Senior Android Engineer, UI

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Senior Android Engineer, UI

About Brave

Brave is on a mission to protect the human right to privacy online
We’ve built a free web browser that blocks creepy ads and trackers by default, a private search engine with a truly independent index, a browser-native crypto wallet, and a private ad network (opt-in!) that directly rewards you for your attention
And we’re just getting started
Already 50 million people have switched to Brave for a faster, more private web
Millions more switch every month

The internet is a sea of ads, hackers, and echo chambers
Big Tech makes huge profits off our data, and tells us what’s true and what’s not
Brave is fighting back
Join us!

Summary

Brave is looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer with a proficiency in building high quality mobile UI experiences, to work on cryptocurrency integrations with Brave
  You’ll work on our Brave Wallet
  This is a high profile and impactful, hands-on position
  You’ll work together with our product designers, developers and privacy/security experts to help us take our wallet to the next level

Your responsibilities

  • Work closely with the product design team to build new feature prototypes within Brave Browser and Wallet
  • You will work closely with the Android team to understand intricacies and help iterate on components used to build our interfaces
  • You’ll work closely with other engineers and help connect your prototypes to live data from shared resources in Chromium

Requirements

  • 5+ years experience with native android application development
  • Expert Java and Android development skills to evolve our architecture and design with advanced Java/Kotlin to ensure performance and scalability
     
  • JavaScript, React / Redux experience is a big plus
  • Good C++ (via NDK, and JNI) development skills is a plus
  • Willing to learn new languages or technologies
  • Proficient with development tools like Android Studio, SDK, Git, Linux, etc
     
  • Good analytical and problem solving experience
  • History of open source contributions and having experience with working on apps with a large user base
  • Familiarity with cryptocurrency wallets and ecosystem
  • Great communication and coordination skills in English

Good to have

  • Quick learner, who thrive on adopting best practices to create delightful user-experience focused products
  • Experience in working on multiple platforms with distributed development teams
  • A passion for helping protect users’ privacy and security

Working at Brave

  • Industry-leader in privacy, with a research and engineering team that’s innovating everyday to keep people safer online and beat Big Tech
  • Highly competitive salaries & benefits, and generous home-office stipends
  • Fully remote team (no office, no commute)
  • Welcoming, humble, ridiculously smart teammates, and a truly flat org structure
  • Opportunity to get in early at a hyper-growth company, and revolutionize the web
  • Oh, and did we mention Brendan, our CEO & co-founder, invented JavaScript?

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