Android Engineer - Kotlin
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As a Senior Android Engineer at idealo, you drive the evolution of our award-winning e-commerce apps. We enable millions of users to do price comparison and good buying decisions on their mobile phone. We are a fully integrated and autonomous team that balances using proven technologies with cutting edge experimentation, delivering best in class user experiences and impact on idealo's mission. We own our code and decide on the technical direction of our products. And we need strong support to grow further., * At idealo you are part of a team of highly motivated Android developers that strive for excellence in product and software development.
- You work closely with product owners, user experience designers, data analysts and an engineering team for our backend for frontend (BFF).
- We work as an agile team where you will be involved in product development from ideation to operating a product at scale.
- You're routinely working with modern technologies and practices on a high quality Kotlin codebase, allowing us to innovate fast and efficiently.
- A refined user interface is important to you, and you work closely with your UX colleagues to make features even better during implementation.
- You apply pragmatic solutions, find the right trade-offs, and seek to reduce complexity to help your team to deliver and increase leverage for the organisation.
Requirements
- You have a deep understanding of Android development and extensive experience working with Kotlin and Kotlin coroutines.
- Experience with concepts like MVVM, Clean Code and SOLID is a must, and you know how to apply software design and architecture patterns.
- Ideally, you are experienced with implementing GraphQL APIs.
- You are passionate about writing readable, reliable, maintainable, and testable code.
- You are an open and communicative team player, curious about solving interesting and sometimes complex problems.
- You are a self-sufficient and well organised engineer, and you can expect the same from the team around you., * You want to further your education? We take your personal development goals seriously and, in addition to our idealo Learning Hub, eLearning offerings (e.g., Udemy), coaching & mediation, we also offer you the opportunity to benefit individually from additional learning and development budget.
About the company
idealo is a Berlin-based internet success story. Founded in 2000, we started with the mission of helping our users to make the best online buying decisions.
Today, we are one of the leading product and price comparison platforms in Europe and one of the largest portals in the German e-commerce market. We achieved this by obtaining more than 2.5 million page impressions per day, 50.000 connected Online-Shops, and over 560 million product offers. With a strong focus on convenience, transparency, and technological expertise, we enable our partners to grow their business on idealo as a high-quality traffic and sales driver.
As a member of our team, you can look forward to working with a large degree of freedom in an international and inspirational environment. We are located in the heart of Berlin but believe that we are happier and can work more effectively when the job fits our individual lives. That's why we offer our employees the freedom to choose their workplace. At idealo, we are convinced that flexibility is fundamental for hybrid working and offer permanent work from anywhere in Germany as well as temporary from abroad.
We offer a unique idealo spirit. Your ideas are the driving force that moves our business forward. Not only our product portfolio is diverse, but also the people who work on it. We want you just as you are – regardless of origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or a degree of disability.