Full-Time Android Engineer
Carsales is hiring a remote Full-Time Android Engineer. The career level for this job opening is Experienced and is accepting Melbourne, Australia based applicants remotely. Read complete job description before applying.
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What you’ll do: The Android Engineer for our Apps Platform team is a engineering role, ensuring that our Android App technical domain and solutions meet both our current and future organisational and customer needs. Working along side our product managers and design system team, you will implement product features across Carsales domain, whilst keeping focus on app performance and speed to market. Our native apps are API driven, it’s built to scale across Carsales and our lifestyle apps.
You will be identifying new patterns and solving them, serving multiple experience teams that integrates seamlessly with our core platform, from a technical and operational perspective.
Your technical leadership will span across our Buy Platform (Web & API) and Design System (TORQ), as well as across our iOS and Android teams. Your leadership will ensure that we collaborate and converge where it makes sense to, ensuring that the right people are involved to make technical decisions in a timely manner.
Our Android apps are built natively in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose. In this role, you will be pivotal in driving a few initiatives - enhancing the implementation of our design system, continuously upgrading our CI pipelines, and driving automation test strategies. You’ll also be empowered to define future opportunities and engage with stakeholders at various levels with clarity and purpose.
You will mentor and coach other app engineers to ensure our team is at the forefront of technical innovation and help to create an environment that retains, nurtures and attracts top apps engineering talent. Assist in defining your team’s vision and roadmap by thoroughly understanding your customers’ needs.
What are we looking for?
- Proven technical engineer of large mobile apps teams in high traffic, complex and fast-paced environments.
- Experience in the build and adoption of app platform capabilities and design systems that enable the delivery of organisational and customer needs at speed and scale.
- A strategic thinker and technical expert in the world of apps, you know your APIs and also what’s happening in the Apple space.
- Have defined and communicated an inspiring technical vision to various stakeholders, taking accountability to deliver towards it.
- Make the complex appear simple, with your strong conceptual understanding and ability to communicate on point.
- Be a humble team player, with proven ability to build relationships and connect people at all levels.