Android Engineer

Job Title: Android Developer Location: Boston, MA Duration: Fulltime Description As an Android engineer, you will contribute directly to the expansion of our mobile capabilities and the delivery of our products via phones and tablets. You will own the code and collaborate directly with product management, design, and API engineering to chart the course of our Android applications. What we are looking for Android developer full time role. • A passionate engineer who is in touch with industry trends and technologies • Working knowledge of the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies • Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle • Experience and comfort working with Java • Familiarity and working knowledge of Android SDK • Good working knowledge of OOP practices and project architecture • Experience building Android apps that interact with remote data via REST-ful APIs • Experience with having published and supported at least one Android app • Experience with implementing designs to support a variety of screen sizes and orientations • Comfort with collaboration, open communication, and working on a team with few functional borders • Comfort with working with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features • Familiarity with unit-testing code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability (familiarity with BDD/TDD is a plus!) • Respect for user experience, design, and application performance • Familiarity with version control systems (we use and love git) • A desire to make a difference by improving people’s health via new social technology • Experience with Ruby on Rails or other MVC web frameworks is a plus What you will do each day • Participate in joint application design sessions • Build new features and functionality for our Android applications using a TDD approach • Brainstorm with the team about new products and opportunities • Collaboratively review code • Pair program when desired to collaborate and transfer knowledge • Facilitate Google Play store staging and delivery • Analyze and tune performance • Troubleshoot and fix bugs