Software Engineer, Android

Squarespace is looking for a Software Engineer - Android to join our growing mobile team. As part of the team, you will contribute to building, maintaining, and improving our Android flagship application, ensuring a seamless and engaging user experience. You will collaborate with product managers, designers, and backend engineers to develop high-quality features, optimize performance, and ensure application stability.

This is a hybrid role working out of our NYC headquarters 3x a week. You will report to the Software Engineer Manager.

You'll Get To…

• Create and innovate with new features, designing beautiful UI that captivates users.
• Optimize our applications for compatibility with diverse software and hardware versions.
• Build and improve our Android app using Kotlin and cutting-edge development techniques and frameworks
• Be part of a distributed engineering team, collaborating across backend and frontend disciplines.
• Partner with cross-functional teams across product, design, QA, and customer support to bring top-tier mobile experiences to life.
• Maintain and update our apps, engaging with the community and listening to user feedback to address and fix issues as they emerge.
• Strengthen app performance by debugging and ensuring robust performance in production environments.
• Inspire and partner with software engineers at different career stages, promoting growth and innovation.
• Turn business needs into reality by translating complex requirements into practical, well-engineered solutions that move our mobile strategy forward.

Who We're Looking For

• 3+ years of experience creating native Android apps, preferably with apps in the store to show
• Understanding Android UI/UX best practices, and a bias toward beautiful user experience and pixel perfect UIs
• Experience with memory management, network programming, concurrency and multi-threading
• Experience developing for constrained devices
• Strong understanding of Jetpack Compose, MVVM architecture, MVI architecture, and other modern Android development patterns.
• Experience with Kotlin Coroutines and asynchronous programming
• A passion for building great mobile experiences

Benefits & Perks

• A choice between medical plans with an option for 100% covered premiums
• Fertility and adoption benefits
• Access to supplemental insurance plans for additional coverage
• Headspace mindfulness app subscription
• Global Employee Assistance Program
• Retirement benefits with employer match
• Flexible paid time off
• 20 weeks for parental leave and up to 12 weeks to care for an ill family member
• Pretax commuter benefit
• Education reimbursement
• Employee donation match to community organizations
• 6 Global Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)
• Dog-friendly workplace
• Free lunch and snacks
• Private rooftop
• Hack week twice per year

Cash Compensation Range: $110,500 - $178,250 USD

The base salary for this position will vary based on job-related criteria including relevant skills, experience, and location, among other factors.

In addition to the cash compensation above (which includes base salary and, where applicable for eligible roles, may include on-target commissions or overtime pay), Squarespace employees are eligible to receive an incentive award as part of their total compensation.

About Squarespace

Squarespace is a design-driven platform helping entrepreneurs build brands and businesses online. We empower millions of customers in more than 200 countries and territories with all the tools they need to create an online presence, build an audience, monetize, and scale their business. Our suite of products range from websites, domains, ecommerce, and marketing tools, as well as tools for scheduling with Acuity and creating and managing social media presence with Bio Sites and Unfold. Our team of more than 1,500 is headquartered in bustling New York City, with offices in Dublin, Ireland, Aveiro, Portugal, and coworking spaces in the UK, Netherlands, and Australia. For more information about our company culture, visit https://www.squarespace.com/about/careers.

Our Commitment

Today, more than a million people around the globe use Squarespace to share different perspectives and experiences with the world. Not only do we embrace and celebrate the diversity of our customers, but we also work toward the same in our employees. At Squarespace, we are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, national origin, gender, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or parental status, disability, veteran status, or other class protected by applicable law. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

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