Principal Software Engineer (Android)

Core Responsibilities Include:

• Technical Impact:
• Designing and implementing exemplary solutions regarding scalability and cost-effectiveness by making trade-offs between opportunity and complexity.
• Setting standards for codebase health and promoting best practices throughout the organization.
• Business Alignment:
• Clarifying strategic outcomes and influencing roadmaps and projects.
• Identifying, suggesting, and driving improvements in your customers' end-to-end experience.
• Aiding in estimating work for new business with more unknowns and coaching others in estimation best practices.
• Interacting with Others:
• Coordinating across the entire company.
• Influencing the entire organization to make changes to support your work.
• Advising teams across the company.
• Autonomy & Ambiguity:
• Designing a long-term roadmap with no direction.
• Translating customer and business needs and strategic direction into projects and consistently simplifying high-complexity situations.
• Coaching and mentoring others in tackling ambiguity.
• Problem-Solving:
• Decomposing strategic direction into projects:
• Planning, communicating, and executing to solve our most challenging problems.
• Ensuring alignment with long-term objectives, fostering a culture of informed decision-making and innovation.
• Anticipating most risks and driving simplification to mitigate risks ahead of time.
• Escalating issues while solving them in parallel ensuring others are informed.
• Leadership:
• Proposing new organization-level processes to improve key areas such as team throughput, employee happiness, or product engagement.
• Driving best practices across the organization.
• Exhibiting exceptional mentoring abilities and fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement by
• identifying and nurturing potential in others
• providing strategic guidance
• helping develop career paths for team members
• Leading projects.
• Setting the strategic direction for projects or areas of technology, leading multiple project teams, and influencing decision-making at higher organizational levels.
• Exhibiting strong capabilities in stakeholder management, negotiating, and problem-solving in complex scenarios.
• Mentoring and developing other leaders within the team, fostering a culture of innovation, and contributing significantly to organizational goals.

Intimate, Working Familiarity With:

General Requirements:

• 10+ years of software development experience with at least 3 years of native Android development.
• Experience with common stack and cloud technologies. Google Cloud and AWS.
• Familiarity with databases (e.g. MySQL, MongoDB), web servers (e.g. Nginx and frameworks and libraries (e.g. Ktor, OkHttp, Square open source, Hilt, Koin).
• Knowledge of common communication protocols and tools used in mobile architectures like Protobuf or REST APIs.
• Familiarity with common architecture patterns like MVVM or MVI.
• Familiarity with software practices like SOLID.
• Degree in Computer Science or relevant field or experience.
• An eye for visual design and utility.
• Command of *nix terminal and tools for general scripting & automation.

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