Senior Android Engineer, Connectivity

Ōura

About The Position

Our mission at Oura is to empower every person to own their inner potential. Our award-winning products help our global community gain a deeper knowledge of their readiness, activity, and sleep quality by using their Oura Ring and its connected app. We've helped millions of people understand and improve their health by providing daily insights and practical steps to inspire healthy lifestyles. Empowering the world starts with living our values and empowering our team. As a quickly growing company focused on helping people live healthier and happier lives, we ensure that our team members have what they need to do their best work — both in and out of the office. Our engineering organization consists of many talented Android and iOS app developers distributed across the EU and US. For day-to-day work, our engineers are organized into smaller cross-functional feature squads or system-level teams. These teams have a great deal of autonomy and are responsible for the development and architecture of their features and systems. They take full ownership of their code and handle everything from concepting, design, and implementation to release, maintenance, and bug fixes. We are looking for a Senior Android Engineer to join our Connectivity team to collaboratively architect, design and develop lower-level functionality for the Oura Android app. This team works closely together with the Firmware and App Feature teams in the very essential interface between hardware and software. The responsibilities of the Connectivity team include - but are not limited to - developing our Bluetooth layer to enable efficient and secure communication between Oura ring and application along with implementing support for next generation products and maintaining the app-ring connectivity between millions of devices on the field. We care deeply about maintaining and upgrading our code base so that it is at the forefront of technology, and actively work to get rid of legacy implementations.

Requirements

Passion for working with Bluetooth
Experience on shipping and maintaining products using Android Bluetooth APIs or Bluetooth libraries
A solid experience developing and shipping professional Android applications
Mastery over Kotlin
Good technical specification skills and understanding of complex systems and how they can be made maintainable and productive to work with
An excellent understanding of both user interface level and application engine level challenges and SDK APIs
Ability to convert ambiguous problems into solutions that can be implemented and shipped under your technical leadership
Pragmatic can-do attitude; shipping working software brings you joy
Passion for the little things, in both engineering and UX
Enjoy problem solving with people outside of your own domain

Nice To Haves

RxJava and reactive programming
Coroutines and Flow framework
Jetpack Compose
Kotlin and functional programming
Git workflows
C++

Responsibilities

Architect, design and build new features in the Connectivity team
Collaborate closely with our Firmware and Platform teams
Ensure consistency across our apps
Keep an eye on where the Android world is going and actively prototype and try out new frameworks and ways of working that improve our productivity
Work with us to develop systems to ensure we provide performant, maintainable apps and improve the developer experience as we scale

Benefits

Competitive salary and equity packages
Health, dental, vision insurance, and mental health resources
An Oura Ring of your own plus employee discounts for friends & family
20 days of paid time off plus 13 paid holidays plus 8 days of flexible wellness time off
Paid sick leave and parental leave

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