Position: Lead Android Engineer
Company: Akvelon
Category: Android
Experience required: 5y
English level: intermediate

**Your team's mission:**
The main objectives are to modularize Android apps, improve app performance and increase stability. More specifically, the client has a goal to improve Android cold start time by 20%. Our guys identify the highest value tasks that will help achieve this goal.

**What We’re Working On:**
- Driving new features from end-to-end through prototyping, validation, implementation, launch, and continuous iteration.
- Crafting a modern user experience for accessing content and communities on Reddit.
- Building the technical foundation for future features and experiences.

**What We Are Looking For:**
- Expertise in Java or Kotlin with 8+ years of experience within Android development.
- Sound software engineering fundamentals.
- Experience managing a team of 4-5 people.
- Embracing the challenges of building data intensive, highly responsive, and fault tolerant apps in the constrained environment of a smartphone.
- Willingness to buck trends and learn new ways to build software.
- Passion for developing scalable, well-designed software that improves people’s lives globally.
- Experience building at least one amazing Android app with a team from start to shipment.

**Responsibilities:**
- Build experiences and create the patterns for Reddit’s official Android app that improve our core flows like browsing posts, commenting and creating content.
- Partner across product, design, and engineering teams to innovate and implement sophisticated solutions to complex challenges.
- Build experiences and create the patterns for Reddit’s official Android app that improve our core flows like browsing posts, commenting and creating content.

**What do we offer:**
• Great project from world-known company
• Stable long-term employment
• Personal Development Plan
• High level of team
• High-trust environment: no time-trackers and flexible working hours
• Opportunity to go on international business trips
• Paid vacation, sick-leave
• Subscription to popular educational resources and library with contemporary professional literature
• Official Ukrainian holidays are days off
• Corporate events
• English classes & speaking clubs
• Comfortable working environment