Android Engineer, Outside
Trailforks
$95-125k
Active lifestyle content hub
Open for applications
Active lifestyle content hub
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$95-125k
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To inspire and enable people to discover that life is best spent outside experiencing healthy, connected, and fulfilling lives.
Role
Who you are
- You have 2+ years experience in Android development in Kotlin
- You have an up-to-date knowledge of Android design principles, patterns, and familiarity with tools like Jetpack Compose, Coroutines
- You have built maintainable features including API design and testing techniques
- You are familiar with multithreaded programming and mobile memory management
- You have a proven track record of healthy collaboration with design and product peers
- You have a passion for the outdoors and familiarity with the Trailforks product and community
- Experience in other parts of our stack - Kotlin Multiplatform, Javascript, Cordova - is a plus
What the job involves
- Come join the Trailforks team at Outside as an Android Engineer II. In this role, you will build software for some of the wildest adventures on earth and help people explore trails with cutting-edge data and tools
- You will work closely with our small and mighty team of engineers and product and design peers
- Trailforks is not just any trail mapping website, it's a user contributed database that empowers the people who work so hard to preserve and maintain the trails we love
- At Trailforks our North Star is to equip our community with the very best tools to manage and showcase local trail networks
- Own development of features for the Trailforks Android app with high level guidance from the engineering manager and tech lead
- Create solutions following best practices using established patterns in the existing code base
- Contribute helpful and valuable code reviews
- Make steady progress on assigned tasks and seek additional areas to contribute
- Contribute proactively to app maintenance & bug resolution
- Contribute to the shared KMM library that is used across iOS & Android apps
Our take
Keeping people connected is among the many benefits of the digital world. Outside - formerly known as Pocket Outdoor Media - provides digital content for outdoor enthusiasts and athletes to find events, trade tips, and easily find the lifestyle content that is right for them.
Outside brings together a variety of traditional brands as well as additional content to create a complete user experience. Through its site, users can access meal plans, gear reviews or even online courses, as well as find the latest developments in any outdoor recreational or competitive activity.
The value of digital content is growing at an impressive rate, as is the target audience for Outdoor's content as the popularity of the outdoors is on the rise. As the market continues to grow, the company finds itself in a promising position for future growth, and it will be interesting to see what it focuses on next.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Feb 2021
$150m
SERIES B
Jul 2020
$14m
SERIES A
Total funding: $164m
Company benefits
- Equity: we believe that all employees are owners and that we all contribute to the success of the company
- Comprehensive benefits package: Health, Dental, Vision, Life & AD&D, and more!
- Flexible time away: we believe in both the importance of working hard AND taking time to refresh and rejuvenate
- Learning & development: we put employees first and provide resources for personal and professional advancement
- Fringe benefits: cell phone reimbursement, fitness and ClassPass access, commuter program, etc
Company HQ
Goss - Grove, Boulder, CO
Leadership
Robin Thurston
(CEO)Former CEO of Helix and Pocket Outdoor Media. They also worked at Under Armour as an EVP and Chief Digital Officer.
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