Senior Android Developer

Title: Android Developer

Locations: Boston, MA; Charlottesville, VA; Columbus, OH; Durham, NC

Duration: Full Time

Responsibilities

• Confidently deliver high-quality software by applying critical thinking to products, requirements, and processes

• Work closely with clients to influence technical product decisions and business goals

• You ll stay up to date with the landscape of software engineering best practices, tools, and frameworks

• Have professional programming experience we re thinking at least 5 years

• Understanding of various software architectures and can adapt/compose solutions to unique problems with sustainable and reusable solutions

• Help mentor and coach a project team towards shared goals and outcomes

• Navigate difficult conversations by providing constructive feedback to teams and clients

• You ll identify obstacles to ensure quality, improve our user experience and how we build software

• Self-aware of limitations, yet curious to learn new solutions while being receptive to constructive feedback from teammates

• You ll guide your team to understand and work through changing priorities by bringing positive energy

• Communicate and simplify complex problems in order to foster understanding across multidisciplinary teams

• Apply your knowledge and findings at an organizational scale

Qualifications

• Are driven by curiosity and enthusiastic about learning new technologies

• Are motivated by solving problems and finding creative solutions

• Believe in autonomy and taking initiative

• Have professional programming experience we re thinking at least 5 years

• Have built and shipped code that is durable, secure, scalable, always up and running

• Have a strong understanding of the Android development Lifecycle and ecosystem including languages, frameworks, and libraries e.g. Java, Kotlin, Room, Coroutines/Flow, RxJava, Dagger 2, Gradle, Fragments, OkHttp3, Retrofit or Volley

• Are comfortable using IDE s, version control such as Git and/or command line tools

• You have familiarity with CI/CD (e.g. Jenkins, CircleCI, Azure, GitHub Actions) and experience setting up deployment pipelines

• Frequently use frameworks such as Espresso, JUnit, Mockito/Mockk to write automated tests for your code

• Can architect robust networking and data modeling layers

• Have owned the delivery of major features and components

• Champion programming best practices (SOLID) and are well-versed in different modular design and component-based architectural patterns e.g. MVC, MVVM

• Proactively identify risks and approach them with a solution-oriented mindset

• Are able to provide recommendations on what are the best ways to solve a problem for a particular platform

• Consider 'big picture' perspectives and can successfully balance business goals and technical constraints

• Experience working in Agile-based projects including Scrum and/or Kanban processes and ceremonies

• Enjoy mentoring other developers

Bonus Points

• Experience with the code signing and distribution process

• You've used Google APIs and SDKs like 1Password, Analytics SDKs, Car Play, sensor experience

• You've used automated testing frameworks like Appium

• Experience with Hilt

• You've developed for multiple Android platforms (Android TV, ChromeOS, Amazon Fire, Android Auto, wearables, Android Auto)

• An appreciation for inclusive and accessible UI implementations

• Experience using Jetpack Compose

• You've worked with emerging technologies like Machine Learning, Voice and/or AR/VR

• You have code samples or a GitHub account to share and while you re there,