Senior Android Developer

About Samsung Food

At Samsung Food, we’re trying to build a more sustainable future by inspiring home cooks everywhere to tackle holistic health through nutrition and reduce food waste. We’re a fully-owned, independently-operated Samsung subsidiary (acquired in 2019) primed to grow on top of Samsung’s global resources and hardware ecosystem. We are passionate about what we build and who we build for within one of the world’s largest corporations to bring our highly-rated native app experiences to tens of millions of TVs, wearables, and kitchen appliances in the years to come.

Samsung Food has a 4.8 star rating on both the iOS and Android store, was included in Google Play’s Best of 2020 Everyday Essentials list, has been featured on the Apple app store numerous times, and was nominated for a 2021 Webby Award. 

We’re a remote-first, globally distributed team of 100+ people based across the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, and everywhere in between. We’ve been fully distributed since 2016 and pioneered many of the practices which are commonplace in remote workplaces today.

Learn more about how we build a team who works together. 

About the role
We’re seeking a Senior Android Developer to join our team and contribute to developing and supporting the Samsung Food Android mobile application. Our core system is a complex entity graph consisting of recipes, products, nutrients, retailer products, etc.

We expect you will be involved in all stages of development from designing solutions to deploying artifacts on production. Since our team is fully distributed, it is important that you can organize yourself and are not afraid to communicate with other team members.

This is a full-time remote contractor role.

Required Qualifications:

• At least 5 years of working experience as an Android Developer.
• Proficient with Kotlin and Android SDK.
• Understanding of SOLID principles.
• Knowledge of Architecture Patterns e.g. MVC/MVVM/MVP/MVI.
• Understanding of Kotlin Coroutines.
• Basic understanding of Unit Testing
• Demonstrated ability to write modular and well-tested code.
• Experience developing, releasing, and maintaining production-quality apps.
• Scope work and provide estimates with reasonable accuracy.
• Ability to self-organize and efficiently work remotely.
• Working proficiency in English.

It’s a plus if you’re familiar with libraries:

• Hilt(Dagger), Room, Cicerone and have experience with:
• GRPC
• Jetpack Compose
• Single Activity Application approach

Responsibilities:

• You will work in the Mobile Team of 4 skilled Android engineers, developing our Samsung Food Android application.
• You will build new features and maintain the current codebase.
• You will raise ideas and suggest improvements to the application.
• You will make sure that systems are built to high-quality standards.

Location:

• Fully Remote: We are flexible where you physically sit, but are looking for someone who can overlap between GMT time zones.

What we offer:

• Contract-based, full-time (40 hours/week), long-term project.
• 100% remote work.
• Great team to work with (In 2024, Samsung Food was certified as a Most Loved Workplace® after rigorous research and analysis conducted by the Best Practice Institute (BPI)