Android Developer, Blink, Blink Mobile Applications

Blink

Blink

Software Engineering, IT
Cambridge, UK
Posted on Oct 26, 2023

DESCRIPTION

As part of the mobile development team, you'll directly contribute to the Blink mobile platform and work to make the customer experience the best it can be. As part of a cross-functional agile team you will:

- Develop and deliver mobile app features, UX flows, and UI components
- Collaborate with product and UX teams to develop and maintain features
- Work to continuously improve code quality, code maintainability and app performance

Key job responsibilities
Blink is looking for a Senior Android Engineer to join our mobile application team.
You will:
- Develop and deliver mobile app features, UX flows, and UI components
- Collaborate with product and UX teams to develop maintainable features
- Work to continuously improve code quality, code maintainability and app performance
- Work along-side other app developers and help raise the mobile app development bar
- Work with modern Android development tools and principles such as Kotlin, MVVM, Coroutines, MVVM, Koin, Room, etc.


A day in the life
As an Android Engineer at Blink, you will:
- Have an opportunity to support and influence key decisions within the mobile platform and promote best coding practices.
- Develop features which are used by millions of customers each day.
- Work closely with other team members to ensure new features are implemented in extensible, maintainable ways.
- Regularly work with backend developers to help support app integrations with backend services.
- Write well tested code using modern architectural principles.

About the team
Blink is a team of builders that proudly develops connected consumer products completely in house using a fast paced and efficient process. Acquired by Amazon, we love seeing Blink on the amazon.com home page, in retail stores, and in the homes of millions of users. We combine our startup culture with the resources and scale of Amazon to create a vibrant, fun, and rewarding place to work.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Cambridge, GBR

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years of Android development experience
- 3+ years of building production software experience
- 3+ years of computer science fundamentals (object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem solving and complexity analysis) experience
- Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence
- 3+ years of experience working with modern Android development tools such as Kotlin, MVVM, Coroutines, MVVM, Koin, Room, etc.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience with cloud message APIs and client server interactions such as REST APIs, socket communication, web sockets. Experience with CI/CD, automated unit testing, and integration testing

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