Android Mobile Engineer, Sprout Social

• 2+ years of experience building and maintaining mobile applications for Android platforms
• 2+ years of experience in Android native mobile programming languages, such as Kotlin, Java

Desirable

• Sprout Social is looking to hire an Android Engineer to the Engineering team
• You’ll get to work on a “tech-giant” scale with smaller, supportive teams where every engineer has the chance to make an impact on our company, and our customers
• Leverage your experience building and deploying native, customer-facing, Android applications using Kotlin, Java and Android Studio to deliver impactful product features to our customers
• Work to actively improve the processes, systems, and tools we use to deliver a quality mobile product
• Be part of a small, but highly cross-functional team with the opportunity to contribute on a product with rapidly growing mobile user base
• Within 1 month, you’ll plant your roots, including:
• Attending and completing Sprout Social’s two-week new hire training and onboarding program alongside other new Sprout team members
• In these sessions, you will gain a broad understanding of our products and how your role directly impacts the product, overall organization, and our customers
• Making a plan with your manager to set initial priorities, align on expectations for your role, plant goalposts for your career, and learn about Sprout’s approach to mobile engineering
• Getting to know everyone on the Mobile team: including iOS, Android, and QA Engineers, Product Designers, and Product Managers and your Manager
• Learning the Sprout product, Android app codebase, development lifecycle, release process, and team rituals
• Running the Android app locally
• Within 3 months, you’ll start hitting your stride by:
• Having a firm understanding of the Sprout Social product and how those features are implemented and supported within our Android application
• Owning the development and delivery of a small to medium size mobile feature alongside another mobile engineer and adding meaningful test coverage
• Getting regular team feedback on your code through code reviews as well as contributing towards feedback
• Deploying code to our production Android application in order to understand the engineering environment, build tools, testing, and deployment mechanisms
• Leading team rituals (e.g. Standup, Retro, and Release Manager rotations)
• Within 6 months, you’ll be making a clear impact through:
• Working with Product Managers, Designers and Platform Engineers to iteratively own and deliver a new feature
• Identifying and championing technical debt and performance bottlenecks within our systems
• Presenting learnings in team meetings
• Having your first performance conversation with your manager, where you’ll discuss your accomplishments in your role and work together to build goals for your professional growth
• Within 12 months, you’ll make this role your own by:
• Independently owning the development of large-scale mobile product features
• Working closely with colleagues to constantly enhance the application by suggesting innovative features and solutions - improving development workflows, design, and the overall experience
• Actively mitigate risk of failed delivery and missed deadlines through courageous, transparent communication and collaboration with colleagues and stakeholders throughout the project life cycle
• Surprise us! Use your unique ideas and abilities to change your team in beneficial ways that we haven’t even considered yet