Android Developer

Job Description

Android Developer (remote)

Paramount+, a direct-to-consumer digital subscription video on-demand and live streaming service from Paramount Global, combines live sports, breaking news, and a mountain of entertainment. The premium streaming service features an expansive library of original series, hit shows and popular movies across every genre from world-renowned brands and production studios, including BET, CBS, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, Paramount Pictures and the Smithsonian Channel. The service is also the streaming home to unmatched sports programming, including every CBS Sports event, from golf to football to basketball and more, plus exclusive streaming rights for major sports properties, including some of the world's biggest and most popular soccer leagues. Paramount+ also enables subscribers to stream local CBS stations live across the US in addition to the ability to stream Paramount Streaming's other live channels: CBSN for 24/7 news, CBS Sports HQ for sports news and analysis, and ET Live for entertainment coverage.

Role Details:

Paramount+ is looking for a hardworking Android Engineer to develop cohesive solutions to content based technical obstacles. The role will be end-to-end from understanding the goals and roadmaps of the product and engineering teams, through design and architecture of any solution and the delivery and maintenance of those platforms once in place.

We look for someone who will participate in the definition of product requirements, being able to articulate how the engineering effort will align to those requirements and provide accurate estimates of the effort.

You will also be working with a team of engineers through the development process, including implementing standards around code, tooling, metrics, progress reporting and interactions with the QE team to ensure a quality first approach to any work.

Come help us improve the future of streaming!

Responsibilities include:
• Hands on software development on the Android/Android TV/Amazon/Amazon Fire TV platform
• Design, develop, test, and deploy new solutions as well as maintaining, integrating and improving existing solutions
• Collaborate with the product team to understand and deliver on their requirements
• Handle individual project priorities and deadlines
• Participate in preparing business cases, requirements documents and product roadmaps for the Android platform
• Prepare architectural diagrams and technical specifications for the engineering team to deliver high quality, maintainable software
• Represent coding standard methodologies through sharing your expertise, performing code reviews, and mentoring engineers
• Additional other duties and responsibilities, as assigned

Qualities / Experience We're Seeking:
• 2+ years experience developing Android Applications
• Experience programming in Java and Kotlin
• Experience using Gradle and Android Studio
• Experience following and implementing software design patterns
• Able to work with multiple scrum teams in an agile process
• Experience with unit testing, test driven development, branching patterns and continuous integration / deployment
• Good interpersonal skills with ability to facilitate conversations with business partners in project definition, business requirements definition and functional design sessions
• Eye for quality and user experience
• Translate business objectives into software requirements
• Bachelor's degree OR equivalent related experience

Bonus Points:
• Familiarity with RxJava or other reactive frameworks
• Experience working across multiple interdisciplinary teams
• Experience working with globally distributed teams
• Have shipped one or more apps to the Google Play and/or Amazon app store
• Experienced working with streaming applications

Paramount is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) including disability/vet.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d5w14e-18-116-62-45-42 in your application.