Android Engineer

Android Engineer (Remote)

*No Visa Sponsorship is available for this position.

About the Cornell Lab of Ornithology

The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) is a pioneer of purpose-driven science and Cornell University’s second largest college. We work across disciplines to tackle the challenges of our time through world-renowned research, education, and outreach. The questions we probe and the answers we seek focus on three overlapping concerns: We believe that achieving next-generation scientific breakthroughs requires an understanding of the world’s complex, interlocking systems. We believe that access to nutritious food and a healthy environment is a fundamental human right. We believe that ensuring a prosperous global future depends on the ability to support local people and communities everywhere. By working in and across multiple scientific areas, CALS can address challenges and opportunities of the greatest relevance, here in New York, across the nation, and around the world.

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology is a globally recognized leader in technology, data management, and large-scale citizen science supporting birds and biodiversity conservation. We curate more than a petabyte of digital assets, one billion bird sightings, and leverage innovative big data analysis tools and machine learning to produce web applications and services to empower a global community of bird and nature enthusiasts, researchers, conservationists, and educators. The Lab is in an incredible growth phase and navigating exciting challenges to scale our data-driven tools and services for conservation communities in all corners of the globe. eBird collaborates with hundreds of regional organizations in more than 80 countries who are using eBird, Merlin Bird ID, Birds of the World, and other resources as a platform to advance their conservation goals.

The Opportunity

We are looking for an Android Engineer to advance our best-in-class apps, Merlin Bird ID and eBird that connect millions of people to birds worldwide. The Android Engineer will join a growing engineering team of six to eight application developers to design and develop mobile apps for the Cornell Lab of Ornithology (CLO). From early prototypes to production-ready features we are looking for someone who can contribute to this small team of creative engineers with a mission-driven and tech-forward approach. This position is ideal for someone who is eager to deliver new features and functionality to a global user-base of birders and outdoor enthusiasts.

The primary of responsibilities include:

• Design and develop applications for the Android platform
• Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of the applications
• Work closely with mobile designers to sync design libraries with code
• Identify and correct bottlenecks, and fix bugs
• Help maintain code and improve code quality and organization
• Stay up to date on latest Android technologies and trends
• Contribute to the overall success of the mobile team

This is a full-time position at 100% FTE.

While position responsibilities vary, every member of our community is expected to foster a culture of belonging and a psychologically healthy work environment by communicating across differences; being cooperative, collaborative, open, and welcoming; showing respect, compassion, and empathy; engaging and supporting others regardless of background or perspective; speaking up when others are being excluded or treated inappropriately; and supporting work/life integration of oneself and others.

What We Need

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field or equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Three (3)+ years of experience of building production mobile applications, including designing, coding, testing, debugging Android apps in Java and/or Kotlin and deploying apps to the Play Store.
• Experience with RESTful APIs to connect Android application to back-end services.
• Understanding of Android’s design principles and interface guidelines.

• Experience with code versioning tools, such as Git.
• Project management skills to scope projects and translate requirements into deliverables and timelines for public software releases.
• Strong communication skills to clearly articulate plans, and provide instruction effectively to all levels of management, staff, new partners, funding agencies, project participants, and visitors.
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