[Hiring] Android Software Engineer @Philo

Role Description

The Android team at Philo is responsible for building our product experience on all Android-based mobile platforms (Google/Galaxy/Amazon stores). We’re a small collaborative team building apps with high engagement and millions of installs, which collectively are responsible for a large fraction of the billions of minutes watched on Philo each year. We are passionate about crafting the best possible UX to connect our users with the content they love, providing a seamless viewing experience while surprising them with new features and capabilities.

We are seeking an enthusiastic, experienced Android engineer with a deep technical background building high-quality, high-engagement Android applications for TV and mobile. You will help model best-practices to the team, and unblock your teammates when they are stuck.

Responsibilities

• Help to lead technical direction for Android development, ensuring code quality, scalability, and performance.
• Drive continuous improvements to the reliability, performance, and UI of the Android applications.
• Provide input on system architecture and design tradeoffs.
• Help the team manage and plan for the application releases.
• Monitor app performance and triage crashes, bugs and performance regressions as they arise.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders across marketing, support, design, product, and data science teams to ensure smooth feature delivery.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software development experience
• Experience with Kotlin, Coroutines, and their surrounding ecosystem
• Experience developing an Android app with video streaming features
• Experience with Jetpack Compose
• Experience with MVVM, MVI, and/or Clean Architecture
• Experience with adaptive layouts for a variety of form-factors
• Experience with Compose testing and JUnit

Requirements

• Nice to have: Experience with ExoPlayer
• Nice to have: Experience with GraphQL-based APIs
• Nice to have: Experience with cross device interoperability (e.g. casting)
• Nice to have: Experience building multi-modal experiences
• Nice to have: Experience managing releases on one or both of Google and Amazon app stores

Benefits

• Full health, dental and vision coverage for you and your family
• 401(k) plan with employer contributions (we match 100% of deferrals up to 3% of pay and 50% of the next 2% of pay)
• Flexible working hours
• Up to 20 weeks of fully paid parental leave
• Unlimited paid time off for vacation and sick leave
• $2,000 annual vacation bonus (we pay you to take a two week vacation)
• $5,250 annually for professional development and educational assistance
• $1,250 annual home office + TV stipend during first year of employment ($250 annually thereafter)
• $500/month ($6,000/year) bonus for employees who commit to working at least 3 days per week in our offices, plus generous commuter benefits ($315/month towards transit, rideshare, bike rental, or parking at our HQ office in San Francisco)
• Free Gympass subscription — an all-in-one corporate benefit that gives employees the largest selection of gyms, studios, classes, training and wellness apps
• Dog-friendly office
• And much more!