Senior Android Developer (Kotlin)

Vancouver & Remote • Pacific Time | Updated July 22, 2022

Steamclock is looking for a bright, enthusiastic technical leader here in Vancouver with experience shipping great Android apps. If you have a track record of shipping beautiful, high-quality products, we’d love to chat!

Steamclock is a profitable and growing studio in Gastown that makes very nice mobile software. Our focus is shipping great stuff, and building the company we want to work at. We make products for ourselves – such as a neat Mac utility for tracking issues and pull requests – and apps for interesting companies like Arc’teryx, WealthBar, and Mozilla.

We do want to make this a full time permanent hire, but if you’re an experienced freelance Kotlin contractor here in BC that is curious, we’d also be open to chatting about potential future Android contracting opportunities.

In this role we’re looking for somebody with strong native Android development skills, but who also has skills in technical, product, and/or people leadership. We value people over process, and your skills and perspective will help us bring our product work to the next level.

Salary for this role is likely to be in the $110-125k/yr range, plus our various benefits and perks.

The Details

Leading native Android app builds in Kotlin
Collaborating with teams of 2-5 people to ship apps and app updates
Technical decision-making and helping prioritize work
Solving tricky UI challenges and evaluating new tools
Providing constructive and empathetic feedback on pull requests, architecture, and process
Minimizing the need for meetings with proactive communication on Slack, Github, and elsewhere
Potentially working with other technology stacks as projects allow, such as Swift, TypeScript, or Rails
Special projects like open source libraries, backend APIs, and product experiments
Iterating our skills and culture to build the best darn app development team in the world

4+ years of native Android app development experience
8+ years of product development experience
Experience with leadership at a technical and/or people level
Empathy for your fellow teammates, clients, and users
Experience building with a modern native Android tooling stack
Some background in either a startup environment or a client-services studio
An enthusiasm for building very nice customer-facing software
Some experience building web or iOS apps would certainly be awesome
The ability to work full time in British Columbia (we do the majority of our work remotely but have occasional in-person meetings in Vancouver)
Some kind of bonus skill (writing, web development, knitting, etc.)
💯 communication skills, including asynchronous communication in docs and chat

Benefits

Extended health and dental for you and your dependents
Enforced minimum vacations (3 weeks to start)
Home office stipend
Profit sharing
Charitable donation matching
RRSP matching (3%)
No overtime
Flexible work hours
Autonomy over your work
No Meeting Wednesdays™
Paid Parental leave
Paid sabbatical after 4 years
Employee Assistance Program
Health Spending Account ($500)
A culture of investing in people