Mid-Level Android Engineer
Fully Remote | Offices in Los Angeles & Houston
Mid-Level Role (3-5 years experience)
$80k-$120k base + bonus + benefits
HEY! IMPORTANT!
Please include an email about why the job speaks to you (#8). It's the most important thing, we need to know who you are and what you're about.
Well this isn't your average job ad, and we're not looking for your average engineer. Interested? Let's dig in.
1. Who we are:
Our company was founded in 2006 specializing in all things technical for bus-based public transit systems in the US. This means we design, manufacture, and manage all kinds of different products and features, including driver interfaces, dispatch communications (text and voice), passenger counters, announcers, GPS tracking, and reporting & data analytics. It also means we build real-time information systems for riders ("Bus in 7 & 10 min") including apps and digital signage found at bus stops. We have relationships with Apple Maps, Google Maps, Transit app, and our work goes out to millions of riders on those platforms. Our product is like air traffic control, but for buses. There are a mix of hardware and software products in this role. We hope this excites you!
The company was acquired in 2015 by a European company (GMV) who does what we do there, in addition to having a market leading presence in space and defense. We’re still led by our founding team and have a group of passionate technologists and transit lovers across our organization.
The company has approximately 50 people, with 12 in the product/engineering department, but we’re part of a 3,000 person parent organization. It’s the best of both worlds: small company feel with big company support. We are fully remote with offsites once or twice a year and physical offices that some folks choose to use in Downtown LA & Houston, TX. You don't need to be in either of these locales, but it would be great if you are.
2. This is a business, and we're here to serve customers.
Our customers are public transit operators. Their customers are the transit riding public, which is often people who have far less than we do. Our job is to Make Transit Work for them. We take this mission very seriously, and to put it bluntly: we want team members who are here to solve problems and serve customers as our first and only priority. If you are looking for a cushy, easy job, or one with a lot of hand holding, this isn't the place for you. Our process is flexible and we’re interested in constantly delivering value in whatever way works best for the situation at hand.
If you want to be challenged and grow in a small team environment with high autonomy and see your work live on thousands of transit buses nationwide, then we are the team for you.
3. We're hiring for your attitude.
We value engineers who like to ship solutions to problems and aren't afraid to receive direct feedback about why a particular solution may or may not be the best. We value people who enjoy being wrong and learning something new about why in the process, recognizing that the team has something to learn from everyone on it. We value people who challenge & support their peers, pressing them to be better versions of themselves and up-level the team.
This kind of transparency, candor and professionalism is what makes a world-class engineering team.
4. What we need you to do in this role.
You will be a contributing in a significant way to customer facing features on our system. If you take pleasure in debugging obscure issues and unexpected behavior, and enjoy test validating code you wrote, this is the job for you. The role is heavily Android/Xamarin focused to start, with opportunities to gain experience across our tech stack over time. We need someone with a passion for Android and Xamarin development that understands leveraging C# to build Android mobile apps. We are seeking candidates with 3 to 5 years of total experience who want to grow with the company and are looking for a place to take their skills to the next level.
This is a mid-level engineering role.
5. We need you for the long term.
We know it’s common to job hop in the tech industry, but if you take on this assignment, we need your word that you'll see it through: 3 years+. We can't offer stock (not available from parent company), but we can offer cash comp, great benefits, and a career-making move for you. We’re looking for someone who will grow with us for the long term.
Our team is passionate, our product makes a difference, and your commitment is needed. Let us sell you on that.
6. OK OK we like to have fun too.
Most of our work happens on Slack, and it's a playful environment. Twice a year we have offsites, and they're in fun places (our last one was in Vegas, and we’ve got international plans coming up). We know this job description sounds all business, but our company is a small one with a great culture, and you're going to have fun being a part of it.
Let us show you this during the interview process, we promise you won't be disappointed.
7. Pay and benefits:
$80k-$120k base salary + 15% bonus potential
Generous health and dental benefits
Generous paid parental leave after one year
401k plan with company match
Flexible hours and location
8. To apply, you must send more than a resume – we need to understand who you are.
We don't need a formal dear sir or madam cover letter, but we do need to see you taking the application seriously, which means writing a note to us telling us why this job appeals to you. You can write it directly into the application form, no need for a fancy PDF. Some things it should include are: specifics about your on-the-job experience in above technologies, what a great team that you’d want to work for looks like, how you handle conflict with your peers, why you believe customer-first engineering is important, or what about our job specifically appeals to you.
The letter you write for us will be 10 times more valuable than your resume in getting our attention. If you send just your resume, it is very unlikely we will respond (but we’d still love for you to attach it to your application).