Software Engineer

An Amazing Career Opportunity for Mobility Engineer

Location: Chennai, India (Hybrid)

Profile Summary:

Are you passionate about Technology? Do you enjoy using it to create solutions that drives businesses? Then come and join us and make the difference. HID Global is hiring Mobility Engineer (Android) to be part of the Mobile App Development team. This is a technical role, and the candidate should have special skills and be a subject matter expert in Native Mobile App development and Cross-Platform app development.

About HID Global

HID Global powers the trusted identities of the world’s people, places and things. We make it possible for people to transact safely, work productively and travel freely. Our trusted identity solutions give people secure and convenient access to physical and digital places and connect things that can be accurately identified, verified and tracked digitally. Millions of people around the world use HID products and services to navigate their everyday lives, and over 2 billion things are connected through HID technology. We work with governments, educational institutions, hospitals, financial institutions, industrial businesses, and some of the most innovative companies on the planet. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, HID Global has over 3,000 employees worldwide and operates international offices that support more than 100 countries. HID Global® is an ASSA ABLOY Group brand. HID Global has is the trusted source for secure identity solutions for millions of customers and users around the world. In India, we have two Engineering Centre (Bangalore and Chennai) over 200+ Engineering Staff. Global Engineering Team is based in Chennai and one of the Business Unit Engineering team is based in Bangalore. Check us out: and

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Physical Access Control Solutions (PACS)

HID's Physical Access Control Solutions Business Area:

HID PAC’s Business Unit focuses on the growth of new clients and existing clients where we leverage the latest card and reader technologies to solve the security challenges of our clients. Other areas of focus will include authentication, card sub systems, card encoding, Biometrics, location services and all other aspects of a physical access control infrastructure.

Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Mandatory (Strong design, admin and development skills)
• Strong knowledge of Android SDK, different versions of Android, and how to deal with different screen sizes
• Should have published mobile apps in the android play store.
• Familiarity with REST & JSON to connect Android applications with remote back-end services
• Strong knowledge of Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices
• Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning
• Experience in handling the BLE/NFC handshakes
• Should be familiar with various cryptographic & key management API's for securely storing and transferring the user data
• Ability to design applications around natural user interfaces and controls such as "touch"
• Familiarity with the use of additional sensors, such as gyroscopes and accelerometers
• Knowledge of the open-source Android ecosystem and the libraries available for common tasks
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications
• A knack for benchmarking and optimization
• Understanding of Google's Android design principles and interface guidelines

Other - Desired experience

• Excellent exposure to Kotlin, Java, J2EE & Restful Web services
• Good grasp of Cloud Technology Stack, Preferably Amazon Web Services
• Good knowledge on Agile Methodologies like Scrum, Kanban and XP Practices
• Exposure to CI tools like Jenkins is highly desirable
• Previous experience in TDD, BDD practices is preferred
• Good understanding of HTML5, JavaScript, jQuery, Ajax and PHP
• Comfortable to learn new technology stack as per the business needs

Technical Requirements:

• 3-5 years of experience working with installing, maintaining and developing mobile app
• Desire and Ability to learn and work effectively and contribute as part of a fast moving technical and business unit team.
• Experienced in full SDLC (Software development life cycle) which includes System / Information Engineering, Software Requirements gathering, Systems Analysis and Design, Code Generation, Testing, implementation, deployment, maintenance and documentation.

Education And/or Experience: -

• An undergraduate degree from a recognized university in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent, Desired master’s degree in computer science or Equivalent.
• Minimum requirement of 3+ years of experience in software development with a minimum of 3+ years of experience in Product development environment.
• Deep analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Broad exposure / experience across Mobile APP development, SOA, Contemporary Web channel solutions, large scale distributed systems design and implementation.
• Demonstrated experience to Design and code for Secure, Scale, Speed and reliability.
• A desire for learning and understanding the security discipline.

Why apply?

• Empowerment: You’ll work as part of a global team in a flexible work environment, learning and enhancing your expertise. We welcome an opportunity to meet you and learn about your unique talents, skills, and experiences. You don’t need to check all the boxes. If you have most of the skills and experience, we want you to apply.
• Innovation: You embrace challenges and want to drive change. We are open to ideas, including flexible work arrangements, job sharing or part-time job seekers.
• Integrity: You are results-orientated, reliable, and straightforward and value being treated accordingly. We want all our employees to be themselves, to feel appreciated and accepted.

This opportunity may be open to flexible working arrangements.

HID is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer – Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran/Gender Identity/Sexual Orientation.