Android Engineer - Community

Substack is building a new economic engine for culture, giving creators the power of their own publishing platform. The Android Engineer will be responsible for developing the core Android app and collaborating with a small team to enhance community features and experiences.

Responsibilities:

• Develop in the core Android app for creators and their audiences
• Contribute to high level product and brainstorming discussions around Substack community experiences
• Iterate on key flows in the Substack mobile apps and web platform, and run A/B tests
• Collaborate with designers, writers, support staff, and many others
• From product concept and research to implementation, experimentation, and measurement, we expect you to own your work and deliver high-quality solutions
• Work directly with customers to solve their problems
• The entire company (CEO included) participates in customer support in order to drive empathy for our users and help us build better products

Requirements:

• At least 5+ years of native mobile software engineering experience
• Experience shipping high quality, native Android apps to the App Store, with expertise in Kotlin
• Independent and autonomous
• Hold yourself and others to a high standard when working on production systems
• Take pride in building elegant and delightful product experiences
• Enjoy collaboration with a diverse group of thinkers while bringing our own unique experience and background to the team
• Believe in Substack's mission to build a better business model for writing
• Experience at a fast-growing startup or working on a high-performing growth team is not required, but is a plus