Overview
With the growth of our Android app, being the most used text-to-speech app in the Play Store, we find the need for a Senior Android Engineer to help us support the new user base as well as work on new and exciting projects to push us forward.
This is a key role and ideal for someone who thinks strategically, enjoys fast-paced environments, passionate about making product decisions, and has experience building great user experiences that delight users.
We are a flat organization that allows anyone to become a leader by showing excellent technical skills and delivering results consistently and fast. Work ethic, solid communication skills, and obsession with winning are paramount.
Our interview process involves several technical interviews and we aim to complete them within 1 week.
What You'll Do
* Owning major features and working closely with our design team - take ownership of features inside the app and become responsible of delivering high quality features
* Shape the future of our Android team
* Own, maintain and improve reliability metrics for key features
* Participate in discussions across different teams - Product, Design, Engineering
* Review pull requests, and support other teammates
* Handle critical issues or cope with unexpected challenges
* Take ownership of feature releases and provide nightly builds for the QA team
An Ideal Candidate Should Have
* 5+ years of software engineering experience
* Familiarity with Android components
* Experience building or contributing to at least one Android app
* Product design intuition and user empathy
* Drive to push the boundaries of Android UI/UX
* Understanding of the importance of tests and how to approach writing tests
* Self-drive to improve the app and codebase above and beyond what's outlined in the spec
* Rock solid experience with Kotlin, Kotlin Coroutines, Kotlin Flow, Dagger 2, MVVM, Clean Architecture, Background Services, Music Player Service, Android Animations, Jetpack Navigation, JUnit tests
* Excellent communication skills
* User oriented problem solving approach
* Driven with continuous feedback from leaders
Bonus
* Experience building, maintaining, or otherwise contributing to open source projects in Android
* Experience with iOS, Web or NodeJS
Technologies we use
* Kotlin
* Kotlin Coroutines
* Kotlin Flow
* Jetpack Navigation
* Dagger 2
* Room
* Custom Views, Canvas & Paint
* Jetpack Compose
* JUnit
What We offer
* A fast-growing environment where you can help shape the company and product.
* An entrepreneurial-minded team that supports risk, intuition, and hustle.
* A hands-off management approach so you can focus and do your best work.
* An opportunity to make a big impact in a transformative industry.
* Competitive salaries, a friendly and laid-back atmosphere, and a commitment to building a great asynchronous culture.
* Opportunity to work on a life-changing product that millions of people use.
* Build products that directly impact and support people with learning differences like dyslexia, ADD, low vision, concussions, autism, and more.
* Work in one of the fastest growing sectors of tech, the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio.
Think you’re a good fit for this job?
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