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Android Engineer

BostonOn-siteFull-time

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Android Engineer I at Hoopo? Not exactly; role involves building Android features for WHOOP, focusing on Kotlin/Java, REST backend, and onboarding to AI capabilities. The role delivers personalized health insights and collaborates with product teams.

About this role

At WHOOP, we're on a mission to unlock human performance and healthspan. WHOOP empowers users to perform at a higher level through a deeper understanding of their bodies and daily lives. Our wearable device tracks key physiological metrics such as heart rate variability, resting heart rate, and sleep quality to provide personalized insights into users' fitness, health, and recovery.

As an Android Engineer I, you will build on WHOOP’s generative AI capabilities to develop and maintain exciting, member-facing features that drive meaningful health outcomes. You will play a vital role in delivering personalized insights across WHOOP and work alongside experienced engineers, designers, and product managers to help members better understand their health, optimize performance, and gain clarity throughout their WHOOP journey.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Utilize knowledge of Kotlin and Java to develop and maintain product features and communicate with a RESTful backend

  • Lead and contribute to new feature ideation, planning, and development

  • Work with Product Engineers to devise solutions to challenges across the WHOOP system

  • Document new features and architecture

  • Analyze and monitor user metrics and feedback to determine crash rate or potential bugs and to improve engagement

  • Participate in the release process including getting the app built, managing build variants, signing, sending and testing through Firebase, and submitting to the App store

  • Self organize using productivity tools such as Jira, Confluence, and Github

    • QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Product minded engineer with empathy for the member experience

  • Possess a strong willingness to learn and grow rapidly across Android and external systems

  • Experience in Android application structure and components as well as lifecycle and Android Design Guidelines

  • Experience in building, testing, debugging, and delivering native Android apps in a professional environment

  • Knowledge of Kotlin and frameworks such as Coroutines, Android Jetpack libraries (including ViewModel, Flows, and Navigation), Room database, and Retrofit / OkHttp.

  • Well-versed in communicating with a RESTful backend

  • Experience using Git to organize feature work

  • Experience using best-practice mobile architecture and modular design, including patterns such as MVVM, MVI, etc

    • Skills

    Android Architecture (MVVM, MVI)Android Jetpack (ViewModel, Lifecycles, Navigation, Flows)App SigningConfluenceCoroutinesFirebase App DistributionGitGitHubJavaJiraKotlinOkHttpRESTful APIsRetrofitRoom Database

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