Senior Android Developer, Secret Escapes
Luxury travel platform
Job no longer available
Luxury travel platform
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Secret Escapes' mission is to enable every member to experience inspiring escapes.
Role
Who you are
- Architecture patterns
- Knows and has practical experience with MVI
- Knows also MVVM as some people call MVI also MVVM+
- Can compare both MVI and MVVM with other architecture patterns
- Experience and knowledge of Clean architecture
- Experience with SOLID principles relevant to Object Oriented Programming (OOP)
- Dependency injection (especially Hilt)
- Adept at Unit tests
- Experience with Instrumented tests (Robolectric)
- Android studio tools
- Functional programming
- Composite pattern
- Security
- Material 2
- Deep understanding of coroutines
- Room DB
- Behavioural, architectural, and foundation components in Jetpack
- Gradle and multi-module management
- Performance management - measurement and troubleshooting
- Obsessed with providing the best user experience and have a good eye for good design (UI and UX)
- You are passionate about writing well structured, readable, testable (example Unit, UI tests) and maintainable code
- Comfortable with doing code review of others, highlighting any major issues with bugs, UI/UX, architecture. And you are willing to share your experience and learn from others
- Delivering high quality work on time and commitment
- Able to communicate with both technical and non-technical audiences
- If you are an experienced Android Engineer who can own the technical work related to maintaining and further evolving the Secret Escapes Android members-only app, then this journey may be a good fit for you
Desirable
- Jetpack UI components (Compose first on the list)
- Material 3
- Data store
- GraphQL
- Version catalog
What the job involves
- You will be doing hands-on engineering work. You will also be responsible for driving and managing the technical collaboration, application architecture and tech debt for our Android app
- You will be part of a creative and collaborative process where we work together to experiment and innovate which helps our members on their journey of booking their next dream holiday!
- Optimising the price visualisation of our deals
- Improving the user experience in crucial areas, such as sales
- Maximising marketing acquisition
- You will be working in our product squad No Doubt - the squad owning the Secret Escapes members’ iOS and Android applications
- Take ownership of the technical work, tools, and process relevant to our Android app
- Become the guardian of our code base
- Manage application architecture in line with our technical vision
- Manage the technical improvement efforts for the Android app
- Help less experienced engineers grow
- Assist in app discovery activities
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Secret Escapes operates a “members-only” site with hand-picked hotel and holiday time-limited offers. Each week it runs short ‘flash sales’ with as many as 140 sales going on at any one time, providing access to boutique experiences even to those who couldn't normally afford them.
The difference with online travel agents like Booking.com, is that Secret Escapes inspires travel by communicating great travel deals, rather than existing as a place where people visit to book trips they already have in mind. In fact, the majority of people who book through Secret Escapes say that they weren’t even planning trips to those destinations before doing so.
Like many of its travel market companions, Secret Escapes was affected by the pandemic, but survived due to an injection of investment from previously secured backers. The company smartly used the onset of mass customer service requests to better its customer service channels, and it now seems set to pursue the success it was on-course to achieve before this major upset.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
May 2020
$72.6m
SERIES E
Jul 2018
$68.7m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $290.5m
Company benefits
- 20% staff discount of all Secret Escape bookings
- Holiday parties and quarterly results celebrations
- 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
- Work from home opportunities
Company HQ
Farringdon, London, UK
Leadership
Alex Saint
(CEO)Started his career in marketing at Unilever before founding a travel deals company in 2005 and then Secret Escapes in 2010.
Tom Valentine
(Marketplaces CEO)Studied Psychology at Oxford before starting his career at eBay in Strategy & Business Development.
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