Android Developer

We are looking for an experienced Android Engineer to join our Mobile Apps Team and bring live to new features and support the evolution of our services and products. You will be working closely with Product Owner, Architect and your team members clarifying business needs, technical requirements and defining how to support them in the best way. In close collaboration with other teams, your team will introduce new features and improvements to the mobile apps to provide an even better experience for more than 11 million customers

As our Android Engineer:

• with your team and Product Owner, you will be working in a challenging agile environment in close collaboration with other teams.

• you will participate in the team’s technical/architectural discussions and decisions.

• you will develop and continuously deliver applications for one of the most successful pet e-commerce platforms in Europe.

• you will participate in the complete software development life cycle from discovery through coding, testing, deployment and maintenance.

you will learn and grow your skills, striving for mastery using state-of-the-art technologies such as Java, Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, MVVM.

Project Overview:

In the Mobile Apps Teams, our primary responsibility are the iOS and Android apps, including the services that power them. This includes all aspects of the customer journey, from onboarding, personalised home feed, wish list, search and catalog to cart and checkout. As a rapidly growing channel, the Mobile Apps play a crucial role in the company's success.

Requirements:

• 6+ years of experience with Android development

• You have the skills to independently investigate and implement new features.

• You possess a product-oriented mindset and an understanding of customer needs.

• Being responsible for the quality of the solution you deliver comes naturally to you. You have experience with unit testing and Test-Driven Development.

• Experience with debugging, profiling, publishing and monitoring apps.

• Interested in growing as a software engineer, participating in the whole development cycle.

• You guide less experienced colleagues, helping to structure and clarify requirements with.

• Experience working with agile practices, values, and principles.

• Empathetic and able to easily build relationships.

• Good verbal and written communication skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with A/B testing and feature flags.

• Experience with localisation.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in solution investigation, estimations, planning, and alignment with other teams;

• Design, implement, deliver and support new features for our Android apps.

• Work in close collaboration with other teams to integrate their solutions in the mobile apps.

• Promote and implement test automation (e.g: unit tests, integration tests, e2e tests and performance tests)

• Build and publish new versions of our applications using Bitrise and the Apple Developer Portal.

• Work closely with the team in an agile and collaborative environment. This will involve code reviews, pair programming, knowledge sharing, and incident coordination.

• Maintain existing applications and reduce technical debt.

Why this position:

• We work in self-organized teams following Scrum methodology, respecting, and valuing everyone´s opinion.

• We learn from each other and share knowledge through pair programming, code reviews, and many training opportunities.

• We deliver value by developing new features, maintaining existing products, and improving all the infrastructure we need, so we would also like to have a colleague who is cross-functional.

• We are committed to delivering high-quality products and believe that continuous delivery, clean code, and a DevOps mindset are key to achieving this goal.

• Our team values a friendly and collaborative environment and greatly encourages open communication and teamwork. We believe in a team approach and do not assign blame; instead, we work together to build and maintain the system.

• We embrace diversity, having colleagues from over 50 countries. This means our working language is English.

Technologies we leverage on:

• Java, Kotlin

• Jetpack Compose, MVVM, Hilt

• Jenkins CI

• Unit- and UI Testing (Espresso)

• Git, Scrum, Pair Programming, Code Reviews

• Firebase, Lokalise, Figma, Contentful

• Camera is used by the apps, no in-app purchases, no location services, no NDK.

And general stack:

• Kotlin, Java 11+, Spring framework (Boot, Hibernate)

• Oracle, PostgreSQL

• CI/CD with Jenkins pipeline

• AWS and Terraform

• InfluxDB, Grafana, Sensu, ELK stack

• infrastructure as a code, one-click deployment, C4 diagrams

• Mesos/Marathon, Docker, Kubernetes

• Amazon Web Services and cloud deployments (S3, SNS, SQS, RDS, DynamoDB, etc.), using tools such as Terraform or AWS CLI

• Git, Scrum, Pair Programming, Peer Reviewing

• InfluxDB, Kibana, Grafana, Sensu