Software Engineer, Android

About the Position

Software Engineer, Android

Join amo's early Android team as a Software Engineer, contributing to unique UI features and platform development in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

As an Android Engineer, your day-to-day will include:

• Feature Development: Being at the forefront of delivering unique and high-quality UI features. Your expertise in low-level APIs, shader creation for dynamic effects, and custom rendering systems will be invaluable.
• Platform Development: Actively participating in creating and enhancing the platform. This includes writing careful abstractions for Media encoding, decoding, and playback; libraries that incorporate performance tracing along with associated internal tooling; and our own components for dealing with Navigation and Deeplinks across apps.
• Roadmap Creation and Ideation: Contributing in the roadmap creation and ideation process. Your experience will be essential in identifying tradeoffs and bringing valuable ideas from both product and engineering perspectives.
• Knowledge Sharing: Staying up-to-date with the latest trends and best practices, attending conferences, engaging in online communities, and sharing your insights internally.
• Owning your scope: Monitoring analytics and managing system crashes. Taking ownership of your scope and proactively addressing issues and triaging bug fixes.

Requirements

• Professional experience in native Android development using Kotlin or Java.
• Good understanding of computer systems fundamentals (Program execution, Linking, Multithreading, Memory Management, Processes, and File Systems).
• Professional experience in low-level languages like C or C++ is a significant advantage.
• Passion and experience building consumer-facing products.
• Experience building SDK’s/Libraries (building for others).

Nice to Have

• Experience with French (not mandatory, but helpful).

We Offer

• On-site work in a beautiful Parisian-style office with high ceilings, balconies, and huge windows.
• Health care (100% coverage).
• Maternity Leave, Paternity Leave, Second Parent Leave (salary maintained at 100%).
• Vacation days: 8-9 weeks (total) per year.
  • 5 weeks of paid time off (by the state);
  • 1-2 additional weeks (RTT, based on our company contract);
  • ~11 bank holidays.
• Two weeks in summer and one week in winter to allow everyone to truly recharge and to avoid prolonged slowdowns.
• Relocation support including help and sponsored visa process, 1 month of Airbnb 100% covered by amo upon arrival, assistance from a trusted relocation agency to find your permanent home, help with French paperwork, and French lessons.

About the Company

Looking for someone to join us as an early member of the Android team. This means participating in all design and product decisions of the early days of a product-centric company. In the initial months, you'll be working closely with the founding team, gradually taking ownership of central components and features. Given our early stage, we're seeking versatile engineers comfortable contributing to various aspects of the company's foundation.