Description

　　The Ring team is looking for a passionate and talented Android Software Development Engineer who has experience building world-class mobile apps. You will be responsible for developing mobile applications that interact seamlessly with our devices and delight our customers.

　　You will join a team that owns some of the most visited and core experiences in the Ring app revolving around summary, highlights and discovery of all the activity across the user’s various Ring devices. With a huge audience and an exciting roadmap, this is a rare opportunity to shape the security experience for millions of users.

　　Our goal is to provide the best possible experience to our customers, building solutions and supporting new products that help Ring on their mission to make neighbourhoods safer.

　　Key job responsibilities

　　Design, develop and maintain our Android mobile applications

　　Work with team members to investigate design approaches, prototype technology and evaluate technical feasibility

　　Lead architecture and design of features, from conception to launch

　　Help to improve engineering processes and tools to increase team effectiveness

　　Be part of an agile development process to deliver high-quality software

　　A day in the life

　　This role provides a unique opportunity to be a key part in shaping the core of Ring's offerings to our customers. You will work across teams to prototype ideas and solve complex problems, and raise the bar of our applications by advocating and driving software best practices, automating tasks and identifying pitfalls. As part of the team, you will continue to learn and become an expert in challenging fields. You will have the opportunity to contribute your creative ideas and energy, working with world-class experts, distributed cloud systems and home security devices.

　　About the team

　　Working on exciting new features and fully owning some of the most visited and core experiences in the Ring app, our team is always looking to learn and innovate. We frequently collaborate with cloud, firmware and other mobile teams to solve problems, come up with solutions and delight our customers. We are data driven, value and promote ownership, working backwards from our customers to bring them an innovative and seamless home security experience.

　　We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

　　Cambridge, GBR

　　Basic Qualifications

　　Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems

　　Experience in professional, non-internship software development

　　Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

　　Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design

　　Proficiency in Computer Science fundamentals such as object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis

　　Android mobile application development experience in Java and Kotlin

　　Experience communicating technical problems to both technical and business audiences verbally and in writing

　　Preferred Qualifications

　　Master's degree in computer science or equivalent

　　Deep understanding of agile principles and exposure to various process implementations

　　Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git

　　Experience with Reactive programming frameworks

　　Experience optimising apps for performance

　　Experience writing testable code and automated tests

　　Experience with deployments to the Play Store

　　Experience with REST architecture for web services

　　Knowledge of professional software engineering practices and best practices for full software development lifecycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing and operations

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