Android Engineer at Ancestry
We’re looking for a great Android Engineer to come join our team. At Ancestry, we build native apps that are used by millions of people every day, so your work will have a big impact.
Who You Are:
- Experience developing native Android applications in Kotlin and Java
- Enjoy keeping up with the news and changes in the Android community. Will help drive the direction of our mobile architecture by applying best practices for Android development that you learn from your peers.
- Ability to breakdown complex requirements into components / deliverable milestones
- Interested in end-to-end feature development from design to execution
- Familiar with agile or other rapid application development methods
- Have a disciplined approach to development including QA, Design Patterns and CI/CD
- Willing to learn from and mentor other team members. Will collaborate closely with product managers, designers, QA engineers and others.
Bonus Points For:
- Experience with Kotlin multiplatform, RxJava, Retrofit, OkHttp, Robolectric, Espresso
- Experience with mobile CI/CD approaches and tool chains
- Experience writing unit/integration tests for Android apps
- A good sense of humor!
Description
About Ancestry:
When you join Ancestry, you join a human-centered company where every person’s story is important. We believe that by discovering the struggles and triumphs of our past, we can foster deeper bonds and more meaningful connections among families and communities. Our talented team of scientists, engineers, genealogists, historians, and storytellers is dedicated to empowering customers around the world from all backgrounds on their journeys of personal discovery.
With more than 30+ billion digitized global historical records, 125+ million family trees, and 22+ million people in our growing AncestryDNA database, Ancestry helps customers discover their family story and gain a new level of understanding about their lives. Passionate about dedicating your work to enriching people’s lives? You belong at Ancestry.
We’re looking for a great Android Engineer to come join our team. At Ancestry, we build native apps that are used by millions of people every day, so your work will have a big impact. We build our apps in Kotlin, and are using some of the latest Android technologies, like Jetpack Compose, Coroutines, and KMM to name a few. We are working on some awesome app and feature transformations right now and the mobile app teams are leading out on these initiatives. This is a great time to come join the team and help us make it all happen. You can work remotely if you want, or come join a great group of engineers who come into the offices a few days a week.
Additional Information:
Ancestry is an Equal Opportunity Employer that makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, mental or physical disability, medical condition, military or veteran status, citizenship, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. In addition, Ancestry will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.
All job offers are contingent on a background check screen that complies with applicable law. For San Francisco office candidates, pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Ancestry will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Ancestry is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at Ancestry via-email, the Internet or in any form and/or method without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of Ancestry. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Ancestry as a result of the referral or through other means.
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