LEAD ENGINEER - MOBILE APP DEV

Date:  24 Apr 2024
Location: 

IN

Company:  Sasken Technologies Limited

Job Summary


• Person at this position takes ownership of a module and associated quality and delivery. Person at this position provides instructions, guidance and advice to team members to ensure quality and on time delivery.
• Person at this position is expected to be able to instruct and review the quality of work done by technical staff.
• Person at this position should be able to identify key issues and challenges by themselves, prioritize the tasks and deliver results with minimal direction and supervision.
• Person at this position has the ability to investigate the root cause of the problem and come up alternatives/ solutions based on sound technical foundation gained through in-depth knowledge of technology, standards, tools and processes.
• Person has the ability to organize and draw connections among ideas and distinguish between those which are implementable.
• Person demonstrates a degree of flexibility in resolving problems/ issues that atleast to in-depth command of all techniques, processes, tools and standards within the relevant field of specialisation.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Responsible for requirement analysis and feasibility study including system level work estimation while considering risk identification and mitigation.  
• Responsible for design, coding, testing, bug fixing, documentation and technical support in the assigned area. Responsible for on time delivery while adhering to quality and productivity goals.
• Responsible for traceability of the requirements from design to delivery Code optimization and coverage.
• Responsible for conducting reviews, identifying risks and ownership of quality of deliverables.
• Responsible for identifying training needs of the team.
• Expected to enhance technical capabilities by attending trainings, self-study and periodic technical assessments. 
• Expected to participate in technical initiatives related to project and organization and deliver training as per plan and quality.
• Expected to be a technical mentor for junior members.
• Person may be given additional responsibility of managing people based on discretion of Project Manager.

Education and Experience Required

Engineering graduate, MCA, etc Experience: 5-8 years

Competencies Description

"MOBILE APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT: Engineer is one: who is experienced in one or more of the following with respect to mobile applications: 1) *Design, Development, Deployment on App Store * Defect fixing, App changes for SDK upgrades (e.g. Android SDK, iOS SDK, Xamarin SDK version upgardes), 3) Mandatory to have specializations in one of more of the following - Android native app development, iOS app development, Cross platform app development using a framework like Xamarin, React Native, Ionic, Google Flutter

Mobile App engineer shall understand best practices, methods for following across all specializations:
1) Developing apps for Smartphone, Tablet form factors
2) Offline mode & caching support
3) Multi language support
4) Restful API integration "

Platforms- 
"Specializations - 
1) Android Native - Android SDK,
2) iOS Native - iOS SDK,
3) Cross Platform - Xamarin SDK,
React Native SDK"

Technology Standard-
"Common across specializations: 
It is mandatory to understand one or more of software patterns for mobile app dev: 
- MVC, 
- MVVM, 
- MVVM Lite
- MVVM Cross
- View Interactor Presenter Entity Router(VIPER)
Specific to Specializations:
 - Apple developer guidelines (iOS native development)
-  Android App quality guidelines, Launch checklist required for successfully publishing (for Google Playstore)"

Tools- 
"Android Native - Android Studio, Eclipse, ADB
iOS Native - Xcode
Xamarin - Visual Studio"

Languages- 
"Specializations - 
1) Android native - Kotlin, Java, Android JNI
2) iOS Native - Swift, Objective-C
3) Cross platform-Xamarin:   C# (Xamarin native development), XAML (for Xamarin forms development) 
4) Cross Platform- React Native:Java Script, Type Script
5) Cross Platform-Ionic: Javascript"

Specialization-
 IOS -NATIVE, ANDROID NATIVE, CROSS PLATFORM

Must to have Skills