Position: Senior Android Developer
Company: Remotal
Category: Android
Experience required: 5y
English level: fluent
Published: 2022-03-01T00:00:00+02:00

The Company is a community-driven online resale site for luxury fashion items aiming to promote sustainability.Founded in 2009 it now federates a community of 10 million members in 50 countries across the world. They currently have about 500 employees & is headquartered in Paris, with other offices in Berlin, New York, Hong Kong, and Tourcoing (France),

The Product:
The product is a platform where individuals can put their used luxury and fashion items up for sale and buy from other users, with streamlined process and logistics, as well as stringent third-party quality control.
Main competitive advantages are:
• a very strong buyers and sellers community
• high standards of quality in processing of inventory
• a guided and facilitated Seller experience
• a high-end Buyer experience, at least as good as with new goods reseller websites
• an offer combining fashion and sustainability, and certified by the B-Corp label

The Spirit:
• adaptable with a positive attitude, as things are changing every day!
• open-minded and honest, willing to challenge themselves and challenge others
• problem-solving oriented and always motivated to work with teams to find innovative solutions
• passionate for creating something bigger and better, and really making a difference in how people buy and sell pre-loved items.

The Tech Team:
Spotify-like team structure with Tribes (eg: Operations), subdivised in feature teams called Squads (eg: Warehouse), and transverse chapters (eg: Mobile).
The typical squad is composed of backend developers, mobile developers (iOS, Android), frontend developers, a Product Manager and a QA tester.


The JOB:
As a Senior Android Developer you’ll ensure both technical and technological expertise on our mobile platform. You’ll closely work with our Mobile Experts, Team Leaders, Architects, Operational Team and have a deep work connection with the Product Team.

What you’ll do:
• You’ll build great features with clean code in friendly collaboration.
• You’ll own our mobile technical strategy. Therefore, you’ll acquire a strong knowledge of our platform to keep an excellent performance, quality and security on our Android App.
• You’ll drive the technological evolutions by giving recommendations and inspiring our mobile team members.
• As a privileged and qualitative speaker for both Product and Technical team, you’ll proactively evaluate technical feasibilities, participate to functional projects definition and be able to suggest technical solution to complex situations

This is a long-term placement, where based on your performance you may be offered to take on more responsibilities. Relocation and transfer of contract to the client are also open options after the first 6 months.

Requirements
Required Hard Skills:
• You’ve been actively working as an Android Developer for at least 5 years.
• Great knowledge of Kotlin, latest in Android framework, Jetpack libraries and material design.
• Demonstrate a good knowledge of the following software development best practices: Unit Testing, Clean Code, Refactoring and code reviews.

Required Soft Skills:
• You actively participate in software design, technical architecture and API specification discussions.
• You have a strong business sensitivity and understand the importance of delivering values to the end-users.
• Keeping up to date with advances on Android by evaluating, learning and using the latest.
• You aim for industry best practices while implementing software.
• You do not need to be micromanaged; to accomplish team and company goals, you can wear multiple hats and pick up new technologies and languages.
• Problem solver with great communication skills, a positive attitude, a team spirit and empathy.
• Great experience in an agile organisation is required!


Benefits
Why you should join:
• You will join a very successful business that scales fast, which generates challenges and opportunities.
• The team is truly international, open and diverse.
• The work organization in tech is efficient, with state-of-the art tools, clear definition of roles and QAs integrated in the squads.
• The company has a very inspiring vision which is building more than an ecommerce website
After six months at least of successful collaboration, and if it is something you're interested in, you will be offered administratively and financially sponsored relocation to Paris, Berlin or Tourcoing to physically join the team.

Good to know:
• 20 days of paid holidays per year
• 10 days of paid sick leave per year
• Public holidays in your locale
• Working hours between 9am and 7pm Paris time. At least 1h lunch break. Schedule can be flexible in agreement with the team.