Senior Android Engineer
Attentive Mobile
Software Engineering
United States
Posted on Nov 8, 2024
Attentive® is the AI-powered mobile marketing platform transforming the way brands personalize consumer engagement. Attentive enables marketers to craft tailored journeys for every subscriber, driving higher recurring revenue and maximizing campaign performance. Activating real-time data from multiple channels and advanced AI, the platform personalizes content, tone, and timing to deliver 1:1 messages that truly resonate.
With a top-rated customer success team recognized on G2, Attentive partners with marketers to provide strategic guidance and optimize SMS and email campaigns. Trusted by leading global brands like Neiman Marcus, Samsung, Wayfair, and Dyson, Attentive ensures enterprise-grade compliance and deliverability, supporting trillions of interactions across more than 70 industries. To learn more or request a demo, visit www.attentive.com or follow us on LinkedIn, X (formerly Twitter), or Instagram.
Attentive’s growth has been recognized by Deloitte’s Fast 500, Linkedin’s Top Startups and Forbes Cloud 100 all thanks to the hard work from our global employees!
About the Attentive Team
Have you ever received text message marketing from your favorite brand with an incredible offer? Did you know that effective text message marketing is by far the highest ROI marketing channel? And did you know that customers are increasingly preferring to interact with brands through text? That is what we do at Attentive. We help the world’s largest brands interact with their clients at the right time and with the right message. Our platform powers more than 400 million messages per day, approaching 100 billion per year.
We’re building big things! Check out our tech blog here: https://tech.attentive.com/
Who we are
As a Senior Android Engineer at Attentive, you’ll be responsible for laying the foundation of our Android applications, setting the technical direction, and defining best practices for Android development. You’ll collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and backend engineers, to create a seamless mobile experience. This is a unique opportunity to lead a greenfield Android development area, taking ownership of key technical decisions while having a direct impact on how we build and scale our Android capabilities.
What you'll accomplish
- Design, develop, and maintain our Android SDK and native applications from the ground up, ensuring optimal performance, scalability, and user experience
- Lead the Android architecture and define development processes, best practices, and tools that will shape the mobile engineering function
- Collaborate with product, design, and backend teams to conceptualize, build, and launch new features
- Debug and resolve issues, optimize performance, and continuously improve the reliability and efficiency of our Android applications
- Stay current with the latest Android development trends, libraries, and frameworks to ensure our apps remain competitive and innovative
Your expertise
- 5+ years of experience in Android app development, with proven experience launching Android apps from scratch
- Strong proficiency in Kotlin and Java
- Experience with Android frameworks such as Android Jetpack, Retrofit, Dagger, and Coroutines
- Strong understanding of Android design principles and best practices for building intuitive, user-friendly mobile applications
- Experience with RESTful APIs and integrating backend services into mobile apps.
- Familiarity with Android architectural patterns like MVVM and MVP
- Ability to work autonomously and take ownership of the entire Android function, including architecture, testing, and deployment
Our scale
- 8,000 brands powered by Attentive sent over 2.2 billion text messages over Cyber Week 2023 (Black Friday/Cyber Monday) representing a growth of 31% from 2022
- We sent 32 billion SMS messages in 2023, up 32% YoY. That’s an average of 87 million per day
- Our production cluster contains over 18,000 containers which serve 200+ services
- Our streaming services process over 80 billion events per month
What we use
- We use a wide variety of technology and we’re always looking for the best solutions to solve hard problems
- Our backend is Java / Spring Boot microservices, built with Gradle, coupled with things like DynamoDB, Pulsar, AirFlow, Postgres, Planetscale, and Redis, hosted via AWS
- Our frontend is built with React and TypeScript, and uses best practices like GraphQL, Storybook, Radix UI, Vite, esbuild, and Playwright
You'll get competitive perks and benefits, from health & wellness to equity, to help you bring your best self to work.
For US based applicants:
- The US base salary range for this full time position is $160,000 - $210,000 annually + equity + benefits
- Our salary ranges are determined by role, level and location
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Attentive Company Values
Default to Action - Move swiftly and with purpose
Be One Unstoppable Team - Rally as each other’s champions
Champion the Customer - Our success is defined by our customers' success
Act Like an Owner - Take responsibility for Attentive’s success
Learn more about AWAKE, Attentive’s collective of employee resource groups.
If you do not meet all the requirements listed here, we still encourage you to apply! No job description is perfect, and we may also have another opportunity that closely matches your skills and experience.
At Attentive, we know that our Company's strength lies in the diversity of our employees. Attentive is an Equal Opportunity Employer and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds. Our policy is to provide equal employment opportunities for all employees, applicants and covered individuals regardless of protected characteristics. We prioritize and maintain a fair, inclusive and equitable workplace free from discrimination, harassment, and retaliation. Attentive is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities. If you need any assistance or reasonable accommodations, please let your recruiter know.