Software Engineer - Android

Our SwiftKey app empowers millions of people globally to communicate faster and more effectively with cutting-edge AI capabilities. With your help we will be able to deliver our mission at speed without compromising the stability and reliability of this integral piece of software. You’ll join us in the Mobile and Android team within the Web Experiences organisation in Cairo, where our mission is to empower every person and organization to achieve more, by focusing on building engaging content, services, experiences, and platforms for customers.

This role will give you ample opportunity both to use the skills you already have, and to learn and grow in the areas most important to you, in the company of a vibrant team of other curious and capable engineers.

As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

You’ll be an integral part of the team helping to accelerate the speed and stability of delivering new innovative features to our users. You will bring your unique perspectives to the team and to the larger organisation through your responsibilities of:

Solving technical problems to deliver great outcomes for our customers, team, and business

Coordinating the technical delivery of various projects undertaken by the team through our two-week sprints by facilitating collaboration through all stages of the project lifecycle

Working with other teams across geographies and time zones to ensure best practice is followed, and to develop automated processes and systems to mitigate risk in the development process

Use runtime analysis and data to be able to identify root causes of issues to work to improve our customer’s experiences

Helping your colleagues be successful, for example by promoting and modelling best practices, sharing your knowledge, giving them space to shine, being an ally, and generally contributing to an inclusive and inspiring team culture that encourages all to demonstrate a growth mindset and bring their best selves to work

Participating in innovation and ideation sessions, and in the time set aside for learning

You Will Also Have a Variety Of Opportunities To Take Part In Impactful Activities Outside Of Your Day-to-day Responsibilities, For Example:

Participating in our two annual hack weeks, with the possibility of collaborating with teams you don’t normally work with

Attending or presenting internal or external talks, conferences and events

Getting involved in employee groups and networks of all kinds or creating your own – we have resource groups for various demographics including families, women, people with disabilities, and minority groups; we have Mental Health Ambassadors; we have Disaster Response Volunteers; we have all sorts of social clubs and societies; we have hack week organisers; and on it goes.

Qualifications

Required

• You embrace our values of Respect, Integrity, and Accountability
• You are curious, adaptable, and strive for continual improvement for yourself and for those around you, making good use of the full range of support available to all of our teams
• You can communicate effectively to both technical and non-technical collaborators and stakeholders
• You have 3 years of experience working with others to build, debug and maintain consumer-facing Android apps through multiple versions, and are comfortable with Kotlin and Java, as well version control, code review, pair programming, unit testing, integration testing, work item tracking, prioritisation, and continuous integration/deployment
• You are fluent in English
  
  

Preferred

• You have experience in automation techniques, processes and methods used to drive quality improvements, or you’re excited to learn
• You have experience in evaluating data from a variety of sources to draw conclusions about the quality and stability of software and use this to inform approaches to improve identified measures over time, or you want to up-skill in this area
  
  

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