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Senior Android Engineer

Compass
New York City, USA
Full-time
Senior · 9+ years experience
Onsite
USD 131000-197000 yearly / year
Discovered 1 months ago
KotlinJetpack ComposeFlowRESTAndroid

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What you will do

  • Work in a startup-like environment building agile products and services
  • Collaborate closely with engineers on your team, engineers on other teams, as well as your product and design counterparts to successfully launch projects which solve real-world customer problems
  • Act as a strategic partner to Product and Design, using technical insights to influence the product roadmap and proactively suggesting architectural changes that enable new categories of user experiences
  • Guide the team to make technical trade offs necessary to bring product initiatives to fruition, weighing different approaches and arriving to a recommended solution, detailing its pros and cons
  • Independently define, decompose, and lead delivery of complex projects, may lead other engineers
  • Modularization and Architecture. Architect and lead the transition toward a highly modularized codebase to improve build speeds and team fungibility, ensuring our architecture scales with our growing engineering organization.
  • Perform code reviews, design reviews, and write high quality tests
  • Have a strong stance and advocate for efficient, scalable, and extensible approaches that solve technical problems in a manner that stands the test of time
  • Hold yourself and the team to a high standard of code quality and operational rigor, ensuring that code is well-tested, and your systems have appropriate monitoring, alerting, and runbooks implemented
  • Become the subject matter expert for one or more services in your domain
  • Create clear and concise documentation (diagrams, service descriptions, decisions, runbooks)
  • Identify and remove bottlenecks to address inefficiencies in the developer experience
  • Oversee and mentor junior engineers on the team, building their technical skills and ensuring that they understand best practices around engineering and operational excellence

What we look for

  • BS in CS or equivalent practical experience
  • 9+ years of professional Android development experience using Kotlin and shipping apps to the Play Store
  • 3+ years of experience with modern Kotlin development practices, such as Jetpack Compose and Flow. Experience with Kotlin Multiplatform is a plus but not mandatory
  • Ability to collaborate with Product, Design and Engineering stakeholders to implement solutions which surprise and delight our customers
  • Master Computer Science fundamentals and Android design patterns and best practices
  • A sheer eye for design and attention to detail, the products you build should not merely be functional but should take in context and anticipate our customer’s needs in a beautiful way
  • Experience leading the development of a project from planning to release, dispatching work among a team, mentoring and guiding junior engineers
  • Experience with AI tools
  • Experience integrating with RESTful server-side services
  • Experience with Scrum/Agile development methodologies
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Passion about mentoring and helping more junior engineers to grow
  • Compensation: The base pay range for this position is $131,000-$197,000; however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Bonuses and restricted stock units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of benefits. Base pay is based on market location. Minimum wage for the position will always be met.

Perks that You Need to Know About

  • Participation in our incentive programs (which may include eligible cash, equity, or commissions). Plus paid vacation, holidays, sick time, parental leave, and recharge leave; medical, tele-health, dental and vision benefits; 401(k) plan; flexible spending accounts (FSAs); commuter program; life and disability insurance; Maven (a support system for new parents); Carrot (fertility benefits); UrbanSitter (caregiver referral network); Employee Assistance Program; and pet insurance.
  • Notice for California Applicants
  • Los Angeles County Fair Chance Notice

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