Senior Software Engineer - Android

ixigo
Gurugram, Haryana, India

Company Description

Launched in 2007 by Aloke Bajpai & Rajnish Kumar, ixigo (Le Travenues Technology Limited) is a technology company focused on empowering Indian travellers to plan, book and manage their trips across rail, air, buses and hotels. ixigo assists travellers in making smarter travel decisions by leveraging artificial intelligence. The ixigo, ConfirmTkt and AbhiBus apps allow travellers to book train tickets, flight tickets, bus tickets, hotels, and cabs, and provide travel utility tools and services developed using in-house proprietary algorithms and crowd-sourced information. With over 54 crore Annual Active Users in Fiscal 2025, ixigo is the leading OTA for Next Billion Users in India. For more information, please visit http://www.ixigo.com

Job Description

You will be involved in the entire product development lifecycle, playing a key role in designing, planning, developing, and deploying scalable solutions. You'll also help define engineering best practices and contribute to building a world-class, consumer-facing travel product alongside a young, diverse, and talented team.

Roles & Responsibilities

  • Developing, releasing, and maintaining native Android Applications and oversee mobile application development efforts
  • Deliver across the entire app life cycle, design, build, deploy, test, release to app stores and support
  • Working directly with developers and product managers to conceptualize, build, test and release products
  • Responsible for safeguarding sensitive company data against unauthorized access, use, or disclosure, and for reporting any suspected security incidents in line with the organization's ISMS (Information Security Management System) policies and procedures
  • Work on bug fixing and improving application performance.
  • Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency
  • Optimizing performance for the apps and keep up to date on the latest industry trends in the mobile technologies

Must have:

  • Deep understanding of Android development SDK and strong problem-solving skills
  • Good understanding of Kotlin/Java, Android Architecture Components, Dagger 2/Hilt, MVVM architecture
  • Good grasp of algorithms, design patterns, memory management, network interaction, debugging, concurrency and multi-threading in Android.
  • Understanding of complete application development, continuous integration & testing, deployment, app distribution infrastructure and maintenance
  • Hands on experience with Android’s debugging, unit testing, app security and performance optimisation tools
  • Great people skills and strong passion for programming in general.

Qualifications

  • Have at least an undergraduate degree in Computer Science or Engineering, preferably from IITs or top institutions.
  • Have 4+ years of experience at cutting edge organizations or startups with a strong Product background.
  • Extensive experience in developing mobile apps using Android SDK with proficiency in Kotlin and design patterns
  • Comfortable using AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, or Android Studio's Gemini/agentic coding features) to speed up coding, testing, and code review
  • Any experience with internet companies or the travel industry will be a plus

Additional Information

Responsible for safeguarding sensitive company data against unauthorized access, use, or disclosure, and for reporting any suspected security incidents in line with the organization's ISMS (Information Security Management System) policies and procedures.

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