Senior Android Developer

We are looking for a highly skilled Android Developer with 5–7 years of hands-on experience in building modern Android applications using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose. The ideal candidate should have solid experience working on Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) integrations, along with a strong understanding of Android architecture components and performance optimizations. Job Description: Key Responsibilities Design and develop advanced Android applications using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose. Integrate and manage Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) communication layers for hardware interaction. Architect, build, and maintain reusable code and libraries for future use. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features. Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the application. Write unit and integration tests to ensure robustness and reliability. Stay updated with the latest trends in Android and BLE ecosystems. Use AI coding assistants and agentic tools (such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code) in day-to-day delivery to accelerate development, refactoring, debugging, and documentation. Review, validate, and take ownership of AI-generated code, ensuring it meets quality, security, performance, and architectural standards before it is merged. Leverage AI to generate and improve unit, integration, and UI test cases, and to support code reviews and release notes. Contribute to team practices for AI-assisted delivery, including prompt patterns, reusable context or rule files, and guidelines for responsible use of AI on client code. Required Skills 5–7 years of professional Android development experience. Strong command of Kotlin, Coroutines, and Flow. Proficiency with Jetpack Compose, LiveData, ViewModel, Navigation, Room, and other Android Jetpack components. Solid experience with BLE communication, GATT profiles, characteristic reading/writing, connection states, etc. Understanding of Clean Architecture, MVVM, or MVI patterns. Knowledge of dependency injection frameworks like Hilt or Koin. Familiar with tools like Retrofit, OkHttp, Gson, or Moshi. Experience working with background services, battery optimizations, and lifecycle-aware components. Strong debugging and performance tuning skills. Hands-on experience using AI-assisted development tools in a professional setting, with the judgement to know when to rely on AI output and when to challenge it. Strong prompt engineering and context-management skills to get reliable, production-quality output from AI coding tools. Awareness of data privacy, IP, and security considerations when using AI tools on client codebases. Nice to Have Experience with CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins. Exposure to cross-platform frameworks like Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile, Compose Multiplatform Mobile is a plus. Location: DGS India - Bengaluru - Manyata N1 Block Brand: Merkle Time Type: Full time Contract Type: Permanent