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Android Developer

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Palo Alto, CA, USA

Mid level

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Palo Alto, CA, USA

Mid level

Build and maintain a fast, reliable, visually engaging Android app. Collaborate with product and design teams to ship features, create reusable components, design and debug software, maintain code quality, and ensure unit tests pass. The role requires strong Android Java knowledge, including UI development, threading, networking, storage, animations, graphics, locations, sensors, memory management, testing, continuous integration, and Git.

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Company Description

We're a passionate team of 20 people who want to improve the financial lives of hourly and shift workers. Our innovative Android and IOS apps enable people to receive their pay on-demand when they have completed their work instead of making them wait until the end of an aribitrary pay period. If you can call an Uber car in 5 minutes, why should you have to wait two weeks to get your pay? We make our money on tips, not fees and interest, which ensures that we stay focused on delighting our customers. Our founder is a successful repeat entrepreneur with deep financial services expertise and we've lined up some of the best venture capital firms in New York and Silicon Valley behind our vision.

Job Description

Build an easy to use, fast, reliable and visually engaging Android app.

Duties & Responsibilities:

Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product and design to define, design, and ship new features as well as to improve existing ones.

Build reusable Android software components

Design, produce, test and debug software from functional specifications

Maintain best practices throughout the code base

Ensure that unit tests pass

Qualifications

3+ years Android and/or iOS programming experience, with apps in the app store.

Maintain best practices throughout the code base

Deep knowledge of memory management, unit testing, and continuous integration

Proficiency with source control (Git)

Strong understanding of Android Java. Topics include but not limited to

- Activities and Fragments

- Abstraction and Inheritance (abstract classes and interfaces)

- UI Views (XML layouts and custom views) and various screen size support

- Processes, Threads, Services, and AsyncTasks

- HTTP requests and responses

- Storage such as SQLite, SharedPreferences, File Storage, and Cache Storage

- Animations, Graphics, Locations, and Sensors packages/libraries

Excellent problem solving, critical thinking and communication skills

Entrepreneurial minded- understands the demands of a private, high growth company and start-up experience is a plus

Additional Information

We are a small team and growing .Lots of technical challenges and career advancements!

Join us!!

Contact: Nikki Bell, Head of Talent

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