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Job type full-time
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Your work on a new project as a senior android engineer will empower thousands of appcues customers to improve their android app’s usability and adoption for millions of their end-usersAppcues’ no-code tools have helped customers deliver over 1.4 billion in-app web experiences such as onboarding guides, tips, announcements, and surveysNow it`s time to bring these same capabilities to their mobile applicationsYour mission is to design, architect, and build a kotlin-based android sdk that our customers, such as the knot, lyft, and profitwell, will embed in their apps to deliver personal mobile-optimized experiencesAs our first android engineer, this is a unique and challenging opportunity to help determine our android architecture and be a key influencer of our overall mobile strategy.
About the role:
Our fully remote engineering team currently has over 30 people comprised of six small cross-functional teamsOur mobile team will have seven members including mobile engineers, product management, qa, and designYour initial mission is to design and develop an appcues android sdk and sample app using kotlin focusing on a great android developer experience.
On a typical day, you may architect a solution, collaborate with our backend, frontend and ios engineers, assist early customers, build a new feature, or drive consensus on a new practice.
Our engineers are involved in all stages of development, including conception, design, and user-testing of new features and products.
Our engineering teams work in two-week iterations and manage their work via github, clubhouse, and slack and are committed to agile developmentYou’ll break down any epics and designs into stores, and as you complete tasks and tests, you’ll create and send a pull request with tests and tag your team for reviewWe believe in ci/cd, and you’ll work with our devsecops team to improve our testing and production deployment pipelines.
You’ll collaborate across the organization with design, customer success, technical support, and sales to translate customer needs into working code and a delightful developer and user experience.
About you:
You have 5+ years developing android applications or android sdksYou have excellent judgment across android implementation approaches and are aware of their strengths & weaknessesYou are pragmatic, not dogmatic.
You are an excellent communicator and enjoy documenting your designs, prs, and usage guides for other developers.
You are experienced developing in kotlin and are passionate about android developer experience, testing, and security fundamentals.
You are comfortable influencing cross-team standards, practices, and tools by rolling up your sleeves and showing how things can be better.
You can clearly describe the business implications of your technical decisionsYou are excited to develop a vision & future technical android roadmap.
You have collaborated closely with other engineers working to develop innovative solutions that provide similar value across mobile platforms, yet have a native experience to android.
Our benefits
100% remote - we don’t have an office so all of our employees learn and collaborate in the same way using remote work practicesThis won`t change post-covid as we are committed to being 100% remote for the long-termWe work in slack, zoom, and a collection of modern collaboration toolsWe have inclusive remote events and, after covid times, will get together twice a year for a fun off-site retreatWell-being - you`ll have solid health, dental, and vision plans; access to 401k, and a generous maternity and paternity leaveFair pay - each role has a defined salary band, bands and salaries are audited on a regular basis to help maintain fairness and market value home office and tech budget - besides paying for your work computer (mac or pc), we offer a one-time $1000 home office stipend and an additional $500 annual budget for extra work-related technologyCoworking space, on us - home office not cutting it? we`ll reimburse your monthly coworking feesEquity - we want everyone invested in our successWe grant every employee equity in the companyTransparency and collaboration - we foster team alignment with meetings of all shapes and sizes—a monthly all-hands meeting called firstthurs, weekly team lunches, and lunch & learns., and an annual learning stipendUnlimited vacation - we believe time away to reflect and explore makes us all more productive, so we expect each employee to take a minimum of ten days of vacation per yearEmployees based in the usa also take off all us federal holidaysEmployees residing in other countries can choose to follow their local national holidays or us federal holidays.
About us
At appcues, our mission is to help teams build products their users loveWith appcues, you can create in-product experiences (user onboarding, feature announcements, checklists, and more) without writing any codeWe believe it’s the non-technical people who often have the best information about a user’s needs and desires, and we give them the tools to act.
We’re a dynamic group of talented teammates who challenge, trust, and care about each other, their work, and the success story we are writingOur values are not just wordsWe live by them.
Appcues is an equal opportunity employer that commits to diversity and inclusion and also celebrates itWe do not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, religion, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability status, or marital statusWe believe that diverse teams foster a more inclusive company culture, build better products, and are more human, humane, and fun.
