Senior Software Engineer, Saturn
Android
Calendar-based social platform
Open for applications
Calendar-based social platform
101-200 employees
Open for applications
101-200 employees
Company mission
To build community around the calendar.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of relevant Android product development experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; fluency in English
- Strong leadership and organizational skills with the ability to mentor and motivate team
- An extensive understanding of Kotlin, Coroutines, Jetpack Compose and the Android SDK
- Experience crafting highly performant code and UI layouts, with proficiency in diagnosing performance bottlenecks
- An excellent understanding of best practices for concurrency and threading
- Experience working on consumer-facing products
- Experience integrating and working with Amplitude (bonus points)
What the job involves
- Working on a cross-disciplinary team, leveraging your extensive knowledge and experience building complex apps
- Partnering with Product and Design to craft efficient, performant, and delightful user experiences
- Driving a disciplined approach to development, testing, documentation and code structure in a team environment
- Developing and owning large user-facing features / epics from design through implementation and launch
- Shepherding the app architecture through best practices and engineering excellence
- Playing an important role in leveling up the team’s technical depth and efficiency
- Getting down in the trenches, writing automated tests and providing high quality feedback in code reviews - no task is beneath you
Our take
Saturn is shaking up the social media landscape with a unique, calendar-based app designed for high schoolers to track their schedules, interact with classmates, and access key information. By combining messaging and social features with a specialized calendar tailored to hectic school routines, Saturn has experienced rapid growth and is now active in over 17,0000 schools across the US.
The app's focus on helping students stay organized and connected has resonated strongly, with features that support rotation calendars, block schedules, and even lunch waves. Plus, Saturn's functionality extends to clubs, teams, and student councils, making it a valuable tool for managing group activities.
Looking ahead, Saturn is expanding its reach to college students, allowing users to take their calendars with them after high school and making the app a seamless part of their academic experience.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Aug 2021
$44m
LATE VC
Apr 2019
$9m
SEED
Total funding: $53m
Company HQ
SoHo, New York, NY
Leadership
Dylan Diamond
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously founded Diamond Apps where they served as the CEO. They also worked as a Software Engineer at Tesla and as an iOS Engineer at Chegg.
Max Baron
(Co-Founder & COO/CSO)Previously founded PrepReps where they served as the CEO. They also worked as a Strategic Advisor to the CMO at Beats by Dr. Dre and T-Mobile and as a Managing Director at Havas.
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