Senior Android Engineer

at  SafetyCulture

SENIOR ANDROID ENGINEER

Melbourne
Engineering – Customer Facing Engineering /
Full-time Permanent /
Hybrid
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SafetyCulture is a global technology company that is helping to transform workplaces around the world. After witnessing the tragedy of workplace incidents as a private investigator, SafetyCulture Founder Luke Anear recruited a team to help him develop a mobile solution for frontline workers. What we have created is a market-leading workplace operations platform that helps give teams the knowledge, tools, and confidence they need to meet higher standards, work safely, and improve every day.
SafetyCulture is among the fastest-growing tech companies in Australia. Its bold ambition is to reach 100 million users worldwide by 2032. Opportunities to be part of a journey like this do not come around often.
This role is part of our Best Fit job match program. We have a variety of Software Engineering roles, by applying to this role will be considered for multiple roles across our engineering teams. We want to set you up for success in your role so we assess your capabilities and then match you up to the best team.
What do SafetyCulture Engineers do?
SafetyCulture engineers will work on new and existing products that directly impact the lives of our customers around the globe. You’ll collaborate with other team members to investigate design approaches and evaluate technical feasibility. You’ll write high quality distributed system software and drive engineering best practices. Working in an Agile/Scrum environment you’ll establish architectural principles and mentor team members.
SafetyCulture engineers are versatile, able to simplify the complex and remove obstacles so builders can build. When you join, you will work on projects that are critical to SafetyCulture, and our customers’ needs. You will have opportunities to continue to grow and follow your passion as the business continues to evolve.
The tech stack
We use a modern technology stack including Swift/SwiftUI/Kotlin/Jetpack Compose/C++(mobile); React.js (front end); Go (back end); AWS/Kafka/Kubernetes/Citus (infrastructure)
The role
As a Senior Android Engineer, you’ll ensure we’re providing the best mobile experience for our customers. You’ll provide strong technical knowledge and insight into Android development using Kotlin, Jetpack Compose and C++ while sharing your expertise to coach and mentor others. You’ll own the delivery of practical solutions to solve real-world problems for customers, with the knowledge that what you build has an immediate positive impact.
You’ll face exciting technical challenges as we scale, and be an integral part of the engineering team. You’ll be part of a high-performing team that takes ownership of what they build, and are trusted to build and run a system that serves hundreds of thousands of users while transforming it into a system that will serve millions of users in the near future. We empower engineers to learn new skills and use technology to solve customer problems, including initiatives in IoT, machine learning, and event-driven architecture.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS

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• Strong Android development background and experience with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose.

• Passion for native mobile development and the Android ecosystem
• Solid experience and knowledge of concurrency and multi-threading
• Demonstrated focus on quality and ability to use automated testing methodologies
• Understanding of REST, HTTP and efficient networking on Android
• Excellent problem solving, critical thinking, prioritisation and communication skills
• Able to demonstrate SafetyCulture values (Think Customer, Open Honest Always, Better as a Team, Be Bold Bring Action)

DESIRABLE SKILLS

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• Prior experience in mentoring others

• C++ experience (we use a C++ shared library for our mobile clients)
• Experience with Adaptive Layout and reactive functional programming concepts
• Understanding of the customer experience in a mobile application, including UX, performance, networking, usage data, and crash reporting
• Proficiency in developing and implementing APIs using gRPC.
• Experience building SaaS or cloud services at scale

Please refer the Job description for details