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The Senior Android Engineer will be involved in the planning, design, development, validation, and maintenance of various features of the WHOOP application. The WHOOP application continuously loads and processes streaming data from our proprietary Bluetooth peripheral (WHOOP Strap) and presents the data after processing to the user in a meaningful and impactful way. Since this happens all day, the

application is responsible for transporting large amounts of data between the strap and the backend server. The application requires complex views, visualizations, interfaces, and interactions to give the user insights into the data in near-real time. The combination of these requirements presents a set of challenges unique to the WHOOP system that the Senior Android Engineer will be responsible for solving.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Developing new WHOOP mobile software requirements and features in Java and Kotlin;
• Fixing known software bugs and errors and architecting the codebase in accordance with the Android Design Guidelines;
• Working cross-functionally with WHOOP Analytics, Hardware, Signal Processing, and Product Managers to devise solutions to challenges across the WHOOP system;
• Applying a solid understanding of local storage solutions in order to generate models for cached entities;
• Writing and maintaining automated tests including both Unit and UI tests;
• Documenting new features and architecture;
• Grooming and ramp-up of other mobile developers while helping the backend team design data contracts;
• Analyzing and monitoring user metrics and feedback to determine the crash rate or potential bugs and to improve engagement;
• Driving cross-team projects to completion while working with other Android, backend iOS engineers and embedded engineers;
• Self organize using productivity tools such as Jira, Confluence, and Github and communicating effectively with immediate and external team members;
• Creating new service calls and callbacks to send and/or fetch data through backend endpoints;
• Utilizing Android Design Guidelines to code and display custom views;
• Executing release process including getting the app built, managing build variants, signing, publishing, and testing through Firebase, and submitting to the Android Play Store; and
• Organizing and preparing code using Github feature, develop, and master branches.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• This position requires a Bachelor’s (or equivalent foreign degree) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or a closely-related field and at least 6 years of Android Development experience. In lieu, will accept a Master’s degree (or equivalent foreign degree) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or a closely-related field and 4 years of Android Development experience.
• Qualifying experience, which may have been gained concurrently, must include the following:
• 4 years of experience in the use of Android SDK to build, test and debug custom Android applications, UIs, and controls with an eye for best practices.
• 3 years of development/programming experience with Java and Kotlin.
• 2 years of experience in the following: GIT; Developing code to communicate with a RESTful backend; and UI/UX Design patterns
• Qualified candidates for consideration will be expected to have sound knowledge and understanding in the application of the following:
• Experience with, and understanding of Object-oriented programming, algorithms, and data structures.
• Knowledge of OS level interfaces (Android 8 and newer)
• Experience leveraging MVVM with CLEAN architecture
• Android Jetpack library and coroutines

This role is based in the WHOOP office located in Boston, MA. May work remote up to 2 days per week based on project demands. The successful candidate must be prepared to relocate if necessary to work out of the Boston, MA office. 

WHOOP is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-verify to determine employment eligibility.