Android Developer - Build for an audience of 60m+ users
San Francisco, CA
Engineering /
Full-Time /
Keepsafe is transforming how people defend their privacy. Our flagship photo vault reflects our belief that protecting personal pictures, videos, and important documents on your phone should be simple and foolproof.
As identities become increasingly virtual, there’s a growing, urgent need for privacy. Keepsafe has a far-reaching vision for safeguarding people’s privacy today and tomorrow. This year, we’ll develop and launch multiple new products allowing people to save and share their data without sacrificing control.
Keepsafe is a four-year old, profitable, post-series A startup with over 60 million users globally on iOS and Android. Our founders are serial entrepreneurs from Germany who appreciate ambitious and independent thinking, precision, beautiful code, and above all else privacy!
It’s an exciting moment to join the Keepsafe team. We’re headquartered in commuter-friendly SOMA and recently opened an engineering office in Berlin. We’re looking for exceptional engineers to define and build the next generation of our consumer privacy mobile suite.
As an engineer at Keepsafe, you’ll serve millions of people who use our apps daily. You’ll have the opportunity to carry a lot of responsibility and have a direct impact on the company. You’ll work autonomously and design and own a significant part of our codebase. You’ll help the team scale, develop core pieces of infrastructure, and solve hard problems.
Our engineering team is at the forefront of security, smart encryption, key management, data transcoding, secure and fast cloud sync, and back-end custom analytics development for the future. You’ll collaborate directly with our product and design teams and work with your peers to make big decisions about how things get done.
Competitive salary, early equity, full benefits, daily catered lunches, beer on tap, monthly team-building activities, and commuter friendly office in SOMA.
Requirements
- Great software engineering skills: code speaks stronger than degrees
- Experience developing for Android in particular
- Appetite for fast product iteration, shipping high quality apps
- Experience or interest in cryptography and security engineering
- Minimum of 1 year full-time work experience
We will set you up with your ideal development environment to facilitate your best work and least frustration.
To learn more about some of the things we've built, you can read our engineering blog (www.keepsafe.tech). You can also learn more about us here: https://www.getkeepsafe.com/about.html
We are proud to have open sourced some of our work on our Github page. Some selected projects we're proud of are:
We have built a strong team over the past six years. This is due to our continued efforts of finding people with amazing culture fit and great technical talent. Please find a few resources below that give you some deeper insight into how we think about specific topics.
We are also huge believers in OpenSource software and try to give back to the community that has saved us endless hours of work.
Read about some of our technical endeavors (www.keepsafe.tech) and check out our OpenSource projects: www.github.com/keepsafe
Our Recruitment Process
Our interview process consists of several stages, each one allowing us get to know you better, professionally and technically. It is also an opportunity for you to gain a better understanding of our culture and the work we do. We move quickly and go from initial screen to an on-site within a week or less pending availability. If all goes well, we will have an offer by the end of the full day on-site.
