Principal Software Engineer Android Developer - Bangalore- 6+ years
Lead the design, development, and delivery of high-scale, production-grade Android applications. This role involves hands-on coding, system design ownership, and technical leadership with a strong influence across product, engineering, and operations.
Key Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end development of complex Android components using Kotlin/Java.
- Provide technical leadership to agile teams and drive best practices in CI/CD, automated testing, and SDLC improvements.
- Lead system design, architecture decisions, and technical estimations aligned to business goals.
- Translate business requirements into clear technical specifications and implementation plans.
- Drive code quality standards, unit/UI automation, performance optimization, and debugging practices.
- Oversee production support, root cause analysis, post-mortems, and continuous reliability improvements.
- Mentor mid-level engineers and grads; act as a technical advisor across teams.
- Collaborate closely with Product, QA, and Operations to meet functional and non functional requirements.
- Lead product initiatives and contribute to next-generation prototypes.
Must-Have Skills
- Android development using Kotlin and Java
- Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, and Android Jetpack components
- MVVM, Clean Architecture, and Dependency Injection (Hilt/Dagger)
- REST APIs, Retrofit, WebSockets, and third-party SDK integrations
- Performance tuning, profiling, and debugging
- JUnit, Espresso, Mockito, and test-driven practices
- Gradle, Git, and CI/CD pipelines
- Firebase or client-side configuration management
- Design secure, scalable, highly available mobile systems
- Analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills
Nice-to-Have Skills
- Experience in Fintech or financial systems
- Exposure to reactive/functional programming paradigms
- Understanding of scalable, data-intensive architectures
- Awareness of ML use cases in Fintech and productionization concepts
