Lead Software Engineer, Android

Job Description

Grammarly is seeking a Lead Software Engineer, Android to join their Mobile Team. This role offers a dynamic hybrid working model, blending focus time with in-person collaboration to foster trust and innovation.

In this role, the Lead Software Engineer will have the opportunity to build new features and capabilities that elevate the Grammarly Android experience to a world-class standard. Grammarly's engineers and researchers have the freedom to innovate and influence the product roadmap.

The role involves:

• Collaborating with Product, Design, and Machine Learning teams to bring new ideas from concept to production.
• Contributing to the evolving architecture of our mobile products, ensuring exceptional responsiveness and performance.
• Diagnosing performance bottlenecks, identifying bugs, and driving improvements to deliver a delightful user experience.
• Tackling real-world communication challenges our users face daily, significantly enhancing how people communicate on mobile devices.

Requirements:

• 7+ years of relevant experience in designing, developing, and maintaining features for apps published in the Google Play Store.
• Experience with owning and leading projects and/or a small team of engineers.
• Strong experience in Kotlin.
• Well-versed in modern Android development patterns, such as MVVM.
• Solid experience with the Android SDK and commonly used Jetpack libraries.
• Strong knowledge of Android UI design principles, patterns, best practices and building custom UI elements.
• Skilled in multithreading and optimizing memory and performance for Android.
• Experience with Kotlin Coroutines and Flow.
• Proficient in writing and maintaining unit tests and instrumentation tests to ensure high-quality releases.
• Experience integrating and consuming RESTful APIs.
• Experience with Mobile CI/CD systems, including automating builds, testing, and deployment processes.
• Embodies our EAGER values—is ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable.
• Is inspired by our MOVE principles: move fast and learn faster; obsess about creating customer value; value impact over activity; and embrace healthy disagreement rooted in trust.

The role offers:

• Professional growth with autonomy, trust, training, coaching, and regular feedback.
• A connected team culture supported by EAGER values and employee resource groups.
• Comprehensive benefits including competitive pay, life care, ample time off, home office support, wellness and pet care stipends, and learning and development opportunities.