Senior Android Engineer

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!