Senior Android Engineer

**THE ROLE & THE TEAM

As part of the Emerging Propositions team you will be involved in exciting projects that primarily focus on our customers' experience in the beauty, designer and re-commerce domain.

**INCLUSIVE BY DESIGN

At Zalando, our vision is to be inclusive by design. And this vision starts with our hiring - we do not discriminate on the basis of gender identity, sexual orientation, personal expression, ethnicity, religious belief, or disability status. You are welcome to leave out your picture, age, or marital status from your application. We only assess candidates on their qualifications and merit.

We want to provide you with a great candidate experience. Feel free to inform us of any accommodations you may need, so we can best support you throughout the hiring process.

do.BETTER - our diversity & inclusion strategy:

[https://corporate.zalando.com/en/our-impact/dobetter-our-diversity-and-inclusion-strategy>

Our employee resource groups:

[https://corporate.zalando.com/en/our-impact/our-employee-resource-groups>

**WHAT WE’D LOVE YOU TO DO (AND LOVE DOING)

• Play a key role in design, development, deployment, operating and improving scalable software solutions that have a direct impact on our daily business with our customers.
• Lean on your Android experience and skill set, write robust, performant and maintainable code. Own your code and contribute to decisions on the product features and technologies and tools to deliver features on our native Android app.
• Collaborate effectively with team members and stakeholders within and outside of your team and seek feedback.
• Demonstrate willingness to learn and build great digital experiences using Kotlin with a passion for continuous improvement.
• Take an active role in understanding business requirements and translating them into technological solutions. Collaborate closely with Product Management (and other roles) to refine the functional requirements and build test cases to be verified during development and feature release.
• Focus on maintaining and improving code quality, consistency, and adherence to best practices.
• Participate in code reviews and use feedback as an opportunity for growth.
• Proactively help in the growth of juniors and peers in your team and beyond.
• Contribute to our growing tech community, encourage knowledge sharing and learn from your peers.

**WE'D LOVE TO MEET YOU IF

• You are a passionate Senior Android Engineer who is eager to work with new technologies while trying to challenge yourself and deliver clean, easily maintainable and testable code.
• You have 5+ years of experience working in high performing Teams and can independently drive end-to-end delivery, facilitating technical discussions and complex decision making.
• You have a deep understanding of the Android SDK, industry standard design patterns for Android Apps, and Kotlin as the programming language
• You are familiar with RxJava and the functional programming concepts of Kotlin. Familiarity with Jetpack Compose and Coroutines is a bonus.
• You have a good understanding of how to work withRESTservices and APIs. Familiarity with GraphQL is a bonus.
• You are knowledgeable about engineering practices that lead to writing well-tested high quality code.

If you have what it takes, we encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every requirement. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles!

OUR OFFER

• Culture of trust, empowerment and constructive feedback, open source commitment, meetups, game nights, 70+ internal technical and fun guilds, knowledge sharing through tech talks, internal tech academy and blogs, product demos, parties & events.
• Competitive salary, employee share shop, 40% Zalando shopping discount, discounts from external partners, centrally located offices, public transport discounts, municipality services, flexible working times, additional holidays and volunteering time off, free beverages and fruits, diverse sports and health offerings.
• Extensive onboarding, mentoring and personal development opportunities and an international team of experts.
• Relocation assistance for internationals.

Learn all about Zalando and our values here: [https://jobs.zalando.com/en/?gh%5Fsrc=22377bdd1us>. For more information about our office and teams in Helsinki, please visit: [https://www.zalandohelsinki.com/>