Location: Based in downtown Chicago, but you can work remote! (NOTE: you need to be open to potential meetings in the 9-6pm CT time frame)
We are a tech-driven music education company! We deliver a mobile-driven application to effectively teach users how to play musical instruments. Our app is a teaching tool that listens to our users play and gives instant feedback, while also offering step-by-step tutorials, and daily lessons for absolute beginners!
Currently, we are looking to bring on a Senior to Lead Android Engineer to roll out a TON of new features and scale our systems to support the millions of new consumers. If you would like to be responsible for building a high-performance app, and also scale out the application exponentially, we would love the time to tell you more about this amazing opportunity.
Top Reasons to Work with Us
1. A mission-driven company that fosters learning and users across the globe to push themselves in new areas
2. We are a tight-knit group of folks
3. We are funded by amazing people that are leaders in growth and app monetization
4. Since launching a couple of years ago, we have organically grown to 300k downloads and a worldwide consumer base
What You Will Be Doing
- This person will be the second Android engineer on the team.
- Work with our designer to create beautiful user interfaces for our Android app.
- Dive into rendering code and solve performance issues.
- Take initiative and expand test coverage in critical areas.
- Improve or help create processes that ensure a high-quality app. You will do whatever it takes to solve the business problem at hand. If being overwhelmed by hard engineering challenges sounds fun, you might be a fit.
- Roll out 10 new instruments in 20 new languages.
- Build a community so students can play together and help each other.
- Create an educational curriculum that gets better with every new student we add.
- Unleash our students creativity by allowing them to create their own content.
- Scale our systems to support the millions of new musicians well be creating.
What You Need for this Position
- 3+ years of experience building native Android applications
- Very strong in either Java or Kotlin
- UI expertise
- Understanding of Android APIs
*Nice to haves:
- Experience building an app from the ground up
- Algorithms
- Data Structures
- Unit Tests
- Experience with dependency injection, audio processing, and/or music background are big pluses
What's In It for You
1. Competitive Salary
2. Equity
3. Benefits
4. PTO
So, if you are an Android Engineer with experience, please apply today!
This job is open to telecommute candidates.
Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S.
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