Lead Android Developer - remote

Mimo
Posted 2 years ago
At Mimo, we believe that coding can open doors to careers and opportunities like few other skills. That's why we've rallied around the common goal of making coding universally accessible.

With the Mimo app, we've made it easy and fun for more than 15 million beginners to start coding on the go and build up their confidence to pursue a career in tech. From bite-size coding exercises to full-fledged projects, we’re helping our learners form a habit of coding and reach university-level learning outcomes. To help millions more learn to code and eventually become developers, we're looking for a Lead Android Developer.

If you, too, want to make coding accessible to everybody, this is your opportunity to shape the future of tech education.

Responsibilities
  • Leading the Android team and working within a cross-functional team
  • Making sure your Android team members are growing professionally by giving regular feedback, having performance reviews, and providing opportunities to grow
  • Taking responsibility for all parts of the Android app, from codebase to architecture to builds and deployment
  • Reviewing the feature specifications to reduce complexity in proposed or planned features before implementation
  • Owning the release pipeline to make sure we can ship regularly and on time
  • Hiring new Android developers into your team

Some of the tools we use
  • Modern Kotlin stack including Coroutines and Flow
  • MVVM combined with a clean-architecture approach
  • A healthy dose of Jetpack, Firebase, and some open-source libraries
  • Bitrise/GitHub Actions as our CI/CD

Requirements
  • 5+ years of experience in Android app development
  • 2+ years of experience in leading a team
  • Very strong knowledge of Kotlin
  • A strong sense of ownership of your work and team
  • Focus on writing maintainable, high-quality code
  • Positive mindset, proactiveness, and team spirit

At Mimo, we're not just accepting differences among team members – we're celebrating and promoting them. That’s why we’re committed to mitigating bias and providing equal opportunity in everything we do, including this hiring process.

By joining Mimo, you'll become part of a diverse, fun, and multicultural team with regular team activities like company retreats, hack weeks, and virtual breakfasts or coffee breaks. You'll also have access to great perks for your home office as well as your personal and professional development. We’re a distributed team, have flexible working hours, and there's no overtime. And while we have a small location in Vienna, Austria, most of us are spread over the world. Your annual salary will range from €68k to €92k, depending on your contract type and if you want to have an equity stake in Mimo, and will automatically increase by at least 5% every year.

If this role and workplace culture sound like you, we can't wait to hear from you!