OS versions and screen resolutions
• You have strong experience in building native and hybrid mobile apps
• You have experience in Objective-C, Swift, PhoneGap, Ionic Framework, HTML5, JavaScript, CSS and similar technologies
• You have experience with coding in more than one server side language, e.g. Python, C, C++, C#, Java, Ruby or PHP
• Experience with AngularJS, MongoDB, Chef and PHP (Laravel 4) is a plus but not required
• You are an open source fanatic
• You have a sound understanding of programming fundamentals and their application to highly scalable web based systems

What we like to see:

• Links to the apps you have built
• Any open source code or example projects that you're proud of
• Blog around the subject of software development or technology
• Evidence of your passion for building great software
• Experience working in an agile team

Salary / Remuneration:

• Competitive basic salary in addition to a generous, uncapped commission structure
• Opportunity to join a rapidly expanding technology-based firm with a foundation of real talent, and work with real innovators whilst achieving ones own goals.