Description

Surprise.com is on a mission to help people make a positive impact on themselves, their teams, and their communities. Our flagship product, Surprise for Teams™, is the world’s first and only SuccessOS™. Surprise for Teams makes it fun and irresistible to perform better, which creates a positive, long-lasting impact on people and their organizations.

We are currently looking for a Senior Engineer, Android to join our development teams in Kyiv (Gulliver) or Lviv (Magnus) and help us continue delivering a world-class experience to our users.

What will you be doing?

• Making our product better, stronger, and faster;
• Working with our backend team to zero in on the APIs you need;
• Working with our design team to implement a world-class UX on our mobile platform;
• Helping our product team to establish what and when we need to ship on mobile;
• Keeping up to date on the latest features available for Android and deciding what can be utilized to make your code wonderful;
• Shipping the best code you can and helping other developers through code review and mentorship.

What we are looking for?

• Strong knowledge of Android development with 5+ years of experience;
• Android development experience in Kotlin;
• Android development experience in Java;
• Experience consuming RESTful APIs with Retrofit2;
• Experience in managing Room databases;
• Knowledge of kotlin dependencies injection framework;
• Experience with kotlin-coroutines;
• Experience with android view models;
• Experience with android live data;
• Experience with navigation component;
• Experience with automated unit and user story testing;
• A collaborative mindset with strong communication ability;
• A creative mind that can help us discover new ways to apply technology to the problems that we are solving.

What skills will come in handy?

• Experience with libgdx;
• A background in Computer Science, or at least an understanding of algorithms;
• Knowledge of how to implement the designs that you and the design team build;
• Google play distribution and app testing;
• Experience building React native apps;
• Experience building complicated custom view and animations;
• Experience in video data managing using Android api or external libraries;
• Experience working within a geographically dispersed team;
• Demonstrated ability to expertly manage conflicting priorities;
• High-bandwidth, high-energy, competitive, and creative individual;
• Driven to outperform; dedicated to self-improvement.

About us

At Surprise.com, we’re committed to hiring builders who are inspired by our team’s guiding principle: to derive a tremendous sense of purpose from the inner quest for excellence itself, being driven from within to make anything we touch to be the best it can be. We take pride in developing deep user understanding, obsess about the details, and go the extra mile to show our users we love them. We are first and foremost customer-driven – engineering, product, and design collaborate as equals to create a phenomenal end-user experience. We’re also home for numerous internal teams building internally facing tools for customer service, finance, and others, to keep the operation afloat.

Benefits

• Work on interesting and challenging projects, while building a pioneering software category;
• Great atmosphere, with the vibe and energy of a high-growth tech company;
• Competitive salaries;
• Option of equity;
• Close collaboration between UA and US team members;
• Ultramodern office in the heart of Lviv (Magnus) and Kyiv (Gulliver);
• Flexible working hours;
• Complimentary dinners (like Pizza Friday!);
• English classes and an immersive English-speaking work environment (we have a lot of native speakers at the office);
• Ability to travel to the US;
• Corporate activities and parties;
• Dedicated wellness area in the office;
• 20 working days of paid vacation;
• 15 days of paid sick leave;
• And, of course, we use Surprise internally!