Lead Software Engineer (Android) (On-site)

Cricut•South Jordan, UT

7d•Onsite

About The Position

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

Requirements

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
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

Responsibilities

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