Senior Android Engineer, Back Market
Mobile Core
3 days a week in office
Online marketplace for refurbished electronics
Posted today
Online marketplace for refurbished electronics
501-1000 employees
Posted today
3 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To restore trust and desire for refurbished devices.
Role
Who you are
- You are an engineer with more than 10 years of experience on Android, with some apps released on the Playstore or B2B, and some significant repo contributions on GitHub
- You effectively advocate for technical initiatives to stakeholders. You are a spokesperson for the chapter/tribe and are mentoring senior engineers
- You know how to build Kotlin-Compose applications with solid architecture (MVVM, Clean Architecture, modularization, dependency injection...)
- You understand the SOLID principles but also acknowledge when KISS should prevail
- You know how to design your code through technical conception before development
- You know & use reactive programming (Kotlin Flow, and optionally RxJava)
- You have strong experience with Jetpack libraries (Room, Material, etc.) and the modern Android development stack
- You’re mindful of app security, data privacy, and user trust
- You monitor and optimize performance (app startup time, rendering, memory usage)
- You care about accessibility, localization, and building inclusive experiences
- You know how to handle the challenges of asynchronous and concurrent programming (Kotlin Coroutines with structured concurrency, lifecycle scope, etc)
- With the entire team, you follow and maintain the app monitoring, test & provide Quality of Service: KPIs, defining SLOs/SLIs, advanced logs, crash reporting, and dashboards (Datadog & Crashlytics)
- You are used to write E2E, integration and unit tests, and are familiar with Espresso, tests flakyness and coverage (jacoco)
- You can contribute to the scale of the integration stack: Bitrise CI, CI/CD automatization for apps (Crashlytics, Firebase App Distribution, Github Actions, Renovate)
- You continually maintain technical and functional exchanges with the iOS team🍎
- You contribute to the hiring process and help Back Market hire the best candidates
- You're an active member of the Android community (DroidCon, Meetups etc.)
- Bonus: you live for the jaw-dropping demos and surprise announcements at Google I/O
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Senior Android Engineer to contribute to the Android core foundations, architecture & infrastructure stack
- The engineer in this role will produce scalable libraries & frameworks, elevate engineering excellence, and share their knowledge within the Android Community at Back Market
- You will also contribute to the mobile engineering chapter, with talented iOS & Android engineers, but also with other technical leaders from other platforms (SRE, Backend, Frontend, CyberSec, Data…)
- Whether passionate about Kotlin, building advanced UI with Jetpack Compose, or focused on core architecture, the engineer will work efficiently and contribute collaboratively by staying open to new ideas
- Consistently delivers Android code that sets the standard for quality and maintainability, making the Android app scalable & accelerating product iterations
- Effectively contributing to technical initiatives to reach the Android engineering vision, accountable for large team project features, including ones with external dependencies
- Ability to design code through technical conception before development, ensuring robust and efficient code patterns (Kotlin Coroutines, thread safety, and race condition prevention)
- Curiosity and proactiveness in implementing new Kotlin and Android technologies: Compose UI (migration started in 2023), Kotlin flows, and latest features announced during Google I/O
- Build & scale our app architecture (MVVM-C or similar architectures), advocate for multi-modules, and dependency injection. Understanding and applying SOLID principles while recognizing the importance of simplicity (KISS)
- Find ways to prevent regressions, push for Unit, Integration and UI testing by collaborating with QA & Android Engineers, exploring new E2E testing practices, from native to third-party solutions
- Elevate the Android app performance with strong monitoring practices from App launch to app size, memory usage, and smooth UI performance (Datadog, Crashlytics)
- Improve the release process with an automation mindset & practices for our CI/CD pipelines & workflows (Bitrise CI, Firebase App Distribution, GitHub Actions, Renovate, Mergify)
Our take
At a time when new smartphones launch frequently but with fewer new features and when individuals want to contribute to sustainability and the circular economy, Back Market is setting out to provide customers with a viable option of purchasing refurbished electronics goods.
The vision of the company is to become the default choice when it comes to electronics purchases, irrespective of the customers' budget. In order to materialize this vision, Back Market guarantees that all the devices sold on its platform are 100% functional. The company screens sellers before allowing them to join its platform and it monitors their performance in real-time by collecting detailed customer feedback. By doing this, they hope to restore trust in refurbished devices and to make sustainability an easy, safe, and affordable choice.
Back Market operates in 16 counties and has a client roster that includes Netflix, Disney, BBC, Sony, and Apple. The company has raised over $1 billion in capital, which has been invested in expansion across new and current markets.
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Insights
-4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- An attractive salary that comes with equity options, health insurance, paid maternity and parental leave, 401K, commuter benefits, mental health support, and more,
- Flexible working hours and hybrid models that let you choose which days you to work in the office and at home (because work-life balance is an individual right)
- Professional development programs, internal mobility, and the opportunity to make your career what you want it to become
Company HQ
19th arrondissement of Paris, Paris, IDF
Leadership
Previously Logistic Export Assistant at Devanlay Lacoste and Account manager at Neteven.
Vianney Vaute
(Chief Creative Officer)Previously Digital Strategist at Visual Link, Strategic Planner at BETC Paris and Strategist at Five by Five.
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