Software Engineer, Android

About the position

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Requirements

• 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

• 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