Android Software Engineer I - Flights

Responsibilities

• You will be involved in the development of new features, collaborating with other native Android developers.

• You will collaborate with the rest of the Insurance Mobile Apps team in order to create a seamless experience across mobile platforms.

• Ensure the utmost high quality of the Booking.com app in production, by monitoring crashes, firefighting incidents, solving complex bugs, etc, and leading incident investigation if necessary.

• Identify, foster, and proactively help colleagues grow professionally, taking a significant role in on-boarding new team members;

• Continuously improve services you own making them more performant, and utilising resources in the most optimised way;

• Ensure that the Insurance product and new features are always kept up-to-date with the latest technology standards and department guidelines.

• Ensure that service-level-agreements for test coverage and quality are met by implementing tests and processes.

• Perform profiling to find bottlenecks and optimize performance, and ensure that performance metrics are set up and monitored for app health.

• Able to connect business and product goals to complex technical tasks.

• Solve issues prioritizing based on customer impact.

• Collaborate with app developers, backend developers, product owners, and quality specialists, to constantly improve customer experience within the app platform.

• Contribute to Booking.com's growth through interviewing, on-boarding, or other recruitment efforts.

Experience

We expect our developers to know the ins and outs of the Android framework and to deliver polished products that customers want to use. We need self-starters who are great at solving problems, initiate solutions and discussions and are not afraid of solving challenges due to our large scale.

• 2+ years of experience as an Android Developer

• Strong knowledge of Kotlin, Jetpack Compose and Google architecture

• Knowledge of Object Oriented concepts and a strong passion for software development

• Extensive experience writing tests such as Unit and Snapshot tests

• Self-motivated to explore new technologies, applications and environments

• Excellent degree of communication skills - Being able to effectively communicate to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Excellent attention to detail

• Self-starter, highly motivated, team-player

• Fully comfortable working in English, both in writing and spoken

Nice to have

• Having built an approved Google Play app

• Experience with A/B testing

• You are passionate about open source contribution

• You’re not afraid to solve deep technical challenges of a whole new level at a huge scale

• You have an intrinsic curiosity in technological innovations and you are always on top of the latest trends