Android Mobile Development Engineer - Clean Energy

Android Mobile Development Engineer - Clean Energy

Company Generac Power Systems

Name Android Mobile Development Engineer - Clean Energy

Req # 64963

Employment Type Full Time

Shift 1st

At Generac, we bring our best energy to work every day and promote a drive to win while respecting others and supporting growth. Join us, as we inspire change for a better world, positively impact our people and the community, influence and achieve positive results that support growth, and innovate the industry.

Overview:

Generac Power Systems is seeking a Senior Engineer for Mobile Development on an Android platform to help us deliver new features on aggressive timelines to support our key product launch dates. As a Senior Engineer for the Android platform, you will be primarily responsible for designing, building & delivering UI features for our next generation mobile application. You will be contributing to the development team activities and will help mentor junior team members in achieving world-class quality and reliability of our systems. The application is based on technologies like Kotlin, Compose, GraphQL, Dagger for dependency injection, and Kotest + Mockito for testing, with support for deployments using Fastlane & CircleCI.

Generac Clean Energy is dedicated to delivering revolutionary Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) for our residential customers to improve energy reliability and grid independence. Our software and firmware teams enable these systems to provide a seamless battery backup system for our customers.

Our software stack is built on top of React, Rust, Java, MQTT, and other related technologies, with a sophisticated and fault-tolerant architecture that collects real-time data from devices and enables remote configuration and control of the battery systems.

Role is ideally located in our Reno NV or Bedford MA office

Responsibilities:

You will have significant responsibility and influence in shaping the applications you build. We are looking for someone to iterate quickly in all stages from development to production, including bringing new products to market.

You should be able to execute front end development throughout the entire development process. You will be driving continuous improvements by leveraging modern tools and frameworks that enable us to release more frequently.

• Successful candidates will have strong engineering skills and communication, and a belief that data driven processes lead to great products. You will need to have a passion for quality and an ability to understand complex systems.

• You should be passionate about solving real world problems and bringing value to the applications you create.

• Implement applications that meet market needs and are easily extended with evolving business needs.

• Review project ideas and provide technology input, prescribing appropriate application solutions, which balance business requirements with Generac's technology standards to arrive at the optimal solution.

• Maintain technical expertise in emerging technical trends to contribute to the architectural roadmap for the Android application.

• Write user and technical specifications in line with business needs.

• Self-directed and capable of working in a dynamic and startup-like environment with a high attention to detail.

• Mentor a team of software engineers, challenging ideas, and decisions with principle-based reasoning while valuing diverse perspectives.

• Innovate system design by collaborating with back-end, cloud, firmware, and other engineers as required.

• Drive improvements to meet accuracy, cycle time and other performance factors.

• Review project ideas and provide technology input, prescribing appropriate application solutions, which balance business requirements with Generac's technology standards to arrive at the optimal solution.

• Work closely within and across other divisions in the company to achieve a cohesive and comprehensive experience for our customers.

• Collaborate with different teams across the division to arrive at consensus based on principal-based reasoning while valuing diverse perspectives.

Minimal Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

• Experience building scalable infrastructure software or distributed systems for commercial online services.

• 5+ years software engineering experience in Android platform including:

• A minimum of 2 years of experience with Kotlin

• Working familiarity with modern Android development practices, including dependency injection, coroutines and Jetpack libraries such as Compose.

• Experience in writing customizable, responsive, and re-usable UI components.

• Experience working with chart/data visualization libraries.

• Experience in caching, logging, performance optimization and monitoring mobile applications.

• Experience with networking, localization, and security aspects of mobile applications.

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and best practices.

• Experience with automated app deployment workflows including code signing, distributing beta builds, and publishing to Play Store.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Fastlane is a plus.

• Familiarity with mobile accessibility.

• Experience with CircleCI is a plus.

"We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law."