Senior Android Engineer
Texas
Engineering – Engineering /
Full Time /
Hybrid
Favor’s mission is ‘Anything Delivered’. Our engineers make high-touch logistics happen. The Favor technology platform is the engine behind the business enabling millions of Favors. Our technology efficiently manages the real-time assignment of Runners to Favors, facilitates communication between customers, Runners, and support, keeps thousands of customer and Runner mobile applications in sync, and more.
Do you get a thrill when you make an impact on hundreds of thousands of users? Do you want to work for a purpose and value driven company in a high growth environment? Our engineers create the tools and applications necessary to connect our customers, Runners, merchants, and support teams. As a Senior Android Engineer at Favor, you will be responsible for all phases of development, testing, and deployment of our native Android applications. You will work closely with our product and operations teams to understand customer needs, build simple solutions to complex problems, and deliver delightful experiences to all our users.
What You'll Do
- Assist in research and fact finding to develop or modify applications
- Participate in the planning and execution of development projects
- Partner with cross-functional technology teams to integrate solutions
- Fix bugs and perform updates to the code base while working closely with team members across Product, Design, and Engineering teams
Skills You Have
- A relevant degree or comparable formal training, certification, or work experience
- 4+ years of software engineering experience
- Ability to design and build technical solutions without direct oversight
- Knowledge of coding patterns and their applicable uses to write performant, testable code
- Experience with JUnit and mocking frameworks like Mockito and MockK
- Experience building with MVVM or similar architectural patterns
- Developing with scalability and maintainability is at the core of how you work
- You know how to build with and around the constraints of a large code base and take steps to improve it as you add to it
- You know how to work in a multidisciplinary team and how to get others onboard with your ideas. You’re also supportive of others’ ideas, even if you don’t agree.
- You have some experience with the latest libraries and frameworks (Coroutines, Room, and Compose) and also some older technologies (such as Rxjava)
- Experience in a high-growth startup is a plus
Who You Are
- You appreciate simple design
- You love to write clean, well-tested code (test-first or test driven development approaches are a plus)
- You enjoy working with other engineers in a collaborative and iterative environment
- You communicate well with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- You likes mentoring junior engineers and helps organize squad members around project goals
