Bumble is looking for a Senior Android Engineer to join our Mobile Foundation team and help empower fellow Android engineers, as well as wider mobile teams, to deliver an amazing experience to our end users. You’ll be joining a team of experienced native Android and iOS engineers who are unstoppable when it comes to solving technical challenges.
The Mobile Foundation team sits within our Mobile Platform Group, which is core to enabling the success of Bumble, Badoo, and BFF Apps. The group’s objective is to equip mobile engineering teams with industry-leading, highly reliable, and fit-for-purpose frameworks, tools, services, and integrations for development, deployment, and quality control.
The Mobile Foundation team assesses, develops, and educates best practices for other engineers, leads the evolution of our architecture patterns and principles, and constantly explores opportunities to optimise both our core frameworks and development processes.
What you'll Do
Explore new Kotlin language features and Android core frameworks, establishing best practices for their useContribute to the evolution of our open-source Appyx architectureDrive the evolution of our core frameworks, such as Networking, Image Loading, Analytics and othersExplore ways to optimise the performance of our apps, components, and codeDrive high standards and best practices (coding, design, tools, principles), continuously improve and document themContinuously improve the Mobile Foundation team’s offerings by maintaining a robust feedback loop with mobile engineers,
About you
Advanced Android SDK / Kotlin skillsStrong knowledge of Android API capabilities at different levels, framework components and lifecyclesExcellent understanding of design patterns and Object-Oriented ProgrammingSound computer science foundations: algorithms, data structures, concurrency, threading, and programming languages (Kotlin and Java)Solid communication skills, strong team-working capability, and a desire to influence and mentor other developersMotivated and able to work autonomouslyAttention to detail, structural thinking, and a passion for software designYou are excited about change