Software Engineer, Android

Responsibilities

• As a Software Engineer, you will be doing software development with and for our clients and collaborating with the Livefront team to push everything we do forward across our three pillars, noted below.
• Excellence in Delivery & Communication
• Estimate, develop, test, and deploy high-quality Android applications for our clients.
• Write clean, maintainable, secure, and efficient code in Kotlin.
• Use Android Studio for debugging, profiling, and optimizing application performance.
• Write unit and UI tests.
• Implement accessible features to meet WCAG guidelines and ensure usability for all.
• Troubleshoot and resolve bugs and performance issues.
• Work on technically ambitious projects, ensuring timely completion.
• Regularly contribute to reusable internal resources like documentation, patterns, templates, and libraries.
• Understand and support CI/CD pipelines to ensure efficient, reliable, and automated build, test, and deployment workflows for Android applications.
• One-of-a-Kind Team
• Participate in code reviews for teammates and hold the team accountable to our engineering standards.
• Collaborate closely with UI/UX designers to implement engaging and intuitive user interfaces, leveraging frameworks like the Android View system and Jetpack Compose to bring designs to life.
• Actively participate in and occasionally present at team events.
• Thought Leadership and Community
• Actively participate in community events.
• Occasionally contribute to the broader engineering community through writing, public speaking, or open source.
• Why you should apply
• You want to work with passionate and talented people who are always looking for ways to make things better.
• You desire a work environment where respect, mutual trust, and egoless collaboration are paramount.
• You want colleagues who take their work seriously but not themselves, and who know how to find fun in the work.
• You like being part of a team with a reputation for excellence that gives back to the community by educating, mentoring, and sponsoring.
• You want to work on products and accounts that have outsized impact and reach.
• You believe in sweating the details, committing to quality, and taking pride in going the extra mile.
• What you bring to the table
• At least 3-5 years of relevant experience, ideally in a consulting environment or as part of an in-house, cross-functional product team.
• Experience building consumer-facing native applications for Android, with a fluent command of the platform's native languages (Kotlin) and core frameworks (Android SDK and Jetpack), and tools.
• Work samples showcasing performant, neatly organized code with clean, well-implemented user interfaces.
• Mastery of modern software development best practices, tools, and workflows.
• Excellent communication skills and a strong ability to present and defend technical and architectural choices persuasively.
• Above-average discipline and personal organization skills.
• Obvious comfort with critique and peer review in the context of an iterative software development process.
• A demonstrated hunger for personal and professional growth.
• A self-evident love and care for the craft of mobile software development.
• Bonus points if you...
• Have experience with other languages like Swift, JavaScript, Ruby, Python, or Go.
• Have experience with other platforms like iOS, Ruby on Rails, or .NET.
• Have experience with cross-platform mobile frameworks like React Native or Flutter.
• Understand the app deployment processes, including Firebase for beta testing and Google Play for app submissions and management.
• Have publicly released your own personal, self-started products or apps.
• Speak, write, and/or educate publicly about technical

Benefits

Additional Information

At Livefront, we help companies design and build world-class digital products that command attention and inspire joy. We've helped household names like CVS, Samsung, General Mills, and Optum create experiences that have reached millions of people, and startups like HomeSpotter and Credly build entirely new businesses that challenge their industries' status quo. We're looking for an outstanding Software Engineer to join our team. This is an opportunity to work remotely in Colombia.

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