Senior Android Engineer

• Posted : 3 years ago

Whitespectre is looking for an experienced Senior Android Developer with React Native experience to join one of our key delivery teams on a full-time, long-term basis. In this role, you’ll work within a fast-moving cross-functional squad of backend and front-end engineers, product, & UI/UX designers to solve interesting technical challenges and create products that drive real business growth at scale. As a senior member of the team, you'll help to drive architecture and implementation decisions, help product make smart decisions to deliver a great user experience in a scalable way, and mentor other engineers. In this particular role, you’ll be working hand-in-hand with members of the client team.

Whitespectre is a product development company that creates high-performing platforms and apps, both for our long-term client partners and our own products. Founded in 2013, we partner with both large established companies and high-growth start-ups in the US and Europe. We're a close-knit team of 70 smart and diverse architects, engineers, product managers and designers, working together remotely and growing!

What will you do?

• Build highly interactive and easy-to-use mobile applications for Android using Kotlin or Java.


• Collaborating with backend engineers in designing, specifying and implementing services to decouple functionality


• Identifying bottlenecks, using tools to diagnose and refactor code for scale


• Ensuring the robustness, performance and failure characteristics of the system.


• Writing well tested, defect-free code with CI/CD


• Taking ownership of production applications - managing issues, releases and ensuring quality

Our company toolset includes Kotlin, Swift, ReactJS, Typescript, Webpack, REST/GraphQL, CI/CD with Docker, Heroku/AWS, Rails6, Postgres, Elastic, etc. Automation and working smartly is important to us; dynamic environments spin up with new feature branches, slack bot integrations control our production releases.

You must have...

• Availability to work full-time within a fast-moving cross-functional team, working 11 am - 7 pm Central European Time


• Proven experience using Agile Methodologies in a remote team


• Production experience of Android applications and preferably Android Instant Apps.


• Nice to have - experience and/or interest in React Native apps


• A minimum of 3 years of experience performing this kind of role


• Excellent communication skills (both verbal and written) are essential for this role.


• A learning mindset, curious about new things

What do we offer?

• Interesting challenges: We’ve done everything from scaling high-performance backends, building beautiful (but complex) user interfaces to low-level bluetooth communication with hardware devices.


• Competitive rates: This is a contract position with a long-term outlook (12 months+ full-time projects).


• 100% Remote: We've been proudly and successfully remote-first for over 7 years


• Impact: Our delivery teams are fast-moving, highly collaborative, and own products end to end - your thinking and contribution make a big impact!


• Great environment: We provide a great working atmosphere where you can share and learn with other smart people.


• Career progression: We want you to grow with us and provide the opportunities, knowledge sharing and mentorship to do that.


• Work-life balance: love your work, but know that it doesn’t take over your life.


• Paid Meetups: Come meet with your colleagues in Barcelona or at a local meetup.

The candidate must live outside of the US. Please no recruitment agencies.

Skills

• android
• user experience
• javascript
• react
• user interface
• react native