Senior Android Applications Engineer
Location: Cambridge, MA or Remote
12 Month contract with option to extend
Apply directly to creposa@syrinx.com

U.S. Citizens and those authorized to work in the U.S. are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor at this time. No Corp to Corp.
 
We are looking for a strong android development expert who could apply their abilities to make a big difference in our travel platform experience.  The job would combine the best of a small startup team within a well funded respected company with the resources required to get the job done.
 
Key Responsibilities

• Develop native Android applications and Android SDKs
• Integrate applications with connected products and with cloud services
• Scope, architect, and develop new products and solutions
• Architect and support existing products and solutions

 
Basic Qualifications

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science or a related technical field
• 3+ years of software experience in cross-platform mobile application design and development
• Effective communication skills at building relationships across organizations in verbal and written form, since you will be responsible for developing and documenting the mobile experience to technical teams and stakeholders
• Strong Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design and data structures, as well as process-oriented problem-solving skills
• Strong team player and ability to work without much direction when needed
• Excellent Kotlin and Java coding ability
• Intimate experience with the Android API, e.g.: activities, fragments, services, content providers.
• Experience using non-Google libraries, e.g. OkHttp, Dagger 2, RxJava or other open source libraries
• Experience writing multi-threaded/asynchronous code; solid understanding of process and thread model in Android applications
• Good Understanding of Reactive/RX Patterns and data driven apps
• Experience with cross device display and performance optimization
• Code and process examples of past work required

 
Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to analyze performance of applications using Android SDK tools, and to act upon analysis to improve performance
• Solid understanding on good UI/UE practices on mobile platforms
• Experience with Agile development process
• Comfortable using GitHub source control
• Experience building and animating custom UI components
• Familiarity with cloud development environments, including API design and integration
• Experience using web services; understanding of JSON, REST, and WebSockets
• Familiarity with Mobile App security and secure communication
• Experience with C/C++ development and integrating with JNI
• Understanding of unit testing
• Some experience with Bluetooth or BLE