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UI Engineer - Android
5 years ago
Mech Mocha runs India's first vernacular social gaming platform for the next billion Indians. Let’s take you through our journey.
2015: Bangalore touchdown. We started small but with a big dream - to build mobile apps that entertain India.
Early Wins In no time, we evolved into a dynamic 30+ member team and our first game got over 10 Million downloads. Got Blume to invest in our adventure.
Bigwigs came onboard. We raised over $10 million in funding, thanks to industry stalwarts like Accel, Blume and Shunwei and grew to 50+ awesome people!
Making India Play. Our users, who we lovingly call ‘Pritam’ or 'Preeti', are spending over 70 million minutes of time per month on our platforms.
With Jio's aggressive entry, mobile data became affordable to additional hundreds of millions. These hundreds of millions of Indians are under-served w.r.t. digital products and services competing for their attention. Over the next 5 years, 500 million more Indians are expected to adopt digital platforms.
Their online behaviour is different from the behaviour of the audience in tier-1 India. For them, typing is an *unnatural* way of interacting with the smartphone. They're not as comfortable with English-first apps; they strongly prefer to consume online content in vernacular languages.
These users' way of looking at mobile games is quite interesting. It might be a shopkeeper in Lucknow, or a beauty salon employee in Jodhpur. They spend 12-14 hours a day at work, and have a lot of time alone- especially in the afternoon.
Hello Play allows them an escape mechanism from societal constraints, and they get a *human* connection with real people from across India with similar interests. We provide the most entertaining way of discovering new people and creating deep relationships. The product fulfils the innate need of human connection and the natural attraction towards entertainment through gaming.
We've observed during our 12 hour+ train journeys that co-travellers, who are strangers to each other, play a game of cards or Ludo to pass time. We've met a lot of interesting people this way ourselves, which makes us strongly believe in games as some of the best ice-breakers.
India’s first live social gaming platform where users meet new people through live social games
- 30+ minutes of in-app time spent by each user daily
- Over 100 million+ minutes of conversations on the platform since launch
About the Engineering team at Mech Mocha
Engineering at Mech Mocha closely works with the product team to achieve the overall outcome. Our engineers own their impact end-to-end. While solving key technical & scaling challenges, they contribute to the overall roadmap, enabling product experiments, turnkey deliverables and more. Our user feedback loop is immediate, which means we can rapidly iterate and deploy. High interaction with cross-functional peers.
- We love versatility in our engineers. Jack of all trades, master of none is often better than master of one.
- Communication and collaboration across the organization are as important as an engineer’s execution and delivery.
- We believe that the best engineers write simple codes for complex problems.
- We focus on details before deliverables. Premature execution is the root of all scope creep!
Will I work on building games ?
Mech Mocha has a gaming DNA, but we have evolved into a platform company. Our product and engineering teams are building a platform in native android, systems and APIs in Golang / Postgres / Redis etc. Our product engineering team today concentrates on developing platform features such as leaderboards, wallets, tournament scheduling systems, interactive livestream experiences and so on. Coming from gaming DNA does mean that we offer gaming experience to our users including games that Pritam likes such as Ludo, Carrom, Pool and Tambola.
While we don't plan to make a MOBA anytime soon, you will get amazing exposure to full-stack native mobile application development in an environment that places tremendous amount of focus on contributing to backend as well as front-end at all levels of experience.
Tech Stack :
Programming languages and technologies we use every day include Java, Kotlin, Golang, Python, SQL, Javascript, Android, Postgres, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, Firebase and BigQuery.
Responsibilities
- Build next-generation mobile applications which are efficient, reusable front-end abstractions and systems.
- Explore and design dynamic and compelling consumer experiences.
- Identify and communicate best practices for UX/UI Designers and Developers
- Obsess over quality in the product you create and the code you write.
- Work closely with designers to implement versatile front-end solutions while embracing emerging standards and pushing the limits of what an Android app can do.
- Actively participate in design and code reviews.
- Interact with other team members to passionately collaborate innovations across other products in Mech Mocha
- Strive for pixel perfect implementation in all standard app resolutions and graceful fallbacks in non-standard ones.
What we are looking for
- 1-3 years of experience in UI Development in Android.
- Ability to write well-abstracted, reusable, highly performant layouts and code for UI components in Android.
- Experience handling Android screen fragmentation gracefully.
- A deep sense of ownership and collaboration – take initiative to communicate and clarify, breakdown tasks, burn-down task lists, work hard, learn and unlearn
- Great written and oral communication skills - write design documents, constructively comment on code reviews, pair with design and test teams to tackle unknowns or problems
Brownie points for
- Experience with Android application development along with UI development.
- Experience with Kotlin
- Prior experience building reusable view or animation libraries which have been used across multiple projects.
- Applicative insight in modern code design practices such as Dependency Injection, MVVM and Reactive Programming.
- Experience building consumer-facing apps.
Our building blocks
- Unstoppable drive: Visible energy. Initiative. Follow through.
- High ownership: Capability. Responsibility. Accountability.
- Effective communication: Unhindered by ambiguity. Driving clarity. Alignment. Thoughtful communication.
- Infectious positive energy: Fostering creativity. Encouraging and listening to others' ideas. Guidance, not criticism.
- Agile execution: Shipping early. Quick critical feedback. Fast iteration.
- User empathy: Knowledge of the targeted users. Deep respect for everything about them.
Why join us
- Flat organization- No bureaucracy, zero politics
- Small teams, big goals- Individual ownership, high visibility
- Learn and grow- Face-to-face sessions with industry leaders, accomplished founders, renowned designers
- Competitive compensation- Attractive package, generous equity, relocation bonus
- Interest-free loans- Looking to rent a house? We’d be happy to help out with the deposit!
- Work hard, party harder- Fun get-togethers, annual off-sites
- Eat. Repeat- There’s always food in the house
- Women in leadership- We believe in maintaining gender balance in our space and have women occupying over 50% of leadership roles.
- Outcome driven culture- We measure work by the impact it creates on the users, and not by the number of hours.
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