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Android Engineer (7+ years of experience)
Engineering
on site: New York City
Salary range $160,000 - $210,000
added Sat Oct 14, 2023
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** Please note that all of our roles will require you to be in-person at our NYC HQ (located in Soho) **

responsibilities:

  • As Android Engineer #1, you will have full autonomy to explore, innovate, and define how we bring Captions to the Android platform.

  • Drive all architecture and technology roadmap decisions. Own product and feature development from inception through design, implementation, and launch.

  • Decide which tools and technologies to leverage in order to create a smooth, stable, and elegant native Android product from scratch.

  • Lead full-stack mobile application development, delivering client side features and server APIs / services to support planned mobile functionality.

  • Lay the foundation for a brand engineering team, with the opportunity to build, lead, and manage your own team.

  • Collaborate effectively with cross-functional engineering and design teams.

requirements:

  • A true self-starter: you have an entrepreneur’s intrinsic motivation, capable of independently running with business and product ideas without explicit guidance

  • 5+ years of native Android development experience, and highly proficient in technologies like Java, Kotlin, Android SDK

  • You have experience creating and leading technical architecture for complex consumer facing Android applications (and experience launching more than one generation)

  • Experience designing and building server-side APIs and components that interface with mobile applications

Benefits:

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans

  • Anything you need to do your best work

  • We’ve done team off-sites to places like Paris, London, Park City, Los Angeles, and Nashville with more planned in the future.

Captions provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

$160K – $210K • Offers Equity

Captions is the AI-powered creative studio. Millions of creators around the world have used Captions to make their video content stand out from the pack and we're on a mission to empower the next billion.

Based in NYC, we are a team of ambitious, experienced, and devoted engineers, designers, and marketers. You'll be joining an early team where you'll have an outsized impact on both the product and company's culture.

We’re very fortunate to have some the best investors and entrepreneurs backing us, including Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Uncommon Projects, Kevin Systrom, Mike Krieger, Antoine Martin, Julie Zhuo, Ben Rubin, Jaren Glover, SVAngel, 20VC, Ludlow Ventures, Chapter One, Lenny Rachitsky, and more.

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