Staff Android Engineer

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Your New Role...

As the Staff Android Engineer, you will provide technical leadership for the development team. You are an individual contributor,  self-directed, able to work with minimal supervision, and is typically expected to take on the most difficult technical challenges. You will lead the technical direction, supporting the Principal Engineers and Architects in defining the technology strategy and implementation. You will also provide guidance and mentoring to less experienced Engineers. We need our Engineers to be versatile and always eager to tackle new problems while working in a fun, collaborative and fast-paced environment.           

The Staff Software Engineer for the CNN Android team drives mobile tech strategy, architecture, best practices, and choice of tools and technology stack across Android app platforms, supporting mobile backend APIs, mobile CI/CD tools, and testing automation.  You ensure technical execution and release of CNN’s mobile apps to end consumers.  You also partner with Product, Design and Delivery Leaders to help teams deliver on product initiatives and operational execution.

 
Your Role Accountabilities...

• Architect and build intuitive, simple and elegantly designed mobile apps that people want to use

• Provide support and development of software tools and procedures to extend and enhance the core production pipeline

• Work with multiple departments, including Product, Design, Delivery, Editorial and Engineering to implement CNN Digital consumer experience solutions and apps

• Assist with troubleshooting production problems, root cause analysis, and debugging

• Development and maintenance of existing production systems supporting CNN’s digital ecosystem

• Mentor more junior developers

• Ensure software development follows industry best practices, policies and guidelines.  Specifically, ensuring that technical solutions are in line with established CNN Digital strategy, standards in respect to architecture, security, corporate governance, coding standards, monitoring, logging, unit test, and service enablement

Qualifications and Experience...

• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent discipline

• Demonstrated advanced understanding of troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, application design, solution development, human factors/usability design, and implementation of projects for major business units or the enterprise

• At least 10 years of experience within a professional development environment 

• Strong foundation in programming fundamentals such as data structures and algorithms

• Ability to develop new and innovative applications as well as maintaining existing code

• Demonstrated full-mobile stack development experience (mobile native client and SDK, build CI/CD, and APIs), e.g. Kotlin, JetPack Compose, etc.

• Demonstrated expert knowledge of software development methodologies, practice, and architecture, specifically experience architecting performant, scalable, secure, and cost optimized cloud solutions on AWS.  AWS Professional Certification preferred, but not required

• Hands-on experience with mobile DevOps CI/CD tools and implementing best practices, including automation of code signing tools and automated tests.  Preferred familiarity with Bitrise, Git and Maven/Gradle

• General familiarity with database technologies (SQL/RDBMS, NoSQL, GraphDB, etc.)

• Ability to communicate effectively, both written and verbal, with technical and non-technical cross-functional teams

• Experience building flexible software architecture to accommodate shifting business needs

• Knowledge of Cloud Computing platforms like Amazon AWS, OpenStack, OpenShift

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