Software Engineer - Android

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Build, and maintain engaging and high-performant apps for our customers at a very high scale.
• Produce robust, maintainable, highly tested, reusable code for developing functionality, configuration, improved performance, scalability, availability, security, monitoring and alerting for software test, integration, and production environments.
• Plan and implement a series of steps which potentially include reconfiguration, integration, removal, or addition of application components to enhance the application's functionality, resiliency, usability, and security.
• Understand the Business/Stakeholder/Technical requirements and assist in analyzing the existing solutions to address the needs.
• Assist in creation of simple, modular, extensible functional design for the product/solution in adherence to the requirements.
• Assess gaps, updates, and modifications between the customer, business expectations, and the existing product/solutions.
• Analyze defects from past projects and solutions to avoid recurrence of similar defects.
• Analyze system performance impacting the complete product for non-functional requirements such as reliability, operability, performance efficiency, and security.
• Troubleshoot performance and availability bottlenecks within the application.
• Develop, maintain, and enhance automated test cases and deployment procedures.
• Follow coding and design best practices developed by the teams and contribute towards their continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Well-rounded understanding of Android framework components and their respective lifecycles combined with a solid knowledge of multithreading, networking, offline storage, and performance tuning.
• Android SDK along with good working understanding on Geo fencing api to enable location-based features in our app.
• Good understanding of Android sandbox and its design systems.
• Advanced level in Kotlin programming language, system design and UX design choices.
• Comfortable in exploring new ideas and writing ADR documents for peer reviews.
• Working knowledge on Android push notifications, In-app-messaging service integrations.
• Intermediate to Advanced knowledge on GraphQL / Apollo.
• Able to take challenges to dive deep into build tool development, Gradle build performance improvement and its tooling improvements in CI/CD pipeline.
• Static code analysis using lint and custom lint tooling development.
• Use App profiling tools to assess and improve user experience using benchmark reporting, memory profiling, caching improvements, app launch performance improvements.
• Comfortable to explore and use highly scalable data ingestion tools to triage our app.
• Biased towards greater code coverage choices.
• Motivated to contribute to developer productivity across different time zones in building resilient and stable customer experiences.

Nice to Have

• Knowledge of accessibility best practices and experience creating inclusive digital experiences.
• Experience implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility.

Qualifications

• Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 2 years' experience in software engineering or related area.
• Option 2: 4 years' experience in software engineering or related area.

Benefits & Perks

• Competitive pay with performance-based bonus awards and other benefits.
• Health benefits including medical, vision, and dental coverage.
• Financial benefits such as 401(k), stock purchase, and company-paid life insurance.
• Paid time off including PTO (sick leave, vacation, holidays), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting.
• Other benefits including short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement.
• Live Better U education benefit program covering tuition, books, and fees.
• Flexible, hybrid work environment with in-office and virtual options.