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Native Android developer

We are looking for a product focused native Android developer, who is enthusiastic about building high-quality, built-to-scale native android apps for international clients, in a small but professional team.

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Product Designer

We are looking for an experienced Product Designer who is enthusiastic about building high-quality, built-to-scale and delightful digital products for international clients, in a small but professional team.

It's not an easy thing to meet your maker

Full Stack Developer

We are looking for a product focused Full Stack Developer, who is comfortable around both front-end and back-end coding languages, development frameworks, third-party libraries and has a knack for visual design and utility as well.

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<h3>The BitRaptors story</h3>

[Csaba](https://www.linkedin.com/in/csacsi/), [Gabor](https://www.linkedin.com/in/bakosg/) and [Daniel](https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielfeles/) has been designing building apps since the early ages of the mobile-era.

In 2017 they started BitRaptors to help people bring their ideas into real online products.

Today BitRaptors is a team of [15 professionals](/about/team), devoting their time to build satisfying apps.
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Designed and built in Budapest, used all around the world

We take pride in our work. With laser-focus and a culture of ownership, we iterate (and iterate again) to deliver solutions that enable businesses and startups to become competitive leaders in the digital era. 

We deliver 

We were approached by a group of professors and researchers from Stanford University to help bring their idea for a new product to life.

PlacidO - Stanford

Swift

Figma

Native prototype

Corvinus

Robust system

Kotlin

Heartbit

Node.js

Wearable med-tech integration

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We specialize in bringing product ideas to reality. Equipped with cutting edge tools and razor sharp development, our goal is not just to build an application, but hatch scalable products to bring value to users in every stage of their journey.

We develop 

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Balázs Morvay

Making a Cocoapod in Swift with an Objective-C .framework dependency

Building a cocoapod framework in swift is fairly easy, and there are plenty of tutorials and materials on how one can do it. However, making one that uses a .framework dependency, written in ObjC, can be quite a challenge.

SlowTime

React

Online mindfulness meditations

Our heritage includes multiple products with millions of users

We design, develop, and deliver razor sharp digital products

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A Way to Music

Classical music streaming service 

We believe in powerful design. This means we create systems with the perfect user experience at the forefront. Our strong user-centric philosophy guides us to build sleek and lasting products that are as visually stunning as they are functional.

We design

BitRaptors is a product development studio based in Budapest

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Delightful in any weather

Building products for 10+ years

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Corvinus is a top-tier university in Budapest, Hungary (with approx. 11,500 yearly enrollment) that approached us to create a new system for their student and administration portals. They wanted an app for students and teachers to manage enrollment, scheduling, and other university-life affairs with ease and simplicity.   

Importantly, they also wanted the app to be modern and cutting-edge so it would appeal to a tech-literate student population with high expectations of what a digital product should offer. That’s where we came in. 

To solve these issues, we first wanted to better understand the needs of the student population and university population. Therefore, we initiated user research interviews in small focus groups to identify pain points and areas of focus.   

The data collected allowed us to start building a platform around the needs of the users (students) and how they wish to interact with the product by mapping out the user journey. This was a crucial step before taking on development, as it allowed us to design an agile and intuitive system around the specific needs of the students and university administrators. 


For the app itself, we wanted to create a robust system that was powerful and functional enough to handle the depth of the university’s needs, yet sleek and accessible to appeal to the younger student demographic. We also had to incorporate and build upon legacy data from the previous 3rd party system to sync and format data with the updated platform.  

Through creative development and constant iteration, we began building a dynamic and intuitive system, based on BFF (Backend for Frontend) technical backbone, where the admins of the app can modify, update, and create content without the need of new releases. This means that content and information can be shared to engage student and teacher audiences quickly, easily, and at any time. 


During the development, we continued to collect and monitor user feedback to make fine-tune adjustments to the UX flows and learn what works and what doesn’t. The result was a beautifully designed app where students can collect and share information, receive important push notifications, schedule courses and exams, and even an interactive map of the campus (plus more).   

The feedback was overwhelmingly positive, and we’re thrilled to have provided Corvinus University with a modern and innovative app worthy of their students and faculty. 


About

The BitRaptors footprint spans from Budapest to San Francisco, where we use cutting-edge technologies to work with the industry's hottest startups. We understand that our success as a company lies in the strength of our team. That’s why we nurture an inclusive and inspirational environment that supports individuals to evolve and grow alongside our company.  

Working with BitRaptors isn’t like working with an agency. We’re a product development team that operates with a startup mindset and style of work. We take pride in our work, reward curiosity, and take on big challenges (and have fun doing it). This philosophy is reflected in our “playful, yet serious” company culture and hip office setting (think unlimited spicy popcorn, funky decor, hookahs, and an in-house corgi).  

Interested in kick-starting ideas and building products for the future? [<u>Send us a message</u> ](/contact)


Our team

**What will you do?**  
- Work with mobile development teams and designers to ideate software solutions
- Design client-side and server-side architecture
- Build the front-end of applications through appealing visual design
- Develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications
- Write effective APIs
- Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency
- Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software
- Create security and data protection settings
- Build features and applications with a mobile responsive design
- Write technical documentation  

**Requirements & Skills**  
- 3 years' experience developing desktop and mobile applications
- Familiarity with common stacks
- Confident working knowledge of  Javascript or Typescript in general
- Experience with front-end technologies (e.g. HTML/ CSS, Javascript, Typescript, React, Vue, etc.)
- Experience with back-end technologies (e.g. Node.js, Express, C# .NET, etc.)
- Familiarity with databases (e.g. SQL, noSQL)
- Must be familiar with version control (e.g GitHub)
- Good communication and teamwork skills
- Great attention to detail
- An analytical mind  

**Good to have**  
- Eye for UX/UI design
- Experience with frontend/backend technologies not mentioned above
- Familiarity with AWS
- Familiarity with Docker
- Familiarity with Firebase  

The BitRaptors footprint spans from Budapest to San Francisco, where we use cutting-edge technologies to work with the industry's hottest startups. We understand that our success as a company lies in the strength of our team. That’s why we nurture an inclusive and inspirational environment that supports individuals to evolve and grow alongside our company.  

Working with BitRaptors isn’t like working with an agency. We’re a product development team that operates with a startup mindset and style of work. We take pride in our work, reward curiosity, and take on big challenges (and have fun doing it). This philosophy is reflected in our “playful, yet serious” company culture and hip office setting (think unlimited spicy popcorn, funky decor, hookahs, and an in-house corgi).  

Apply at <u>info@bitraptors.com</u>

SlowTime is an online platform to help users develop their mindfulness meditation skills. With a subscription, users can reach multiple collections of guided materials and standalone voice and music content from a selection of instructors.

In addition to building the product and the unique CMS platform, we were also tasked with creating the SlowTime brand.  

[<u>Visit SlowTime</u>](https://slowtime.hu/)

We were approached by a group of professors and researchers from Stanford University (who were referred to us by one of our partners from a previous project) to help bring their idea for a new product to life.   

As specialists in optometry conducting research on the human eye and corrective vision, they were looking for a product team to build their first prototype of an app that defines and measures the parameters of the eye.

The goal was to build an easy-to-use, yet highly advanced, digital product that helps patients choose the right contact lenses. Since our partners (the researchers) were academics with no prior experience in building and designing digital products, we needed to fully understand their ideas and figure out how to turn them into a working digital product.  

The app was to function by capturing photos of the human eye and use complex algorithms to calculate the appropriate corrective lenses for the user. 


Designing with vision

While the researchers provided us with the mathematical calculations and algorithms for the foundation of the technology, we were tasked with building an entire product around their vision, including the design, UX, branding, and app development.  

Even though the task was to create an experimental prototype as a test case, we created a fully functioning iOS app, opposed to merely a clickable prototype. This gave our academic partners the ability to test and experiment with the app in a real-world setting.

Coding with science-backed algorithms  

The PlacidO project was a perfect example of how we utilize design and development to solve complex issues and deliver a superior working product from the ground-up. We were able to create a fully functioning prototype that allowed the researchers to test and validate their concept, ultimately leading to their [<u>successful acquisition in 2022</u>](https://eyewire.news/news/waldo-announces-the-acquisition-of-placid0?c4src=article:infinite-scroll). 


The takeaway

We built an app for the world's first stress ECG monitoring device, designed for runners and athletes, that measures heart rate and athletic performance through smart activewear technology.  

Heartbit, an innovative tech startup, approached us with the task of developing a Strava-like product that integrates with their wearable medtech device to provide health and performance data to the user. 


The app itself was to have a wide-range of capabilities that measure health metrics, in real-time, while the user exercises and performs physical activity. Through communication between the wearable device and the app, alerts are sent to the user for heart anomalies and other fitness performance data.  

Due to the complexity of this project, we had to create a completely customized solution that meets highly demanding software and hardware requirements. What’s more, we were asked to do all of this on a tight deadline. 


Merging digital and physical

In order to create a custom integration between the app and the hardware, we worked closely together with the manufacturer to build customized firmware solutions that integrate seamlessly with the wearable tech. This was based upon bluetooth connectivity between the app and the monitoring device, backed by cloud-based data storage.  

To correct for inaccuracies experienced with the GPS sensors on Android devices, we implemented Kalman filtering logic to filter outliers in the data. We also had to write a **customized sdk** and hardware definitions that can handle updates and error handling wirelessly, so users can receive and deploy updates directly through the app. 


Seamless Bluetooth connectivity

Through using advanced design and development techniques, we were able to deliver a sleek and visually appealing app that displayed the large amount of data collected from the wearable device to the user. The app collects, analyzes, and visualizes a variety of complex performance and activity insights, including speed, altitude, and a multitude of heart rate metrics. 

BabyWeather

BabyWeather is the first outfit planner app helping new parents avoid the stress of dressing up their little ones. Whether it is sunny, rainy, snowy or warm outside, BabyWeather suggests the ideal clothing for babies.

It is one of BitRaptors first own product, which we are building together with Bartha solutions. It is currently used by more than 7000 daily active users.

Finding the best outfits based on real-time weather data

The tips section is full of additional advice on dressing a baby for different scenarios, and the most important things to keep in mind in extreme weather.

User can also add multiple children to the app, and it will recommend different set of clothes based on age and preferences.

The clothing suggestions are based on the actual weather conditions and forecasts of the user's current or manually chosen location. BabyWeather provides outfit recommendations for babies aged 0-3 with delightful and simple to understand illustrations.

The app is switching between dark and light mode based on the time of use.

Below are some of the many variations for assets to visally support different kinds of weathers.

Classical music streaming service

A Way to Music is a Netflix-like subscription-based web app for one of Hungary's leading symphonic orchestras, Danubia. The orchestra's goal was to reach as many people as possible with their message: the joy of music. The website offers mood-based musical fragments, family and youth performances, complete concerts, and live broadcasts. These hundreds of videos become available after a simple registration or subscription.

Part of the product is a unique loyalty program that allows listeners to gain points by streaming videos or purchasing tickets and season passes for concerts. Users can achieve different loyalty levels that provide additional benefits, like discounts on all ticket purchases, rehearsal visits, and meet and greet opportunities with the artists.

**What will you do?**  
- Build wireframes to get on the same page with clients in terms of information architecture. 
- Build UI and UX workflows with high attention to details
- Build design systems to support different digital products
- Create clickable prototypes 
- Manage user tests and reiterate designs accordingly
- Bring in new, fun ideas, while designing digital products (think of UI animations, Easter eggs, IxD)  
  

**Requirements & Skills**  
- A portfolio of professional UI/UX design work for both web and mobile platforms
- You are proficient with industry tools, mainly Figma
- A team player but can work independently too
- Experience of working closely with mobile and web development teams
- Good written and verbal communication skills (Hungarian, English)  

**Nice to have**  
- Experience with typography, graphic design, illustration 
- UI/other animations skills
- Curiosity to understand technical details and get hands dirty with some coding  
  

The BitRaptors footprint spans from Budapest to San Francisco, where we use cutting-edge technologies to work with the industry's hottest startups. We understand that our success as a company lies in the strength of our team. That’s why we nurture an inclusive and inspirational environment that supports individuals to evolve and grow alongside our company.  

Working with BitRaptors isn’t like working with an agency. We’re a product development team that operates with a startup mindset and style of work. We take pride in our work, reward curiosity, and take on big challenges (and have fun doing it). This philosophy is reflected in our “playful, yet serious” company culture and hip office setting (think unlimited spicy popcorn, funky decor, hookahs, and an in-house corgi).  

Apply at <u>info@bitraptors.com</u>

Regular/senior native Android developer

Our applications are built with Kotlin using Functional and Reactive paradigms, modern MVVM and Clean architecture. In-depth platform knowledge is essential, and you should genuinely care about your code as we do. We work in platform aligned, closely collaborating teams, and our design team loves to be challenged on product decisions. For real.
If you participated in large-scale app development it is not a must, but something that is a plus for us.  

Apply at <u>info@bitraptors.com</u>