Lead Android Engineer

Posted time March 28, 2024 Location Delhi Job type Full Time

Experience: 10+ Years

Location: New Delhi

Qualifications: B.E/B.Tech

Reports to: Project Manager

Job Description:

As one of the technical leaders on the Checkout Android team, you will design, write, and review critical and complex code to move the Checkout engineering and product roadmap forward, while coordinating and guiding junior engineers to do the same. You’ll partner closely with mobile and API peers on teams across the company as they take on larger initiatives that include Checkout. You’ll work with cross-functional Product and Design partners to design and build features that robustly serve elegant user experience to Square sellers and buyers around the world.

You will:

  • Lead the technical team to be able to effectively create technical systems, write solid code, and develop sensible tests
  • Leverage your Android expertise to build complex solutions that meet our sellers’ challenges
  • Work across platforms with our internal partners to develop robust software solutions
  • Mentor junior engineers to help them develop their technical and leadership skills
  • Craft pixel-perfect, intuitive UI that delights our sellers with its ease of use
  • Collaborate across teams of experienced and dedicated engineers, product managers and designers
  • Deliver features to our growing base of subscribers, shipped at a rapid cadence

Requirements:

  • 8+ years of Android software engineering experience, developing scalable production software and an excellent command of engineering fundamentals.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
  • Ability to lead and mentor a group of software engineers to deliver solutions while fostering growth.
  • Unwavering commitment to customer experience and the quality of your work.
  • An eagerness to share your ideas, and openness to those of others.
  • Empathy for your customers and colleagues.
  • Motivation to build beautiful, refined and intuitive products
  • Curiosity, and a desire to learn and teach

Technologies we use and teach:

  • Kotlin for Android development
  • Application architecture based on Square’s modern open source library, Workflow
  • Espresso UI testing
  • Protocol buffers for network transport
  • Gradle for our build environment
  • Open source libraries like LeakCanary, Jetpack Compose, Dagger, Anvil, Okhttp, and more