Lead Android Engineer - Mobile Foundation

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Bumble is looking for a Lead Android Engineer to join our Mobile Foundation team and help empower fellow Android engineers, as well as wider mobile teams, to deliver an amazing experience to our end users. You’ll be joining a team of experienced native Android and iOS engineers who are unstoppable when it comes to solving technical challenges.

The Mobile Foundation team sits within our Mobile Platform Group, which is core to enabling the success of Bumble, Badoo, and BFF Apps. The group’s objective is to equip mobile engineering teams with industry-leading, highly reliable, and fit-for-purpose frameworks, tools, services, and integrations for development, deployment, and quality control. 

The Mobile Foundation team assesses, develops, and educates best practices for other engineers, leads the evolution of our architecture patterns and principles, and constantly explores opportunities to optimise both our core frameworks and development processes.

• Explore new Kotlin language features and Android core frameworks, establishing best practices for their use
• Contribute to the evolution of our open-source Appyx architecture
• Drive enhancements in core frameworks, including Networking, Image Loading, Analytics, and more
• Explore ways to optimise the performance of our apps, components, and code
• Drive high standards and best practices (coding, design, tools, principles), continuously improve and document them
• Lead the team on building compelling technical roadmaps that are aligned with technical strategy and product & business direction
• Develop cadence and strong ways of partnering with mobile development teams
• Drive continuous improvement in team processes

• Advanced Android SDK / Kotlin skills
• Strong knowledge of Android API capabilities at different levels, framework components and lifecycles
• Excellent understanding of design patterns and Object-Oriented Programming
• Sound computer science foundations: algorithms, data structures, concurrency, threading, and programming languages (Kotlin and Java)
• Experience working with protobuf, gRPC, and socket-based networking is desirable
• Strong communication skills, excellent teamwork capabilities
• Ability to act as a role model for other engineers on the team, actively supporting and mentoring them
• Attention to detail, structural thinking, and a passion for software design
• You are excited about change

About Us

Bumble Inc. is the parent company of Bumble, Badoo, Fruitz and Official. The Bumble platform enables people to build healthy and equitable relationships, through kind connections. Founded by Whitney Wolfe Herd in 2014, Bumble was one of the first dating apps built with women at the centre and connects people across dating (Bumble Date), friendship (Bumble BFF) and professional networking (Bumble Bizz). Badoo, which was founded in 2006, is one of the pioneers of web and mobile dating products. Fruitz, founded in 2017, encourages open and honest communication of dating intentions through playful fruit metaphors. Official is an app for couples that promotes open and honest communication between partners and was founded in 2020.