Android Engineer

About Sporty Group

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 across 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 300+ 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.

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.

The Position

As an Android developer at Sporty, you’d work on some of the most widely used apps in Africa. You’ll be responsible for applying the latest and greatest technologies and frameworks to ensure a smooth user experience for a massive user base.

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

• 3+ 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

Our Hiring Process

1. HackerRank Test
2. Remote interview with 2 Engineers + Lead or Director
3. 24-72 hour feedback loops throughout process

Benefits

• Quarterly and flash bonuses
• Flexible working hours
• Top-of-the-line equipment
• Education allowance
• Referral bonuses
• 28 days paid annual leave
• Annual company retreat - we all went to Dubai in 2022 and are planning 2 more retreats for 2023!
• Highly talented, dependable co-workers in a global, multicultural organisation
• Payment via DEEL, a world class online wallet system
• We score 100% on The Joel Test
• 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