Senior Android Engineer

Job Description

At WHOOP, we’re on a mission to unlock human performance. WHOOP empowers its members to perform at a higher level through a deeper understanding of their bodies and daily lives.

Senior Android Engineer (Boston, MA 02215): The Senior Android Engineer will be involved in the planning, design, development, validation, and maintenance of various features of the WHOOP application. The WHOOP application continuously loads and processes streaming data from our proprietary Bluetooth peripheral (WHOOP Strap) and presents the data after processing to the user in a meaningful and impactful way. Since this happens all day, the application is responsible for transporting large amounts of data between the strap and the backend server. The application requires complex views, visualizations, interfaces, and interactions to give the user insights into the data in near-real time. The combination of these requirements presents a set of challenges unique to the WHOOP system that the Senior Android Engineer will be responsible for solving. Specific duties and responsibilities will include: Developing new WHOOP mobile software requirements and features in Java and Kotlin; Fixing known software bugs and errors and architecting the codebase in accordance with the Android Design Guidelines; Working cross-functionally with WHOOP Analytics, Hardware, Signal Processing, and Product Managers  to devise solutions to challenges across the WHOOP system; Applying a solid understanding of local storage solutions in order to generate models for cached entities; Writing and maintaining automated tests including both Unit and UI tests; Documenting new features and architecture; Grooming and ramp-up of other mobile developers while helping the backend team design data contracts; Analyzing and monitoring user metrics and feedback to determine the crash rate or potential bugs and to improve engagement; Driving cross-team projects to completion while working with other Android, backend iOS engineers and embedded engineers; Self organize using productivity tools such as Jira, Confluence, and Github and communicating effectively with immediate and external team members; Creating new service calls and callbacks to send and/or fetch data through backend endpoints; Utilizing Android Design Guidelines to code and display custom views; Executing release process including getting the app built, managing build variants, signing, publishing, and testing through Firebase, and submitting to the Android Play Store; and Organizing and preparing code using Github feature, develop, and master branches. Required Education/Experience: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or a closely related field, and 6 years of Android Development experience. Alternate Education/Experience: Employer will also accept a Master’s degree in  Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or a closely related field, and 4 years of Android Development experience. Required Skills: Qualifying experience, which may have been gained concurrently, must include the following: 4 years of experience in the use of Android SDK to build, test and debug custom Android applications, UIs, and controls with an eye for best practices; 3 years of development/programming experience with Java and Kotlin; 2 years of experience in the following: GIT, developing code to communicate with a RESTful backend, and UI/UX and Design Patterns. Qualified candidates for consideration will be expected to have sound knowledge and understanding in the application of the following: Object-oriented programming, algorithms, and data structures; OS level interfaces (Android 8 and newer); Leveraging MVVM with CLEAN architecture; Android Jetpack library and coroutines. Full-time position. $172,744-$210,000/year. EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER. Visit our website for a summary of benefits: www.whoop.com/us/en/careers/. 

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This role is based in the WHOOP office located in Boston, MA. The successful candidate must be prepared to relocate if necessary to work out of the Boston, MA office. 

WHOOP is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-verify to determine employment eligibility.

Please send resumes for this Whoop, Inc. position to Human Resources at [email protected].