Android Engineer

San Francisco, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 5 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Job Title: Android Engineer

Location: San Francisco CA (Onsite)

Exp: 7 Years

Client: Splash

Scope of Role

You will serve as a key contributor to the development of our flagship Android client. A significant part of this role involves working closely with product managers designers and other software engineers to translate high-level requirements into high-quality impactful features. You will be instrumental in the end-to-end development lifecycle: from initial design and architectural planning to implementation testing and deployment.

Crucially you will act as a technical leader and custodian for the entire Android codebase. This includes

establishing and maintaining best practices code standards and the overall technical quality of the application.

You will mentor and guide other engineers contributing to a continuous learning environment that elevates the teams collective ability to write clean maintainable and performant Kotlin code ensuring the consistent and reliable delivery of our vital Android to users globally.

This role requires a high degree of autonomy in executing complex technical tasks while collaborating

effectively within a small fast-moving team to ensure technical decisions align with the overall product vision.

You will be a hands-on contributor focused on delivering high-quality code that directly impacts our consumer finance app for emerging markets.

MUST HAVE SKILLS

Hard Requirements

As an Android Software Engineer we feel the following will be important for this role:

7 Years of Professional Android Development: Demonstrated history of shipping and maintaining Android applications used by a significant user base.
Expert Proficiency in Kotlin: Deep expert-level knowledge of the Kotlin language including modern language features coroutines flow and advanced language constructs.
Deep Understanding of the Android Ecosystem: Expert knowledge of the latest Android SDKs
APIs and the Material Design guidelines.
Architectural Expertise: Proven experience designing implementing and maintaining complex
scalable and modular Android application architectures (e.g. MVVM MVI Clean Architecture) using components like View Models and knowing when to apply each.
Extensive Experience with Modern UI Frameworks: Expert-level knowledge and hands-on
experience with Jetpack Compose including advanced layout techniques custom
composables/views and navigating.
Networking & Data Handling:
Expertise in consuming RESTful APIs HTTP (e.g. using Retrofit/OkHttp) and/or leveraging
Web Sockets.
Deep understanding of secure data storage (e.g. Shared Preferences
Encrypted Shared Preferences) caching strategies and offline capabilities (e.g. using Room).
Concurrency and Performance Optimization: Proven ability to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks memory leaks and complex concurrency issues using modern Android tools and techniques (Kotlin Coroutines threading profiling tools).
Testing and Quality Assurance: Strong experience implementing and driving adoption of various testing methodologies including unit tests (e.g. JUnit Mockito) integration tests and UI tests (e.g. Espresso Compose testing).
Dependency Management: Expertise with the common build system and dependency management tool (e.g. Gradle/Kotlin DSL).
CI/CD Pipeline Experience: Experience setting up maintaining or optimizing Continuous
Integration/Continuous Delivery pipelines (e.g. Fastlane Jenkins GitHub Actions GitLab CI) for Android builds and deployments.
Senior (Senior Staff Principal Distinguished) Engineer - Youre a strong technical practitioner who has tempered their thirst for theory with the harsh reality of practical implementation. Knowing when and where to execute autonomously while still being a team player.

Bonus Skills

These are not required but would definitely set you apart from other candidates:

Experience in financial technology such as payments cryptocurrencies on-ramps off-ramps etc.
Full-stack engineering skillset and ability to flex across other parts of the stack
Experience working with modern startup-style web stack such as Postgres Redis etc.

Job Title: Android Engineer Location: San Francisco CA (Onsite) Exp: 7 Years Client: Splash Scope of Role You will serve as a key contributor to the development of our flagship Android client. A significant part of this role involves working closely with product managers designers and other soft...