Develop high-quality Android applications and architect scalable codebases while collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver engaging features.
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The Crown Is Yours
As a Senior Mobile Engineer, you'll play a key role in shaping the future of our Android experiences. You'll build and scale high-impact features that engage millions of users while ensuring our apps remain fast, reliable, and secure. Working alongside designers, product managers, and engineers, you'll influence technical direction, mentor teammates, and champion modern development practices. Your contributions will push mobile innovation forward and elevate how players interact with our products every day.
What You'll Do
What You'll Bring
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We're a publicly traded (NASDAQ: DKNG) technology company headquartered in Boston. As a regulated gaming company, you may be required to obtain a gaming license issued by the appropriate state agency as a condition of employment. Don't worry, we'll guide you through the process if this is relevant to your role.
The Crown Is Yours
As a Senior Mobile Engineer, you'll play a key role in shaping the future of our Android experiences. You'll build and scale high-impact features that engage millions of users while ensuring our apps remain fast, reliable, and secure. Working alongside designers, product managers, and engineers, you'll influence technical direction, mentor teammates, and champion modern development practices. Your contributions will push mobile innovation forward and elevate how players interact with our products every day.
What You'll Do
- Develop high-quality Android applications that deliver engaging, reliable experiences to millions of users.
- Architect scalable, modular, and maintainable Android codebases, leveraging modern development practices.
- Collaborate closely with Product, Designer, and Engineering teams to define and deliver new features end-to-end.
- Work with Jetpack libraries and explore the adoption of Jetpack Compose where it adds value to the user experience and developer velocity.
- Stay ahead of Android platform changes, ecosystem updates, and mobile trends to keep the team's skills and tools cutting-edge.
What You'll Bring
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or any relevant combination of education, experience, and training.
- At least 3 years of experience building and shipping Android applications using Kotlin and modern Android development principles.
- Strong knowledge of Android architecture patterns such as MVVM, MVI, or Clean Architecture.
- Working knowledge of Jetpack Compose and a passion for exploring modern UI frameworks.
- Deep understanding of asynchronous programming using coroutines, flows, and reactive streams.
- Experience integrating RESTful APIs, handling data persistence, and managing complex states in mobile apps.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines for Android, automated testing frameworks such as JUnit, Espresso, or Mockk, and release processes.
- A user-focused mindset, with an ability to translate product and design requirements into intuitive mobile experiences.
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Join Our Team
We're a publicly traded (NASDAQ: DKNG) technology company headquartered in Boston. As a regulated gaming company, you may be required to obtain a gaming license issued by the appropriate state agency as a condition of employment. Don't worry, we'll guide you through the process if this is relevant to your role.
Top Skills
Android
Ci/Cd
Espresso
Jetpack
Jetpack Compose
Junit
Kotlin
Mockk
Restful Apis
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