Sr. Android Engineer

About the position

Care.com is a consumer tech company with heart. We're on a mission to solve a human challenge we all face: finding great care for the ones we love. We're moms and dads and pet parents. We have parents and grandparents so we understand that everyone, at some point in their lives, could use a helping hand. Our culture and our products reflect that. Care.com offers an array of services that enable families to find, manage and pay for care and provide employment opportunities for caregivers. Our engineering organization is reimagining our tech stacks and consolidating to a single cloud native platform so we can test and learn faster. The new platform is composed of gRPC microservices and Lambdas in Go, Kafka streams, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, GraphQL, and micro-frontends on Node and React. We're utilizing industry best practices and tools like OpenTelemetry, Splunk, Github, SignalFX, Figma, and others to make our lives easier. Here, entrepreneurs, self-starters, team players, and big thinkers unite behind a common cause. Here, we're applying data analytics, AI, and the latest technologies to solve universal problems and connect people in new ways. If you like having autonomy, if you thrive on collaboration and building new things, and if you're all about using your talent for good, Care.com is the place for you.

Responsibilities

• Be part of a team developing native iOS and Android solutions for an engaged member base.
• Be involved in designing, implementing, and maturing code.
• Build polished UI and code that interacts with a feature rich RESTful web service.
• Build UI which has a flare of elegance; tasteful animations, transitions, built from a thoughtful Pattern Lib.
• Learn, improve, stretch, and from that, mentor and lead.
• Engage with other Devs, Product, Creative, QA, and Marketing within an Agile model.

Requirements

• 6+ years building mobile apps
• Mastery of the Android Frameworks and Kotlin
• A mastery of designing solutions; simple, clear, flexible without being over-designed.
• A deep care for quality; from user experiences to variables.
• Experience building one or more apps, over a multi-year period, where you were one of the main developers.
• A solid handle on Object Oriented Programming, design patterns, algorithms, data structures.
• A developed, intuitive, understanding about mobile, its constraints, and pattern to overcome them.
• Well organized, attentive to details, and communicates well.

Benefits

• Health insurance coverage
• Life and disability insurance
• Generous 401K employer matching program
• Paid holidays
• Paid time off (PTO)