Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. VySystems is seeking a Senior Android Mobile Engineer to build and launch Android products in close collaboration with engineering, product, and design teams. The role leads complex project delivery, modular architecture, technical decision-making, code quality, and mentoring.
Responsibilities
- Work in a startup-like environment building agile products and services
- Collaborate closely with engineers on your team, engineers on other teams, as well as your product and design counterparts to successfully launch projects which solve real-world customer problems
- Act as a strategic partner to Product and Design, using technical insights to influence the product roadmap and proactively suggesting architectural changes that enable new categories of user experiences
- Guide the team to make technical trade offs necessary to bring product initiatives to fruition, weighing different approaches and arriving to a recommended solution, detailing its pros and cons
- Independently define, decompose, and lead delivery of complex projects, may lead other engineers
- Modularization and Architecture. Architect and lead the transition toward a highly modularized codebase to improve build speeds and team fungibility, ensuring our architecture scales with our growing engineering organization
- Perform code reviews, design reviews, and write high quality tests
- Have a strong stance and advocate for efficient, scalable, and extensible approaches that solve technical problems in a manner that stands the test of time
- Hold yourself and the team to a high standard of code quality and operational rigor, ensuring that code is well-tested, and your systems have appropriate monitoring, alerting, and runbooks implemented
- Become the subject matter expert for one or more services in your domain
- Create clear and concise documentation (diagrams, service descriptions, decisions, runbooks)
- Identify and remove bottlenecks to address inefficiencies in the developer experience
- Oversee and mentor junior engineers on the team, building their technical skills and ensuring that they understand best practices around engineering and operational excellence
Skills
- BS in CS or equivalent practical experience
- 9+ years of professional Android development experience using Kotlin and shipping apps to the Play Store
- 3+ years of experience with modern Kotlin development practices, such as Jetpack Compose and Flow
- Ability to collaborate with Product, Design and Engineering stakeholders to implement solutions which surprise and delight our customers
- Master Computer Science fundamentals and Android design patterns and best practices
- A sheer eye for design and attention to detail, the products you build should not merely be functional but should take in context and anticipate our customer's needs in a beautiful way
- Experience leading the development of a project from planning to release, dispatching work among a team, mentoring and guiding junior engineers
- Experience with AI tools
- Experience integrating with RESTful server-side services
- Experience with Scrum/Agile development methodologies
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Passion about mentoring and helping more junior engineers to grow
- Experience with Kotlin Multiplatform is a plus but not mandatory
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