Android Developer

About Wego

We’re on a mission to help people discover the real value of travel — to inspire, to give more reasons, to make it easy — for you to travel. Our company was founded back in 2005, and since then, we’ve imagined and created some of the most well-loved products for travelers all around the world.

Today, Wego is the number 1 travel metasearch engine in the Middle East. There are millions of users on Wego every month — people who travel for adventure, for work, for family and for many other reasons. That’s why we work tirelessly to make your experience of planning & booking flights, hotels and trips as seamless as possible.
For more details: https://company.wego.com/, https://geeks.wego.com

About the Role:

We are looking for a passionate and driven engineer to join our multi-cultural engineering team. We continue to grow rapidly and expand our talented team. We are a friendly, geeky bunch and get extremely excited about new technology and innovation, and work hard to incorporate the latest and greatest to improve our product at every turn. If you love to max out your brain space with techy acronyms in an energetic and pioneering atmosphere, then we think you'll fit right in.  

What you will do:

• Working closely with product, UI/UX and backend teams to design, build and improve our mobile apps.
• Applying best practices into what you do and share knowledge to the rest of the team is part of your responsibilities.
• Reviewing your code with your colleagues / internal teams.
• Monitoring the performance of the live apps and work on optimizing them at the code level
• Designing, building, and maintaining high performance, reusable and reliable Kotlin/Java code structure
• Identifying bottlenecks and debugging our android application and improving application performance
• Partnering with backend and front end developers to build new features and integrations  
• Design, develop, and execute unit tests to ensure code quality and functionality.

Requirements

• Have BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related subject.
• Experience in building quality products and experience for users.
• Minimum 4 years of experience in building Android apps.
• Experience in the Android programming languages Java & Kotlin. 
• Strong knowledge of Android SDK, programming languages and fundamental concepts.
• Strong foundations in MVP/OOP principles.
• Experience integrating voice actions, DialogFlow, Google Assistant etc is a plus.