Senior Android Developer - Mobile Platform

theScore, a wholly-owned subsidiary of PENN Entertainment , empowers millions of sports fans through its digital media and sports betting products.

Its media app 'theScore' is one of the most popular in North America, delivering fans highly personalized live scores, news, stats, and betting information from their favorite teams, leagues, and players.

theScore's sports betting app 'theScore Bet Sportsbook & Casino' delivers an immersive and holistic mobile sports betting and iCasino experience.

theScore Bet is currently live in the Company's home province of Ontario. theScore also creates and distributes innovative digital content through its web, social and esports platforms.

About the Role & Team

As part of the theScore team, you will be working with a team of smart, friendly, and dedicated Engineers, Product Managers and Designers determined to deliver some of the best apps the market has to offer.

We want you to be challenged and to get the full experience of what it's like to work at theScore!

The mobile experience is essential at theScore. The Mobile Platform team provides the foundation for our mobile clients and enables our mobile teams to build and deliver features faster and with high quality.

This team is responsible for the overall developer experience on both iOS and Android as we strive to leverage the latest capabilities of each platform.

We embrace collaboration to drive new architecture and improve the Android community at theScore. The Mobile Platform team uses creativity and innovation to build tools, patterns and infrastructure that accelerate and delight our mobile developers.

If you are passionate about Android development and enjoy making mobile development faster, efficient and delightful, we'd love to hear from you!

About the Work

As a key member of our Mobile Platform team you will :

• Work with the product team to design, architect, and ship our amazing applications.
• Implement polished user interfaces with the help of our design team.
• Collaborate with Android developers to improve the development experience.
• Improve our code through refactoring and applying modern design patterns.
• Work with other engineers through technical collaboration, discussion, and code review.
• Create efficiencies by building custom and innovative mobile tooling.
• Maintain and enhance the mobile CI / CD pipeline and tooling.
• Solve difficult problems related to large data sets and responsive UIs.
• Help our QA team to automate testing and continuous integration.
• Keep up to date with the latest advances in Android development.
• Other duties as required.

About You

• 4+ years experience with Kotlin (our apps are 100% Kotlin)
• 5+ years experience in commercial Native Android development
• Experience writing unit tests (jUnit, Mockito, Robolectric)
• Experience developing pixel-perfect user interfaces.
• Experience creating custom UI elements and creating a rich, interactive UX
• Experience working with JetPack Components.
• Experience with dependency injection frameworks (Koin, Dagger, Hilt)
• Solid understanding of modern software architectures (MVVM)
• Knowledge of mobile network communication (okHttp, retrofit, Apollo GraphQL)
• Experience integrating APIs and back-end services with mobile applications.
• Highly proficient with profiling, troubleshooting and optimizing app performance
• A demonstrated ability in delivering clean, organized, testable, and highly performant code.
• Experience working with Git.
• Experience working with large native code bases with significant complexity.
• Solid knowledge of object-oriented design, software development principles, and design patterns.
• Solid knowledge of concurrency best practices and pitfalls.
• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, and / or equivalent experience.
• A passion for sports and / or gaming is considered an asset.
• Desired Skills : Git, AndroidX, Android Architecture Components, Kotlin, Coroutines, Dependency Injections(Koin), JUnit, Robolectric, MVVM, retrofit2, OkHttp, GraphQL

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation package.
• Fun, relaxed work environment.
• Education and conference reimbursements.
• Parental leave top up.
• Opportunities for career progression and mentoring others.

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theScore is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability or age.