Remote Android Engineer

Summary

Join Whatnot's Trust & Safety team as an Android engineer to build systems and features ensuring users have positive, safe experiences on the platform. As a remote-first team, you'll operate out of hubs in the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, and Germany.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent work experience
• Android expertise in creating fluid, responsive user interfaces. Strong knowledge of Kotlin and, ideally, Jetpack Compose. Adept at reactive programming, preferably familiar with Kotlin Coroutines and Flows. Fluent in MVI or MVVM development
• Product Instinct: Excel at translating user needs to effective technical solutions
• Problem Solving: Thrive in ambiguity and tackle challenging problems with creativity and autonomy
• Team Leadership: Proactively improve the team environment and foster inclusive, supportive team culture
• Ownership Mindset: Own projects holistically from inception to production and beyond. You are known for shipping high-quality products and features lightning-fast

Responsibilities

• Engineers on Trust & Safety build systems and products that allow our users to better moderate their shows, help our internal team action and mitigate issues, solve complex systems problems to monitor and detect bad behavior from reams of data, and build solutions that scale to our next 20x of growth
• The most important qualities you'll need are making sound product decisions, navigating new domains seamlessly, taking extreme ownership, and shipping high-quality products fast. We always prioritize the highest impact features and ship them quickly
• Team members in this role are required to be within commuting distance of our San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, or New York City hub

Benefits

• Flexible Time off Policy and Company-wide Holidays (including a spring and winter break)
• Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision
• Work From Home Support
• Home office setup allowance
• Monthly allowance for cell phone and internet
• Care benefits
• Monthly allowance on both food and wellness
• Annual allowance towards Childcare
• Lifetime benefit for family planning, such as adoption or fertility expenses
• Retirement; 401k offering for Traditional and Roth accounts in the US (employer match up to 4% of base salary) and Pension plans internationally
• Monthly allowance to dogfood the app
• Parental Leave
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave + one month gradual return to work *company leave allowances run concurrently with country leave requirements which take precedence