Senior Android Engineer

Pocket Prep is a leading mobile and web-based learning platform offering efficient and affordable study solutions for professional certifications. We believe that education should be within everyone's reach. Professional certification exams are often a stressful and expensive barrier to career advancement - Pocket Prep strives to prepare our members to pass with confidence.

The engineering team at Pocket Prep works alongside the product and design teams to develop the technical backbone of our applications. As the stewards of our codebases, engineering team members focus on their craft to provide high quality, resilient, and accessible products that help studiers of all walks of life achieve their goals. We strive to continuously improve our processes, coding standards, and patterns both as individual engineers and as a team to ensure that we’re always ready for the next challenge.

Our Android engineers work to maintain and add new features to our native Android Study app. This role will substantially contribute to our Android production codebase and test suite, and will work in tandem with our iOS engineers to produce a consistent experience across platforms. This can involve code review, participating in and leading technical kickoffs, and developing best practices. The role will also collaborate with our design team to implement a consistent and responsive UI that gels with both our product and the native OS look and feel.

The right candidate will be focused not just on writing code, but being a great engineer, problem-solver, and teammate.

• Develop and maintain our Android Study application and test suites

• Work closely with iOS engineers to align our mobile experiences and architectural patterns across platforms

• Collaborate with the design team to implement UX changes and inform them of platform-specific behavior

• Ideate with PMs to flesh out technical requirements, risks, and complexity

• Work with the larger engineering team to develop and iterate on our values, best practices, and code style guidelines

We’re looking for someone who has the following:

Required:

• 6+ years of native Android development experience in Kotlin

• Strong knowledge of the Android platform SDK and Jetpack frameworks

• XML-based layout proficiency

• Experience deploying apps to the Play Store

• JUnit testing proficiency

Preferred:

• Reactive architectural patterns/RxJava proficiency

• Experience building UI with Jetpack Compose

• Kotlin Multiplatform experience

• Familiar with Android accessibility best practices

• Familiar with iOS platform and Swift language, and able to understand and provide feedback on iOS code

And exhibits the following qualities:

• An engineer’s mindset - writing code that will stand the test of time and address the problems at hand, rather than focusing on quick fixes

• A desire to collaborate with the team, knowledge share, and pair program to find optimal solutions and solve complex tasks

• Strong opinions, weakly held - use your expertise to provide input and feedback, while also keeping an open mind to possibilities

• Love for continued learning individually and as a team, as well as making education more accessible for others

You are also excited about our culture:

• Embrace a spirit of improvement and welcome feedback

• Choose curiosity instead of judgment

• Share your opinions and perspectives, and kindly disagree when you see things differently

• Craft is important to you;
  You prefer to do things well instead of rushed

• Love for continued learning individually and as a team, as well as making education more accessible for others

Pocket Prep is a leading mobile and web-based learning platform offering efficient and affordable study solutions for professional certification and licensure. We believe that education should be within everyone’s reach. High-stakes exams are often a stressful and expensive barrier to career advancement - Pocket Prep strives to prepare our members to pass with confidence.

We care about people passing exams because we’ve been there. Co-founders Ken Gillette and Peter Murphy faced expensive, high-stakes tests for career-promoting professional credentials while they were co-workers…