Trainee Engineer Android-Technical Support

Company Introduction

CometChat harnesses the power of chat by helping thousands of businesses around the world create customized in-app messaging experiences. Our products allow developers to seamlessly add voice, video and text chat to their websites and mobile apps so that their users can communicate with each other, resulting in a unified customer experience, increased engagement and retention, and revenue growth.

In 2019, CometChat was selected into the exclusive Techstars Boulder Accelerator. CometChat (Industry CPaaS: communication-platform-as-a-service) has also been listed among the top 10 best SaaS companies by G2 Crowd. With solid financials, strong organic growth and increasing interest in developer tool-focused companies (from the market and with top technical talent), we’re heading into an exciting period of growth and acceleration. CometChat is backed by seasoned investors such as iSeed Ventures, Range Ventures, Silicon Badia, eonCapital and Matchstick Ventures.

A global business from the start, we have 60+ team members across our Denver and Mumbai offices serving over 50,000 customers around the world. We’ve had an exciting journey so far, and we know this is just the beginning!

CometChat’s Mission

Enable meaningful connections between real people in an increasingly digital world.

CometChat’s Products

CometChat offers a robust suite of cloud hosted text, voice and video options that meet businesses where they are–whether they need drag and drop plugins that can be ready within 30 minutes or if they want more advanced features and can invest development resources to launch the experience that will best serve their users.

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  Quickly build a reliable & full featured chat experience into any mobile or web app
• Fully customizable SDKs and API designed to help companies ship faster

At every step, CometChat helps customers solve complex infrastructure, performance and security challenges, regardless of the platform. But there is so much more! With over 20 ready to use extensions, customers can build an experience and get the data, analysis and insights they need to drive their business forward.

CometChat’s solutions are perfect for every kind of chat including:

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  Social community – Allowing people in online communities to interact without moving the conversation to another platform
• Marketplace – Enabling communications between buyers and sellers
• Events – Bringing thousands of users together to interact without diminishing the quality of the experience
• Telemedicine – Making connections between patients and providers more accessible
• Dating – Keeping people engaged while they connect with one another
• And more!

CometChat is committed to fostering a culture of innovation & collaboration. Our people are our strength so we respect and nurture their individual talent and potential. Join us if you are looking to be a part of a high growth team!

Position Overview & Priorities

We are looking for an Android developer with 0- 1 year of experience. You will coordinate with the rest of the team working on different layers of the product. Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem-solving, sophisticated design, and quality products is important. Building a product is a highly collaborative effort, and as such, a strong team player with a commitment to perfection is required:

Work Location
Hybrid - must be in the office a minimum of 3 days per week.

Primary responsibility would be:

• Responsible for answering and solving customer queries via live chat, email, and calls
• Develop a deep understanding of the Product & Technology
• Learn the codebase - how classes/components/functions/events work together and affect each other
• Help customers implement a chat solution by walking them step by step through any aspect of the integration process that is giving them trouble
• Know the documentation inside and out to find the correct documents for customer issues
• Troubleshoot customer codebase errors to determine if the root cause is on the customer end or CometChat end
• Identify product bugs by attempting to replicate customer issues in CometChat sample apps
• Reply to support requests via chat and email - including technical and nontechnical support queries
• Join and lead customer calls where customers explain and show code-based errors and issues
• Improving coding skills to a point where you can work on CometChat codebase
• Write and maintain code
• Work on minor bug fixes

Prioritised Experiences and Capabilities

• Strong understanding of object-oriented principles Understanding of MVC design patterns
• Basic Understanding of design patterns.
• Proficient with Java/Kotlin
• Understanding of RESTful API's and it's consumption on Android end.
• Good knowledge of Android SDK and different versions of Android
• Good Understanding of basic components of an Android application and its lifecycle.
• Good understanding of Git.
• Basic Knowledge of Gradle build system.
• Familiarity with SQLite, Rooms orm

Core Values

• Go above and beyond for the customer: We are obsessed with ensuring every customer is taken care of, no matter how big or small they are. We truly believe their problems are our problems and will stop at next to nothing to see them succeed.
• Be relentless: Never stop innovating. Be relentless in trying new things, and improving our product. Challenge the status quo, embrace learning curves, and don’t be afraid to fail. Focus on the outcome and everything else will fall into place.
• Be Genuine: Be honest, be authentic and genuine, be open and do the right thing, no matter who's watching. We know what we know, and we don't know, we'll do our darndest to figure out a solution.
• Have fun: Laugh. Be positive and kind. Make people feel good. Life is too short to not spend time doing what you love with folks you enjoy being around.

Interview Process

Our goal is to make sure you have the chance to get to know CometChat as we learn more about you. Through a series of conversations with CometChat’s founders and key stakeholders, we’ll want to learn more about your strategic and functional expertise, and your passion. We hope that you’ll bring questions and ideas to each conversation and suggest ways that we can get to know you and your capabilities better.