Android Developer

About Poshmark

Poshmark is a leading fashion resale marketplace powered by a vibrant, highly engaged community of buyers and sellers and real-time social experiences. Designed to make online selling fun, more social and easier than ever, Poshmark empowers its sellers to turn their closet into a thriving business and share their style with the world. Since its founding in 2011, Poshmark has grown its community to over 130 million users and generated over $10 billion in GMV, helping sellers realize billions in earnings, delighting buyers with deals and one-of-a-kind items, and building a more sustainable future for fashion. For more information, please visit www.poshmark.com, and for company news, visit newsroom.poshmark.com.

Poshmark is looking for a talented and creative Senior Software Engineer, Android. If you are someone who loves creating mobile applications that have a simple user interface and solid code, and are passionate about developing new user experiences, solving difficult problems, and creating delightful solutions, this is a perfect job for you! You have the unique opportunity to play a critical part in defining and building the perfect experience for millions, developing scalable, well-designed software that enhances people’s lives globally. Join our world-class team and help build the future of Poshmark.

Role Specification

This position is a full-time role located in Chennai, India.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, iterate, and manage our Android mobile application.
• Able to own and deliver a feature independently.
• Partner closely with our design, product, and engineering teams to produce a feature that flows seamlessly and works intuitively.
• Able to understand the requirements and come up with estimates, write high quality, maintainable and unit-testable code.
• Own important pieces of the product that have high visibility both internally and externally.

6-Month Accomplishments

• Get familiar with Poshmark’s ecosystem and tools
• Contributing to Poshmark’s Android feature development
• Have a good collaboration within the team. Also, with other teams like Product, Design, QA, DevOps
• Should participate in technical discussions, code reviews, and provide valuable inputs to other Team members.

12+ Month Accomplishments

• Drive feature development independently
• Provide ideas/changes to improve Android application code.
• Mentor a fellow developer.

Desired Skills & Experience

• Strong foundation in the fundamentals of programming, data structures, algorithms, and software design optimized for mobile systems.
• 4+ years of relevant SWE experience with experience developing Android apps (Preferably, apps released into the Play Store)
• Experience in Kotlin, Java and using Android Studio.
• Experience in using software design patterns. (MVVM)
• Proficiency in Multi-threading and performance & memory optimization
• Experience in writing unit test cases.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally.
• Experience in using RESTful APIs
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git

Responsibilities:

• Writing clean and efficient codes for Android applications
• Identifying and resolving bottlenecks, rectifying bugs, and enhancing application performance.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to define and design new features.
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.
• Ability to brainstorm and come up with solutions to open-ended problems.
• Ability to take ownership and drive initiatives end to end.
• Desire to learn and dive deep into new technologies on the job.
• Solid understanding of CS fundamentals-Operating Systems, Databases, and Data Structure.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Prior experience as an Android Developer using Java, Kotlin, Android SDK, Android NDK
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to effectively integrate Android applications
• Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle.
• Passion for products and aspiration to make a big impact.
• Solid engineering principles and a clear understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Expertise in implementation of custom UI components along with fabulous animations and write/understand Rest APIs
• Experience working with Google Maps, Geo-locations, Media permissions, etc.

Job Overview:

Now, we are seeking a skilled Kotlin Developer with around 2+ years of experience to join our team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for developing and maintaining high-performance Kotlin-based applications while ensuring best practices in architecture, security, and performance optimization.This is your chance to make an impact, and we’re here for it.

Key Responsibilities:

● Develop, enhance, and maintain Kotlin-based applications.

● Work with local databases such as Room, SQLite, and Realm for efficient data storage.

● Integrate API services using Ktor, Retrofit, and OkHttp for RESTful and GraphQL-based communications.

● Implement Kotlin Coroutines & Flow for asynchronous programming.

● Follow Clean Architecture and MVVM/MVI principles for scalable and maintainable code.

● Optimize application performance, security, and responsiveness. Write and maintain unit and integration tests to ensure application stability.

● Stay updated with Kotlin, Jetpack components, and the latest industry best practices.

What We're Looking For:

● 2+ years of experience in Kotlin development (Android or KMM).

● Strong knowledge of local database management (Room, SQLite, Realm, or SQLCipher).

● Expertise in API service integration using Ktor, Retrofit, or OkHttp.

● Hands-on experience with Kotlin Coroutines & Flow for efficient asynchronous programming.

● Strong understanding of Jetpack components (LiveData, ViewModel, Navigation, WorkManager, etc.).

● Experience in designing applications following Clean Architecture, MVVM, or MVI patterns.

● Knowledge of dependency injection frameworks like Dagger/Hilt or Koin.

● Proficiency in version control systems (Git) and platforms like GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket.

● Experience with unit testing using JUnit, MockK, or Espresso.

● Understanding of performance optimization techniques for Kotlin applications. 

• You will be having an impact on our 1.7M users every day.
• You will be rolling out experiments and working closely with our product managers and design team to validate and build new features.
• Monitoring apps and fixing bugs for improving performance.
• Refactoring/Rewriting obsolete code to align with the new architecture.
• Design, build and maintain high performance, reusable, and reliable Kotlin code.
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency Experience: 1- 5 yrs in android development

Expertise:

• Kotlin
• Live Data and other Android Jetpack components
• DI (Dagger/Hilt)
• Design patterns MVVM, MVI
• Multithreading (Coroutines)
• Offline Storage
• Remote data interaction via REST and JSON

Hands-on experience:

• Git
• CI/CD
• Third-party analytics like Amplitude, Clevertap, etc..
• Common third-party libraries and APIs like (Glide, retrofit...)
• Firebase products (FireStore/ RealTimeDB/ FCM..)
• Writing custom views
• Text-based UIs like notes, reader, etc..
• Publishing/Updating apps on Google Play and other stores (Huawei/Xiaomi...)

Good to have:

• Basic understanding of clean architecture.
• Simple data structure and algorithm understanding.
• Basic understanding of AWS services and products
• Strong design intuition and user empathy.
• Should be aware of future technologies in the Android ecosystem.
• You should be quick in understanding the hypothesis, and build the experiment and make it available to a user
• We prefer people who are highly experimental and willing to take risks.
• Experience in training or mentoring team members.

Do not apply if you are not:

• Ownership driven
• Curious in general
• Self-motivated
• Use to work in a chaotic environment
• Highly proactive
• Hate drinking and smoking will have a hard time here