Seeking a Senior Android Engineer to develop UI features for Brave's Chromium-based browser, collaborating with design and engineering teams.
Senior Android Engineer, UI
Summary
Remote
About BraveBrave 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 80 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 C++ and building high quality mobile UI experiences to work on our Chromium based browser. This is a high profile and impactful, hands-on position. You’ll work together with our product designers, principal engineers, and privacy/security experts to help us take our browser 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.
- 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 .
- Expert C++ development skills to work within the C++-heavy Chromium code base.
- 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 browsers and ecosystem
- Great communication and coordination skills in English
Good to have
- Prior Chromium experience is a big plus.
- Experience with JavaScript, React / Redux is also a plus.
- 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
- 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?
Top Skills
Android Sdk
Android Studio
C++
Git
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Linux
React
Redux
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