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Senior Android Engineer at Orro - Austin, TX, United States / Remote (United States)

Job Description

About Orro

Orro's vision is to create a unified Smart Home experience by providing a unique set of Software products on top of our custom hardware products. The Smart Home should make our lives easier, not make simple tasks more complex. We delight our customers with lighting experiences not available on any other products today. Our suite of on-board sensors are used determine room occupancy and automatically adjust the lights based on occupancy, light level and time of day to name a few. Our hardware capabilities also enables us to interact with other Smart Home products from a unified interface in your wall, from our mobile apps or from your favorite voice assistant.

We are a Product and Engineering company first, We design all our hardware and software in-house and take tremendous pride in the work we do.

About this Role

You would become an integral part of our small engineering team. Our team not only advocates for good development and architecture principles, but also plays a pivotal role in the direction of the product. The primary goal of the team is to efficiently deliver new products our our customers. Every member of our team has an opportunity to drive features from feature ideation to design and architecture to implementation to automated and manual testing to release.

Our hardware is running a custom version of Android on it which is the primary focus for this role. You will also be able contribute to our mobile application and Kotlin Multiplatform SDK used by all of our clients. There is also opportunity to expand your horizons beyond Kotlin/JVM projects including our backend services and web applications.

This opportunity is available to any qualified candidate in the contiguous United States, but residing in the Austin, TX or SF Bay Area is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Define and advocate for best design and Android development principles
• Implement new features and maintain existing features across our tech stack with a focus on our Switch Application
• Lead new features through our full development lifecycle process
• Advocate for best testing practices including unit testing and integration testing

Basic Qualifications

• Android Application development experience with a focus on Kotlin
• Experience with some common tools and library used in Android development
• Ability to gather consensus around technical decisions and driving forward these decisions as architectural patterns evolve
• Ability to communicate complex technical problems to other technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience developing good application designs and unit testing suites

Bonus Points

• Passion for Smart Home products
• Experience with developing Android Applications on custom hardware
• Experience with dependency injection or service locator frameworks such as Dagger or Koin
• Experience with interfacing with REST API's
• Experience with PubSub architecture and technologies such as MQTT or WebSocket
• Experience with Functional Programming libraries such as RxJava or Coroutine Flows
• Experience with designing and implementing MVVM or MVP applications
• Experience with application CI/CD
• iOS development in Swift
• Node and JS web application development
• Python services development

Interview Process

We understand that interview processes can be stressful and overly time consuming. We do our best to ease the stress as much as possible and are respectful with your time. The full process is as follows:

1. Initial 30 minute call with member of the Software Engineering Team.

2. 1 Hour tech interview with 2 members of the Software Engineering Team.

3. Optional 1 hour Product and Business overview.

4. "On-Site" interview with 2 sessions taking no more than 3 hours total.

5. 30 minute offer review

You will have opportunity to ask any questions you may have pertaining to our team, tech, business and benefits throughout the entire process.

Perks

• Fully remote supported, flexible office time otherwise

• Full health, dental, vision and disability insurance available

• Flexible time policy, we want you to be at your best when here and value recharging time as you need it

• Employer provided 401K plan