Sr. Android Development Engineer

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Job Summary

Comcast Technology and Product Experience (TPX) is seeking a Senior Android Developer to join our Connected Living Client Application Engineering team. This group is responsible for the development of the native Android and iOS Xfinity application, the one stop shop for our residential customers to view their bill, manage their cloud enabled gateway and smart home devices, troubleshoot their network, and set up parental controls and advanced security. This app is used by millions of users and is expanding internationally as partners like Sky Italia also adopt the app. Learn more about us at https://www.xfinity.com/apps and check out the Xfinity Android app in the Google play store!

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with project stakeholders to identify product and technical requirements. Conducts analysis to determine integration needs.
• Influence and contribute to engineering initiatives and practices at the enterprise (Connected Living) level.
• Collaborate with other engineers across products and domains to continually improve the Android development standards and practices at Connected Living.
• Be a thought leader and mentor for internal and external technical talent and actively contribute to the external technical community.
• Work with engineering leaders to build a high performing engineering team and provide technical leadership, coaching, motivation and participate in the selection of technical talent.
• Work closely with our product, UX, and API teams to implement an intuitive, coherent, and engaging user experience.
• Ensure high quality, stable, and performant code.
• Perform code and design reviews that guarantee code quality.
• Develop clean, well-tested native Android code to deliver functionality that meets business objectives.
• Identify long-term tech opportunities that bring value and develop a roadmap for future work to ensure continued product health and innovation in the mobile app space.
• Identify opportunities to perform or lead POC/POT with our teams.
• Ability to lead a team of engineers and work with teams in different time zones.
• Conflict resolution and problem-solving skills desired to overcome unexpected project changes.
• Regular, consistent, and punctual attendance. Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Skills & Experience:

• 7+ years of experience in developing native Android applications in Kotlin.
• Experience using Jetpack Compose in a production app.
• Has excellent verbal, written, and presentation communication skills to convey complex technical solutions clearly to an organization.
• Experience with multiple specific Android technologies/libraries; Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Coroutines, Dagger, MVVM, Espresso tests
• Good understanding of the basic components of Android: Activity, Services, Intent, Broadcast Receiver, Content Provider, UI components & controls.
• Familiar with Web Service Integration (REST, JSON) and REST concepts
• Experience in DevOps/SRE practices such as CI/CD, performance monitoring & incident management
• Understands business fundamentals and how technologies can support business goals along with how to translate business vision into a technical strategy while understanding the financial implications.
• Interested in growing a strong engineering culture that values diversity and inclusion.
• Passion for innovation and new technologies. Self-motivated to pursue professional growth.

Preferred skills:

• Experience leading and mentoring a group of engineers with design and feature delivery
• Experience working with GraphQl.
• Experience working with VPN, WiFi and LTE.
• Experience with multiple specific Android technologies/libraries; Localization, Location, GPS, Bluetooth etc.
• DevOps Native App build experience (Ansible, Jenkins, Fastlane, Github Actions)

Disclaimer:
This information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications.

Skills

Android Software Development, Collaboration, Communication, Mentorship

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Education

Bachelor's Degree

While possessing the stated degree is preferred, Comcast also may consider applicants who hold some combination of coursework and experience, or who have extensive related professional experience.

Certifications (if applicable)

Relative Work Experience

7-10 Years

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