Senior Android Engineer, Burner
App for creating temporary phone numbers
Open for applications
App for creating temporary phone numbers
21-100 employees
Open for applications
21-100 employees
Company mission
To build best-in-class software products that empower millions of customers with better control of their privacy,c communications, and identity.
Role
Who you are
- You have at least 5 years of experience in Android development
- You have experience maintaining and improving legacy code bases
- You know how to take complicated code and turn it into simple, testable, low-maintenance code
- You know how to build Android UI with Compose or XML
- You've implemented flexible and testable navigation abstractions
- You've worked with MVI and/or MVVM architectures
- You have a fundamental grasp of functional programming techniques
- You're comfortable with coroutines and reactive streams
- You know how to safely migrate a database
- You've optimized build times both locally and in CI environments
- You verify your work with automated tests that are simple to understand and maintain
- You're comfortable with using extreme programming
Desirable
- Experience building communication app like calling or messaging
- Experience building offline-friendly apps
- Experience using Kotlin Multiplatform in production
What the job involves
- We are highly collaborative and often engage real-time via pair and group programming sessions
- As a member of our team, you'll be expected to do the same, and we hope that excites you
- Create new features and develop prototypes
- Actively mitigate technical debt
- Look for gains in effectiveness and efficiency in every aspect
- Lend your expertise to inform prioritization of work
- Troubleshooting customer issues
- Support other teams
Our take
Whilst burner phones have an understandably shady reputation, the ability to make and receive calls & texts whilst protecting your personal information has a broad and by-the-book range of use cases. Not only does it promote better security when giving out your number - say for online dating, or putting up Craigslist ads - it also tallies with a broader push towards data protection more generally.
The Burner app, started by Ad Hoc Labs back in 2012, has been offering this service long before data privacy became a hot-button topic. The app reroutes incoming calls to a temporary number purchased by users, and it is then forwarded to their device.
Burner appears to have been growing steadily since launching back in 2012, adding features like the ‘GhostBot’ and inter-app connectivity. It remains one of the go-to burner number apps, in a market that has been growing since its launch. With competitors like Hushed and CoverMe offering more options globally, and Sideline offering its service for free, Burner may have to stay focused on sharpening its offerings to stay ahead.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
Company
Funding (1 round)
Oct 2013
$2m
SERIES A
Total funding: $2m
Company benefits
- Be Well: Full health and dental coverage for employees, dependents, and domestic partners
- Invest in Your Future: Get a 401k with a 4% company match
- Develop Your Career: Invest in your future with paid training, conferences, and online learning
- Get Fully Equipped: Apple laptop, test devices, second monitor - get whatever you need to do your best work
- Work in Style: Get a stipend to improve your remote setup, or use our safety-first office space in LA
- Lots More: From parental leave to charitable giving matches, and more
Company values
- Better Together: Our unique experiences, opinions, and backgrounds help us design great mobile tools for all users. We are building a diverse and inclusive company and we encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds
- Communicate Freely: Communicating freely and safely is fundamental to our products and our team. We value proactive communication that is asynchronous first, prioritizing work velocity and effectiveness over meeting hours
- Commit to the Collective: Everyone at Ad Hoc Labs is willing to roll up their sleeves and they expect the same of others. We help each other get the job done. In joining us, you can expect autonomy, trust, and accountability
- Data > Opinions: We strive for excellence in our products and in our team. We value exceptional individuals who can bring an entrepreneurial mindset and their own hypotheses to the table — and then prove them out with data
Company HQ
Silver Lake, Los Angeles, CA
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Leadership
Greg Cohn
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously co-founder at Auctions for Change, then joined Yahoo! as the Director of Strategy and Business Development. Moved on to serve as their Senior Director, Global Head of Product for Social Monetization & Games.
Will Carter
(Co-Founder)After working as Director of Technology at iconmobile LLC, they worked as a Senior Researcher at Nokia. They then moved on to the role of Director at Nodesnoop Labs.
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