Lead Android Engineer – ClubLabs

ClubLabs is the digital acceleration team for Automobile Club of Southern California, also known as, AAA. We are the team responsible for building intuitive customer experiences across the organizations insurance, membership, financial, emergency roadside, and travel services. We’re a team of engineers, designers, researchers and product managers within AAA delivering maximum value to our members and business for a smarter future.

The Lead Android Engineer will collaborate with internal teams to develop functional mobile applications, while working in a results-driven environment. Along with their primary responsibility as an engineer on the Android team, the Lead Engineer will help mentor and coach developers in their path to achieve success and growth. This role will be primarily hands on application development, but may also include strategy, mentoring and training.

The Lead Android Engineer integrate into a fast-paced XP environment where pair programming and test driven code are part of our core and key to implement quality code. Listen to people, gather feedback, and deliver results. Drive changes with Retrospectives and make continuous improvements.

• Assist team members in areas of: manual testing, test automation, continuous integration and deployment pipeline

• Can work as a full stack engineer for all the components involved from front end to backend.

• Solid understanding of service oriented architecture, and familiarity with microservices architecture.

• Design and develop advanced software applications. Build on one or more platforms which include but not limited to web apps, android app, iOS app. Review, analyze and resolve application issues as needed.

• Uses software development best practices for design and coding. Continuously improve the code quality, maintainability and readability.

• Ability to focus on and solve problems, with a willingness to ask for help when needed.

• Create strong working relationships with inter department teams and partners to deliver the best solutions possible.

• Continuously learn and keep up to date with emerging technologies to evaluate impact to business and member value.

• Participate and provide feedback during planning meetings (i.e., pre-iteration, iteration, and retrospectives).

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

• 5+ years experience in an applicable software development environment.

• Ability to lead team of 3-5 team members

• Ability to mentor members of the team of varying experience levels in their career progression

• Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented principles, algorithms, problem solving, and complexity analysis.

• 3+ years experience in Android application programming (Java, Kotlin)

• Working knowledge of Android Studio and Android SDK

• Created published examples of mobile applications in the Google Play Store.

• Knowledge of API creation, management, data feeds, ingestion techniques, data mapping, data modeling, and best practices for object oriented design patterns

• Good communication skills and interest in pair programming environment

• Experience in Test Driven Development (TDD) and agile methodologies

• Experience building scalable, available, and low-latency systems

• Familiarity with container platform like docker, kubernetes or cloud foundry

• Experience working with public cloud platform like AWS, Azure or GCP is preferred

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The Automobile Club of Southern California is part of the largest federation of AAA clubs in the nation. We have 14,000 employees in 21 states helping 17 million members. With our national brand recognition, long-standing reputation since 1902, and constantly growing membership, we are seeking career-minded, service-driven professionals to join our team.

“Through dedicated employees we proudly deliver legendary service and beneficial products that provide members peace of mind and value.”

AAA is an Equal Opportunity Employer

The Automobile Club of Southern California will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable federal, state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.