Mobile Application Developer - Android

Job description

**About Rapido** Founded in 2015, Rapido is India’s leading multi-modal mobility platform. What began with bike taxis has rapidly evolved to include auto-rickshaws, cab-hailing, and peer-to-peer deliveries. Today, Rapido commands a dominant 70% market share in bike taxis, 40% in auto rides, and holds the second-largest position in the cab segment with a 22% share—establishing us as the overall market leader in ride-hailing. With over **4 million rides completed daily** and **more than 2 billion rides served to date** , Rapido operates in 200+ cities and is aggressively expanding toward a presence in 500 cities. In 2024, we proudly achieved unicorn status with a valuation of $1.1 billion. Driven by technology and innovation, we’re expanding into new categories while remaining committed to improving last-mile connectivity and empowering livelihoods at scale. ***Opportunities don't happen, you create them!*** **Job Summary:** As a Mobile Engineer at Rapido, you will work on some of the core mobility features in the Customer and Rider Mobile app. As a part of this team, you will get to work first-hand with the latest mobile technologies and solve the challenges of scale, performance, security, and cost optimization. Your efforts will directly ensure our users get quality service and a seamless experience. Most importantly, what you do every day will have an impact on millions of people using our app. **Job Responsibilities** : - Design and build applications for the Android platform. - Closely collaborate with product, design, and business teams to understand product ideas and business needs and help deliver them. - Continuously improve code base ensuring optimal performance of the app to meet our quality guidelines. - Developing high-performance components while driving the adoption of best practices by writing reusable, and efficient code. - Work with 3rd party data sources and APIs to be integrated into our Android app. - Identifying and resolving bottlenecks, rectifying bugs, and enhancing application performance. **Job Requirements:** - B.Tech. / B.E. degree in Computer Science or equivalent software engineering degree/ experience. - At least 4 year of experience in Android development with excellent skill in Kotlin. - Experience working with android SDK, unit testing. - Understands and follow practices from a code base. - Adept in the craft of writing maintainable, reusable, and easily understandable code. - Good understanding of application lifecycle. - Hands-on experience with application performance monitoring. - Strong sense of ownership and passion for crafting delightful user experiences. - Passion for learning new things and solving challenging problems. **Why should you join Rapido?** Be part of the team that powers India’s largest bike taxi and mobility platform. At Rapido, you’ll: - Build apps used by millions daily across diverse cities. - Solve complex engineering challenges in real-time rides, GPS, and payments. - Work with the latest Android (Kotlin, Jetpack Compose) and iOS (Swift, SwiftUI) tech stacks. - Take end-to-end ownership of features that directly impact users and captains. - Grow in a fast-paced, product-first culture where your work makes a real differ *e* nce. **Excited to solve challenges? Join Rapido & chase bigger milestones too!**