Senior Software Engineer; Android

Overview

Welcome to TELUS Digital — where innovation drives impact at a global scale. As an award‑winning digital product consultancy and the digital division of TELUS, one of Canada’s largest telecommunications providers, we design and deliver transformative customer experiences through cutting‑edge technology, agile thinking, and a people‑first culture.

With a global team across North America, South America, Central America, Europe, and APAC, we offer end‑to‑end expertise across eight core service areas:
Digital Product Consulting, Digital Marketing Services, Data & AI, Strategy Consulting, Business Operations Modernization, Enterprise Applications, Cloud Engineering, and QA & Test Engineering.

From mobile apps and websites to voice UI, chatbots, AI, customer service, and in‑store solutions, TELUS Digital enables seamless, trusted, and digitally powered experiences that meet customers wherever they are — all backed by the secure infrastructure and scale of our multi‑billion‑dollar parent company.

This Senior Software Engineer role will maintain an in‑office presence in a hybrid capacity (Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays) out of one of our office locations.

TELUS Digital is hiring empathetic, curious developers to join our growing team. We work in a dynamic and fulfilling atmosphere, helping our clients’ ideas come to life by building robust mobile and web applications. Our Android technologies vary by project, so we value flexibility and willingness to learn. Our goal is to build amazing solutions for our clients, and our Mobile experience is a crucial part of how we deliver on that promise.

• Confidently deliver high‑quality software by applying critical thinking to products, requirements, and processes.
• Work closely with clients to influence technical product decisions and business goals.
• Stay up to date with the landscape of software engineering best practices, tools, and frameworks.
• Have professional programming experience — we’re thinking at least 5 years.
• Understand various software architectures and adapt/compose solutions to unique problems with sustainable and reusable solutions.
• Help mentor and coach a project team toward shared goals and outcomes.
• Navigate difficult conversations by providing constructive feedback to teams and clients.
• Identify obstacles to ensure quality, improve user experience, and optimize how we build software.
• Be self‑aware of limitations, yet curious to learn new solutions while being receptive to constructive feedback from teammates.
• Guide your team to understand and work through changing priorities by bringing positive energy.
• Communicate and simplify complex problems to foster understanding across multidisciplinary teams.
• Apply your knowledge and findings at an organizational scale.

• Driven by curiosity and enthusiastic about learning new technologies.
• Motivated by solving problems and finding creative solutions.
• Believe in autonomy and taking initiative.
• Have professional programming experience — we’re thinking at least 5 years.
• Have built and shipped code that is durable, secure, scalable, and always up and running.
• Have a strong understanding of the Android development lifecycle and ecosystem including languages, frameworks, and libraries e.g., Java, Kotlin, Room, Coroutines/Flow, RxJava, Dagger 2, Gradle, Fragments, OkHttp3, Retrofit or Volley.
• Comfortable using IDEs, version control such as Git, and/or command line tools.
• Familiarity with CI/CD (e.g., Jenkins, Circle
  
  CI, Azure, Git Hub Actions) and experience setting up deployment pipelines.
• Frequently use frameworks such as Espresso, JUnit, Mockito/Mockk to write automated tests for your code.
• Can architect robust networking and data modeling layers.
• Have owned the delivery of major features and components.
• Champion programming best practices (SOLID) and are well‑versed in different modular design and component‑based architectural patterns e.g., MVC, MVVM.
• Proactively identify risks and approach them with a solution‑oriented mindset.
• Able to provide recommendations on the best ways to solve a problem for a particular platform.
• Consider big‑picture perspectives…