Sr Android Engineer

About Achievers

The "Achievers Employee Experience Platform™" empowers employees to recognize each other in real time and aligns them to the values and goals of the company. With almost 4 million global users, the Employee Experience Platform enables employees in over 170 countries. Visit us at www.achievers.com to learn more, and check out our platform in action here. Join us in our mission to Change the Way the World Works™!

Our commitment to you:

At Achievers, we hire you for you because we value the unique perspective and individuality that each person brings to our team. We are committed to creating an inclusive, diverse, and equitable workplace where you belong, and your contributions are celebrated. You'll have the opportunity to collaborate with a diverse group of colleagues who appreciate your strengths and are excited to learn from your experiences.

At Achievers, our software delivers a powerful new way for companies to engage, align, and recognize employees enabling remarkable business success. Every day.

We hire ambitious professionals who thrive on their entrepreneurial spirit and want to Change the Way the World Works. As Achievers employees, we are passionate about disruptive technology, welcome constant change, and understand the value of employee success in the workplace. We enjoy coming to work every day because we believe in our product and L.O.V.E. our culture. Achievers is more than just a software company; we are industry leaders in the HR space.

We’re looking for a Senior Android Engineer with a passion for building complex but dependable apps so slick, beautiful, and user-friendly that it pains our users to put their phones down. As a Senior Android Engineer on our Mobile team, you’ll get a chance to steer the technical direction of our app, provide guidance on the intricacies of the Android platform, help grow our team, and build features that leave our users in awe.

Why work with us?

• We’re a fun-loving, passionate, and highly collaborative team
• We believe in moving quickly
• We’re committed to achieving technical excellence in everything we do

Why we’d want to work with you?

• You have a passion for building world-class software
• You’re positive thinking and find opportunities instead of problems
• You have superb technical abilities. You’re always striving to improve
• You believe software should be just as beautiful on the inside as it is on the outside
• You have strong opinions on software best practices

What you’ll do

• Collaborate, engage in design/architecture discussions, and share your ideas while building the next generation of features for the Achievers platform
• Be curious and inquisitive—about everything
• Live in Github creating pull requests, reviewing code, merging branches, and generally be a great team player by seeking out and providing feedback
• Innovate by participating in hackathons and initiatives important to you and your team
• Build a culture of best practices as you drive our technology flow forward
• Continuously integrate clean, scalable, robust, testable code
• Shape, build, and evolve our growing API responsible for powering our platform and Android apps
• Push the boundaries of what’s possible by tackling challenges in architecture, scalability, security, and performance
• Contribute to the growth of our team by providing coaching to junior developers

Do you have what it takes? What we’re looking for

• Sc. or Masters in Computer Science or related field
• 3 years+ experience building Android apps
• You LOVE Material Design, are extremely proficient in Kotlin and Java, and automate everything in Gradle
• Believe in using the right tool for the job whether that’s installing a third-party library or writing one yourself
• A great design eye, paying close attention to the smallest of UI and UX details
• You’re efficient to the point where you can (but smart enough not to) automate yourself out of work
• Strong in architectural patterns (MVC, MVP, MVVM, etc.), object modeling, and OOP concepts
• Strong in networking & concurrency
• Comfortable in a UNIX / Linux environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Or even better:

• Prior experience in building features from the ground up using Jetpack Compose
• Experience with working with legacy codebases, and debugging issues
• Profiling performance and memory leaks
• At least one published app (and/or publicly available source)

Why you’ll love working at Achievers:

We are passionate about disruptive technology that’s rooted in science, research and data.

We understand the value of employee success in the workplace and have been recognized in numerous publications for our contributions to HR, for technical excellence, and for our outstanding workplace culture!

We foster an environment of connection, security, and community. You’ll feel at home, without reservation.

We believe in moving quickly, failing fast, and adapting to change.

We enjoy coming to work every day because we believe in our product and love our culture.

We’re committed to achieving excellence in everything we do.

Achievers does not offer employment to prospects without first ensuring that qualified candidates speak directly with the hiring manager and a member of our HR team. All qualification will be done face-to-face, whether that is in person or over Zoom. Achievers does not send out offers of employment without meeting candidates and does not offer employment via text. If you are requested for any personal information via text and/or without having met a member of our hiring team in person, please disregard.

Our employees are a diverse and inclusive team of passionate, hardworking individuals. Achievers is committed to creating an environment where our employees can do the best work of their lives. We encourage all qualified candidates to apply to join our A-Player family. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

Achievers is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds and experiences.