Senior Android Engineer

Who we are   

We’re a passionate engineering, platform, and operations team, developing and supporting ground-breaking products. Together, we’ll build for the future, creating more opportunities for wellness businesses around the world to help their customers lead full, healthy lives. We push ourselves and our company to always strive for this higher purpose, recognizing the power in working together toward the same goal. We believe in building a diverse company where everyone feels safe bringing their authentic selves to work. And we believe that the secret to success is our people. Join the team, and let’s see what we can accomplish together!  

Your role 

As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll be a part of Mindbody engineering team, you’ll pursue continuous improvement to help Mindbody achieve its mission: Powering the world’s fitness and wellness businesses and connecting them with more consumers, more effectively, than anyone else.  

You’ll likely spend time working on 

• Be a technical lead throughout the development lifecycle, from scoping, planning, conception, design, implementation, and testing, to documentation, delivery, and maintenance
• Develops software solutions by studying information needs, conferring with users, studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes, investigating problem areas, following the software development lifecycle
• Collaborates with Engineering Managers and Mobile Architects on engineering design and implementation
• Brainstorms with Product Managers and designers to conceptualize and estimate new features
• Collaborates with backend engineers to efficiently build out new API for mobile apps
• Researches and promotes internal best practices and coding conventions to write and execute tests for your own code, including creating comprehensive automated tests
• Contributes to System Architecture documentation
• Develop shared tooling and SDKs for use by multiple teams across the company
• Takes an active interest in mobile application quality across all product lines
• Identifies and pragmatically addresses technical debt
• Requests constructive feedback for designs early in the process
• Communicates successfully across departments with large teams and many personalities
• Provides mentorship for Software Engineers and participates in interview panels to hire new Software Engineers
• Assists in removing obstacles for the team to yield successful sprints
• Monitors health of app releases and responds to any mobile escalations
• Performs peer code reviews to ensure quality of the codebase
• Occasional on-call duty rotation to respond to after-hours mobile incidents
• Updates job knowledge by studying state-of-the-art development tools, programming techniques, and computing equipment; participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations
• All other duties as assigned

About the right team member 

At Mindbody, we value team members who are curious, practical, and-openminded, and who care about our product, their teammates, and their own personal growth. We’re faced with an interesting set of technical challenges, and we believe in giving our engineers the freedom to create solutions based on their unique perspective.  

 Much of our team comes from non-traditional computing backgrounds. In bringing together diverse voices, we’ll build a better product, and a better company. We care less about which languages or frameworks you know, and more that you’re excited to produce high-quality code and be consciously evolving. Our engineers work in cross-functional, collaborative teams focused on impact. We work very closely with our brilliant product team to deliver a world-class user experience, and ultimately to empower our users to create and grow successful businesses.

You’ll thrive in this role with experience in 

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent
• 8+ years of industry experience in developing mobile applications, web and/or large-scale enterprise products
• Strong knowledge of Material Design and Android Architecture components
• Experience with package management and app deployment pipelines
• Deep experience with standard mobile architectures (MVC, MVVM, MVP, etc)
• Ability to effectively apply software design patterns and architectural principles
• Expertise in building complex user interfaces
• Experience with SQL and relational databases
• Skillful at writing effective unit and behavioral tests
• Experience with software development processes (Agile, Scrum, Kanban, etc)
• Familiar with git branching strategies and semantic versioning
• Knowledge of mobile continuous integration best practices and tooling
• Skillful at reviewing new feature impact on an application and recognizing potential risks
• Experience mentoring software engineers on complex technical issues

Technologies you’ll be working with  

While we value experience with these technologies, we’re primarily looking for team members with strong technical skills and the ability to quicky pick up new tools and frameworks 

• Kotlin, Java and Android Studio