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Sr. Android Engineer
Sr. Android Engineer-May 2024
Philadelphia
May 2, 2025
ABOUT COMCAST
Comcast Corporation is a global media and technology company.
10,000+ employees
Media, Telecom
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About Sr. Android Engineer

  Make your mark at Comcast -- a Fortune 30 global media and technology company. From the connectivity and platforms we provide, to the content and experiences we create, we reach hundreds of millions of customers, viewers, and guests worldwide. Become part of our award-winning technology team that turns big ideas into cutting-edge products, platforms, and solutions that our customers love. We create space to innovate, and we recognize, reward, and invest in your ideas, while ensuring you can proudly bring your authentic self to the workplace. Join us. You’ll do the best work of your career right here at Comcast. (In most cases, Comcast prefers to have employees on-site collaborating unless the team has been designated as virtual due to the nature of their work. If a position is listed with both office locations and virtual offerings, Comcast may be willing to consider candidates who live greater than 100 miles from the office for the remote option.)

  Job Summary

  In this role you will collaborate with other developers, designers, testers, and business managers to build features and core components of the consolidated Xfinity app. You must be able to pick up new technologies quickly, be a strong team player, and rapidly adapt to changing business and customer demands. You will be a part of Online Peace of Mind (OPOM), a full stack stream team with iOS, Android, Platform and QA engineers whose focus is developing features used within the Xfinity app. These features are used by Comcast and syndicated partners (Shaw, Cox, etc.) customers as well. The ideal candidate will have significant experience building native Android applications that rely on multiple web services, asynchronous data messaging, and applications that operate at scale (thousands to millions of users).

  Job Description

  Our team

  OPOM owns and manages two important segments of the Xfinity app:

  Digital Security -This feature takes care of our customers in terms of security and safety while connected to Xfinity home network by applying safe browsing, preventing multiple threats, malwares etc. and when they are outside the home and connected to an unsecured network (such as café, airport etc.) by creating a VPN tunnel, so people can browse the internet worry-free with peace ofmind.

  Family Settings – This is one of the heavily used features in the Xfinity app where users can create multiple profiles in the app to associate with their family members, manage their connected devices, add parental controls for younger members of the family, implement downtime schedule for kids tolimit screen time, daily usage for the family members, and many more.

  Requirements

  6+ years of professional software engineering experience

  3+ years professional experience in developing Kotlin/Android native client applications

  1+ years as a technical lead of at least 3 other developers (technical, not people management), for a large-scale consumer facing application with at least 100K app downloads on the Play Store

  Experience

  Experience building or consuming RESTful web services

  Fundamental understanding of the HTTP protocol and caching strategies

  Experience driving the adoption of software engineering best practices within your team

  Experience working with an app that integrates with several internal mobile libraries

  Experience with multiple specific Android technologies/libraries; Kotlin, Coroutines, Dagger, MVVM, Espresso tests

  Experience leading software projects with source control systems like GitHub

  Experience maintaining Continuous Integration and Deployment pipelines or workflows

  Leadership

  Ability to effectively communicate technical challenges and solutions

  Ability to solve ambiguous or undefined problems

  Technical leadership throughout the design, development, testing and deployment processes of core

  Android libraries and guidance with regards to practices, procedures and techniques

  Presentation and advocating for architectural, design, and technical choices to internal and external audiences

  Serving as a coach and mentor for junior- and mid-level Software Development Engineers

  Collaboration

  Eagerness for learning and adapting to new technologies

  A strong sense of ownership and responsibility for code quality that follows best practices

  Collaboration with project stakeholders to identify product and technical requirements, conducting analysis to resolve integration needs

  Additional Preferred Skills

  Experience working with VPN, WiFi and LTE.

  Experience with multiple specific Android technologies/libraries; Localization, Location, GPS, Bluetooth etc.

  DevOps Native App build experience (Ansible, CocoaPods, Jenkins, Fastlane, XCUITests)

  Experience working with OpenAPI Specifications

  Experience working with Redux

  How we work

  Although we provide some flexibility, you will be required to be in the Philadelphia HQ office 4 days of the week (Note – You are obligated to adhere the RTO policy set and communicate by Comcast).

  We follow the squads and guilds engineering model for developing mobile apps at scale. Our native

  Android & iOS developers work closely with each other across multiple squads, following agreed upon design patterns, reviewing pull requests, and learning and growing together

  Employees at all levels are expected to:

  Understand our Operating Principles; make them the guidelines for how you do your job.

  Own the customer experience - think and act in ways that put our customers first, give them seamless digital options at every touchpoint, and make them promoters of our products and services.

  Know your stuff - be enthusiastic learners, users and advocates of our game-changing technology, products and services, especially our digital tools and experiences.

  Win as a team - make big things happen by working together and being open to new ideas.

  Be an active part of the Net Promoter System - a way of working that brings more employee and customer feedback into the company - by joining huddles, making call backs and helping us elevate opportunities to do better for our customers.

  Drive results and growth.

  Respect and promote inclusion & diversity.

  Do what's right for each other, our customers, investors and our communities.

  Disclaimer:

  This information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by

  employees in this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory

  of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications.

  Job Specifications:

  Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or Computer Science or equivalent

  Generally, requires 4-10 years related experience

  Comcast is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

  Education

  Bachelor's Degree

  While possessing the stated degree is preferred, Comcast also may consider applicants who hold some combination of coursework and experience, or who have extensive related professional experience.

  Relevant Work Experience

  7-10 Years

  Base pay is one part of the Total Rewards that Comcast provides to compensate and recognize employees for their work. Most sales positions are eligible for a Commission under the terms of an applicable plan, while most non-sales positions are eligible for a Bonus. Additionally, Comcast provides best-in-class Benefits. We believe that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most, and should help you care for those who matter most. That’s why we provide an array of options, expert guidance and always-on tools, that are personalized to meet the needs of your reality – to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life. Please visit the compensation and benefits summary (https://jobs.comcast.com/life-at-comcast/benefits) on our careers site for more details.

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