Software Engineer

Who are we?

Glad you asked! Avis Budget Group is a leading provider of mobility options, with brands including Avis, Budget & Budget Truck, and Zipcar. With more than 70 years of experience and 11,000 locations in 180 countries, we are shaping the future of our industry and want you to join us in our mission.

Zipcar is the world’s leading car-sharing network, found in urban
areas and university campuses in more than 500 cities and towns. Our team is
smart, creative and fun, and we’re driven by a mission – to enable simple and
responsible urban living

Apply today to get connected to an exciting career, a supportive family of employees and a world of opportunities.

What is ABG’s strategy in India?

At our India Build Center, you will play a key role in driving the digital transformation narrative of ABG.

Being at the core of ABG’s growth strategy, we will develop technology-led offerings that would position Avis and its brands as the best vehicle rental company in the world.

Our goal is to create the future of customer experience through technology.

The India Build Center is based in Bengaluru, India.

We are currently located Embassy TechVillage

E Hibiscus, 5th Floor, Tower 3, Embassy Tech Village, Doctor Puneeth Rajkumar Road, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560103, India

The fine print:

We encourage Zipsters to bring their whole selves to work - unique perspectives,
personal experiences, backgrounds, and however they identify. We are proud to be
an equal opportunity employer – M/F/D/V.

This document does not constitute a promise or guarantee of employment. This document describes the general nature and level of this position only. Essential functions and responsibilities may change as business needs require. This position may be with any affiliate of Avis Budget Group.

Software Engineer (Android)

Location: Bengaluru, India | 100% on-site

The impact you’ll make:

We are looking for a talented and passionate senior engineer to lead the way on the development and maintenance for a subset of ABG backend web services. These services support our mobile and web ecommerce products - the primary driver of $9B in annual revenue.

This role requires a resourceful individual, a persistent problem solver, and a strong hands-on engineer.

This is a great opportunity to have a big impact as part of a growing team in the midst of technology and product transformation.

Watch our talk at a recent AWS Re: Invent conference here.

What you’ll do:

• As Zipcar’s Android Engineer, you will develop high- quality production code, review and debug code written by others, recommend best practices for Android development
• Participate in design reviews with peers and stakeholders.
• Actively drive decisions that influence product design, application functionality and technical process
• Identify and resolve existing critical technical debt.
• Build Android features with proper monitoring, observability, and alerting.
• Plan for robust build, test, and deployment automation
• Work with product stakeholders and mobile developers to understand the essence of requirements and to provide pragmatic solutions
• Work within an Agile framework

What we’re looking for:

• 4-year degree or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of experience in software design & development
• 4+ years of experience developing apps for Android
• Experience developing in Kotlin, including using coroutines
• Experience with distributing mobile applications via public app stores
• Excellent knowledge of working with dynamic data using services (e.g., JSON, REST APIs, etc.)
• Experience performance profiling and tuning consumer facing mobile applications
• Excellent hands-on skills with Android application development tools, including Android Studio and the Android SDK
• Good communicator and team player with strong organizational skills
• Proactively helps drive innovation within the company
• Experience with Jetpack Compose
• Experience integrating libraries with Gradle and using other third-party frameworks tools and SDKs, such as Firebase, Localytics
• Experience with instrumented UI testing with JUnit
• Experience with continuous delivery in mobile, including Test- or Behavior-Driven Design, code review, static analysis, continuous integration, automation, and functional testing.
• Experience with authenticated sessions using OAuth and authentication tokens
• Nice to have, BLE communication, App clips development

Perks you’ll get:

• Health insurance for yourself and your immediate family
• Life, accident, and disability insurance
• Paid time off comparable with similar technology companies in India BangaloreKarnatakaIndia