Senior Android Engineer - remote

Elevate Labs
Posted 4 years ago
About Elevate Labs:

Elevate Labs is on a mission to improve people's minds.
 
Since 2014, we’ve helped millions of people around the world learn and improve concrete cognitive skills in reading, writing, and math through Elevate, our first mobile app. With Balance, our second mobile app, we’ve personalized meditation to help more people reduce stress, improve sleep, sharpen focus, and much more. 

Elevate Labs is a fully distributed company of voracious learners and passionate doers, driven by our vision to help billions of people lead healthy, joyful, and productive lives.

If our mission resonates with you, we’d love to hear from you!

To support our growing products, we're looking for an experienced Android engineer who has a passion for building great user experiences, pays meticulous attention to details, and believes in software that helps its users. You’ll lead the continued Android development of our flagship app, Elevate. In our collaborative environment, you’ll also work across teams and projects to build amazing products that educate and delight our customers. As a senior member of the team, you’ll have the opportunity to guide the direction of our products and our engineering team.

This is a fully remote position anywhere in the US or Canada.


What you'll do here
  • Lead complex projects by defining requirements, determining solutions, and delivering on results
  • Participate in the product development process, representing engineering by communicating technical constraints, opportunities, and solutions
  • Work closely with our Product and Design teams to build great user experiences
  • Own major features and components, iterating on them while maintaining product polish
  • Mentor your fellow teammates to help them grow as engineers
  • Set standards of engineering excellence in service design and implementation with a focus on reliability

About you
  • You have 5+ years of professional software experience in Android app development
  • You have shipped at least one Android app
  • Proficient with Java
  • Experience implementing unit tests and with development methods that support automated testing
  • Experience with writing multi-threaded, asynchronous code
  • You are passionate about user interface and user experience
  • You communicate clearly and participate in design reviews and code reviews
  • You stay up to date with the latest android development news and technologies

Bonus
  • Experience working in a remote environment
  • Experience with Dagger &RxJava
  • Experience with Kotlin
  • Experience with C++, Python, and/or Ruby
  • Experience building complex animations
  • Experience with TeamCity
  • Interests in test-driven development and software development best practices
  • Interest in cognitive training and educational technology

Benefits
  • Fully remote environment
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family
  • 401(k) plan
  • Fully paid parental leave
  • Competitive salary and equity
  • Home office upgrade stipend
  • Annual learning stipend
  • Lifetime subscriptions to Elevate &Balance


At Elevate Labs we value diversity and are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.