Android Engineer

Fieldwire • San Francisco, CA

6d • $145,000 - $170,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Who we’re looking for Have you ever found yourself feverishly working with an Engineering team to solve a complex problem--and found that after what had felt like an hour had only been 10 minutes? If so, we’re looking for hardworking and passionate engineers like yourself to join our team at Fieldwire! Our Android app is built native (95%+ in Kotlin) from the ground up to maximize performance and work in any customer environment online or offline. We believe that native apps should make the most out of their platform and embrace Android at its core, from Material Design to other Android-specific APIs. The Android team at Fielwire builds the highest rated construction app on the Play Store. Our engineering teams are multi-functional, co-located with product and design. Fieldwire’s mobile apps are mission critical for the construction teams that use Fieldwire every day to save time and money on the jobsite. What you’ll be doing The primary responsibilities of our next Android Software Engineer will be: Our Android Engineers are responsible for developing the best possible Android experience for our users. As a member of the Android team, you will work closely with technical and product leadership to develop future features for Android and the Fieldwire platform. Here is a sample of the kind of challenges you will solve: Building the fastest mobile plan viewer by displaying 4M pixel images using progressive tiling Architecting performant list views that need to pull data from various tables Never losing a single byte of our customer’s data by making sure the app works in every situation Design, build, and maintain our Android app in Kotlin Designing an advanced 3D model viewer for manipulating complex 3D models Work with design and product teams to build high impact features Keep up to date with the latest and greatest in Android development Why Fieldwire? Fieldwire is a construction field management software, used on over 1,000,000+ projects worldwide. We’re obsessed with improving the way teams work together. We’re building a Field Management Platform dedicated to construction teams — providing operational excellence for one of the world’s largest global industries -- $10 Trillion/year. We’re delivering a superior, easy-to-use product that’s driven by the voice of our customers. Fieldwire solves the problem of access to information and coordination of labor at a large scale for some of the largest projects in the world. The Fieldwire mobile app has a nearly five-star rating based on thousands of customer reviews. Fieldwire was venture backed by top venture capitalists and has already transformed the way thousands of companies worldwide are working together. Fieldwire was acquired by Hilti for $300M in November 2021.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS or equivalent work experience
• 3.5+ years of experience working on a production android app
• Experience writing clean, well-tested, and modular code
• Strong understanding of algorithms and data structures

Nice To Haves

• Experience with reactive programming (RxJava, coroutines)
• Experience with rendering APIs (eg. OpenGL) or C++ code development
• Experience with advanced debugging tools for memory and performance issues

Responsibilities

• Our Android Engineers are responsible for developing the best possible Android experience for our users.
• As a member of the Android team, you will work closely with technical and product leadership to develop future features for Android and the Fieldwire platform.
• Building the fastest mobile plan viewer by displaying 4M pixel images using progressive tiling
• Architecting performant list views that need to pull data from various tables
• Never losing a single byte of our customer’s data by making sure the app works in every situation
• Design, build, and maintain our Android app in Kotlin
• Designing an advanced 3D model viewer for manipulating complex 3D models
• Work with design and product teams to build high impact features
• Keep up to date with the latest and greatest in Android development

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees