Senior Android Engineer-Remote

We have Contract role for Senior Android Engineer-Remote for our client Los Angeles CA. Please let me know if you or any of your friends would be interested in this position.

Position Details:

Senior Android Engineer-Remote-Los Angeles CA

Location : Remote (Pacific time zone)

Project Duration : 6+ months

Pay Rate : $73.80 /hr - $80.10 /hr

Job Description:

Client connects fans to the sports and fantasy games they love most, providing personalized quality content and superior fan experiences every day.

Fantasy Sports Android - Senior Engineer

A Little About Us

Client Sports is a passionate development team that has an equally passionate user base. We work on both Season Long and Daily Fantasy products delivering a high quality feature rich product to please our users. We work in a deadline driven environment while still having a culture of fun and fandom.

Responsibilities:

• Shape and guide application design as the team's senior engineer.
• Collaborate with other developers and designers to help define, build, and deliver new features in our Sports mobile apps
• Code -- you will spend much of your time building Android apps, efficiently coding in Java / Kotlin. This includes new feature development, architecture, writing unit tests, refactors, and bug/crash fixes.
• Share responsibilities like app architecture/design reviews, code reviews, performance tuning, and build pipeline management
• Own and deliver -- from executing difficult refactors to planning complex projects with many moving parts
• Mentor junior developers to help them understand our best practices.
• Share your opinions and help shape our technical direction, best practices, product ideas, and team processes. We value and depend on your input!

Minimum Qualifications:

• Solid coding chops, code design skills, and practitioner of mobile development best practices -- including object-oriented design principles; design pattern usage; writing modular, reusable, testable code; data structures; concurrency; performance profiling and tuning
• Expertise in Java, Kotlin, Android Studio, Gradle, git, etc. -- the skills and tools needed to build Android apps
• Up-to date on the Android best practices such as Live Data and Jet Pack Compose
• Excellent analytical, problem solving, and debugging skills
• Enjoys mentoring more junior developers
• The quintessential teammate -- great communicator, adaptable, supportive, hard working, and enjoys a good laugh

Preferred Qualifications:

• MS in Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent CS training
• Experience as a Senior Engineer or higher in a technical setting
• Strong Technical Presentation skills to get buy-in from other developers and spread your technical innovations Yahoo wide
• Being a sports fan is a big plus!