Job description
Launching a clothing rental subscription service might seem like a bit of an unusual move for a company known for experiential retail concepts, but it's right in line with our mission since 1970: encouraging customers to express themselves through their wardrobes and the spaces they keep.
Our unlike-anywhere-else curation of hundreds of designers and labels—and not just from our own brands—is designed to give you everything you need to get inspired, get creative and explore all the different aspects of your individual style, we're here so you can get dressed the way you want.
Title
Nuuly Android Engineer
Reports to
Engineering Manager
Overview
What is Nuuly:
Nuuly is the newest sibling to Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie, and Free People, and focuses on circular fashion by offering a subscription rental experience for women’s apparel. You'll be part of a close-knit and collaborative environment at Nuuly. We pride ourselves on a relaxed, inclusive, and innovative culture. Our parent company, Urban Outfitters, Inc. (NASDAQ: URBN, www.urbn.com) is a specialty retailer, offering lifestyle merchandise to highly defined customer niches and a Fortune 1000 company with $3.4 Billion in revenue.
What our Team Does:
Nuuly engineering provides services and apps used by our customers, our distribution center, and our analytics, data science, and customer service teams. Our diverse and welcoming team of engineers collaborates closely with the product team to select, plan, and build features that support Nuuly's customers and rapid growth. Engineers are allowed (and expected) to contribute to the architecture and design of our system
Responsibilities
- Apply your expert knowledge of Kotlin Android development to work on a small team whose work impacts millions of users
- Contribute to the architectural and design decisions your team makes
- Build reusable components with elegant, intuitive interfaces
- Breakdown features into focused units of work, estimate release schedule, and work on the feature with your team
- Collaborate with other engineers on the team by pair-programming and reviewing code.
- Contribute to code and design reviews, evangelize best engineering practices, and participate in weekly Mobile Team learning sessions
- Bring a thoughtful perspective, empathy, creativity, and a positive attitude to take on difficult challenges.
- Have an opinion about what code to test and how to test it
- Collaborate with other engineering teams and architects to develop new features
- Advocate for the principles of accessibility, and build interfaces accessible to users with disabilities
- Maintaining the privacy and security of the applications
- Experience vetting & integrating 3rd party vendor libraries is a plus
Qualifications
- Knowledge of Kotlin, Compose, the Android SDK & related frameworks
- Experience designing mobile applications to consume RESTful APIs
- Fundamental understanding of the HTTP/HTTPs protocol and caching strategies
- Experience leading software projects with source control systems like GitHub
- Passion for UI/UX development and creating premium experiences
- Solid foundation in data structures, algorithms, object-oriented programming, MVVM architecture, and Android design patterns
- Knowledge of LiveData & Kotlin Event Flow
- Understanding of coroutines/multi-threading, memory management, networking, caching, performance optimization, localization, and security for mobile applications
- Experience with modern build strategies, continuous integration, unit testing, test driven development, static analysis, and automated integration tests
- Well versed with Agile methodology
- Experience driving adoption of software engineering standard methodologies
- Experience with Accessibility, Localization, and Internationalization
- Excellent verbal and written communication and collaboration skills to effectively communicate with both business and technical teams
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment
Education
5+ years professional experience as an Android software development
Location
Philadelphia, PA
Urban Outfitters Inc. provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. We believe strongly in fostering a safe, fair and respectful work environment. To ensure compliance with our non-discrimination and anti-harassment policies, we offer anti-harassment training to managers and employees.
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