Android Developer

Refer
About the role
Skills: AndroidWhen you are growing at Rocket speed, you need people who can control rockets and are mad enough to ride one.

We’re looking for an Android Developer. The person would be working closely with the Android Lead and founders. (S)he will have the advantage of being one of early members of the foundation team.

  1. 2-5 years of Android Development
  2. Experience of development with Kotlin or Java
  3. Understanding of : a. Android SDK b. Unit testing c. Concurrency in Android d. MVC/MVP/MVVM e. Web API client (retrofit,etc)
  4. Nice to have understanding of: a. Espresso/Appium b. RxJava/Coroutine/Livedata c. Camera Android apis d. Room db
Technology

At Kaagaz, we are developing an app for data sensitive users. Our users are also using software for the first time and that too on mobile phones. They are unaware of how internet and technology works on cloud. We are making SAAS product for such users They understand data continuity but not its nitty gritties.

What that means is that a lot of tech, AI and ML has to be offline and computed on device. But at the same time data continuity through cloud is important since they want to move data in between mobile devices.

Our tech includes native Kotlin based Android app using MVVM architecture. We use OpenCV and on device ML models for Computer Vision.

On cloud which has 1 mn+ users we use a bunch of Microservices written in Java, Spring Boot and SQL databases on the surface. Alongwith a bunch of NoSQL thrown in. We are also going to be using Messaging Queue systems in the near future for load of batch jobs.

Interview Process
  1. Intro call with tech co-founder
  2. Small application to be developed.
  3. Detailed tech round on your past work experience and questions around the app developed. Mostly around android
  4. General tech round with co-founder
  5. Culture fit call with co-founder 2.
About Kaagaz

At Kaagaz we are building an “office” suite for Mobile-first businesses in India. In just 20 months since launch we have amassed 12 Mn+ downloads with a Monthly active user base of 3 Mn+.

Kaagaz is backed by marquee investors like Y Combinator, Goodwater Capital, Pravega Ventures, Better Capital and angels like Farid Ahsan, Alan Rutledge, etc.

We are second time entrepreneurs building Kaagaz. Before Kaagaz we have scaled Tapp Me to an annual revenue of $1 Mn GMV and served more than 1 lakh customers over 3 years.