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Senior Android Engineer

Permanent contract
Paris
Salary: Not specified
No remote work
Experience: > 5 years

Yubo
Yubo

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Who we are 

📱 Yubo is a safe space for young people to socialize and make connections while streaming and chatting online through an app.  

🔒 The platform boasts an innovative suite of safety tools that guarantee all its users’ security, moderation, and privacy. 

Faced with a new generation of hyperconnected digital natives who are lonely and overwhelmed, Yubo helps Gen Z engage with the world and learn about themselves. Inspired by the best of offline interactions and the possibilities of digital life, Yubo's vision is to fix online social interactions for the next generation. Unlike traditional social networks, Yubo prioritizes people over content, real-time interactions over likes, and real connections over followers. 

🌍Created by three friends/engineers who are passionate about consumer apps and thanks to a team of 60 people in 3 different offices (Paris, Londres, Jacksonville), Yubo now has 50 million users across and attracts approximately 2 million new users every day. 

Since its launch in 2015, the app’s users have:

✔️made more than 2 billion real connexions/friendships on the platform.

✔️ sent more than 10 billion chat messages. 

✔️ streamed live almost 30 million times. 

Challenges:

As a Senior Android Engineer, you:

- Create impactful features for Yubo and our users

- Increase teams’ skills (pair prog, code review, share knowledge…)

- Able to resolve and deal with strong problems

- Drive Tech (best practices, frameworks, tech monitoring)

- Tools and release (improve processes, production workflow…)

Technical & Mindset Prerequisites

  • Professional background:
  • > 5 years on Android, > 7 years as a developer
  • Start-up or Scale-up or big company
  • Specific knowledge:
  • Strong knowledge of Kotlin
  • Nice to have: Hilt, MVVM, Coroutine
  • Product appetence, communication with other teams
  • Advanced problem solving (performance, memory, multi-threading issues)
  • Technical monitoring
  • Soft skills:
  • Ability to question yourself and challenge
  • Ownership, be a driving force in the development cycle
  • Good communicator
  • Humility, Open minded
  • Technologies we use

  • Android  architecture: 100 % Kotlin, Android Arch components (Room, Navigation Component, WorkManager), Background processing (RxJava 2), Networking (Retrofit with RxJava 2 and Moshi adapters), Dependency injection (Hilt)
  •  Clean Architecture: Modular app (data/domain / UI in each module), Model, View, Presenter, Interactor, Repository, DataSource, One feature, one module, In-house dependencies (SocketCluster client, WebRTC client, Tools..)
  • iOS app: Swift
  • Server-side: NodeJS, Express
  • Client-side: React, Redux, SocketCluster
  • Databases: Elastic Search, MongoDB, BigTable, BigQuery, Redis
  • Infrastructure: Docker containers orchestrated with Kubernetes on Google Cloud.
  • Live Techno: WebRTC (C++)
  • Recruitment Process

  • Interview with TAM
  • Interview with CPO
  • Tech test
  • Fit interviews
  • Our approach to privacy

  • As part of your job, you will be working on tools that process personal data relating to Yubo users, including users under 18 years old who require special protection.
  • As a social media platform, we require our employees to have a strong awareness and understanding of privacy issues, and in particular of children's online safety, privacy and well-being.
  • Every employee at Yubo is expected to participate in compliance with data protection regulations as well as the continuous improvement of our Privacy & Safety By Design measures.
  • What we can offer you 

    Our culture :  

    ✨Yubo is a tribe of diverse backgrounds and expertise (tech, marketing & communication, safety, support functions...) that share common values like a results-based culture, total transparency, a strong team spirit, the drive to continue learning, and courage to face challenges head-on. 

    Our policy about diversity & inclusion :

    🏳️‍🌈 We’re serious about diversity and inclusion at Yubo. People of color, gay, lesbian, transgender, non-binary people, parents, and people with disabilities are all welcome on our team. We hold regular workshops to foster a culture of empathy and compassion for minority issues. We are proud that diversity and inclusion are crucial assets to our team.

    Working at Yubo means : 

    🗽Flexibility and autonomy: the chance to work remotely when you want and where you want and with the material and tools of your choice

    🔥 Trust and empowerment: We’ve only just begun this adventure, and there are plenty of projects to work on. So it’s up to you to shape your role according to your skills and career path with the support of your manager. 

    🥰 Care and well-being: We care a lot about our people with a lot of benefits such as... Health insurance 100% reimbursed, lunch vouchers 60% reimbursed,  sick leave 100% covered, parental leave for both parents, brand new offices in the Paris, London, and Jacksonville, Pass Navigo (metro/bus) 100% covered, transport cost reimbursement for people who bike to work, and a kitchen stocked with free snacks and drinks.

    🥳 Togetherness and fun: 1 monthly team-building to celebrate, 1 incredible trip per year to relax and disconnect, quarterly team-buildings per team to rediscover each other and reconnect, Switch games after lunch, and, of course, kind and friendly teammates

    🎉We are certified HappyIndex® / AtWork StartUp 2021, Tech AtWork® 2021, and Hybrid Worplace® 2021 🍾

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