What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Android Engineer position at Kinship?
HOW YOU’LL HELP EVERYONE PET PARENT LIKE A PRO
As a Senior Android Engineer you will be a primary contributor to Whistle’s Android app and be relied upon as an expert in Android’s capabilities and limitations when defining and developing new features. You will collaborate with our software, hardware and customer support teams to ensure that our Android app is aligned with our customers’ needs and meets Whistle’s high quality of standards. To be successful in this role you are someone who is continuously and proactively looking for ways our team can improve both the quality of our Android app and the speed at which we can deliver.
In this role you will:
- Leverage your Android experience to maintain, refine, and build upon or existing code base.
- Write well-structured, reliable, efficient and easily maintainable code
- Work closely with product and design teams to scope and define feature specifications.
- Deliver new features to enhance our user’s experience
- Help guide and improve the technical direction of mobile, bolstering the technical skillset of the team. Identifying and driving improvements to process, performance, and architecture.
- Be purposely inquisitive and continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new mobile technologies
THE PRO WE’RE LOOKING FOR
As Kinship people, we have three pillars that set out how we aim to be--in our everyday work, and in how we approach each other. We call these our Cultural Pillars. In all of the roles that we hire for, we look for people who are Optimistic, Purposefully Inquisitive, and Open to All. And for this role, you’ll need these skills to knock it out of the dog park:
LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES:
- You Have Courage: a willingness to bring forth a new idea, engaging others across Kinship to support you, and taking risks and action will full accountability
- You Learn at Pace: a consistent and fast work ethic to meet growth goals, and the ability to evolve and pivot quickly from what you’ve learned
- You Value Difference: a genuine belief in inclusion and diversity is in your DNA, and it shows up in your work, and how you work.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
- 4 years of experience developing and shipping native Android apps to the Google Play Store (ReactNative, Flutter, Xamarin, etc are fine bonus skills, but don’t count)
- A strong grasp of Java and modern Android best practices and design patterns
- Proficient in Kotlin (Majority of codebase has been ported to Kotlin and all new code is expected to be written in Kotlin)
- An understanding of Strong CS fundamentals (algorithms, data structures)
- Familiarity with variety of app architectures and methodologies like MVVM, Dependency Injection, RxJava
- Not afraid to write tests – both JUnit and Espresso (or similar)
- Experience with Bluetooth and integration with IoT style devices is a big plus.
