Software Engineer, Android

Hi, we're The Browser Company 👋 and we're building a better way to use the internet.

Browsers are unique in that they are one of the only pieces of software that you share with your parents as well as your kids. Which makes sense, they're our doorway to the most important things — through them we socialize with loved ones, work on our passion projects, and explore our curiosities. But on their own, they don’t actually do a whole lot, they’re kind of just there. They don’t help us organize our messy lives or make it easier to compose our ideas. We believe that the browser could do so much more — it can empower and support the amazing things we do on the internet. That’s why we’re building one: a browser that can help us grow, create, and stay curious.

To accomplish this lofty task, we’re building a diverse team of people from different backgrounds and experiences. This isn’t optional, it’s crucial to our mission, as we need a wide range of perspectives to challenge our assumptions and shape our browser through a bold, creative lens.

With that in mind, we especially encourage women, people of color, and others from historically marginalized groups to apply.

About The Role

As one of the first Android Product Engineers at The Browser Company, you’ll set the architecture and frameworks that will make it possible for us to bring Arc to Android. You'll design sleek and thoughtful first-class experiences to run a native Android app seamlessly on our Swift/C++ architecture. In collaboration with other engineers and designers across all platforms (iOS, Mac, Windows), you’ll set the standard for how we develop for Android and contribute to Arc's long-term product roadmap.

Overall you will...

• Work with our Design and Membership Teams to design, architect and build Arc for Android.

• Pair-program with designers to prototype and explore new and interesting interaction models

• Implement custom native user interfaces in Kotlin and Jetpack Libraries

• Collaborate with our Compiler team to evaluate and integrate Swift on Android for cross-platform code sharing

• Optimize UI and application code for performance, quality, and maintainability

• Scope, architect, and implement large product initiatives including UI, logic, networking, and persistence components

Within 1 month you will...

• Get onboarded onto the team and codebase with an onboarding buddy

• Receive a number of onboarding presentations on how we give each other feedback, the phases a startup goes through, our technical strategy, and more

• Get familiar with our development environment and guide how we integrate an Android codebase into it

• Have started prototyping an Android version of Arc and create an initial plan for the product architecture.

Within 3 months you will...

• Have worked on multiple projects for Arc on Android with different engineers and designers

• Be the point of contact for bugs and product iterations

• Be involved in product discussions about the product and its future

• Be involved in weekly engineering discussions about our architecture, how we do code review, code style, and more

• Be regularly posting feedback about using the browser in our #dogfooding channel

• Be familiar with our cross-platform Swift codebase and start to advise on how it’s integrated to our Android codebase

Within 6 months you will...

• Be interview trained and interviewing candidates for roles at the Browser Company

• Be leading projects from conception to production launch

• Be mentoring and pair programming with newer engineers to help them get spun up on the codebase

Qualifications

• You have extensive expertise with building design-focused applications on Android, preferably with Kotlin and Jetpack Libraries

• You have experience tech leading critical projects or initiatives within your team and organization

• You've worked on large, complex codebases and are comfortable setting a high bar for writing code that can scale

• You are user-focused: you’re curious about user behavior, eager for qualitative and quantitative feedback, and prioritize creating meaningful experiences for our members

• You're excited to work in a fast-paced startup environment, and you embrace testing and learning quickly to refine the product and internal processes alike

Compensation and Benefits

With our flexible compensation model, employees have the ability to design their compensation according to their needs. People join startups for different reasons and we want to be accommodating and flexible to everyone’s lives. Every candidate approved for an offer receives two options:

✉️ The first offer is a lower salary with a higher equity package

✉️ The second is a higher salary with a lower equity package.

Candidates can choose either option or anywhere in between the two on a sliding scale. The annual salary range for this role is $150,000-$300,000 USD, and the actual salary range offered will vary based on experience level and interview performance.

🧘🏻‍♀️ In addition to a competitive salary and equity package, we provide every employee with the following benefits:

• comprehensive benefits package, with employee medical, dental, and vision premiums covered at 100%

• 401k plan

• flexible vacation policy: on average, our team members take between 15-20 vacation days plus federal holidays (holidays vary by location)

• 12 weeks of paid parental leave

• $1,500 USD home office stipend

• Employees based in the US also receive free annual memberships to One Medical, Talkspace, Teladoc, and HealthAdvocate

The Browser Company is a well-funded, ambitious startup of about 70 people (and growing!) who are passionate about building great products. We are a remote-first, distributed team, with the option to work in office in New York. We strongly support diversity and encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.

🚙 To read more about what we value as a company, check out Notes on Roadtrips on our blog.