Senior Android Engineer, TARS Team
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Job Location:
Zürich - Switzerland
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
5 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Change the way the world travels
Join the GetYourGuide journey to connect people with unforgettable travel experiences around the world. Millions look to us for unique activities they can trust and its all powered by our commitment to make every single journey extraordinary - including yours. Ready to unlock your potential with a community of fellow explorers Find your next role at our Berlin HQ or one of our local offices around the globe from New York to Bangkok. Head to to take the first step.
Team Mission
The TARS team builds the critical infrastructure that helps millions of travelers when plans change or things go wrong. The team operates across two major initiatives: flexibility tools that enable travelers to reschedule modify or swap their bookings and a live chat platform powered by an autonomous AI agent that handles complex traveler questions and requests at scale.
In 2026 the team is rebuilding the chat infrastructure from the ground up creating a high-performance scalable system that serves hundreds of thousands of daily conversations. This includes developing a custom chat UX for seamless pre-booking and post-booking support pushing the boundaries of conversational AI.
We empower engineers with high autonomy to make decisions and act on them balancing pragmatic and strategic tradeoffs daily. We navigate this rapidly evolving space together and while were driven by impact having fun while building something great is equally important to us.
Your mission
- Design and develop new app features focused on live chat AI-agent integrations and enhanced booking flexibility
- Continuously improve our app by proactively removing tech debt and insisting on simple scalable and maintainable solutions
- Take an active role in the mobile apps guild and contribute to cross-team initiatives focused on security performance architectural improvements etc.
- Support operational excellence and ongoing maintenance of our mobile apps with a focus on reliability quality and engineering craftsmanship.
- While primarily a mobile role app engineers are expected to make small backend contributions when needed to keep work moving.
- Collaborate closely with stakeholders to understand business needs propose technical solutions and deliver working software that drives measurable impact
- Work in a cross-functional mission team alongside product managers designers conversational designers and data scientists
- Leverage AI daily to accelerate your own productivity and push the teams capabilities to the next level
- Mentor engineers contribute to team culture and elevate the performance standards across the team
Your toolkit
- 5 years of experience in app development with profound experience in Kotlin and Android Framework
- Experience with Kotlin Multiplatform
- Knowledge of writing automated tests (Unit/UI/Integration tests/screenshot tests)
- Experience with observability practices including monitoring alerting and performance diagnostics
- Customer-centric prioritization and data-driven decision-making
- A positive pro-active team-oriented mindset and a passion for mentoring and sharing knowledge
- A passion for delivering clean code and continuously learning about new tools languages and practices
- Be excited to experiment with and leverage AI
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
Extras that give you an edge
- Experience with backend development
- Experience with iOS development
- Experience with other multi-platform frameworks such as React Native
- Have one or more successful Android apps published in the Google Play store
- Experience improving products through A/B experimentation
How well make your career journey extraordinary
- Annual personal growth budget and mentorship programs for continuous learning and development
- Work from anywhere in the world for 30 days per year
- A hybrid working approach with three days of in office collaboration (Mon Tue Thur) and two days of optional at home focus time.
- Opportunities to collaborate and socialize with team members through quarterly team events and yearly company-wide events
- Monthly transportation and fitness budget
- Discounts for you your friends and family on GetYourGuide activities
- Language reimbursement program
- Health and wellness benefits
And more
How to apply
Submit your CV/resume in English using the form below. For tips and insights into our hiring process and culture check out how we hire and life at GetYourGuide. If you have any further questions please dont hesitate to get in touch at .
Were an equal opportunities employer
Our commitment is that every qualified person will be evaluated according to their skills regardless of age gender identity ethnicity sexual orientation disability status or religion. Please refrain from including your picture and age with your application.
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Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- APIs
- REST
- Eclipse
- Android
- Application Development
- SDKs
- SQLITE
- IOS
- Java
- JSON
- Gradle
- Mobile Applications
About Company
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