Overview

About the Role 

As a Senior Android Engineer at Instacart, you will spearhead the development of our Android applications catering to our business users. With over 1 million businesses relying on Instacart, your work will be pivotal in scaling and enhancing the mobile experience to meet the unique needs of this segment. This role involves driving the architecture, design, and implementation of Android applications, ensuring they deliver high performance and robust reliability that our business users require. Your contributions will directly impact Instacart's growth in the B2B sector, setting the stage for how businesses interact with Instacart at scale.

About the Team 

You will be joining a dynamic team that operates like a startup within Instacart, dedicated to harnessing the vast potential of business users. As the first Android engineer on this newly established team, you will play a foundational role in defining the future of the 'Instacart Business' platform. Your leadership will guide the Android development efforts, driving innovation and excellence. This team, composed of top engineers from across the company, is instrumental in transforming how over a million businesses engage with Instacart, with a clear target to double this engagement.

About the Job 

• Architect, build, and maintain excellent Android applications with clean code.
• Implement pixel perfect UIs that match designs.
• Integrate with backend services to make sure we are delivering a great mobile user experience that is super-fast for end users.
• Own important pieces of the product that has high visibility both internally and externally.
• Envision new products and features that are inspired, considered, and forward thinking.
• Lead the entire software development cycle from ideation to deployment and everything in between.
• Communicate and collaborate extensively across multiple teams and functions within the company to drive consensus, align goals, and achieve effective cross-functional outcomes.
• Engage in the full spectrum of the development lifecycle and collaborate with a wide array of business units to deliver solutions that are of the highest quality and usability.

About You

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of Android development experience. 
• Proficient in performance optimization on Android.
• Expertise in Android development technologies, including Kotlin and Java.
• Experience with Android Jetpack libraries and frameworks such as Compose, Room, and MVVM.
• Solid understanding of both RxJava and Kotlin Coroutines.
• Proven ability in rigorous unit testing and practical problem-solving.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills, capable of collaborating and influencing cross-functional teams.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced proficiency in RxJava and Kotlin Coroutines.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools like Datadog.
• Skilled in profiling and performance optimization on mobile platforms.
• Adaptability and willingness to wear multiple hats in a startup environment.

Who You'll Be Joining:   

The Mobile Platform team owns the core customer experiences and the overall quality and consistency of our iOS and Android apps. As the manager for the Mobile Platform team, you will be responsible for ensuring all mobile engineering teams across ecobee & Generac are productive in the shared mobile codebases by providing appropriate guidelines and governance. We need to balance the speed of releases, code maintainability, and product quality. You will have a significant influence on our overall strategy by helping define our future state, drive the system architecture, and establish scalable best practices.

How You’ll Make an Impact:  

As an Engineering Manager at ecobee, you will

• Foster a positive, supportive and inclusive work environment.
• Hire and develop a team of engineers & managers - providing coaching, mentoring, motivation, and technical guidance.
• Continuously improve engineering practices - balancing speed, quality, and business impact.
• Deliver high-quality, scalable software on time and on-budget.
• Lead execution of project plans, delivery commitments and risk mitigation.
• Build strong partnerships with cross-functional teams and contribute to the overall direction of the company.

 What You’ll Bring to the Table:

• Experience working as a senior engineer on mobile development teams. (Translates to roughly to 5 or more years of experience.)
• Experience as a manager of mobile engineering teams. (Translates to roughly 3 or more years of experience.)
• Expertise in one of both of Android and iOS native development. (Expertise in both is preferred, however expertise in one and demonstrable knowledge of the other works as an appropriate starting point for this role.)
• Experience working on mobile apps that have had to meet the challenge of scaling alongside large and growing user base.
• Experience delivering results in a fast-pace, demanding, high-stakes and sometimes ambiguous environment.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Experience communicating with technical and non-technical stakeholders across multiple business units.
• Experience with agile and other program management methodologies.
• You proactively identify upcoming risks, issues and bottlenecks within your team and across departmental boundaries.
• You are a smart, curious, and analytical person with a bias for action.

Just so you know: The hired candidate will be required to complete a background check. 

What happens after you apply:  

Application review. It will happen by an actual person in Talent Acquisition. We get upwards of 100+ applications for some roles, it can take a few days, but every applicant can expect a note regarding their application status.  

Interview Process:

• Round 1: A 45-minute phone call with a member of Talent Acquisition.
• Round 2: A 1-hour virtual interview with senior members of our engineering leadership team.
• Round 3: A 1-hour virtual interview with senior members of the mobile engineering team.
• Round 4: A final 1-hour virtual interview with leaders from cross-functional teams you'll engage with regularly.

Staff Quality Engineer, Okta Verify

Position Description:

The Device Authenticator and Fastpass platform team is responsible for building Okta Verify Apps and SDKs. Okta Verify is a mobile app that allows you to securely access your apps via 2-step verification, ensuring that you, and only you, can access your app accounts. It integrates with Android system features by communicating with our backend and grants proper application access.

We are looking for a Staff Quality Engineer to join the team. The team is responsible for developing and maintaining Okta Verify and SDKs across Apple platform, Android and Windows. 

In this role, you would report to the Sr. Manager, Quality Assurance, and be responsible for robust and secure releases and the automated testing of the Okta Verify app and SDKs. You will also be responsible for developing the test plans for new features and working collaboratively with application developers to execute tests, log, track and validate test results. 

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the product management, development, and cross-functional teams using JIRA and Confluence tools to define test plans based on business requirements and application software designs.
• Work with software engineers and engineering management to scope, plan and execute automation and test efforts
• Master, improve, and innovate upon our existing tools and automation for Desktop clients and Web applications
• Interface with Product Management, Development, Documentation, and UX teams
• Partner with Customer Support and field teams to understand customer use cases and build relative test plans
• Develop and maintain high quality functional, regression, and end-to-end tests for Okta Verify app.
• Work closely with Apple, Google and Microsoft Beta programs to certify Okta Verify readiness on major and minor OS upgrades. 
• Develop and maintain automation code in Swift and/or Kotlin. 

 Qualifications:

• 5+ years of product testing and test automation experience
• Able to write new and maintain existing automated test cases
• Experience testing Mobile and Web applications
• Experience working with databases such as MySQL, DynamoDB, etc.
• Experience with JAVA, Selenium, Swift and/or Kotlin, or similar Client automation tools.
• Knowledge and experience in testing Web services
• Experience with security concepts and single sign-on a plus
• Experience with some of the following technologies and services is a plus.
• Log management tools like Splunk, Wavefront
• Active Directory, Azure Active Directory
• Mobile Device Management like Jamf Pro, Microsoft, Intune
• Test experience or academic knowledge of mobile applications
• Experience with collaboration tools like JIRA, Confluence, etc.

Education:

• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or related field preferred

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*this role is open to remote working within the UK. Successful candidates will be required to travel to their closest UNiDAYS campus (London or Nottingham) on occasion.

The role in a nutshell

A Senior Software Engineer in UNiDAYS is a hands-on software development role focused on building innovative solutions to delight our members and drive product success in a fast-paced company.

It’s more than just lines of code; we are looking for a commercially-minded Senior Software Engineer who can bridge the gap between user needs and business goals. You will have the ability to build resilient, cost-effective solutions and navigate evolving market demands. 

You will be working closely alongside the rest of our product and engineering teams while defining, refining, building, and measuring the impact of the solutions you implement. These may be across our portfolio of marketplace products, identity products, or elsewhere as the business grows. 

In order to be successful in this role, you will need to translate user needs into market-winning solutions, all while navigating technical challenges and ensuring commercial viability. 

You will need an inquisitive mind as we continue to work with bleeding-edge technologies and migrate our core business logic out into Kotlin Multiplatform libraries. 

Day to day responsibilities 

Working in a cross-functional product team to build end-to-end solutions. This will involve taking part in the standard agile ceremonies, as well as collaborating with other team members in addition to all stages of the software development lifecycle designing/writing/debugging/testing/shipping/supporting the code you develop
Deliver impactful features with a pragmatic approach
Use your technical knowledge and experience to solve problems in the most appropriate way - balancing risks, constraints, user needs, and business needs
Championing user-centric solutions with a keen eye on market fit and profitability
Representing Mobile concerns within the team
Be an active contributor and promoter of the Mobile team 
You will work closely with your teammates to ensure the direction and standards set out for the team are delivered 
Monitoring platform/feature performance & crashes, flagging issues, and writing tickets to address
Contribute to the design and architecture of software systems, ensuring that they are scalable, efficient, and maintainable
Collaborating with external stakeholders and peers 
Support and challenge software engineers through pairing, knowledge sharing, documentation, and mentoring 
From time to time - support our interview process by attending interviews, task assessments, and candidate feedback

What we need from you

Passionate about member experience and creating meaningful experiences for our users
Passionate about the mobile problem space 
Experience working in a cross-functional team and representing mobile concerns
Ability to adapt and persevere through complex problem
Leadership skills
Able to motivate and mentor others
Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
Excellent communication and collaboration skills
Understanding of software development concepts
Proficient in Kotlin with an interest in Kotlin Multiplatform
Proficient with Kotlin coroutines and flows
Working knowledge of Android and iOS, especially Jetpack compose and/or Swift UI
Experience with unit testing
Knowledge of REST APIs, 3rd Party SDK integration
Strong understanding of agile methodologies such as scrum, kanban etc.
Use of GIT and related tools

Nice to Have
Firebase Remote Config / Crashlytics
Continuous Integration
Reactive Programming patterns
UI Automation testing

Perks

We've accomplished a lot since we started in 2011, but in many ways, this is just the beginning. This is the chance for you to get in on ground zero. An opportunity to make a difference within the business with global reach. We are the world’s largest Student Affinity Network, with over 22 million verified members in 115 markets including the US, UK, Germany, India, Canada and Australia. We work with 800 of the world’s biggest brands globally, taking their products and services into the hearts and minds of tomorrow’s professionals, delivering engagement, building affinity and sales. You’ll also be working for a Great Place to Work CertifiedTM company who have been recognised on the UK’s Best WorkplacesTM for Wellbeing and UK's Best Workplaces for Women 2022 list. To find out more about our workplace initiatives, see our UKexclusive case studywith Great Place to Work and be sure to visit ourprofilefor more information.

We offer a fast paced, fun & social working environment where you can truly make an impact. We believe that work should enhance and complement your life which is why we leave it up to you to decide where you work. You can choose to work from your assigned campus (either Nottingham or London) or from home, whatever works best for your individual needs. Your manager may request you attend team meet ups at your campus but other than that it is up to you! We work hard atUNiDAYS, but we also believe in fair compensation for hard work. That's why we're pleased to offer all employees full access to our comprehensive benefits package.

Our perks include:

• 25 days holiday per year increasing with length of service, plus flexible bank holidays
• Competitive salaries
• 4pm finishes every Friday
• Company bonus scheme
• Company pension scheme
• Private health insurance (Vitality)
• Income protection policy
• Life assurance policy
• Employee Assistance Program
• Enhanced parental leave pay
• Core hours with flexibility around how/when you manage your time
• Regular team building activities
• The latest tech and hardware will be supplied from day one
• Good Vibes Program: we know we’ve all had to adapt to new ways of working andUNiDAYShas always taken pride in the community we’ve created in the office but we’re just as committed to creating an innovative approach to fostering connections and improving engagement outside of the office! We want to boost your remote working experience so think virtual parties, pottery classes, wellness classes and guest speakers just to name a few!
• Support for home working for all new team members. We will help assess your home set up and you can expense £150 towards any additional furniture you may need to be safe and comfortable when working from home

About our Product & Engineering team

The driving force behind this fantastic tech business are the talented Product and Engineering team, who work collaboratively to ensure that UNiDAYS stays one step ahead of the competition, with the ultimate goal of giving students the power to make every experience more valuable and rewarding.

The Product and Engineering teams at UNiDAYS are comprised of a bunch of passionate people who work in a fun, fast paced and social environment. Everyone is equal and encouraged to work with each other, whilst having the autonomy to solve problems in the best way they see fit.

The UNiDAYS tech team are passionate about the local Tech Community, hosting and sponsoring local meet ups and hack events. Career development is an important facet of the UNiDAYS tech experience.

Listen to the episode on The Diverse Podcast here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/47-how-to-build-your-dream-career-in-tech/id1515585546?i=1000587931714

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status or disability status. 

Senior Java Developer & Architect (Olympus)

Vonage Engineering Mission:Vonage is the emerging leader in the $100B+ cloud communications platform (CPaaS) market. Customers like Airbnb, Viber, Whatsapp, Snapchat, and many others depend on our APIs and SDKs to connect with their customers all over the world.

As businesses continue to shift to a real-time, customer-centric communications model, we are experiencing a time of impressive growth.

Why this role matters:The Engineering team at Vonage is a fast growing group of talented engineers. They face multiple challenges associated with high performance, distributed systems, and processing large volumes of data in real time.

The Vonage Messages API team is looking at expanding its size, in order to accelerate our platform development to support our growing customer base. In this role you will be the architect, designer, and developer of your project, and you will take part in developing next-generation technologies that change how people communicate. We challenge our engineers to be versatile and passionate to tackle new problems as we continue to push technology forward.

Our Engineers work on an exciting mix of both greenfield and existing projects, giving them an opportunity to explore new technologies.

What you will do

• Create scalable microservices that will help support our impressive growth
• Propose scaleable, maintainable and cost effective solutions
• Estimate the effort required to develop and implement new features
• Collaborate with the team lead and project managers to allocate tasks effectively, considering the skill level and growth opportunities for junior team members
• Develop and execute effective testing strategies, including unit tests, integration tests, and end-to-end tests, to ensure software quality and reliability
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends, best practices, and emerging frontend technologies, and share knowledge and expertise with the development team to continuously improve our development processes and standards
• Participate in code reviews, provide constructive feedback to peers, and actively contribute to maintaining a high standard of code quality and development practices
• Contribute to the documentation of the components, design patterns, and the design system to facilitate knowledge sharing and onboarding of new team members
• Provide mentorship and guidance to junior team members, assisting them in their technical growth, professional development, and project assignments
  
  

What you will bring:

• Excellent software engineering skills in Java or Kotlin for backend services
• Work closely with cross-functional teams such as Development, Operations, and Product Management to ensure seamless integration of new features and services with a focus on reliability, scalability, and performance
• Effective communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• A strong focus on testing
• An understanding of Object Oriented Design and standard design patterns
• Strong experience of multi-threaded, 3-tier architectures, web services, caching, and dealing with event-driven pipelines
• Willingness to learn and use different technologies/programming languages
• Experience working with public cloud. AWS would be advantageous
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
• Practical experience of deploying code in a modern programming environment using tools such as Docker and Kubernetes
  
  

The Stack

• Microservices architecture
• Java and Kotlin with Spring Boot Reactive
• AWS (Lambda, SQS, S3, DynamoDB)
• Kafka
• Docker, Kubernetes
• Grafana, Prometheus, ELK stack
• Anything needed to achieve our goals
  
  

Please note: This position is offered on an employee contract. If you are based close to Wroclaw you can visit our office, if not we offer remote workas well. Unfortunately we do not offer B2B contracts.

We encourage you to apply, even if you don’t meet all of the requirements. We value your growth potential and enthusiasm!

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Senior Full- stack Developer (Olympus)

Vonage Engineering Mission:Vonage is the emerging leader in the $100B+ cloud communications platform (CPaaS) market. Customers like Airbnb, Viber, Whatsapp, Snapchat, and many others depend on our APIs and SDKs to connect with their customers all over the world.

As businesses continue to shift to a real-time, customer-centric communications model, we are experiencing a time of impressive growth.

Why this role matters:The Engineering team at Vonage is a fast growing group of talented engineers. They face multiple challenges associated with high performance, distributed systems, and processing large volumes of data in real time.

The Vonage Messages API team is looking at expanding its size, in order to accelerate our platform development to support our growing customer base with a particular focus on customer interaction adding rich UI components and workflows to support the customer journey through our APIs. This role will require working across teams using a micro-frontend framework to add user interfaces to bridge the gap between the backend APIs and the frontend interface.

Our Engineers work on an exciting mix of both greenfield and existing projects, giving them an opportunity to explore new technologies.

What you will do

• Create scalable microservices that will help support our impressive growth
• Develop high-quality, performant, and scalable web components using the Fast Framework 
• Collaborate closely with the design team to transform wireframes, mockups, and visual designs into interactive and responsive web components
• Identify and address performance bottlenecks, usability issues, and cross-browser compatibility challenges to deliver highly polished and robust web components
• Develop and execute effective testing strategies, including unit tests, integration tests, and end-to-end tests, to ensure software quality and reliability
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends, best practices, and emerging frontend technologies, and share knowledge and expertise with the development team to continuously improve our development processes and standards
• Participate in code reviews, provide constructive feedback to peers, and actively contribute to maintaining a high standard of code quality and development practices
• Contribute to the documentation of the components, design patterns, and the design system to facilitate knowledge sharing and onboarding of new team members
  
  

What you will bring:

• Excellent software engineering skills in Java or Kotlin for backend services
• Proficiency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript, and related frontend technologies
• Solid understanding and practical experience with frontend frameworks/libraries (e.g., React, Angular, Vue.js)
• Strong understanding of responsive web design principles, cross-browser compatibility, and accessibility standards (e.g., WCAG)
• Work closely with cross-functional teams such as Development, Operations, and Product Management to ensure seamless integration of new features and services with a focus on reliability, scalability, and performance
• A strong focus on testing
• An understanding of Object Oriented Design and standard design patterns.
• Experience of multi-threaded, 3-tier architectures, web services and caching
• Experience dealing with event-driven pipelines
• Willingness to learn and use different technologies/programming languages
• Experience working with public cloud. AWS would be advantageous
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
• Practical experience of deploying code in a modern programming environment using tools such as Docker and Kubernetes

Our Stack

• Microservices architecture
• Java and Kotlin with Spring Boot Reactive
• Vue.js and Fast Framework 
• AWS (Lambda, SQS, S3, DynamoDB)
• Kafka
• Docker, Kubernetes
• Grafana, Prometheus, ELK stack
• Anything needed to achieve our goals
  
  

Please note: This position is offered on an employee contract. If you are based close to Wroclaw you can visit our office, if not we offer remote workas well. Unfortunately we do not offer B2B contracts.

We encourage you to apply, even if you don’t meet all of the requirements. We value your growth potential and enthusiasm!

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Java Software Developer (Olympus)

Vonage Engineering Mission: Vonage is the emerging leader in the $100B+ cloud communications platform (CPaaS) market. Customers like Airbnb, Viber, Whatsapp, Snapchat, and many others depend on our APIs and SDKs to connect with their customers all over the world. As businesses continue to shift to a real-time, customer-centric communications model, we are experiencing a time of impressive growth.

Why this role matters:The Engineering team at Vonage is a fast growing group of talented engineers. Java Software Developers here face multiple challenges associated with high performance, distributed systems, and processing large volumes of data in real time.

Our Engineers work on an exciting mix of both greenfield and existing projects, giving them an opportunity to explore new technologies.

What you will do

• Working on different aspects of the core product and associated tools, (server-side or user-interfaces depending on the team you'll join)
• Assisting with in-life maintenance, testing, debugging and documentation of deployed services
• Coding
• Designing new features.
• Creating the supporting functional and technical specifications.
• Estimating the effort required to develop and implement.
• Developing and unit testing new features.
• Supporting release and implementation of developed features.
• Adhering to coding standards development processes.
  
  

What you will bring

• Strong core Java, concurrency and server-side experience
• An understanding of Object Oriented Design and standard design patterns.
• Experience of multi-threaded, 3-tier architectures, web services and caching.
• A familiarity with SQL & NoSQL databases
• Able to develop in a Unix/Linux environment, including basic sys-admin and scripting (shell, perl).
• Ability and willingness to work in a global, fast-paced environment.
• Flexible with the ability to adapt working style to meet objectives.
• Excellent communication and analytical skills
• Ability to effectively communicate with team members

Our Stack

• Microservices architecture
• Java and Kotlin with Spring Boot Reactive
• AWS (Lambda, SQS, S3, DynamoDB)
• Kafka
• Docker, Kubernetes
• Grafana, Prometheus, ELK stack
• Anything needed to achieve our goals

Please note: This position is offered on an employee contract. If you are based close to Wroclaw you can visit our office, if not we offer remote workas well. Unfortunately we do not offer B2B contracts.

We encourage you to apply, even if you don’t meet all of the requirements. We value your growth potential and enthusiasm!

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An overview of this role

The Create:Editor Extensions team is part of the Create Stage in the Dev Sub-department. The Create stage focuses on multiple categories: Editor Extensions, Code Suggestions, the Web IDE, Remote Development, and more.

Our team works on Editor Extensions that support developers directly in their IDEs, where they spend the majority of their time.

You’ll be working on the VS Code extension. Joining the Editor Extensions team provides the opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI enhancement projects, which are at the forefront of technological advancements. The team's focus on expanding IDE support for the VS Code Extension  and the Language Server offers an exciting challenge and a chance to contribute to innovative solutions.

Some examples of our projects: 

• VS Code Language Server Integration
• Integrate a code parser to enhance Code Suggestions

What you’ll do  

• Backend Topics: TypeScript, Node.js, Language Server, Git
• Frontend Topics: TypeScript, CSS, Vue
• Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance that have a particular impact across your team.
• Solve technical problems of high scope and complexity. Exert influence on the overall objectives and long-range goals of your team.
• Experience with performance and optimization problems, particularly at large scale, and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems
• Help to define and improve our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment.
• Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.
• Represent GitLab and its values in public communication around broader initiatives, specific projects, and community contributions.
• Provide mentorship for Junior and Intermediate Engineers on your team to help them grow in their technical responsibilities and remove blockers to their autonomy.
• Confidently ship moderately sized features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members.
• Collaborate with the team on larger projects.
• Improve the engineering projects at GitLab via the maintainer program at own comfortable pace, while striving to become a project maintainer.
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What you’ll bring 

• Mandatory: significant professional experience with Typescript or JavaScript
• Mandatory: professional experience with VS Code Extension
• Language Server Expertise
• Visual Studio Code API
• Implement and Optimize Language Servers: Develop and optimize Language Servers for specific programming languages, ensuring efficient communication with code editors.
• Language Server Protocol (LSP) Mastery: In-depth understanding and practical experience with the Language Server Protocol, facilitating seamless integration between language servers and code editors.
• Understanding Extension Points: VS Code provides various extension points, such as editors, languages, themes, and more. Understanding how to leverage these extension points to enhance or extend the functionality of VS Code is key.
• Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal, sufficient for success in a remote and largely asynchronous work environment
• Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions
• Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems
• Experience owning a project from concept to production, including proposal, discussion, and execution
• Self-motivated and self-managing, with strong organizational skills
• Share our values, and work in accordance with those values
• Ability to thrive in a fully remote organization
• Ability to use GitLab
• Comfort and familiarity with our code review process

About the team

We are currently focused on bringing Code Suggestions to more IDEs, by building dedicated extensions for VS Code, JetBrains, Visual Studio, Neovim, and GitLab’s Web IDE. We work on multiple projects written in Typescript, Kotlin, C#, and Lua.

Thanks to our Transparency value, you can see how we work in our Team page. You can even see our roadmaps (Editor Extensions, Code Suggestions) and listen to some of our meetings. 

How GitLab will support you

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
• All remote, asynchronous work environment
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and development budget 
• Parental leave 
• Home office support

Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.

An overview of this role

The Create:Editor Extensions team is part of the Create Stage in the Dev Sub-department. The Create stage focuses on multiple categories: Editor Extensions, Code Suggestions, the Web IDE, Remote Development, and more.

Our team works on Editor Extensions that support developers directly in their IDEs, where they spend the majority of their time.

You’ll be working on the GitLab Duo plugin for JetBrains. Joining the Editor Extensions team provides the opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI enhancement projects, which are at the forefront of technological advancements. The team's focus on expanding IDE support for Jetbrains IDEs using Kotlin offers an exciting challenge and a chance to contribute to innovative solutions.

Some examples of our projects: 

• Add Duo Chat to the JetBrains plugin
• Integrate a code parser to enhance Code Suggestions
• Integrate a Language Server in the JetBrains plugin

What you’ll do  

• Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance that have a particular impact across your team.
• Solve technical problems of high scope and complexity. Exert influence on the overall objectives and long-range goals of your team.
• Experience with performance and optimization problems, particularly at large scale, and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems
• Help to define and improve our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment.
• Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.
• Represent GitLab and its values in public communication around broader initiatives, specific projects, and community contributions.
• Provide mentorship for Junior and Intermediate Engineers on your team to help them grow in their technical responsibilities and remove blockers to their autonomy.
• Confidently ship moderately sized features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members.
• Collaborate with the team on larger projects.
• Improve the engineering projects at GitLab via the maintainer program at own comfortable pace, while striving to become a project maintainer.

What you’ll bring 

Mandatory: Kotlin professional experience (3+ years preferred)

• Mandatory: professional experience with Jetbrains IDEs (IntelliJ IDEA, Android Studio)
• Highly desirable: previous experience with IDE support for Kotlin
• Highly desirable: previous experience with Build systems (e.g., Gradle, Maven)
• Highly desirable: previous experience with Frameworks and libraries (e.g., Spring Boot, Hibernate) 
• Highly desirable: experience building, debugging, optimizing software in large-scale, high-volume environments 
• Highly desirable: proven Database skills (e.g., SQL, ORM frameworks)
• Highly desirable: recent experience with Web development with Kotlin or Java (e.g., JSP, Servlets)
• Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal, sufficient for success in a remote and largely asynchronous work environment
• Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions
• Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems
• Experience owning a project from concept to production, including proposal, discussion, and execution
• Self-motivated and self-managing, with strong organizational skills
• Share our values, and work in accordance with those values
• Ability to thrive in a fully remote organization
• Ability to use GitLab
• Comfort and familiarity with our code review process

About the team

We are currently focused on bringing Code Suggestions to more IDEs, by building dedicated extensions for VS Code, JetBrains, Visual Studio, Neovim, and GitLab’s Web IDE. We work on multiple projects written in Typescript, Kotlin, C#, and Lua.

Thanks to our Transparency value, you can see how we work in our Team page. You can even see our roadmaps (Editor Extensions, Code Suggestions) and listen to some of our meetings. 

How GitLab will support you

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
• All remote, asynchronous work environment
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and development budget 
• Parental leave 
• Home office support

Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.

About the job

Vonage is looking for a talented and experienced technical and enterprise architect. You will join a growing architecture team within Vonage’s communications platform. You will lead the architecture initiative for one of Vonage’s highest-profile and key strategic projects.

You will also work directly with engineering teams, enabling them to deliver software more effectively. You will be a member of the API Group’s architecture advisory group.

Finally, you will be a key advisor to the Director of Engineering, being an important bridge between them and the engineering teams.

What You’re Great At

• Independently tackling challenges: You don’t need anyone to keep you on track. 
• You’re organized and efficient
• Articulate complex problems simply
• A strategic thinker - able to understand and develop where we are, where we want to get to and how we can get there
• Strong soft skills & ability to work with and influence multiple teams.
• Flexibility and adaptability to work in a growing, dynamic team

What You Must Have Experience In

• 10+ years in software development

What You’re Good At

• Although your focus will be on a key project, you can organise yourself effectively to work cross department
• Energy, curiosity, and a desire to learn and improve.
• Finding pragmatic solutions to complex socio-technological problems.

What technical skills are a must

• At least one of Java, Golang, Kotlin, Python or a similar programming language
• Cloud infrastructure experience (AWS preferable)
• Mapping of platform architectures
• System design
• Strong understanding of security best practices

What technical skills are nice to have but not essential

• Kubernetes or a similar container orchestrator
• Kafka or similar event bus technology
• Database architecture

Qualities About You That Might Make Our Decision Easier

• Experience operating in a similar technical lead role.
• Seeing the bigger picture and grasping the full scope of the business.
• Be a strong advocate for DevOps, agile and lean software development practices.
• A drive to always leave things better than how you found them: Code, processes, documentation, interactions with people and every other aspect of your work life.

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About Life360

Life360’s mission is to keep people close to the ones they love. Our category-leading mobile app and Tile tracking devices empower members to protect the people, pets, and things they care about most with a range of services, including location sharing, safe driver reports, and crash detection with emergency dispatch. Life360 serves approximately 66 million monthly active users (MAU) across more than 150 countries. 

Life360 delivers peace of mind and enhances everyday family life with seamless coordination for all the moments that matter, big and small. By continuing to innovate and deliver for our customers, we have become a household name and the must-have mobile-based membership for families (and those friends that basically are family). 

Life360 has more than 500 (and growing!) remote-first employees. For more information, please visit life360.com.

Life360 is a Remote First company, which means a remote work environment will be the primary experience for all employees. All positions, unless otherwise specified, can be performed remotely (within the US) regardless of any specified location above. 

About The Team

Our team consists of a diverse group of very talented Quality Engineers who work with one of the largest developer groups in the organization. We span across multiple different scrum teams, working on various aspects of the Life360 app specialized in Location related features such as maps, pillar, safety features, user magic delights, scaling experiments into features, and much more. Our team takes a lot of pride in delivering a high-quality product while we continuously try to shift left to test earlier in the product life cycle.

About the Job

The Life360 mobile app is a critical component of our business, serving 66 Million MAU and growing users daily. As we continue to enhance its features and functionality, ensuring a seamless user experience becomes paramount. Manual testing alone is time-consuming, error-prone, and inefficient. By introducing automated UI testing, we can proactively identify defects, reduce regression risks, and maintain a high standard of quality. 

We are seeking a skilled and motivated Mobile Automation Intern to join our team on a three month duration basis. As an intern, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the quality and reliability of our mobile application by participating in the designing, implementing, and maintaining our native automated test suite. 

The US-based rate for this position is 35/hr. 

What You’ll Do

• Collaborate closely with our native automation testing team to understand functional requirements and create and maintain Life360’s native automation framework
• Translate functional requirements into detailed test cases
• Create, maintain, and execute highly efficient and scalable automated native test scripts for both functional and regression testing
• Perform thorough analysis of test results and present the results to stakeholders
• Identify improvement opportunities of the test automation suite to improve efficiency and coverage
• Work closely with cross functional teams to ensure seamless integration of native automated tests into the development process
• Self-motivator, who can work independently, is able to learn quickly, meets deadlines and demonstrates problem-solving skills.
• Effectively communicate technical information in a clear and concise manner 

Week 1-2: Orientation and Setup

• Introduction to the company's mobile app development environment.
• Familiarization with the native automation tools and frameworks (e.g., XCTest for iOS, Espresso for Android).
• Setup of development environment, including IDEs, SDKs, and emulators/simulators.

Week 3-4: Learning the Basics

• Introduction to the concepts of native automation testing.
• Hands-on tutorials and exercises on writing basic automated tests using XCTest (for iOS) or Espresso (for Android).
• Exploring documentation and resources for native automation frameworks.

Week 5-6: Test Scenario Design

• Understanding the importance of test scenario design and planning.
• Learning how to identify test scenarios for native mobile apps.
• Practice designing test cases and scenarios for different functionalities of a sample mobile app.

Week 7-8: Test Script Development

• Hands-on experience with scripting automated tests for native mobile apps.
• Writing automated test scripts using XCTest (for iOS) or Espresso (for Android).
• Debugging and troubleshooting test scripts.

Week 9-10: Test Execution and Reporting

• Execution of automated test suites on emulators/simulators and real devices.
• Learning how to analyze test results and generate reports.
• Exploring integration with continuous integration (CI) systems for automated test execution.

Week 11-12: Project Work and Presentation

• Working on a project to automate tests for a real-world mobile app or a specific feature.
• Collaborating with development and testing teams to understand their requirements and challenges.
• Presentation of the project work, including a demonstration of automated tests and findings.

What We’re Looking For

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field expected in 2024 or 2025
• Experience with mobile development lifecycle in production setting
• Experience with mobile development tools and frameworks such as Android Studio, Kotlin, XCode and Swift in production environments
• Experience with mobile network, API design, and testing in production environments
• Knowledge of UX native automation principles on mobile applications
• Have the ability to solve complex problems with practical, maintainable, and scalable solutions
• Strong communication, documentation and writing skills
• Ability to coach and assist other team members when needed

Life360 Values

Our company’s mission driven culture is guided by our shared values to create a trusted work environment where you can bring your authentic self to work and make a positive difference 

• Be a Good Person - We have a team of high integrity people you can trust. 
• Be Direct With Respect - We communicate directly, even when it’s hard.
• Members Before Metrics - We focus on building an exceptional experience for families. 
• High Intensity, High Impact - We do whatever it takes to get the job done. 

Our Commitment to Diversity

We believe that different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds create a stronger and more creative work environment that delivers better results. Together, we continue to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports, and celebrates the diverse voices of our employees. It fuels our innovation and connects us closer to our customers and the communities we serve. We strive to create a workplace that reflects the communities we serve and where everyone feels empowered to bring their authentic best selves to work.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at Life360. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any legally protected status.  

We encourage people of all backgrounds to apply. We believe that a diversity of perspectives and experiences create a foundation for the best ideas. Come join us in building something meaningful.Even if you don’t meet 100% of the below qualifications, you should still seriously consider applying!

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This role is open to being 100% remote within Canada while our home office is located in Toronto, Ontario. You may be required to travel to Toronto once per quarter for team and/or company events.

Who’ll You Be Joining:  

As a Senior Android developer at ecobee, you will help design, build, and maintain ecobee’s residential app. You will be a technical leader who sets an example of excellence to your fellow developers and provides mentorship to help them improve their skills. You will be involved in the technical details of integrating our hardware and software products into the app for mobile customers. You will collaborate with your peers to guide the technical vision for the Android app. You’ll be working with UX designers, QA, and other Mobile Developers to come up with great solutions to the problems we're trying to solve.   

Our app is built using technologies like Kotlin, Compose, GraphQL, Dagger for dependency injection, and Kotest + Mockito for testing. We use Fastlane & Circle CI for deployment. 

How You’ll Make an Impact:  

• Help shape the future of our mobile app’s architecture by solving our tough technical problems with novel, testable, and maintainable solutions.
• Work with product owners and designers to help break down and define the scope for upcoming features.
• Use customer feedback to inform decisions about where we take our products.
• Provide technical leadership and mentor other developers to grow their skills.
• Manage and optimize the build pipeline (we use gradle and CircleCI).
• Drive continuous improvement in coding standards, automated tests, and scalable code architectures.
• Plan and lead major technical initiatives to maintain and improve the Android app architecture .

What You’ll  Bring to the Table:   

• Experience working as a senior engineer developing Android apps. (Translates to roughly to 5 or more years of experience.)
• Expertise in native Android development involving Kotlin and it's related ecosystem of tools.
• Technical and people leadership skills, an ability to inspire your team to write high quality code.
• Eagerness to learn about the Smart Home industry.

Just so you know: The hired candidate will be required to complete a background check.

What happens after you apply:  

Application review.It will happen by an actual person in Talent Acquisition. We get upwards of 100+ applications for some roles, it can take a few days, but every applicant can expect a note regarding their application status. 

Interview Process:   

• Round 1: A 45-minute phone call with a member of Talent Acquisition.
• Round 2: A 1-hour virtual interview with senior members of our engineering leadership team.
• Round 3: A 1-hour virtual interview with senior members of the mobile engineering team.
• Round 4: A final 1-hour virtual interview with senior members of cross-functional teams you'll engage with regularly.