Senior Android Engineer
About Raise
We’re Raise, a leading retail payments company and the world’s largest gift card marketplace, that connects consumers to buy discount gift cards or sell their unwanted cards for cash. We’re partnered with over 400 national brands, offering retailers a new form of digital payment, while incentivizing consumers to make their money worth more.
Since our launch in 2013, we’ve saved millions of consumers more than $140 million! and have received $147 million in funding from investors including Accel, PayPal, Bessemer Venture Partners and New Enterprise Associates. Raise is headquartered in Chicago with an office in New York.
About the Position
As a Senior Android Engineer, you will aim to enhance the Raise app across several, meaningful updates rather than all at once. At Raise, we work carefully but iterate quickly, and we like to spend time choosing the right tools for the job. We value on-the-job learning and skills development, so while working knowledge of ReactiveJava/RxJava/MVVM is a plus, it’s not required—we’re happy to help you expand your skillset.
When it comes to work product, the ideal candidate prioritizes user needs over the technical feasibility of implementing them and appreciates a meticulous attention to detail when it comes to designing an app’s look and feel. You know how to prioritize considerations like performance and accessibility. Most of all, you care about people and making their lives better through your work.
Responsibilities
- Partner with mobile engineers, designers, product managers, researchers, and data scientists to develop highly functional and elegantly delightful experiences that enrich the lives of Raise members
- Write maintainable code efficiently within an environment that emphasizes thoughtful design, continuous integration and rapid deployment
- Break down daunting problems into manageable pieces and efficiently complete tasks with minimal supervision
- Research industry trends and best practices
Skills & Qualifications
- You’re curious—you’ve developed a customer-facing mobile app as part of a team before and perhaps you’ve released a few apps of your own
- Experience working with the Android SDK required; RxJava and MVVM a plus
- Experience with automated continuous integration/deployment and Google Play Store distribution
- Experience implementing Android Pay and/or Samsung Pay via SDKs such as Stripe or Braintree
- Experience parsing JSON APIs into secure local storage, such as with Realm
- Experience implementing material design across a variety of Android devices
- Familiarity with Firebase Cloud Messaging and Android API levels 19 and above
- High attention to detail and constructive attitude in peer code reviews and mentorship
- Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or comparable experience
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package including health, dental, vision, 401(K) with match that is 100% vested from day one, company paid short term and long-term disability and life insurance
- Flexible Paid Time Off Policy
- Raise Gives Back, paid time off for volunteering
- Pre-tax commuter program
- 16 weeks paid maternity leave
- Paid parental leave
- Credits for employees
- Company provided snacks, coffee and soda
- Voluntary benefits like Pet Insurance and Identity Protection
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