Senior Software Engineer - Android

Job Description

Job Description:

Our mission is to redefine the home experience through intelligently designed products and services delivered to every home by people who care.

Who Are We:
• Vivint Smart Home is a leading smart home company in North America. Vivint delivers an integrated smart home system with in-home consultation, professional installation and support delivered by its Smart Home Pros, as well as 24-7 customer care and monitoring. Dedicated to redefining the home experience with intelligent products and services, Vivint serves more than 1.5 million customers throughout the U.S. and Canada. Vivint is on the Forbes 2018 list of "America's Best Employers, as well as the Forbes 2019 list of "America's Best Employers for Diversity." The company is the largest tech employer in Utah, a certified Great Place to Work, and one of Fast Company's World's 50 Most Innovative Companies for 2017. For more information, visit www.vivint.com.

The Role:

The Smart Home Ecosystem team within the Vivint Innovation Center is looking for a Senior Software Engineer focused on Android experiences in support of our world-class smart home solutions. We are looking to grow our team of exceptional engineers with more of the best talent we can find. Join us and use your passion for engineering cool solutions to create the world's best smart home experience.

What you will do:

• Collaborate closely with software engineers representing other disciplines (like backend and embedded software) to build amazing experiences from top to bottom.
• Leverage your technical expertise and interpersonal skills to help the team make great implementation decisions together, including active participation in code reviews and other software lifecycle activities
• Work in a fast-paced, self-directed, agile environment
• Research and evaluate new technologies and tools
• Contribute to new feature development, maintenance, and archictectural activities
• Actively participate in the Android guild with fellow engineers to develop better organization-wide development practices and solve hard problems
• Participate in a quarterly "Innovation Week" and work on innovative projects of your choice
• Put smart home products in your own home and experience your work product first hand

Who you will work with:

You will be a central part of a cross-functional delivery team focused on building customer experiences that integrate smart devices and services into their homes and lifestyles including lighting, thermostats and comfort systems, garage doors, door locks, and more. You will work closely with product management, program management, QA, UX designers and others. The position resides within the Smart Home Ecosystem business unit. The S.H.E. team is aligned in priorities and goals, and strong collaboration and employee satisfaction is a hallmark of our efforts. We succeed and fail together. You will find team members to be incredibly bright, driven, helpful, and supportive.

What we're looking for:

• Kotlin and/or Java and Android Studio
• Android SDK and tools, including Jetpack
• RESTful services
• Dependency injection
• Bug Tracking and Source control (JIRA, Bitbucket, Git)
• Common software architectural practices and principles (MVC, MVP, MVVM, Clean, SOLID)
• Refactoring and Unit Testing
• 5+ years relevant work experience
• B.S. in Computer Science or additional equivalent work experience.

Skills that are highly desired, but you can learn them on the job:

• Agile development processes (Scrum/Scrumban)
• Mentoring fellow mobile engineers
• Driving mobile architectural changes within an organization
• IoT products and services (Security, home automation)
• iOS development frameworks and tools

WORKING CONDITIONS:

This job operates in a professional office environment.

SAFETY:

Vivint enforces a safety culture whereby all employees have the responsibility for continuously developing and maintaining a safe working environment. Each new employee is responsible for completing all training requirements. Additionally, the employee must accept they have responsibility for maintaining the safety of themselves, their co-workers, and the public. Employee must adhere to all written and verbal instructions, promptly report and correct all hazards or unsafe conditions, question non-standard operations or unmitigated hazards, and provide feedback to management on all safety issues.
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