Senior Android Developer, Kotlin (with Russian, in Georgia)

About the job:

We are looking for a Senior Android Developer to join our mobile team, where you will support Ecwid by Lightspeed’s mobile applications in our mission to make the store management applications great, convenient, and engaging business management  tools. 

For this role specifically, you will be joining the team focused on Ecwid by Lightspeed, an Android app that helps out clients to manage their businesses on the go. Our mission is to provide the best store management application that gives every active client an opportunity to manage their business directly from their device – solving urgent problems faster and better, completing pending tasks more efficiently, and monitoring the state of the business from anywhere in the world.

You will be part of the healthy and collaborative team, continuously improving our engineering practices, and delivering a state-of-the-art product, all while keeping it fun. Among others, your work will make the lives of thousands of business owners much easier.

What you’ll be bringing to the team:

• Proven experience in commercial Android development for at least 5 years
• Solid understanding of Kotlin, as well as principles of clean architecture and clean code
• Excellent problem-solving and planning skills
• Expertise in implementing adaptive and responsive native mobile interfaces
• Sufficient English to understand tech-documentation (at least intermediate level)
• Sufficient Russian to understand and discuss with russian-speaking team (at least upper intermediate level)

What you’ll be responsible for:

• Developing and maintaining clean, well-designed, highly maintainable Android application for store management
• Drafting, discussing, and implementing technical designs that solve business problems for our customers
• Diagnosing performance bottlenecks and implement optimizations
• Extending your own skills by learning from and growing with the team
• Participating in development planning, retrospectives and demos
• Driving and owning the technical challenges in the team
• Frequently interacting with product managers, designers, and developers as part of a cross-functional team to deliver product features and functionality
• Fixing critical bugs
• Conducting code reviews
• Sharing knowledge and best practices with the team
• Covering code with unit- and UI-tests

Tech stack

• Build: Gradle, KTS
• Storage: Realm
• Network: Retrofit 2 + OkHttp
• Async: Kotlin Coroutines, RxJava
• UI: View, Compose
• Arch: MVVM, MVP, MVI
• Push: FCM, SashiDo, Parse
• Images: Glide
• DI: Koin
• Navigation: Cicerone
• Analytics: Amplitude, Firebase Analytics
• CI/CD: TeamCity
• Tests: JUnit4, Espresso, Kaspresso, Marathon, Allure

What’s in it for you?

• Flexible hours and hybrid work
• People Experience — Our PX benefit allows you to work from pretty much anywhere in the world for 60 days a year
• Lightspeed equity scheme (we are all owners)
• Health & Wellness Credit — expense up to 1300 GEL per year towards your gym membership, yoga classes, a new bike or whatever else you do for your health
• Mental Health Support through the Modern Health App — whether it is meditation, coaching or counseling you need — each employee gets access to this platform.
• Support to talk with external Russian speaking psychologists (up to 7 sessions/year)
• A medical insurance plan that covers dental care
• At Lightspeed we value your professional development; you’ll have regular performance reviews and opportunities to make growth
• Variety of resources. We provide Apple MacBooks for work, free access to LinkedIn Learning for any course of your choice and cover 50% of the cost of SkyEng English classes
• Time off to volunteer and give back to your community
• Awesome office space located in Saburtalo (Tbilisi)