Posted 26 May, 2026
Principal Sr/Engineer (Android) - India
Photon
Chennai,Tamil Nadu,IN,600089
Full Time
Reference: 218_550080_20209
Mandatory Android Skillsets received from Alisha Perry on 4th Sep 2024.
| Skills required | Detailed description |
| Compose | Experience working with Jetpack Components(Compose, Architecture Components, Navigation & etc.). (3+ years) |
| Kotlin | Expert level Android development using Java(5+ years) and Kotlin (4+years) |
| Kotlin Coroutines | |
| MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel), MVI (Model-View-Intent) & MVP | Solid understanding of modern software architectures |
| mockito or junit | Experience in writing Unit tests with jUnit, Mockito |
| Espresso | |
| Network Library Integration | Knowledge of mobile network communication (OKHTTP, Retrofit) |
| Deploymnet pipelines | Experience working with GIT, Jenkins, CI/CD |
| Crashlytics tools | Experience working with Crashlytics tools like Firebase, New Relic & etc. |
| Android SDK | Exposure to development of applications across different form factor (mobile, tablet, etc.) and supporting different Android versions |
| Exposure to performance tuning, power consumption & Material UI | |
| Experience with dependency injection frameworks (Dagger, Hilt) | |
| Experience working with remote data via JSON | |
| Experience with SQLite using Room ORM | |
| Tools | Rally/Jira |
Job Description received from CVS in Jan 2024.
Job description:-
- As a Principal/Sr Engineer, you will be helping advance our architecture and Mobile Product, working with cross-functional teams such as design, product, analysts to deliver great user experiences.
- You will partner with Apps Platform Engineers, Product Managers, Engineering Managers and fellow Feature Team engineers to build products used make our powerful omni channel shopping an easy and seamless experience.
- You will be considered a subject matter expert in software engineering best practices for the full software development life cycle as well as in our Pharmacy domain.
Work breakdown structure for this role:
- In this role, you will be spending certain amount of time developing Android code especially complex use-cases. In addition, you will be partnering with Product, UX and Engineers to iterate the features and improving our Product.
Other responsibilities may include (but not limited to):
- Improve and maintain our mobile apps CI and CD infrastructure and pipelines.
- Provide high level tooling support to team engineers
- Collaborate to drive solutions that would reduce cost and time to marketBe responsible for end-to-end application delivery including coordination with required teams for production deployment
- Continuously monitoring application health and KPIs, support triage of any production issues as and when needed
- Collaborate in troubleshooting complex data, features, service, platform issues and perform root cause analysis to proactively resolve product and operational issues
- Be an advocate of security best practices, champion and support the importance of security within engineering
- Provide technical guidance and mentoring to the fellow engineers in software design and development activities
- Job duties may change at any time due to business needs
Required Qualifications:
- 10+ years of Software development experience with at least 7+ years in designing/developing Android Mobile applications.
- Experience with modern Android development frameworks such as Jetpack compose and Kotlin.
- Experience working with cross-functional teams such as design, product, data teams to deliver great user experiences.
- Experience in influencing large organizations on best practices in Mobile Android development.
- Accessibility experience
- Strong desire to build in test from the start with TDD development experience.
- Continuous delivery in mobile, code review, static analysis, continuous integration, automation, and functional testing Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in handling multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environmentBFF (Backend for FrontEnd) and GraphQL
- Expertise in Android tools, frameworks and Reactive Programming and building Design Systems libraries.Integrating with third party frameworks, tools, and SDKs
- Experience with authenticated session using OAuth and authenticated tokens.
- Experience with build systems on highly modularized apps (Gradle, custom plugins)Static and dynamic analyzers (Android lint, ktlint, Custom Rules
