Komoot - Senior Android Developer – Developer Productivity Team - Anywhere between UTC-1 and UTC+3

About komoot

Komoot is an app that lets you find, plan, and share adventures with its easy route planner. Driven by a love for nature and powered by the outdoor community’s recommendations, komoot helps you explore more of the great outdoors—wherever and however you want. And we’re good at it. Google and Apple have listed us as one of their Apps of the Year numerous times. Today, with over 30 million users and 300,000 five-star reviews, we are well on our way to becoming the most popular app for finding, planning, and sharing adventures worldwide.

Join our remote-working team and start your adventure with komoot.

About the role

Komoot is the most vibrant outdoor community in the world. As  Senior Android Developer, you’ll be an essential part of our newly established Android Developer Productivity Team. You’ll closely work together with other developers of the Android team and help them perform on their highest technical level. You will empower them by delivering tailored solutions that address their specific needs and enhance their productivity and efficiency.

Ready for your next adventure?

What you will do  

• Be a pioneer as the first member of our productivity team, paving the path for excellence.
• Enable our Android Developers working on app features in cross functional teams to perform on their highest levels of efficiency. 
• Collaborate with Productivity Developers across iOS, Backend, Web and QA teams to align on shared objectives and exchange meaningful insights.
• Ensure accuracy, reliability, and compliance with best practices in managing build tools and release processes.
• Setup measuring mechanisms for our app’s critical metrics, like memory consumption and rendering performance and ensure your team is informed in time about alerts automatically.
• Own and optimize our CI/CD pipelines, Gradle, and other tools to streamline our build and release process.

Why you will love it 

• Your work will contribute to helping millions of people enjoy outdoor experiences.
• We’ve been a remote-working company since 2017, meaning: We are remote by default, have frameworks and systems in place, and know how to do it well.
• You’ll become an essential part of our diverse and international team with colleagues based in 15+ countries across Europe.
• 38 paid days off (inclusive public holidays) – you are free to take those days whenever it suits you, including a well-deserved winter holiday break.
• We love seeing people grow. That’s why each team member gets €2,000 and 3 additional days to spend on professional development each year. Classes, conferences, books – your choice!
• Costs covered for your co-working space membership or your work-from-home office setup and the latest devices and equipment to do your best work.

Requirements

You’ll be successful in this role if you

• Are highly self-driven, responsible, and keen to learn and improve.
• Thrive by enabling other developers to work on their highest level of performance.
• Have 4+ years of professional experience as an Android developer.
• Possess a solid foundation in software development, with proficiency in not only Kotlin, but also solid understanding of Gradle and at least one scripting language.
• Are professional in understanding app monitoring, build and release automation, CI/CD systems and know the best tools for it.
• Prioritize stakeholder needs in decision-making processes and proactively drive projects forward to improve efficiency.
• Keep your Android development knowledge up to date.
• Excel as a team player and communicator in a diverse and international remote team.

Not sure if you meet all requirements above? Don’t sweat it – if you think you’re the right person anyway, we’d love to hear from you! 

Benefits

Curious about how we work? 

• Core Communication time between 10 am- 3 pm (Berlin Time). We know people have different lifestyles, which is why we have flexible working hours with core time for synchronous interaction. You can organize your workday in the way that best suits you, your family, and your needs.
• We work on a project basis in squads and teams to ensure that we collaborate on our goals, move forward smoothly with open lines of communication, and achieve results as a team.
• Every Monday morning, we have a whole-company presentation where you hear about projects across the business, inspire each other, and share great work.  
• We connect in-person at three whole-company gatherings each year in beautiful locations. You can check out this playlist  to find out more about how we stay close while being remote.
• We use tools like Trello, Slack, Miro, Zoom, and Google Drive on a daily basis to stay connected, collaborate easily, and manage projects.  

Dive a little deeper and learn…

• More about our team and here: Meet the Team
• More about how we work here: How We Work
• More about our recruitment process and FAQs here: FAQs

We support diversity and inclusivity and welcome all prospective applicants.  We have a rolling recruitment process – if this role is online, it means it’s still open.