Senior Android Engineer

  • Flipboard
  • US / CAD - Remote
  • Mar 16, 2022
Full time Media Engineering

Job Description

Flipboard is the world’s first social magazine, designed to inform and inspire the world. Available on web, iOS, and Android, Flipboard offers the world important and influential articles, videos, podcasts and products shared by the greatest publishers and our vibrant Flipboard community to advance conversation, keep people informed, and inspire them to engage, learn, and lead.


We are looking for an experienced Android developer with a background in shipping beautiful, high-performance, maintainable software to join our Android team. Here at Flipboard, you will take on complex problems, experiment with open source solutions, and enjoy a culture that celebrates constant innovation. In this role, you will work on a completely unique and beautiful app and be able to pair your experience with a talented and fun team!

The Flipboard team is currently working remotely. Join our team and work from the US or Canada.

Role & Responsibilities

  • Develop new and exciting features and release to millions of Android users
  • Write clean, maintainable code while rapidly iterating and shipping
  • Work collaboratively with Product Management and Design to develop features
  • Integrate with web services and spec out APIs with platform developers
  • Maintain a thoughtful commit history using git and conduct peer reviews using GitHub
  • Work closely with QA to quickly find and resolve any issues
  • Keep up-to-date on the latest Android developments, respond to customer feedback & testing

Required Skills & Experience

  • 7+ years of Android development experience
  • Strong knowledge of Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices
  • Strong knowledge of Android SDK, different versions of Android, and how to deal with different screen sizes
  • Strong Java engineering skills
  • Experience with Kotlin
  • Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning
  • Experience shipping Android applications
  • Experience with client/server programming, HTTP requests, and JSON
  • Desire to learn new frameworks
  • Knowledge of how to build composable, extensible interfaces quickly
  • Knowledge of how to work within and maintain an existing codebase

Nice to Haves

  • Experience with Dependency Injection with Dagger a plus
  • Experience with MVVM Architecture a plus
  • Experience with Room Database
  • Experience with Retrofit
  • Experience with Jetpack Compose

Benefits & Perks 

Our benefits include medical, dental, vision and life insurance; flexible and generous "out of office time” for holidays, vacations, sick leave, relaxation and wellness, in addition to a mid-year and end of year break, totaling 10 days. We also offer an employee assistance program, plus eligibility to participate in pension (CAN) or 401k (US) plans with an employer contribution. 

Why Join Flipboard?

  • Our vision: At a time when society could really benefit from being more informed and inspired, we are enabling great stories to reach passionate communities around the world.
  • Our team: Led by experienced CEO, Mike McCue, the Flipboard team is a positive, respectful, and diverse group of bright and highly capable people who work collaboratively with strong purpose and vision. 
  • Our culture: We value an environment and culture that encourages people's voices and perspectives to be heard. We believe that leveraging our team will lead us to create better products and services for all our users and partners.  We value diverse backgrounds, beliefs and experiences of our team members, and we are committed to fostering an inclusive environment for all.
  • Our value: We are fully funded and making steady, meaningful progress on a premium, high margin business within a $600B, highly strategic market. Our business model is tightly aligned with our values, our partners and our user experience which makes our company both valuable and unique.
  • Our product: Millions of people truly love Flipboard and rely on it regularly. Flipboard is a standard bearer for great mobile design, innovation, and we deeply value craftsmanship.
  • Our platform: Our platform selects the best content from thousands of publishers around the world, organizes it into highly personalized feeds, and presents it for further curation by the community. We are driven by hard technical challenges and we value pioneering new technology to continually increase the power, efficiency and scale of our platform.

 

Flipboard is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Flipboard is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected characteristics.