Senior Android Engineer
Description
More than 30% of the global energy is used for heating and cooling of buildings. We believe that this environmental footprint can be reduced significantly by controlling the indoor climate in an intelligent way. Therefore, we develop and sell our smart thermostats and additional services. Now, tado° is the European market leader, being internationally recognized for our unmatched compatibility, our award-winning elegant design, and for being integrated with major smart home platforms.
tado° has a strong and fast-growing consumer business in 20 countries as well as a fast-growing B2B business with significant energy/utililty companies as our customers. Founded in 2011 in Munich, there are now over 200 employees - roughly half of whom are engineers - contributing daily to the success of our company. We want to make a difference, challenge ourselves and our business every day, and are looking for new colleagues who are just as passionate about our products as we are.
Why work at tado°:
Be part of our international and multicultural team of people from 42 nations
Contribute to shaping our elegant Smart Home IoT products & services which help the world save energy.
Be empowered: Rather than telling you what to do, we want you to tell us what to do.
Grow personally by learning from your highly-skilled and dedicated colleagues and through frequent feedback.
Follow, promote, and improve our agile, lean development process with a focus on deep understanding of the problem and minimal, but high-quality solutions. We iterate frequently, and limit the work in progress to learn on a daily basis whether we are really adding value for customers and our business.
Scale with us: Our customer base grows by a 50-70% every year. Help us design our processes and services to be ahead of this growth.
Your daily business will involve:
- Evolving our native cross-platform infrastructure to foster a rapid development of the tado° app
- Improving the non-functional characteristics of the tado° app
- Fostering a team culture of collective ownership and lean mindset.
- Developing the tado° app in a cross-functional, empowered platform team.
As of today, we are using the following technologies and tools: Kotlin, Android SDK, Android WebViews, Gradle, Angular 15, Appium, AWS Device Farm, Github ecosystem, Firebase for analytics and Google Workspace for collaboration.
Requirements
- You are conscientious, used to taking initiative over receiving directions, and can manage your time and focus.
- You are very strong in explaining complex topics in English, appropriately tailoring your delivery according to your audience.
- You actively search for opportunities to improve yourself, the working process, your team collaboration, and feedback mechanisms.
- You have at least 5 years of professional experience in Android app development.
- You have a thorough understanding of the whole app development lifecycle, including automated testing, configuring the CI/CD pipelines, releasing, and monitoring.
- You have a keen mindset to learn and perform cross-platform development. In particular, you are open to various technologies, both native and web based.
- You are living in Germany, UK, the Netherlands or Spain, or are willing to relocate to Germany before starting at tado°
Benefits
- Work remotely from anywhere as long as you are available for pairing and video calls during our core hours from CET 9am to 5pm. We will ship you all required work equipment and use the latest video conferencing tools to collaborate and socialize.
- Learning culture and learning support beyond what is needed for the job, e.g. we offer subsidized German language courses for relocators even though you will not need German for your work
- Discounted access to gyms and fitness offers through “Qualitrain”
- Health care services, such as skin cancer screening, flu vaccinations. We were among the first companies to offer a COVID-19 vaccination to all employees.
- 30 days of paid vacation and a company pension scheme to help with your retirement