Senior Android Engineer - Boston, United States - WHOOP

Description

At WHOOP, we're on a mission to unlock human performance. WHOOP empowers users to perform at a higher level through a deeper understanding of their bodies and daily lives.

As a Senior Android Engineer at WHOOP, you will be involved in the planning, design, development, validation, and maintenance of features. The WHOOP app provides users with lots of data analysis while also continuously streaming data from our proprietary Bluetooth peripheral all day every day. This means the app is not only responsible for the transport of large amounts of data between the peripheral and our backend server, but also requires complex views, visualizations, and interfaces to give the user insights into the data in near-real time. The combination of these requirements presents an interesting set of challenges unique to the WHOOP system.

Requirements:

-2+ years of experience in building, testing and debugging Android apps

-Experience building custom Android applications, UIs, and controls with an eye for best practices

-Knowledge of OS level interfaces (Android 4.4 and newer)

-Experience communicating with a RESTful backend

-Thorough knowledge of Computer Science (ie. OOP, algorithms and data structures)

-Awesome portfolio of interesting technologies and complex mobile applications

-Deep knowledge and genuine interest in mobile technologies

Desirable:

-Previous experience with Android Bluetooth and Bluetooth Low Energy

-Experience with Kotlin

-Experience working with Material Design

-Experience working with RxAndroid

-Passion for data, analytics, visualizations, and UX

-Working knowledge of git

WHOOP focuses on Analytics, Sports, Fitness, Industrial, and Corporate Wellness. Their company has offices in Boston. They have a mid-size team that's between employees. To date, WHOOP has raised $102.751M of funding; their latest round was closed on November 2019.

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