Senior Android Developer, App Platform

Our mission at Oura is to empower every person to own their inner potential. Our award-winning products help our global community gain a deeper knowledge of their readiness, activity, and sleep quality by using their Oura Ring and its connected app. We've helped 2.5 million people understand and improve their health by providing daily insights and practical steps to inspire healthy lifestyles.

We are looking for a Senior Android Developer to architect, design and develop lower-level functionality for the Oura Android app in the App Platform team. This team works closely together with the Cloud Platform team, to push our app-server architecture to the next level. Other responsibilities of App Platform include - but are not limited to - developing our Bluetooth layer along with implementing support for next generation peripherals, implementing code generation tooling and finding out new frameworks and better practises to constantly keep pushing the envelope forward. We care deeply about maintaining and upgrading our code base so that it is at the forefront of technology, and actively work to get rid of legacy implementations.

Together we are building a product that helps our users to get more restorative sleep, and to see how their lifestyle affects their body and mind.

What You will do:

• Architect, design and build new features in the App Platform team
• Collaborate closely with our adjacent platform and feature squads to create solutions that open up new capabilities
• Collaborate closely with our Cloud Platform team to create the best possible app-server architecture going forward
• Ensure consistency across our apps
• Keep an eye on where the Android world is going and actively prototype and try out new frameworks and ways of working that improve our productivity
• Work with us to develop systems to ensure we provide performant, maintainable apps and improve the developer experience as we scale

We would love to have You on our team, if You have:

• A solid experience developing and shipping professional Android applications
• Mastery over Kotlin
• Good technical specification skills and understanding of complex systems and how they can be made maintainable and productive to work with
• An excellent understanding of both user interface level and application engine level challenges and SDK APIs
• Pragmatic can-do attitude; shipping working software brings you joy
• Passion for the little things, in both engineering and UX
• Enjoy problem solving with people outside of your own domain

We also appreciate if You have knowledge on any of the following technologies:

• RxJava and reactive programming
• Coroutines and Flow framework
• Realm mobile database
• TypeScript
• Kotlin and functional programming
• Git workflows 
• C++

We would love to have You on our team if

• You are a skilled C coder and can speak to clean code practices, memory safety, and efficient coding for embedded systems. Bonus points if you also know Python (not the snake!).
• You have in-depth knowledge of Wireless communications and are comfortable reviewing hardware designs and evaluating firmware implementations. Ideally you have hands-on experience working with BLE and NFC.
• You are familiar with common security testing tools such as fuzzers.
• You have working proficiency in the English language.

Benefits

• Competitive Salary
• Lunch benefit
• Wellness benefit
• Flexible working hours
• Collaborative, smart teammates
• An Oura ring of your own
• Personal learning & development program
• Wellness Time Off

If this sounds like the next step for you, please send us your application as soon as possible.

Oura is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Individuals seeking employment at Oura are considered without regards to age, ancestry, color, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, socioeconomic status, protected family care or medical leave status, race, religion (including beliefs and practices or the absence thereof), sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. We will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.