Android Developer

About Gaana

Since its inception in 2010, Gaana has been making giant strides in the digital music space. We are India’s No. 1 music streaming company, and believe in offering the most inclusive and intuitive music streaming experience to Indians.

We respect and get inspired by diversity. Our online music catalogue includes International and Indic music in more than 21 languages including Hindi, English and all major regional languages such as Assamese, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil and Telugu. Additionally, we host over 30,000 podcasts, making us one of the leading podcast platforms in India. With our massive music & podcast library, combined with best in class recommendation and search and features like Voice Assistant, Live Streaming and Lyrics, we are a front runner in our industry.

We count on our amazing, diverse & talented team to solve the biggest challenges in tech, product & design to keep bringing music to more ears around the world.

Our vision is shared by our investors Times Internet Limited and Tencent. Times Internet, the digital arm of The Times Group, is India’s leading digital products company which has been instrumental in transforming India’s digital landscape with its wide range of innovative products that Inform, Entertain & Enable users globally. Tencent is one of the world's most valuable technology companies and one of the world's largest venture capital firms and investment corporations.

Some of its services are all among the world's biggest and most successful in their respective categories.

What’s there for you?

• Developers are working on all the latest components, architectures and libraries to make the codebase modular and maintainable.
• Every developer is provided with the platform to showcase their technical skills and they also pitch their innovative ideas ranging from improving user experience to new features to improving app security and the list goes on.
• Everyone shares ownership and vision to make the product reach to a new high.
• We work on many different mini apps, we have apps for Android auto, Android TV, Fire stick, Alexa, Google home.
• We have partnerships with multiple OEMs to provide them the Gaana App as per their customization.
• We are also an entertainment partner with MG motors for their car infotainment device.

Required Skills:

● Data Structures & Algorithms

• Design patterns & Android architecture components
• Strong knowledge of Core JAVA, Kotlin and UI controls
• Demonstrated ability to design and build dynamic multi-threaded mobile apps and SDKs

Professional & Academic Eligibility:

• B.Tech/B.S or M.Tech/M.S in Computer Science, or equivalent work experience
• 2 to 6 years of Android development experience

Job Responsibilities:

• As a part of the team managing the application for Android users, this role designs, maintains and continuously improves the application basis requirements and user feedback.
• Designs, builds and maintains high performance, reusable, and reliable code.
• Ensures the best performance, quality, and responsiveness of the application.
• Works towards identifying and correcting bottlenecks by fixing bugs in the code/application.
• Helps maintain code quality, code optimization and automation.

We’ve been growing very fast and don’t really feel like taking our foot off the gas. We believe that no problem is too big or too small to be solved. We would love to have you along for the ride if you have the passion to be a part of a tremendous growth story!

Originally posted on Himalayas