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Senior Android Engineer, Media Foundation
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Seniority signalSenior
Work settingRemote
Accepted candidate locations
USA
Role overview
Senior Android Engineer, Media Foundation
Requirements and responsibilities
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Details
- Build novel media products and features that our millions of users will love.
- Work cross-functionally, collaborate and partner with product, design, and other engineering counterparts to execute on product and business strategy.
- Contribute to the full development cycle: technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch. You’ll be reviewing code and design docs, giving feedback on product specs and mocks.
- Participate with a team of thoughtful, fast-moving, and motivated engineers. Contribute to standards that improve developer workflows, recommend best practices, and help mentor engineers on the team to grow their technical expertise.
- Continuously learn and improve your technical and non-technical abilities.
- Expertise in Kotlin with 5+ years of experience within Android development.
- Deep understanding of Android SDK, Lifecycle, System components, Jetpack Compose, animations, MVVM/MVI, Clean architecture & Unit/UI Testing, Multithreading.
- Embracing the challenges of building data intensive, highly responsive, and fault tolerant apps in the constrained environment of a smartphone.
- Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and keep projects on schedule.
- Excellent communication skills. You collaborate effectively with teams in a fully remote environment and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.
- You love to build new things and thrive in ambiguity and even failure. You care about innovation.
- Additional knowledge around GraphQL, REST, HTTP basics, and the ability to design maintainable APIs is a plus.
- Knowledge of ExoPlayer for video and audio playback, asset management, streaming, editing, and exporting capabilities.
- A proven track record of using data and performance metrics to relentlessly optimize apps, moving the needle from "good" to "world-class" user experiences.
- Hands-on experience optimizing video player performance or building feature-rich products on top of core media playback components.
- Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
- 401k with Employer Match
- Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support
- Family Planning Support
- Gender-Affirming Care
- Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
- Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
- Generous Paid Parental Leave
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