We are looking for a highly skilled Android Developer with 5–7 years of hands-on experience in building modern Android applications using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose.
The ideal candidate should have solid experience working on Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) integrations, along with a strong understanding of Android architecture components and performance optimizations.
Job Description:
Key Responsibilities
- Design and develop advanced Android applications using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose.
- Integrate and manage Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) communication layers for hardware interaction.
- Architect, build, and maintain reusable code and libraries for future use.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
- Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the application.
- Write unit and integration tests to ensure robustness and reliability.
- Stay updated with the latest trends in Android and BLE ecosystems.
- Use AI coding assistants and agentic tools (such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code) in day-to-day delivery to accelerate development, refactoring, debugging, and documentation.
- Review, validate, and take ownership of AI-generated code, ensuring it meets quality, security, performance, and architectural standards before it is merged.
- Leverage AI to generate and improve unit, integration, and UI test cases, and to support code reviews and release notes.
- Contribute to team practices for AI-assisted delivery, including prompt patterns, reusable context or rule files, and guidelines for responsible use of AI on client code.
Required Skills
- 5–7 years of professional Android development experience.
- Strong command of Kotlin, Coroutines, and Flow.
- Proficiency with Jetpack Compose, LiveData, ViewModel, Navigation, Room, and other Android Jetpack components.
- Solid experience with BLE communication, GATT profiles, characteristic reading/writing, connection states, etc.
- Understanding of Clean Architecture, MVVM, or MVI patterns.
- Knowledge of dependency injection frameworks like Hilt or Koin.
- Familiar with tools like Retrofit, OkHttp, Gson, or Moshi.
- Experience working with background services, battery optimizations, and lifecycle-aware components.
- Strong debugging and performance tuning skills.
- Hands-on experience using AI-assisted development tools in a professional setting, with the judgement to know when to rely on AI output and when to challenge it.
- Strong prompt engineering and context-management skills to get reliable, production-quality output from AI coding tools.
- Awareness of data privacy, IP, and security considerations when using AI tools on client codebases.
Nice to Have
- Experience with CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins.
- Exposure to cross-platform frameworks like Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile, Compose Multiplatform Mobile is a plus.
Location:
DGS India - Bengaluru - Manyata N1 Block
Brand:
Merkle
Time Type:
Full time
Contract Type:
Permanent
