Senior Android Engineer, UI

Summary

Join Brave, a company dedicated to protecting online privacy, as a Senior Android Engineer, UI. This impactful role involves building high-quality mobile UI experiences for our Chromium-based browser. You will collaborate with designers, engineers, and privacy experts to enhance our browser. The position requires extensive experience in Android and C++ development, along with a strong understanding of browser ecosystems. Brave offers a fully remote work environment, competitive salaries and benefits, and the opportunity to contribute to a rapidly growing company revolutionizing the web. We are looking for someone with a passion for privacy and security. This is a hands-on position with a high impact.

Requirements

• 5+ years experience with native android application development
• Expert Java and Android development skills to evolve our architecture and design with advanced Java/Kotlin to ensure performance and scalability
• Expert C++ development skills to work within the C++-heavy Chromium code base
• Willing to learn new languages or technologies
• Proficient with development tools like Android Studio, SDK, Git, Linux, etc
• Good analytical and problem solving experience
• History of open source contributions and having experience with working on apps with a large user base
• Familiarity with browsers and ecosystem
• Great communication and coordination skills in English

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the product design team to build new feature prototypes within Brave Browser and Wallet
• Work closely with the Android team to understand intricacies and help iterate on components used to build our interfaces
• Work closely with other engineers and help connect your prototypes to live data from shared resources in Chromium

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior Chromium experience is a big plus
• Experience with JavaScript, React / Redux is also a plus
• Quick learner, who thrive on adopting best practices to create delightful user-experience focused products
• Experience in working on multiple platforms with distributed development teams
• A passion for helping protect users' privacy and security

Benefits

• Highly competitive salaries & benefits, and generous home-office stipends
• Fully remote team (no office, no commute)
• Opportunity to get in early at a hyper-growth company, and revolutionize the web