Senior Android Software Engineer, Ring Application Services
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Job Summary
The ideal candidate is a full stack engineer who can work across mobile back-end and cloud infrastructure to deliver high-quality end-to-end solutions.
You will join a team that owns the most important place in the Ring - Setup experience. This is a great opportunity to shape the setup process experience for millions of users.
Our goal is to provide the best possible experience to our customers building solutions and supporting new products that help Ring on their mission to make neighborhoods safer.
Key job responsibilities
- Design develop and maintain our Android mobile applications.
- Develop and maintain backend services APIs and micro-services.
- Lead architecture and design of features from conception to launch
- Work with team members to investigate design approaches prototype technology and evaluate technical feasibility.
- Help to improve engineering processes and tools to increase team effectiveness.
- Be part of an agile development process to deliver high-quality software.
A day in the life
This role provides a unique opportunity to be a key part in shaping the core of Rings offerings to our customers. You will work across teams to prototype ideas and solve complex problems and raise the bar of our applications by advocating and driving software best practices automating tasks and identifying pitfalls. As part of the team you will continue to learn and become an expert in challenging fields. You will have the opportunity to contribute your creative ideas and energy working with world-class experts distributed cloud systems and home security devices.
About the team
Working on exciting new features and fully owning some of the most visited and core experiences in the Ring software our team is always looking to learn and innovate. We frequently collaborate with firmware other cloud and mobile teams to solve problems come up with solutions and delight our customers. We are data driven value and promote ownership working backwards from our customers to bring them an innovative and seamless home security experience.
- Experience as a mentor tech lead or leading an engineering team
- Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java C or C# including object-oriented design
- Experience or certifications in API design cloud architecture/deployment service-oriented architecture mobile development performance optimization databases design and related fields
- Experience in Android mobile application development using Kotlin
- Experience in mobile skills like Jetpack Compose Android Jetpack libraries (Room Navigation WorkManager ViewModel LiveData/Flow) Coroutines MVVM/MVI architecture patterns dependency injection (Hilt/Dagger) and modularization of large-scale Android applications
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines unit and UI testing frameworks RESTful API integration performance profiling Firebase services ProGuard/R8 optimisation and Google Play Store release management
- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience with full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations
- Experience designing for mobile platforms
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git
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