Uber Sr Software Engineer Android 

United States, West Virginia 

560485473

About the Role

- - - - What the Candidate Will Do ----

• Build sophisticated solutions for merchants and scalable distributed systems and technologies to enable Uber to grow its business globally.
• Contribute to the Android monorepo on core Uber flows, building core components and user-facing experiences by designing, implementing and maintaining scalable, robust, distributed systems that support user-facing products.
• Directly participate in the making of important business decision, in collaboration with Product, Design and Data Science, and building the technical capabilities to support them
• Work closely with backend engineers and cross-platform developers
• Drive adoption of the best methodologies in code health, testing, and maintainability.
• Implement native UI with the latest Android/Backend technologies
• Come up with the right architecture and design for ideas and experiments to scale quickly.
• Apply software experimentation philosophy, setting up A/B experiments for hypothesis testing.
• Build instrumentation in the experiments, understand, mine insights, and investigate these to help product with data-driven decisions from experimentation.
• Monitor and measure launched products and feed learnings back into the product development process.
• Extend scope beyond Android development

- - - - Basic Qualifications ----

• 6+ years of full-time Android engineering work experience with solid understanding of Android SDK, different versions of Android, and how to deal with different screen sizes
• Proficiency in Kotlin and Java
• Proficiency in object oriented programming, MVC architecture, multithreading, networking, offline storage, memory management and source control management (git)
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect Android applications to back-end services
• Solid understanding of Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices
• Knowledge of the open-source Android ecosystem and the libraries available for common tasks
• Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications
• A knack for benchmarking and optimization
• Understanding of Google’s Android design principles and interface guidelines
• Strong focus on high-quality mobile UI experiences. Experience with UI/UX paradigms to build sophisticated user experiences
• Experience working with product and design teams
• Experience analyzing a feature in production using analytics and experiments
• Experience with Unit Testing, testing frameworks and best practices
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• Full professional proficiency English language skills to work with other engineers and stakeholders from different regions around the world

- - - - Preferred Qualifications ----

• Knowledgeable in Reactive programming (RxJava),, Kotlin coroutines and Dependency injection.
• Comfortable working within the coding conventions of a large engineering organization and working in a large and sophisticated code base with many contributors
• Advanced Degree: Master's or Ph.D. in computer science, engineering, data science, or a related field.

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