The Mobile team at Hearsay is a tight-knit, small-but-mighty group of iOS Engineers, Android Engineers, a Quality Engineer, a Designer, and a Product Manager who all work closely together day to day. When we’re not arguing about Xcode vs Android Studio, we’re hanging out on Zoom, bonding over our mutual love for food. We are seeking a proactive Android Engineer with hands-on experience in building Android applications to help us continue raising the bar of our mobile experience. This role has high growth potential in a collaborative environment as you will have the opportunity to build countless features from scratch and dive into the latest and greatest of upcoming Android technologies. This is a distributed team, so being comfortable collaborating in a remote environment is critical. Grow with us!
About Hearsay Systems
Founded in 2009, Hearsay Systems is the global leader in digital client engagement for financial services, trusted by leading financial firms including BlackRock, Charles Schwab, and New York Life. Our platform empowers over 260,000 advisors and agents to compliantly scale personalized customer engagements across social media (Facebook, LinkedIn, X, Instagram), websites, text, and voice.
In August 2024,
Yext (NYSE: YEXT) completed its acquisition of Hearsay Systems--combining its industry-leading digital presence management platform with Hearsay Systems’ compliant engagement solutions across social media, websites, text, and voice. Now, brands will be empowered to manage all digital channels and touchpoints throughout the customer journey—from one single platform.
With globally distributed teams in North America, Europe and Asia, we are a tight-knit, dedicated team that passionately believes in our products, people, and culture.
About the role:
- Collaborate with our team of Android engineers, iOS engineers, product, design, and QA to design, develop, test and maintain our codebase with emphasis on writing clean, efficient, and maintainable code.
- Coding with Retrofit, Room, Android Architecture Components libraries, Jetpack, Espresso.
- Stay up-to-date with the latest Android platform trends, libraries, and best practices to continuously improve development processes.
- Contribute to the overall mobile architecture and design discussions.
- Identify and address bottlenecks, bugs, and performance issues within the application.
- Share your thoughts on product features, the user experience, or literally anything else across the company.
- Opportunities to travel a few times a year to meet with coworkers in various locations in North America.
About you:
- 2+ years of professional experience in native Android app development.
- Strong proficiency in Java and/or Kotlin programming languages.
- Experience with Android Studio, Android SDK, and third-party libraries.
- Solid understanding of Android UI/UX design principles and patterns, and a strong attention to detail.
- Familiarity with RESTful APIs and integration of backend services.
- Knowledge of version control systems, preferably Git.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex issues.
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
- Proven track record of delivering high-quality, user-friendly applications to the Google Play Store.
- Care about taking a part in the product process from ideation to execution.
What your typical day may look like:
- Say good morning on Slack followed by some friendly conversation.
- Check your Kanban board tasks and dive back into things that you weren’t able to manage the day before, collaborating with our development team to understand project requirements and design specifications.
- Attend team standups (where our team discusses progress, updates, and any potential roadblocks), backlog grooming meetings (where our mobile team, along with QA, product manager and designer review current or created work items that require us to take certain actions), and a demo during a board check-in where we show ongoing progress to our product stakeholders.
- Participate in code reviews, providing and receiving constructive feedback to ensure code quality and maintainability.
- Wrap up your work, ensuring that your code is committed to version control and release frequently with continuous builds, testing and direct team feedback.
- You'll continuously learn and grow in a supportive environment that values innovation, teamwork, and personal development.
Our commitment to diversity and inclusion: Hearsay values and welcomes diversity in all forms. We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We encourage all qualified individuals to apply. If you need assistance, or a reasonable accommodation during the application and interview process, please contact us at:
[email protected].
