About the Role
Title: Mobile Engineer (Android)
Location: Remote
Job Description:
OVERVIEW
A thriving, mission-driven multimedia organization, NPR produces award-winning news, information, and music programming in partnership with hundreds of independent public radio stations across the nation. The NPR audience values information, creativity, curiosity, and social responsibility – and our employees do too. We are innovators and leaders in diverse fields, from journalism and digital media to IT and development. Every day, our employees and member stations touch the lives of millions worldwide.
Across our organization, we’re building a workplace where collaboration is essential, diverse voices are heard, and inclusion is the key to our success. We are committed to doing the right thing in our journalism and in every role at NPR. This means that integrity, adherence to our ethical standards, and compliance with legal obligations are fundamental responsibilities for every employee at NPR.
INTRO TO POSITION
NPR Audience Technology is committed to delivering high quality listening, reading and viewing experiences across all platforms. As a mobile engineer, you will work on high-performing Scrum teams on Android feature development in a collaborative environment. You will be involved in all aspects of the SDLC for existing and new NPR apps, from planning to development to release and maintenance.
This is a union represented role covered under the terms of a collective bargaining agreement with NABET-CWA DMU.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Coordinate with other Android Engineers to assist new product features, working closely with designers, product managers, our Editorial team and other stakeholders.
- Contribute to system architecture, processes, and other business requirements.
- Coordinate with stakeholders on requirements or business needs throughout core business hours.
- Break down statements of work into achievable goals and tickets for a given sprint.
- Effective communicator, able to articulate robust solution designs, as well as technology constraints, to audiences internal and external to the department.
- Maintain the existing codebase, optimizing performance, adding unit tests, refactoring existing code as needed using a test-driven development mindset.
- Contribute to all aspects of our SDLC, from planning to development to code reviews to release, maintenance, and after hours support.
- Participate in initiatives for system and/or process improvements. Evaluates and recommends new technology solutions.
The above duties and responsibilities are not an exhaustive list of required responsibilities, duties and skills. Other duties may be assigned, and this job description can be modified at any time.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience leading and collaborating on Android feature development through deployment to production
- Experience documenting architecture and system designs
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- A passion for NPR’s content and/or familiarity with our digital products
- Creativity, initiative, thirst for innovation & learning
- Acute attention to detail
- Ability to analyze needs from both internal and external stakeholders & offer technical solutions based on those needs.
- Vigor for crafting well-tested, well-documented & elegantly structured code
- Thrives in a collaborative / cooperative environment.
- Empathy for users and passion for crafting great user experiences
- Good oral and written communication skills