Staff Software Engineer

About Tekion:

Positively disrupting an industry that has not seen any innovation in over 50 years, Tekion has challenged the paradigm with the first and fastest cloud-native automotive platform that includes the revolutionary Automotive Retail Cloud (ARC) for retailers, Automotive Enterprise Cloud (AEC) for manufacturers and other large automotive enterprises and Automotive Partner Cloud (APC) for technology and industry partners. Tekion connects the entire spectrum of the automotive retail ecosystem through one seamless platform. The transformative platform uses cutting-edge technology, big data, machine learning, and AI to seamlessly bring together OEMs, retailers/dealers and consumers. With its highly configurable integration and greater customer engagement capabilities, Tekion is enabling the best automotive retail experiences ever. Tekion employs close to 3,000 people across North America, Asia and Europe.

• Competitive compensation 
• Generous stock options 
• Medical Insurance coverage 
• Work with some of the brightest minds from Silicon Valley’s most dominant and successful companies. 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Designing and developing apps for the Android ecosystem.
• Strong object oriented, flutter, React native and Kotlin skills.
• Strong problem-solving skills, technical troubleshooting and diagnosis
• Good knowledge of Data structure and algorithms.
• Strong knowledge of the latest Android SDK.
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect Android to back-end services.
• Creating tests for code to ensure robustness and performance.
• Fixing known bugs in existing Android applications and adding new features.
• Working with external software libraries and APIs.
• Hands on working on multi-threading and optimization techniques.
• Hands on multimedia development and content streaming in Android.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior engineers.
• Collaboratively work as part of a cross-functional team and review the code written by others, including bug fixing and refactoring legacy code.

Mandatory skills:

Kotlin (must), Java, Android SDK

Good to have:

React Native, flutter and ReactJS

Job Location: Chennai (WFO only)

Experience: 

• Bachelor/master's in computer science or relevant fields.
• 7 to 10 years of experience in Android application development. 
• Excellent communication skills.

Tekion is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.