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Full-Time

Senior Android Engineer

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Compensation Overview

$131k - $197kAnnually

+ Bonus + Restricted Stock Units

Senior, Expert

New York, NY, USA

Category
Android Development
Software Engineering
Required Skills
Kotlin
Agile
Espresso
Software Testing
SCRUM
REST APIs
Android Development
Product Design
Requirements
  • BS in CS or equivalent practical experience
  • 6+ years of professional Android development experience using Kotlin and shipping apps to the Play Store
  • 1+ years of experience with modern Android development practices, such as Kotlin Flow, coroutines, Jetpack Navigation, etc.
  • Experience with unit testing. Nice to have: experience with automated testing using Espresso
  • Experience integrating with RESTful server-side services
  • Ability to collaborate with Product, Design and Engineering stakeholders to implement solutions which surprise and delight our customers
  • Understanding of Computer Science fundamentals and Android design patterns and best practices
  • Experience leading the development of a project from planning to release, dispatching work among a small team, mentoring and guiding junior engineers
  • A sheer eye for design and attention to detail, the products you build should not merely be functional but should take in context and anticipate our customer’s needs in a beautiful way
  • Experience with Scrum/Agile development methodologies
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Passion about mentoring and helping more junior engineers to grow
  • Nice to have: Prior experience leading mobile infrastructure work, such as CI/CD pipeline management, CLI tools, or build systems
Responsibilities
  • Work in a startup-like environment building agile products and services
  • Collaborate closely with engineers on your team, engineers on other teams, as well as your product and design counterparts to successfully launch projects which solve real-world customer problems
  • Evaluate and understand the technical trade offs necessary to bring product initiatives to fruition, weighing different approaches and arriving to a recommended solution, detailing its pros and cons
  • Independently define, decompose, and lead delivery of complex projects
  • Perform code reviews, design reviews, and write high quality tests
  • Advocate for efficient, scalable, and extensible approaches that solve technical problems in a manner that stands the test of time
  • Hold yourself and your team to a high standard of code quality and operational rigor, ensuring that code is well-tested, and your systems have appropriate monitoring, alerting, and runbooks implemented
  • Become the subject matter expert for one or more services in your domain
  • Create clear and concise documentation (diagrams, service descriptions, decisions, runbooks)
  • Identify and remove bottlenecks to address inefficiencies in the developer experience
  • Mentor junior engineers on the team, building their technical skills and ensuring that they understand best practices around engineering and operational excellence

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