Android Developer, Top Hat
+ Stock options program
Interactive software for higher education
Open for applications
Interactive software for higher education
201-500 employees
Open for applications
+ Stock options program
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower educators to engage students and unleash their potential.
Role
Who you are
- 1 to 2 years of experience of native Android development in Kotlin
- Good understanding of SOLID principles
- Experience with architecture design patterns, for example, MVVM, MVP
- Experience with Dependency Injection frameworks, for example, Dagger
- Experience working with Jetpack Compose
- Experience making REST API requests using an HTTP library, for example, Retrofit
- Experience writing unit tests (including UI tests using Espresso)
- Experience with Asynchronous Programming, for example, Coroutines, Rx Kotlin/Java is a plus
- Experience creating and/or maintaining CI/CD pipelines is a plus
- Proficiency with Git
- Able to be trusted to work on complex features independently and as part of a team, ask questions when needed, and deliver quality, maintainable code
- Able to actively learn and keep up-to-date with recent Android OS releases and features
What the job involves
- We are looking for an Associate Android Developer to join our Mobile team
- As an Associate Android Developer at Top Hat, you will be building, improving, and maintaining all aspects of our Android application
- You will be developing features, writing tests, and participating in impactful decision-making around the Android app
- Your work will reach millions of students
- We will provide you with the capacity to have a high degree of impact on what is being built
- Innovate. Work in a dynamic, cross-functional scrum team and contribute ideas to design and planning discussions
- Implement new features and core services in the TopHat platform. Provide solutions to exciting new problems
- Collaborate. Work closely with our design, product, and architecture teams to help bring beautiful, usable, and scalable features to life
- Improve. Refactor, optimize and improve the Top Hat platform used by over a million students. Improve application performance and reliability. Implement new features for the Top Hat Android app
- Use a data-driven approach to understand user behaviour and plan work
- Work closely with Mobile Developers, Designers, Product Managers, and Full-stack teams to help bring beautiful, usable, and fast mobile features to life
- Improve application performance and reliability
- Write unit tests and contribute to building maintainable code
- Release bi-weekly updates to the Play Store
- Refactor and improve legacy code
- Work primarily in Kotlin and sometimes Java
Our take
Top Hat is at the apex of two major trends in education: the digitisation of platforms for content and the rising costs of higher education for students. By digitising work largely created by professors, Top Hat has delivered engaging content at lower cost for students across Canada and North America.
Where traditional publishers rely on analogue processes to provide high-quality but largely unengaging, uninteractive and expensive textbooks, Top Hat markets the platform to professors to publish their own interactive multimedia online textbooks. This gives them a cut and builds a holistic student experience on top.
The product has now had so much success that Top Hat’s strategy has evolved to include buying those conventional publishers of postsecondary course materials. This means the company can shift those quality materials into digitally distributed versions and make them available on a subscription basis.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
12% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Feb 2021
$130m
SERIES E
Feb 2020
$55m
SERIES D
Total funding: $234.9m
Company benefits
- Professional learning and development for all role levels
- The latest and greatest technology to do your job
- An awesome and welcoming Toronto HQ
- Competitive benefits and health/lifestyle spending accounts
- A management team focused on performance, growth, engagement and connection
- Employee-led, exec sponsored employee resource groups
Company values
- Good In The Woods - We believe that our success depends on being agile, resourceful and brave—no matter how great the challenge
- There Is No 'I' In Top Hat - We believe that teamwork is the key to meeting our goals. We work hard, we work smart and we work without ego
- Aggressive Growth - We believe in moving fast and aiming high, and that our company’s growth will revolutionize higher education
- Treat Professors Like Heroes - We believe professors should be celebrated for their contributions to higher education
Company HQ
Downtown Toronto, Toronto, ON
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Leadership
Maggie (Moylan) Leen
(CEO & CMO)Formerly VP of Marketing and Communications, Medical and Healthcare at Adtalem Global Education. Also spent 14 years at Pearson and 2 years at Community Advocates.
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