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Senior Android Engineer

San Francisco, San Francisco, United StatesRemoteFull TimeSeniorPosted 2 months agoHidden Gem · YC Startup

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Role summary

Seeking a Senior Android Engineer to join a small, high-ownership team. You will be responsible for managing processes from problem understanding to shipping solutions, collaborating with product managers and other stakeholders. The role requires strong development skills in Java and Android SDK, with at least 3 years of Android experience and 2+ years of general software development experience. Exposure to Kotlin is preferred, along with experience in RXJava. Desired skills include Dagger, Retrofit, a data-driven mindset, and automated testing experience.

Responsibilities:

- You will be part of a small team, with a large amount of ownership and responsibility for managing things directly
- Collaboration with product managers, other teams, and both internal and external stakeholders, owning a large part of the process from problem understanding to shipping the solution
- Shipping high quality solutions with urgency
- Championing Android: educating colleagues about subtleties & unique capabilities of the platform and leveraging them when building new features

Requirements:

- Bachelor's degree in computer science is preferred (but not required) with 2+ years of software development experience and at least 3 years of Android app development experience
- Strong development skills in Java and with Android SDK, and good general programming and algorithm skills
- Exposure to Kotlin (although experience with Kotlin is strongly preferred)
- Experience with RXJava
- A strong sense of ownership
- An ability to balance a sense of urgency with shipping high quality and pragmatic solutions

Desired:

- Dagger
- Retrofit
- Data Driven mindset
- Automated testing experience

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