Senior Android Engineer

As a Senior Android Engineer at idealo, you will drive the evolution of our award-winning e-commerce app, enabling millions of users to compare prices and make informed purchasing decisions on their mobile phones. You will be part of a fully integrated and autonomous team that balances proven technologies with cutting-edge experimentation to deliver best-in-class user experiences and contribute to idealo’s mission. You will own your code and decide on the technical direction of our products, working closely with product owners, UX designers, data analysts, QA, and a backend for frontend team. The role involves working with modern technologies and practices on a high-quality Kotlin codebase, refining user interfaces with UX colleagues, refactoring legacy code, and removing technical debt. You will apply pragmatic solutions, find the right trade-offs, reduce complexity, and demonstrate a strong command of software testing principles.

Must Have

• Deep understanding of Android development
• Extensive experience with Kotlin
• Experience with MVVM, Clean Code, SOLID
• Knowledge of software design and architecture patterns
• Profound knowledge of Android SDK and architecture components
• Experience with Dagger 2, Coroutines, and Flow
• Commitment to producing readable, reliable, maintainable, and testable code
• Strong command of software testing principles

Good to Have

• Experience with Jetpack Compose
• Experience implementing GraphQL APIs

As a Senior Android Engineer at idealo, you drive the evolution of our award-winning e-commerce app. We enable millions of users to make price comparisons and good buying decisions on their mobile phones. We are a fully integrated and autonomous team that

balances using proven technologies with cutting-edge experimentation, delivering best-in-class user experiences and impact on idealo’s mission. We own our code and decide on the technical direction of our products. And we need strong support to grow further.

Are you passionate about this challenge? If yes, we’re looking forward to getting to know you.

About your new role

• At idealo you are part of a team of highly motivated Android developers who strive for excellence in product and software development.

• You work closely with product owners, user experience designers, data analysts, the QA and an engineering team for our backend for frontend (BFF).

• We work as an agile team where you will be involved in product development from ideation to operating a product at scale.

• You’re routinely working with modern technologies and practices on a high quality Kotlin codebase, allowing us to innovate fast and efficiently.

• A refined user interface is important to you, and you work closely with your UX colleagues to make features even better during implementation.

• You don't shy away from refactoring legacy code and from removing tech debt, making the existing features ready for the future.

• You apply pragmatic solutions, find the right trade-offs, and seek to reduce complexity to help your team to deliver and increase leverage for the organisation.

• You should have a strong command of software testing principles and understand the benefits of writing clean, effective tests that ensure code quality and reliability.

Skills & Requirements

• You have a deep understanding of Android development and extensive experience working with Kotlin.

• Experience with concepts like MVVM, Clean Code and SOLID is a must, and you know how to apply software design and architecture patterns.

• Ideally, you are experienced with using Jetpack Compose and implementing GraphQL APIs.

• You have profound knowledge of the Android SDK and architecture components (ViewModel, Navigation, Room etc.) as well as dependency injection (Dagger 2),Coroutines and Flow.

• You demonstrate a deep commitment to producing code that is readable, reliable, maintainable, and testable code.

• You are an open and communicative team player, curious about solving interesting and sometimes complex problems.

• You are a self-sufficient and well-organized engineer, and you can expect the same from the surrounding team.

You don't tick all the boxes? Don't worry, we are looking for employees who convince us with their personality and are motivated to go on full power with their team!