Android Developer

Kogan.com is a pioneer of Australian eCommerce. We are a dynamic and rapidly growing business. Our team believes in using & building technology to improve the online shopping experience for our customers. We are pragmatic, intelligent, fast paced and driven by seeing our software shipped to production daily.

The Mobile Apps team you will be joining is a core part of our digital product and technology team at Kogan.com. Our team is fast-paced, independent, ambitious and have end to end ownership of the Kogan.com site, the Android native application, and Kogan Shopping Android native application.

What you'll need:

• Be proficient in Mobile app development in Android and have a strong understanding of mobile application architectures and software design patterns.
• Want to be involved in the whole Software Development Lifecycle - from idea generation to monitoring the performance of your changes in production.
• Pride yourself in building high quality software whilst also being pragmatic and highly accountable to your work.
• Love working on the user experience of the application - building pleasing experiences solving complex workflows - viewing the feedback on the Google Store regularly!
• Have at least 1 year of experience in working in an Agile, Lean, Scrum, Kanban team (pick your flavour!)
• A person who can Get Things Done - we love building software and shipping regularly so our customers are using it!
• Coach and mentor junior engineers on best practices and ways of working.

What you'll do:

• Hands-on coding on the product, delivery of new features and functionality, and providing support to bugs.
• Championing software engineering principles to deliver a better experience for our users and an engaging technology-led engineering environment.
• Design architectures and build components that deliver fast, smooth experiences to users across the world.
• Work cross-functionally and cross-team to execute on technical and business strategy and build experiences that our users will love.
• Contribute to the full development cycle: technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch. You’ll be reviewing code and design docs, giving feedback on product specs and mocks.
• Continuously learn and improve your technical and non-technical abilities.

Benefits:

• Your role has a lot of autonomy and little red tape. You’ll be empowered to achieve positive outcomes and your work will have a material and visible impact on an already well functioning and established team.
• You’ll ride the online retail boom with us and be part of a company that are pioneers in the e-commerce space.
• Hack days that give you the opportunity to innovate and get your creative juices flowing.
• Choice of device (Mac/Lunix).
• A range of employee benefits like Kogan First, Kogan discounts, health and wellness program, time to invest in learning and development, monthly lunches and loads more!