Android Developer

What you will do:Work in a startup-like environment building agile products and servicesCollaborate 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 problemsAct as a strategic partner to Product and Design, using technical insights to influence the product roadmap and proactively suggesting architectural changes that enable new categories of user experiencesGuide the team to make technical trade offs necessary to bring product initiatives to fruition, weighing different approaches and arriving to a recommended solution, detailing its pros and consIndependently define, decompose, and lead delivery of complex projects, may lead other engineersModularization and Architecture. Architect and lead the transition toward a highly modularized codebase to improve build speeds and team fungibility, ensuring our architecture scales with our growing engineering organization.Perform code reviews, design reviews, and write high quality testsHave a strong stance and advocate for efficient, scalable, and extensible approaches that solve technical problems in a manner that stands the test of timeHold yourself and the 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 implementedBecome the subject matter expert for one or more services in your domainCreate clear and concise documentation (diagrams, service descriptions, decisions, runbooks)Identify and remove bottlenecks to address inefficiencies in the developer experienceOversee and mentor junior engineers on the team, building their technical skills and ensuring that they understand best practices around engineering and operational excellenceWhat we look for:BS in CS or equivalent practical experience9+ years of professional Android development experience using Kotlin and shipping apps to the Play Store3+ years of experience with modern Kotlin development practices, such as Jetpack Compose and Flow. Experience with Kotlin Multiplatform is a plus but not mandatoryAbility to collaborate with Product, Design and Engineering stakeholders to implement solutions which surprise and delight our customersMaster Computer Science fundamentals and Android design patterns and best practicesA 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 wayExperience leading the development of a project from planning to release, dispatching work among a team, mentoring and guiding junior engineersExperience with AI toolsExperience integrating with RESTful server-side servicesExperience with Scrum/Agile development methodologiesExcellent verbal and written communication skillsPassion about mentoring and helping more junior engineers to grow