Mobile Developer

Kodo; Mumbai; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Kodo is seeking a Senior Mobile Engineer to design, develop, and optimize scalable mobile applications for Android and iOS. You will own features end-to-end, contribute to architecture, and mentor peers across product, design, and backend teams.

The role emphasizes independent work, sound technical decisions, and ongoing improvement of mobile standards and practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in a technical field.
• Strong hands-on experience in mobile app development and architecture.
• Experience with API integration and performance optimization.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable, high-performance mobile applications for Android and/or iOS.
• Own mobile features end-to-end from design through testing, release, and monitoring.
• Design and implement robust mobile architecture and reusable components.
• Collaborate with Backend to integrate REST APIs, WebSockets, push notifications, deep linking, and real-time services.
• Optimize startup time, memory usage, network performance, battery consumption, and UI responsiveness.
• Build reliable apps with strong error handling, observability, and monitoring.

Skills

Android

iOS

Mobile Architecture

Performance Optimization

API Integration

CI/CD

Mentoring

Cross-functional Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

REST APIs

WebSockets

Push Notifications

Deep Linking

Job description

The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience in mobile application development, architecture, performance optimization, reliability, and API integration. You will work closely with product, design, backend, and engineering teams to build scalable consumer-facing mobile experiences.

This role is suited for an engineer who can operate independently, make sound technical decisions, contribute to architecture, and mentor other developers.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable, high-performance mobile applications for Android and/or iOS.
• Own mobile features end-to-end, from technical design and implementation through testing, release, and monitoring.
• Design and implement robust mobile architecture and reusable components.
• Work closely with backend engineers to integrate REST APIs, WebSockets, push notifications, deep linking, and real-time services.
• Optimize application performance, including startup time, memory usage, network performance, battery consumption, and UI responsiveness.
• Build reliable applications with strong error handling, observability, logging, analytics, and monitoring.
• Establish and improve automated testing, CI/CD, build, release, and deployment workflows.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, Backend, QA, and other engineering teams to translate requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Participate in technical design reviews and contribute to engineering standards and best practices.
• Identify technical risks and proactively improve application stability, maintainability, and developer productivity.
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers and contribute to the overall growth of the mobile engineering team.
• Stay current with evolving mobile technologies, development frameworks, and platform capabilities.

What We Re Looking For

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to take end-to-end ownership of complex mobile initiatives.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to make pragmatic technical trade-offs between scalability, performance, reliability, and delivery speed.
• Experience working in cross-functional teams with Product, Design, Backend, QA, and Engineering leadership.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and raise engineering standards.
• Strong focus on writing clean, maintainable, testable, and production-ready code.

Nice to Have

• Experience building AI-powered or real-time consumer applications.
• Experience with WebSocket-based real-time communication.
• Experience with performance initiatives involving battery, networking, lifecycle, or background execution.
• Experience building mobile analytics, experimentation, or user-journey tracking systems.
• Experience working on applications serving millions of users or sessions.
• Experience taking a mobile product from 0-to-1 through production launch and subsequent scale.
• Experience contributing to mobile platform/infrastructure initiatives.

Education

Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.