Remote Senior Android Engineer II
at Kickstarter

Summary

Join our team as a Senior Android Engineer II and help deliver great experiences for Kickstarter creators and backers. As a key member of our product development team, you will drive the technical direction of the platform and act as the glue between the mobile team and the rest of engineering.

Requirements

• You have deep, extensive professional experience in Android development and with Java, Kotlin, and Graph QL. Bonus points if you are familiar with iOS development
• You enjoy working collaboratively, participating in team discussions, planning and software design
• You have excellent communication and time management skills
• You have experience mentoring other engineers, including pair programming and knowledge sharing
• You have experience designing and building performant and scalable systems which balance user needs, business requirements, and resource constraints
• You have experience working iteratively and maintaining live products
• You have a pragmatic approach to writing well-tested, maintainable code
• You love writing tests to ensure you deliver high-quality software and experiences
• You consider the broader impacts of your work through; building accessible UI, quality & testing patterns, code readability, documentation and considering security, performance and data integrity concerns
• You value sharing knowledge, personal growth, positive feedback, and continuously improving engineering and team practices
• You empathize with creators, & the challenges of the creative process and bringing projects to life

Responsibilities

• Play a key role in driving the technical direction of the Kickstarter platform and product and act as the glue between the mobile team and the rest of engineering
• Write well-tested software that meets product, design, and operational criteria to enable the success of Kickstarter users
• Estimate task complexity and guide team execution of large to extra-large projects, ensuring committed work is delivered on-time
• Identify and propose technical project opportunities and suggest process improvements to help the team perform and deliver better
• Participate in group code reviews to ensure a high standard of quality for all changes to Kickstarter mobile systems
• Participate in the on-call rotation to ensure continuous availability of services to Kickstarter users
• Pair with and provide growth feedback and mentorship to more junior teammates

Benefits

• A fully remote workforce with plenty of opportunities to get to know your colleagues
• 100% employer-paid health plan offerings
• 16 paid vacation days, 10 sick days, and a company-wide winter break between Christmas and New Years
• 25 volunteer hours each year to give back to your community
• 16 weeks of parental leave plus fertility/family planning resources
• Kickstarter currently operates with a 4-day workweek, a model that aligns our belief in a healthy work-life balance and gives staff the space to be more than their work