Senior Android Engineer - Connect team

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Bumble is seeking a skilled and passionate Senior Android Engineer to join our Connect teamIn this role, you will help shape and enhance our chat solution, empowering millions of users to form meaningful connections and build relationships. You'll take ownership of technical projects, driving them from initial concept to successful delivery and ongoing improvement.

Your work will have a significant impact on a global community, and you'll have opportunities to share knowledge, experiment with new ideas, and collaborate on innovative solutions. If you thrive on taking initiative, fostering inclusive discussions, and embracing technical challenges, we'd love to have you on our team.

What you'll do

• Hands-on development: analyse product specifications, design implementations, write code and rapidly deliver Android app feature designs
• Contribute technical ideas and suggestions to enhance the direction of the product and the Android team
• Write test cases and work with QA on a weekly release cycle
• Work within an agile team (daily standups, weekly planning meetings)
• Review analytics and performance metrics to draw conclusions and drive change

About You

• Product-focused Android application development experience
• Portfolio of consumer facing high-performance Android applications available in the Marketplace
• Advanced Android SDK / Kotlin skills
• Strong knowledge of Android API capabilities at different levels, framework components and lifecycles
• Good understanding of design patterns & Object Oriented Programming
• Enthusiastic about working and collaborating with cross functional teams.
• Sound computer science foundations: algorithms, data structures, concurrency, threading, and programming languages (Kotlin and Java)
• Motivated and able to work autonomously
• You'll love to write clean, reusable code and have a passion for mobile development inside and outside of the office
• Solid communication skills, team-working capabilities and willingness to share your knowledge with others
• Positive and logical approach together with willingness to learn.
• Attention to detail and a passion for quality
• A desire to work with a fresh, social digital brand