【Mission】
SmartNews is a technology company driven by our mission of delivering the world's quality information to those who need it. Our leading mobile news app has tens of millions of monthly active users in Japan and the US. Our goal is to grow SmartNews into a top global product, delivering quality information that supports millions worldwide.
In order to accomplish this, we are looking for mobile developers who are capable of developing state-of-the-art Android mobile applications that are smart, engaging, and user-friendly for our users while contributing to our aggressive business growth.
【Culture】
Our engineers come from a variety of backgrounds from large, well-established companies to small ventures. We believe that employees with diverse sets of skills working together make for strong, cohesive teams.
Visit our People page to see interviews of our engineering leaders!
【Android Engineer Responsibilities】
As an Android Engineer, you will:
- Lead the design, execution, and performance optimization of an Android application used by tens of millions of users
- Closely collaborate with global cross-functional teams (product managers, designers, data scientists, backend engineers, etc.) to build new mobile product features
- Optimize mobile platform with the latest Android and Kotlin technology to improve user experience and mobile engineering productivity
- Analyze and optimize UI and backend application code for efficiency and performance
- Rapid prototype development to visualize impactful product for the user and the business
- Proactive, innovative, creative technical problem solving with a focus on metrics
-Technologies We Use-
- Languages: Java, Kotlin
- Libraries: Firebase, OKHTTP, ExoPlayer, Lottie, Coil, Timber, Jackson, detekt
- Tools: GitHub, Slack, CirecleCI
- Issue Management: JIRA
- Document Management: Notion
-Teams and Their Functions-
Ads Mobile
Contribute to business growth by developing advertisement features with reliable and efficient code
Engagement Backend
Support the development of features for US edition consumers, building many prototypes that will help differentiate and give the users an engaging experience while using the SmartNews app
JP & US Growth Mobile
Provide new value that cannot be found anywhere else with modern mobile technology and encourage people to start using the SmartNews app
Mobile Foundation
Provide a positive engineering experience for application software engineers by building a scalable mobile foundation
News Mobile
Drive user engagement by defining how users access and interact with their news across regions
Requirements
【Qualifications】
- 3-5+ years of experience with Android application development
- Experience with coding in both Kotlin and Java
- Experience building maintainable and testable code bases, including API design, and unit testing techniques
- Experience with multithreading programming and mobile memory management
- Business level communication in English
【Preferred Qualifications】
- Experience developing Android applications from start to finish
- Experience with other programming languages
- Experience with mobile CI/CD, ideally on a customized cloud setup
- Experience with Android performance tools
- Experience with applying unified architectures in a large-scale mobile project
- Familiar with design patterns and architecture design (e.g UML)
- Experience working with cross functional teams
Benefits
【Benefits and Perks】
- Support programs for self-improvement and career development (language learning, etc.)
- SmartKitchen - Free healthy lunch served daily (Tokyo Office)
- ChikyuCoffee - Delicious coffee provided by our Barista every day (Tokyo Office)
- Transportation coverage (maximum 50,000 yen)
- Various social insurance benefits included
About スマートニュース
スマートニュース株式会社は「世界中の良質な情報を必要な人に送り届ける」ことをミッションとし、独自開発のウェブ解析技術を基盤に、アメリカと日本を中心に世界5000万ダウンロードを超える「SmartNews」を運用しています。また、創業者の1人がエンジニア出身であり、ITを重視するテクノロジー企業です。
スマートニュースの開発チームは非常にダイバシティ豊かです。東京とサンフランシスコ、パロアルト、上海、北京に開発オフィスがあり、世界トップレベルのエンジニアが集まっています 「One Product, One Team」の哲学に基づき、日米で異なるタイムゾーンや言語、物理的環境でありながらも、活動のコードベースは1つ、そしてチームも1つでグローバルプロダクト開発体制をつくっています。英語もしくは日本語どちらかが流暢に話せれば応募可能なポジションもあり、優秀なグローバルメンバーと国際的な環境で働きたい日本人にとっても、すばらしい環境です。 日本語、英語の学習サポートもあります。
SmartNews's policies during COVID-19 are as follows:
- All interviews are being conducted remotely
- Employees are working remotely following the government’s instructions
- They've given everyone some monetary incentive to support working from home
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