Android Engineering Intern

Are you prepared to join the X team and help build the ultimate real-time information-sharing app, revolutionizing how people connect? At X, we're on a mission to become a trusted global digital public square, committed to minimal censorship within legal boundaries. Our goal is to empower every user to freely create and share ideas, fostering open public discourse without barriers. Join us in shaping this thrilling journey where your contribution will be invaluable to our success!

Role: Android Engineering Intern

Location: SF or NYC 

Pay: $40 USD per hour

Android Engineering Intern:

X serves our community of users and customers by working tirelessly to preserve free expression and choice, create limitless interactivity, and create a marketplace that enables the economic success of all its participants.

The X mobile engineering team is responsible for bringing you all the features of X for Android. Our work impacts hundreds of millions of users, which brings with it exciting product and technical challenges at that scale. We keep development lightweight and agile, make data driven decisions, and release with high quality and velocity.

Who we are: Our teams love using the latest mobile technologies and tools for making the highest quality and best performing mobile app. Our work is an integral part of X’s product vision and directly impacts the lives of our users and the success of our business. Our teams work on everything in the X app - various features like spaces, explore; foundational building blocks like posts, Timeline, DM, core frameworks and APIs. We solve complicated problems that are unique to both the scale of our customer base and the size of the engineering organization we have. 

What you’ll do: In X, you will use your creativity, excellent problem solving, and technical skills to enable X to reach every person on the planet. You will build high quality features and code. You will work at all layers of the stack and work closely with partners across engineering, data science, research, product, and design. You will contribute to our codebase, design fun and exciting new features, and stay ahead of the curve of the constantly evolving development ecosystem.

Who you are: We are looking for talented students to join us for an internship in 2024 to make X one of the best mobile experiences out there. You are someone who excels at customer-centric product development and has a passion for working on application architecture and design, and making smooth, delightful user experiences. You care deeply about quality, are energized by partnership and collaboration, and you strive to enable others around you to excel. If this sounds like you, you probably have: Strong programming skills in Java and/or Kotlin and exposure to building high quality, scalable, reusable code. You have technical depth that allows you to rapidly fix bugs and solve problems. Knowledge of core CS concepts such as: common data structures and algorithms, profiling, and optimization 

Qualifications/Requirements: 

• Knowledge of programming in Kotlin and Java

• Knowledge of Android Studio 

• Currently pursuing an undergraduate or masters degree in CS or Engineering-related field

• Able to commit to at least 12 weeks or more at SF or NYC X Office location

• In compliance with federal law, all offers are subject to verification of identity and eligibility to work in the US, and completion of the required employment eligibility verification form.  

If you thrive in a dynamic, high-growth tech environment and relish the opportunity to collaborate with passionate, driven over-achievers, your career with us here at X will be both exhilarating and fulfilling!