Staff Android Engineer

Summary

Join Fetch Rewards as a Staff Android Software Engineer and contribute to the development and maintenance of a world-class mobile application. You will be a technical leader, mentoring fellow engineers and shaping best practices. This role involves building and maintaining the application, working with backend services and external partners, and collaborating with a multi-functional team. The position offers a flexible work environment, allowing you to work from one of Fetch's US offices or remotely. Success requires strong technical skills, leadership abilities, and a user-centric approach to problem-solving. Fetch provides a supportive and inclusive work environment with numerous benefits.

Requirements

• A desire to lead by example and mentor other Android engineers
• Experience in constructing architecture and common components to enhance scalability, consistency, and maintainability throughout the product development cycle
• Familiarity with app profiling and debugging both logic and performance issues
• Ability to focus and lead the team on updating a large codebase with the architecture and components you’ve helped enhance
• Being a champion for quality, performance and reliability through leading by example and outside of your lane through design and code reviews
• Strong critical thinking skills, and a keen attention to detail
• Comfortable dealing with ambiguity, setting milestones and deliverables for the team in a cross-functional setting
• Ability to communicate succinctly to cross-functional areas (product, design, GTM, sales, support) to align technical solutions with business objectives
• Self-driven mindset, with the ability to work on green field projects with limited input
• Ability to adopt technology-agnostic software principles to Android application development

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain a world-class mobile application that works directly with our backend services and external partners
• Work on a small, multi-functional team that may include other engineers, a designer, product manager, data scientist and other roles
• Take on challenging problems and design & develop amazing solutions with a user-centric focus
• Lead by example and mentor other Android engineers
• Construct architecture and common components to enhance scalability, consistency, and maintainability throughout the product development cycle
• Be familiar with app profiling and debugging both logic and performance issues
• Focus and lead the team on updating a large codebase with the architecture and components you’ve helped enhance
• Champion quality, performance and reliability through leading by example and outside of your lane through design and code reviews
• Deal with ambiguity, setting milestones and deliverables for the team in a cross-functional setting
• Communicate succinctly to cross-functional areas (product, design, GTM, sales, support) to align technical solutions with business objectives
• Work on green field projects with limited input
• Adopt technology-agnostic software principles to Android application development

Preferred Qualifications

• Generalist engineer experience (including but not limited to: building web services, working with various data stores, web applications, and iOS applications)
• Track record of pursuing self-directed side projects or open-source projects

Benefits

• Equity: We offer employees equity in Fetch, so that everyone can benefit from Fetch’s growth
• 401k Match: Dollar-for-dollar match up to 4%
• Benefits for humans and pets : We offer comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans for everyone including your pets
• Continuing Education : Fetch provides ten thousand per year in education reimbursement
• Employee Resource Groups : Take part in employee-led groups that are centered around fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace through events, dialogue and advocacy. The ERGs participate in our Inclusion Council with members of executive leadership
• Paid Time Off: On top of our flexible PTO, Fetch observes 9 paid holidays, including Juneteenth and Indigenous People’s Day, as well as our year-end week-long break
• Robust Leave Policies: 20 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, 14 weeks for secondary caregivers, and a flexible return to work schedule
• Calvin Care Cash : Employees who are welcoming new family members will also receive a one time $2,000 incentive to assist employees with covering the cost of childcare, clothing, diapers and much more!
• Flexible Work Environment : Collaborate with your team in one of our stunning offices in Madison, Birmingham, or Chicago. Or you can work fully remotely from anywhere in the US. We’ll ensure you are equally equipped with the hardware and software you need to get your job done in the comfort of your home