As Senior Software Engineer (Android), you will be joining a cross functional team that will shape the next chapter in Lounge by Zalando customer experience. This role offers a unique opportunity to collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of mobile, web, and backend engineers, and as well as working closely with Product Managers and Product Designers. We'll support your growth and provide opportunities to work with modern technologies.
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You will be part of a cross functional team and play a key role in solution design, planning, development, delivery, operating and improving scalable software solutions for Android application of Lounge by Zalando.
Together with your multidisciplinary team, you contribute to the codebases and you lean on your Android experience and skill set, write robust, testable and maintainable code aiming at very high quality and clean code.
Take an active role in work towards reducing ambiguity, understanding business requirements and translating them into technical solutions and requirements.
Collaborate closely with Product Management and UX Design to refine designs and functional requirements and you create test cases to be verified during development and feature releases.
Proactively suggest and implement improvements while driving the technical design of new features and architectural proposals to ensure scalability, testability, and maintainability.
Participate in code reviews, adhere to best practices sharing and developing your expertise together with your team and you use feedback as an opportunity for growth.
Stay up-to-date with the latest announcements from Google IO, as well as new Android frameworks, tools, and technologies, to ensure development processes remain modern and efficient.
Proactively help in the growth of juniors and peers in your team and beyond.
You have 5+ years of professional Android development experience with strong proficiency in Kotlin, and you are eager to work with new technologies, challenge yourself, and deliver high-quality code.
Proficient in working with RESTful APIs, JSON, and networking, along with expertise in software design patterns and paradigms.
You have made the applications resilient and reliable and you write well structured, readable, and maintainable code that's covered by unit tests.
You have hands-on experience with profiling, debugging, and optimizing Android applications for performance and memory usage.
You have several years of experience working in high performance teams and can independently drive technical discussions and facilitate complex decision making processes.
Positive energy and attitude and you're a team player with an attitude of accountability, knowledge-sharing and self direction.
Zalando provides a range of benefits, here's an overview of what you can expect. Ask your Talent Acquisition Partner to learn more about what we offer.