SDE III Android Engineer

LivePerson (NASDAQ: LPSN) is the global leader in enterprise conversations. Hundreds of the world’s leading brands — including HSBC, Chipotle, and Virgin Media — use our award-winning Conversational Cloud platform to connect with millions of consumers. We power nearly a billion conversational interactions every month, providing a uniquely rich data set and safety tools to unlock the power of Conversational AI for better customer experiences.  

At LivePerson, we foster an inclusive workplace culture that encourages meaningful connection, collaboration, and innovation. Everyone is invited to ask questions, actively seek new ways to achieve success and reach their full potential. We are continually looking for ways to improve our products and make things better. This means spotting opportunities, solving ambiguities, and seeking effective solutions to the problems our customers care about. 

Overview:

Welcome to the Web Experiences team at LivePerson! We are looking for a software engineer III (Android Engineer) to join our team. You will work in a fast-paced environment on multiple projects spanning different company areas, aiming to enhance and simplify how brands engage with their customers through messaging.

You will:

• Work on a cutting-edge app that will be used by millions of consumers
• Work collaboratively in a cross-functional team (PM, UX, engineering, science) team to transform user stories into prototypes & production code
• Thoughtfully apply UI design principles & best practices for Android
• Building an app with best engineering practices
• Identifying & eliminating performance and scale issues that ripple from front-end to back-end
• Be globally minded & inclusive - we are a global team and value the diverse contributions of others.

You have:

• Bachelors in Computer Science / Engineering or equivalent professional experience.
• Strong coding skills & ability to perform in a dynamic, agile & entrepreneurial environment
• 8+ years building complex Android applications using Kotlin or Java
• Consumer facing, enterprise or big brand app development experience and ideally one or two personal projects or significant open source contributions
• Deep knowledge and understanding of client-side architecture and experience building large scale applications
• Experience with identifying potential performance bottlenecks in applications and implementing improvements
• Experience with working on test automation frameworks
• Experience with designing APIs and working with RESTful, Websocket, SSE and long polling
• Experience with multi-threaded programming
• Experience with MVC/MVVM
• Experience/understanding of server side development is a plus
• Experience in React Native/Flutter/NativeScript is a plus

Benefits:  

• Time away: Vacation, public holidays and care days.
• Financial: Pension, deferred pension and ESPP.
• Family: Parental leave.
• Development:  Generous tuition reimbursement and access to internal professional development resources.
• Additional: Exclusive perks and discounts.
• #LI-Remote

Why you’ll love working here: 

As leaders in enterprise customer conversations, we celebrate diversity, empowering our team to forge impactful conversations globally. LivePerson is a place where uniqueness is embraced, growth is constant, and everyone is empowered to create their own success. And, we're very proud to have earned recognition from Fast Company, Newsweek, and BuiltIn for being a top innovative, beloved, and remote-friendly workplace. 

Belonging at LivePerson:

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law.

We are committed to the accessibility needs of applicants and employees. We provide reasonable accommodations to job applicants with physical or mental disabilities. Applicants with a disability who require reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process should inform their recruiting contact upon initial connection.