Mid Android Engineer

Are you interested in languages, education and technology and want to work in one of the world's best EdTech startups? Then join us and be part of an ambitious and talented team that revolutionises how we learn languages.

• Professional Android development experience, with a history of shipping Android apps
• Previous involvement in entire app development lifecycle, from project creation through coding & QA to app store deployment
• Knowledge in unit testing in Android (Mockk would be perfect)
• Good foundation in Android UI principles. You will be working with a UX team, but your suggestions and design ideas will be appreciated and considered
• Understanding of web services and REST APIs
• Good understanding of Android app architecture and use of design patterns
• Strong OO skills, experience with Kotlin with an appreciation for pragmatism and simplicity in code
• Pro-active and eager to take responsibility for their domain by monitoring and flagging issues.
• An instinct for excellent app design and user experience

Busuu is the app that makes learning a language easier for everyone and proves that learning a language must not be done in a classroom. We are the world's largest language learning community with over 100 million users from 190 countries, growing at up to 50,000 new users per day. We make learning a language easy by combining AI-powered courses with instant feedback from our global community of native speakers and live tutoring from qualified teachers across the world. If you are passionate about languages, want to work with smart, creative, energetic people and possess the initiative, confidence and good judgement to make independent decisions every day - then you are probably the perfect addition for our growing team. What does an Android Engineer do at Busuu? As an Android Engineer, you'll be working on our flagship. shipping to over 40 countries throughout the world in over 10 languages, offering our users a huge variety of languages to learn from. You'll think about how users interact with our learning experience, how to help them learn better and faster and then build an experience that everyone can enjoy learning with. You'll be learning fast through different initiatives (guilds, reading clubs, learning together meetings, personal learning budget…), and keeping up with the latest industry standards., We are acutely aware that we are in unprecedented times and like all companies, we need to adapt to this in order to safeguard our Busuu community. In order to do this, we are constantly reviewing the government guidelines and adapting accordingly to accommodate the physical and mental well-being of our employees. In the current global climate, some of our team events are virtual and some of our benefits have been amended. At Busuu we want to ensure that you have access to some great benefits: * Our centrally located offices are well-equipped with free breakfast, plenty of snacks, fresh fruit, and free dinner of your choice if you need to stay late * Busuu offers a great Private Health Insurance scheme * There is a personal training budget just for you, so you can learn more in your field to ensure our employees can continuously grow and progress in their careers * We like to support our teams with their work-life balance so we offer flexible working hours and a hybrid model of working * We offer enhanced maternity and paternity leave * Staying connected as a team is very important to us, so we have lots of social activities for you to join such as team lunches, Friday socials, quarterly team, and company events