Senior Frontend/Android Developer

at  Ookla

We’re Ookla, the company behind Speedtest, Downdetector, Ekahau, RootMetrics, and an ever-expanding suite of connectivity solutions. Our team is a group of people brought together through passion and inspired by possibility. We are looking for team members who enjoy solving complex problems, are motivated to challenge themselves, and are delighted with turning clever ideas into unique products.
Millions of consumer-initiated tests are performed through our products and billions of data points are collected globally every day. With all this measurement comes countless ways to dissect and analyze our data, and plenty of exciting opportunities to optimize our broader strategy. When you work for us, you are using Ookla data and insights to further our mission to improve connectivity for all.
We are looking for a seasoned Senior Software Engineer for our new Ekahau SW team. Ekahau helps businesses build and maintain high-performing wireless networks. Our award-winning Wi-Fi design, site survey, and troubleshooting solutions create fast, reliable Wi-Fi networks that businesses can trust for their mission-critical wireless needs. We ensure networks are optimized using the right number of access points, positioned in the right locations, and with the right configurations to deliver awesome Wi-Fi every day. Businesses of every size, including the world’s biggest brands and events, trust Ekahau to get the best performance from their wireless networks. This person will develop cross-platform applications using a combination of web technologies and native code. The software development team is responsible for building technology enablers and new application features usable in Apps released on iOS and Android, and later on Windows and MacOS too.
Together with the team, you take part in setting the direction for our future software stack and architecture. You would be innovating and validating options that will be pushing the limits of what we currently think would be possible.
In this role, you will be responsible for designing and implementing working, clean, high-performing, and reusable application code targeting web and mobile. Another aspect of your work is researching, evaluating, and prototyping technological options that meet business requirements. You are also creating reference implementations and coding conventions for guiding our software development teams. Your current technology stack can include any modern web framework, such as Vue.js or React. You could be a polyglot programmer interested in languages such as Typescript, Kotlin, Rust, Scala, or even C++, and you would be leveraging native platform capabilities such as ARKit side by side with web technologies such as WebGL.
We are committed to providing you a flexible work environment where individuality, fun, and talent are all valued equally. If you consider yourself innovative, adept at collaboration, and you care deeply about the work you do, we want to talk!

REQUIREMENTS:

• Has frontend development experience on responsive web applications
• Is familiar with current state of the art frontend technologies and toolchains
• Is proficient in JavaScript or TypeScript and in HTML and CSS, and in Android Kotlin and related toolings
• Has 6+ years of software development experience
• Gets things done and has a growth mindset
• Has good communication skills in written and spoken English
• And a plus would be if you have experience in implementing complex cross-platform solutions
• Background check required
• We hope that you reside somewhere around the Helsinki Metropolitan Area

Please refer the Job description for details