Remote Job
Android Engineer (Remote)
The Athletic- 105000 - 155000 USD per Year
- Full Time
- Posted : 6 months ago
The Athletic is a digital sports media company that brings true sports fans closer to the athletes, teams and leagues that captivate their attention. We serve a multi-faceted audience that craves a richer connection and understanding with immersive storytelling and a like-minded community of fans. Founded in 2016 and with major operational hubs in San Francisco, Los Angeles, London and Melbourne, we empower a truly global team of more than 600 creators and cover more than 250 professional sports and collegiate teams across the United States, Canada and the UK. Our newsroom has produced thousands of in-depth reports along with more than 120 podcasts and other forms of premium content. Put simply, The Athletic is at the center of a sports fan’s universe.
- Work with Design and Product teams to build a UI that is beautiful, performant, and well-engineered
- Architect and build the app to optimize for performance, growth, scalability, ease of future development, and code quality
- Write unit and functional tests to ensure maximum code and app quality
- Investigate, debug, and fix user-reported production issues
- Brainstorm new product ideas and improvements alongside the design and product teams
- Refactor existing code where needed in order to improve quality of life for the other engineers
- Work within a highly cross-functional team, iterating on process and making your own suggestions for improvements
- Title will be dependent on minimum years of experience with native Android development in Kotlin
- Preferred experience with GraphQL, Coroutines & Jetpack Compose
- Consumer-facing product and design instincts with a desire to have a voice in product decisions
- Preferred experience in an early-stage startup working on growth and scale challenges
- Highly competitive, employer-contributed medical, dental, vision, basic life and disability insurance plans
- Savings accounts for medical, wellness, and childcare expenses
- 401k retirement savings plan and employer match
- Paid time off including paid sick leave, 11 paid holidays, up to 20 days of accrued paid time off, and up to 20 weeks of Paid Parental Leave
Skills
- Android
- Android Development
- Brainstorm Facilitation
- Coroutines
- Defining Requirements
- Functional Testing
- Kotlin
- Microsoft App-V
- Skill Development
- XML
