Android Developer - SDE 3

  • Full-time

Company Description

slice, feel easy with money. Slice's purpose is to make the world better at using money and time, with a major focus on providing the best consumer experience. We believe that the best product will always transcend customer demographics, like how great music touches most of us. slice app brings a fast and simple way to make payments and access credit with its cornerstone products: slice account, slice UPI, and slice borrow. At slice, you’ll have the opportunity to make a significant and positive impact on people's lives with your career.

Today, we have employees with an average age of 26, sharing the same belief in innovation, self-motivation, and happiness. We tailor our working experience with the belief that the present moment is the only real thing in life. And we have harmony in the present the most when we feel happy and successful together.
We are also backed by leading investors such as Tiger Global, Insight Partners, Advent International, Blume Ventures, and Gunosy Capital.

We believe in equality. Period.

At slice, we are committed to building a diverse and talented workforce. We never discriminate on the basis of race, sex, religion, colour, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, medical condition, disability, or any other class or characteristic protected by the applicable law.

We consider all qualified job-seekers with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the applicable law. Additionally, we are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with physical or mental disabilities in order to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

Come join our crew!

Job Description

About the team

Everything that you see on the internet - developers made it. Even the page that you’ve opened right now and are reading this very line from - a developer. At slice, we’re trying to build a world class product and that takes some crazy, world class engineers. A team so supportive - even if you miss a ‘;’ in your code, they got your back till the code runs successfully.

 About the role

We are looking for an experienced Android developer to join our technology team. If you have excellent software design and programming skills and a passion for developing applications or improving existing ones, we would like to meet you. 

 What You will do

  • Design, build, and maintain high performance, reusable, and reliable code.

  • Lead design, implementation of customer facing features.

  • Work alongside product managers and backend team to design the architecture and

  • Implement new features in production

  • Write unit-test code for robustness, usability, and general reliability.

  • Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development

Qualifications

What you will need 

  •  Bachelor's degree and/or master’s degree in Computer Science (or relevant equivalent)
  • 5+ Years of experience in developing android applications

  • Experience in defining system architectures and exploring technical feasibility tradeoffs

  • Experience with common android libraries like Retrofit, OkHttp, Picasso, RxJava, Gson, Arch-components etc

  • Debugging skills, including identifying memory leaks, performance bottlenecks, and using tools like adb, proguard, etc

  • Excellent command over Data Structures and Algorithms

  • Understanding of design for scalability, performance and reliability

  • Have an understanding of OOP, different architectural patterns (esp. MVVM) and their testability

  • Two or more published android apps in the play store 

  • Experience in working in an agile environment and project management tool like Jira

  • Familiarity with Material Design guidelines, common mobile UX patterns, and anti-patterns

  • Experience in UPI is an added advantage 

Additional Information

Life at slice

Life so good, you’d think we’re kidding:

  • Competitive salaries. Period. 
  • An extensive medical insurance that looks out for our employees & their dependants. We’ll love you and take care of you, our promise. 

  • Flexible working hours. Just don’t call us at 3AM, we like our sleep schedule. 

  • Tailored vacation & leave policies so that you enjoy every important moment in your life.    

  • A reward system that celebrates hard work and milestones throughout the year. Expect a gift coming your way anytime you kill it here.  

  • Learning and upskilling opportunities. Seriously, not kidding. 

  • Good food, games, and a cool office to make you feel like home. An environment so good, you’ll forget the term “colleagues can’t be your friends”.