Lead Android Software Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

Company Description

Cricut® makes smart cutting machines that work with an easy-to-use app, an ever-growing collection of materials, and crafting essentials to help you design and personalize almost anything custom cards, unique apparel, everyday items, and so much more.

Let’s make.

Overview

We believe everyone is born creative. We’re a diverse tapestry of thinkers, dreamers, givers, DIYers, handi-workers, artisans, and forever and always architects of things.

At Cricut, we place the power of handmade into the hands of all. We give you beautiful, easy-to-master tools so you can make something unique, remarkable, perfect.

We surround you with ideas, community, inspiration, and encouragement to take your creativity further than you ever imagined.

And as a community, we celebrate the exhilarating act of making every single day.

So, make that handcrafted card that feels like a hug. Design a shirt for fun, for family, or for a full-blown business. Craft with a passion or for a purpose.

Make something big and bold, itsy-bitsy, amazingly ambitious, or just plain silly. Whatever you make, just make your heart out.

Because here’s the remarkable truth : When we all make together, we make all things possible.

Let’s make.

Job Description

We are looking for people who have never met a technology challenge they couldn’t resolve. Who add value to everything they do by producing ideas and results that exceed client needs and make for amazing customer experiences.

Kindred business and technology experts, who can do the work and provide thought leadership.

At Cricut, customer experiences are what drive us, game-changing technology solutions are conceived, change is happening and technology is at the very heart of bringing our creative ideas to life.

There’s no shame in being ambitious here; career growth is a priority for us we help one another climb, we don’t climb over one-another.

Clients aren’t just customers, they’re partners. Integrity and a team-driven environment serve as incubators for entrepreneurial minds.

Getting goose bumps? Good. If you’re ready to be an idea engineer with some of the best collaborators in the industry, let’s see where you can put your talents to work.

They promise you a high-energy collaborative environment, a challenging job a

• Provide guidance on implementation and design best practices to other developers
• Produce design artifacts such as class diagrams and sequence diagrams for Android lib features or client solutions.
• Implement product features within a team using best practices to meet product deliverables
• Refactor code to increase operating efficiency and extensibility and / or adapt programs to new requirements.
• Implements reusable unit tests to ensure the integrity of on-going product quality.
• Participate / Lead in Agile sprint planning sessions and provide constructive feedback
• Help the Product Management team with high-level estimation and clarification of technical implementation of features.
• Prepare software packages for deployment that adhere to the defined standard deployment policies.
• Generate product documentation for releases
• Consume REST API by building data models using Protobuf and Swagger
• Maintain, code and test our shared libraries
• Have a direct impact to our company and the newest products we are developing
• Mentor Junior developers throughout the development lifecycle

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years experience designing and implementing enterprise grade software.
• Strong knowledge of Kotlin for Android
• Familiarity with Android 9 (API Level 28) and up required
• Experience in working with scalable Android UI
• A clear understanding of the difference between mobile product libraries, mobile applications and client-specific extensions
• Understanding of distributed multi-tier infrastructure.
• Knowledge of architecture design patterns such as MVVM
• Experience with multithreading, memory management
• Knowledge of Android performance profiling tools and optimization techniques
• Experience in functional testing
• Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle

Soft Skills :

• Easy-going and flexible individual who can integrate and function within a pre-existing team
• Can lead small teams of engineers
• Self-starter can operate with minimal direction
• Excellent oral and written communication skills capable of leading design / architecture & training sessions.
• A creative thinker and experienced problem solver.
• Proven at multi-tasking

Additional Information

What to Do Next :

Please attach your resume including links to your portfolio where applicable. If you want to show your super powers in other ways include that information too.

You can be sure that Cricut® is an employer who values individuality, equality and diversity, so tell us what you’re all about.

If you are a Maker or a DIY enthusiast, whether you think you are a good one or not, we would love to hear about it when you send us your information!

At Cricut®, we celebrate inclusion and diversity. Cricut is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions based on merit.

Cricut prohibits discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual identity, gender identity, marital status, veteran status, nationality, citizenship, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, or any other unlawful consideration.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. Cricut participates in E-Verify.