Lead Android Developer

You.com is a personalized AI Assistant that makes you more productive, creative, and extraordinary.

About the role:

Dive into the heart of innovation with You.com! As a pioneering Lead Android Engineer, you'll spearhead the development and launch of groundbreaking Android applications. Collaborate with our dynamic, cross-functional teams to turn visionary ideas into reality. You're not just building apps; you're crafting experiences that dazzle and delight millions. From concept through to launch and beyond, you'll lead every phase with creativity and expertise, making an indelible mark on the mobile landscape.

Key Responsibilities:

• Innovate and Architect: Design and construct sophisticated applications for the Android platform, setting new benchmarks for excellence.

• Collaborate and Influence: Join forces with cross-functional teams to brainstorm, design, and deploy features that break new ground.

• Assure Quality: Harness your expertise to unit-test code for robustness, usability, and reliability, turning challenges into triumphs.

• Enhance and Optimize: Tackle bug fixing and enhance application performance, ensuring our apps run like a dream.

• Explore and Implement: Be on the forefront of technological exploration, adopting new techniques to amplify development efficiency.

• Lead and Inspire: Direct the architecture and coding of complex modules, mentoring your team to achieve greatness together.

Skills and Qualifications:

• Experienced Developer: 4-6 years of solid experience in software development, specifically with a proven track record in Android app development and launching impactful applications in the Play Store.

• Proficient with Kotlin and Java.

• Strong understanding of Android SDK and different versions of Android.

• Architectural Acumen: Significant experience in architecting large-scale Android applications, showcasing an understanding of design patterns, best practices, and structuring apps for scalability, maintainability, and optimal performance.

• Technical Leadership and Mentorship: Demonstrated technical leadership, guiding teams through complex development challenges and providing mentorship to junior developers to foster their professional growth.

• Comprehensive Tech Stack Knowledge: A broad understanding of the Android tech stack, with the ability to integrate various frameworks and third-party libraries seamlessly.

• Lifecycle Management Expertise: Deep familiarity with the full mobile development lifecycle, ensuring excellence from initial concept through to deployment and beyond.

• Analytical and Problem-Solving Skills: Exceptional problem-solving skills, capable of addressing complex technical challenges with innovative solutions.

• Knowledge of Kotlin Multiplatform (Nice to Have): Familiarity with Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) is a plus, indicating an interest in or experience with developing cross-platform applications that share logic between iOS and Android.

About You.com:

With a deep foundation in search, You.com is truthful, accurate, and transparent and addresses hallucinations.

You.com was founded by leading AI research scientists Richard Socher and Bryan McCann. Richard was previously the Chief Scientist at Salesforce and is the third most-cited researcher in natural language processing (NLP) with over 170,000 citations. Bryan was a lead research scientist at Salesforce Research, specializing in deep learning and NLP. Over the years, Richard and Bryan’s collaborative research has had significant implications for the field of NLP, particularly in the areas of word vectors, contextual vectors, and prompt engineering. Richard's contributions were recently recognized with his inclusion in Time Magazine’s TIME100 AI list in 2023 as one of the “most influential people in AI” and the prestigious 2023 ACL Test-of-Time Paper Award for his influential research published in 2013.

Since its founding, You.com has transformed how people discover and engage with information online as an AI Assistant that helps people accomplish and solve everyday needs. Recognized as one of Fortune Magazine’s 50 AI Innovators for 2023 and featured in Time Magazine’s “Best Inventions of 2022,” You.com has pioneered many solutions for Large Language Model (LLM) challenges, especially around trust and accuracy. You.com notably introduced the first consumer-facing LLM with access to the internet to provide up-to-date answers and include citations. You.com's API further enables other LLM-based chatbots to improve their accuracy with real-time web access. You.com also emphasizes personalized AI chat experiences, offering tailored responses based on users’ backgrounds, interests, and preferences while respecting privacy and ensuring transparent control over personal data.

You.com is accessible on desktop, Chrome web extensions, iOS and Android apps, and WhatsApp.

Our Perks:

• A remote-first work environment with hubs in California, NYC, and Canada that offer monthly in-person gatherings.

• Unlimited PTO with 11 U.S. holidays observed and a week shutdown in December to rest and recharge. 

• Competitive health insurance plan, where 100% of the policyholder is covered and 75% for dependents.

• 12 weeks of paid paternity leave in the US; additional time off is also considered

• 401k program, 3% match coming January 2025

• $500 work-from-home stipend to be used up to a year of your start date

• $1,200 / year Health & Wellness Allowance to support your personal goals

• In-person coworking weeks 1 to 2 times a year 

• Chance to collaborate with a team at the forefront of AI research.

You.com is an inclusive, equitable, and accessible workplace. Please let us know if you require accommodation for any portion of the recruitment and hiring process.