Android Engineer

Who We Are

Sporty Group is a consumer internet and technology business with an unrivalled sports media, gaming, social and fintech platform, which serves millions of daily active users across the globe via technology and operations hubs in more than 10 countries and 3 continents.

The recipe for our success is to discover intelligent and energetic people, who are passionate about our products and serving our users and attract and retain them with a dynamic and flexible work life, which empowers them to create value and rewards them generously based upon their contribution.

We have already built a capable and proven team of 450+ high achievers from a diverse set of backgrounds and we are looking for more talented individuals to drive further growth and contribute to the innovation, creativity and hard work that currently serves our users further via their grit and innovation.

Sporty's sites are some of the most popular on the internet, consistently staying in Alexa's list of top websites for the countries they operate in.

As an Android Engineer at Sporty you’ll be responsible for applying the latest and greatest technologies and frameworks to ensure a smooth user experience for a massive user base.

Our Stack

Languages: Java / Kotlin

Architecture: MVVM

Network: Retrofit, Okhttp, Protocol buffers

Dependency Injection: Dagger 2

CI/CD: Jenkins

Other: Android JetPack, Glide, Git, ExoPlayer

Responsibilities

Collaborate with Product Managers, Designers and Backend Engineers to design and deliver high-quality products on Android

Build end-to-end features of the app: networking, persistence, business logic, and UI

Build efficient and reusable mobile components and architect reliable, performant, and scalable mobile solutions

Identify areas of improvement and advocate for mobile best practices

Analyze and optimize UI and infrastructure application code for quality, efficiency, and performance

Mentoring less experienced team members

Requirements

4+ years of application development experience in Android

Proficiency with Java, Kotlin and the Android development ecosystem

Enjoy working on mobile apps at all levels – from networking up to user interfaces and everything in between

Understand and have experience making decisions about mobile application architecture, including data modeling, networking and data synchronization and concurrency

Experience building maintainable and testable code bases, including API design and unit testing techniques

Experience with multithreading programming and mobile memory management

Good communication and collaboration skills to be able to work in a fast paced and distributed environment

Previous history of working with a remote, distributed team would be beneficial

Bonus Requirement

Experience with mobile video playback and streaming technologies 

Benefits

Permanent remote based

Quarterly Performance Bonus

Top-of-the-line Equipment (MacBook Pro)

Referral Hire Bonus 

Health and Life Insurance

On-call payment

Paid leaves of 21 days (excluding 12 public holidays)

5 Days working

Team Fun activities

Annual company retreat - Dubai in 2022 and Phuket in 2023

Highly talented, dependable co-workers in a global, multicultural organisation

Our teams are small enough for you to be impactful

Our business is globally established and successful, offering stability and security to our Team Members

Our Mission

Our mission is to be an everyday entertainment platform for everyone

Our Operating Principles

1. Create Value for Users

2. Act in the Long-Term Interests of Sporty 

3. Focus on Product Improvements & Innovation 

4. Be Responsible 

5. Preserve Integrity & Honesty 

6. Respect Confidentiality & Privacy 

7. Ensure Stability, Security & Scalability 

8. Work Hard with Passion & Pride

Interview Process

60 min HackerRank Test 

Remote video screening with our Talent Acquisition Team

Remote 90 min video interview loop with 3 x Team Members (30 mins each)

Pre-offer call with Talent Acquisition Team

24-72 hour feedback loops throughout process

Working at Sporty

The top-down mentality at Sporty is high performance-based, meaning we trust you to do your job with an emphasis on support to help you achieve, grow and de-block any issues when they're in your way.

Generally employees can choose their own hours, as long as they are collaborating and doing stand-ups etc. The emphasis is really on results. 

As we are a highly structured and established company we are able to offer the security and support of a global business with the allure of a startup environment. Sporty is independently managed and financed, meaning we don’t have arbitrary shareholder or VC targets to cater to. 

We literally build, spend and make decisions based on the ethos of building THE best platform of its kind. We are truly a tech company to the core and take excellent care of our Team Members.