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Staff Android Engineer

Staff Android Engineer

FaireCanada
30+ days ago
Salary
CA$166,000.00–CA$228,500.00 yearly
Job description

About this role

Our mobile apps are crucial to our vision : Empowering entrepreneurs to chase their dreams. We want to empower entrepreneurs to run their business from their pocket through a world class mobile app.

We care about stunning design, great UX, and good engineering practices we love to write software that is secure, tested, easy to maintain, responsive, and performant. We build minimum viable products, deploy to production weekly, A / B test customer-facing changes, listen to the data, and iterate.

We are looking for a Staff Engineer to help lead our mobile platform team, which powers our build system, core architecture, and the feature infrastructure that enables our product teams to iterate quickly with high quality.

As a Staff Android Engineer, you’ll collaborate with us to :

  • Lay the necessary foundations for infrastructure, developer velocity, team processes, design systems and other elements of the product development process with a long-term perspective.
  • Improve developer velocity and drive the future of our mobile tech stack
  • Help scale the entire mobile engineering team’s processes and systems.
  • Coach and mentor mobile engineers in a fast paced & hyper growth environment.
  • Raise the bar on the quality of our mobile apps through broad testability strategies.
  • Drive our technical strategy around unified architecture and exploration into Kotlin Multi-platform

We're excited about you because you have :

  • 6+ years of Android experience having worked on multiple apps shipped to the app store
  • Experience shipping and maintaining a mobile app over an extended period of time - working with mobile apps at scale or having helped apps scale to millions of users is a plus!
  • A passion for programming alongside strong problem solving and architecture abilities
  • A love for technology, and an insatiable curiosity for new tools to solve real problems
  • A bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Software Engineering or equivalent industry experience
  • Previous experience on a platform team and a passion for scaling systems for a growing organization and user base
  • A high bar for engineering excellence
  • Curiosity to drive engineering impact outside of the Android tech stack

    • Technologies we use and teach :

  • Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Gradle
  • Kotlin Multi-platform
  • Diffable Data Sources, UICollectionViewCompositionalLayout, Combine
  • Protocol Buffers

    • Salary Range

    Canada : the pay range for this role is $166,000-$228,500 per year.

    This role will also be eligible for equity and benefits. Actual base pay will be determined based on permissible factors such as transferable skills, work experience, market demands, and primary work location. The base pay range provided is subject to change and may be modified in the future.

    Faire’s flexible work model aims to meet the needs of our diverse employee community by making work more flexible, connected, and inclusive. Depending on the role and needs of the team, Faire employees have the flexibility to choose how they work–whether that’s mainly in the office, remotely, or a mix of both.

    Roles that list only a country in the location are eligible for fully remote work in that country or in- office work at a Faire office in that country, provided employees are located in the registered country / province / state. Roles with only a city location are eligible for in-office or hybrid office work in that city. Our talent team will work with candidates to determine what locations and roles are eligible for each option.

    Applications for this position will be accepted for a minimum of 30 days from the posting date.

    Why you’ll love working at Faire

  • We are entrepreneurs : Faire is being built for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs. We believe entrepreneurship is a calling and our mission is to empower entrepreneurs to chase their dreams. Every member of our team is taking part in the founding process.
  • We are using technology and data to level the playing field : We are leveraging the power of product innovation and machine learning to connect brands and boutiques from all over the world, building a growing community of more than 350,000 small business owners.
  • We build products our customers love : Everything we do is ultimately in the service of helping our customers grow their business because our goal is to grow the pie - not steal a piece from it. Running a small business is hard work, but using Faire makes it easy.
  • We are curious and resourceful : Inquisitive by default, we explore every possibility, test every assumption, and develop creative solutions to the challenges at hand. We lead with curiosity and data in our decision making, and reason from a first principles mentality.

    • Faire provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.

    Faire is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. To request reasonable accommodation, please fill out our (https : / / bit.ly / faire-form)