Senior Android Engineer

San Francisco, CA

About Imgur

Imgur is the best place to share and enjoy the most awesome images on the Internet. Every day, millions of people use Imgur to be entertained and inspired by funny, heartwarming and helpful images and stories from all around the world.More than 60 billion images are viewed on Imgur each month, and Comscore ranks Imgur among the top 100 sites in the US.

Senior Android Engineer

About Imgur:

Imgur was founded in 2009 as a simple image hosting platform and over the past seven years has evolved into the world’s largest image sharing community. We have grown from having 46,000 page views per month in February 2009 to over seven billion page views per month in February 2016 (with 900 billion images viewed in 2015 alone). We are now a top-15 visited site in the United States and our opportunity for future growth is massive. 

Imgur is positivity at scale. Our vision is to lift the world’s spirits for a few moments every day. We accomplish this by surfacing the world’s most entertaining content. With every submission having the potential to go viral, our highly-engaged community is integrally important to our product and we want to ensure we continually delight and surprise our users.

The Role:

Our Android team is focused on innovation within the Imgur app, constantly improving both the technical foundation and the user interface. You will be making large contributions to building out an application that is actively used by millions of people. As we have shifted to a mobile first company, you will be developing exciting new features for our app that will make a huge impact for our Imgur community.

Your Responsibilities:

  • Take ownership of essential components in the Imgur app, impacting the whole Imgur community
  • Tackle tough software problems at the core of the Imgur experience
  • Brainstorm new ideas to continually iterate and improve the Imgur mobile experience
  • Build an amazing experience for the millions of people who will be using the products/features you create and work on
  • Strive for long-term growth as a software engineer inside and outside of Android

What You Bring To The Table:

  • B.S. or higher in Computer Science, or equivalent in work experience
  • Minimum of 3+ years Android development experience
  • Experience with web technologies (JavaScript, CSS, HTML5)
  • 5+ years of general software development
  • Enthusiasm for Android development
  • A passion for beautiful, pragmatic code paired with a strong sense of product design
  • Love for the Imgur product

Some libraries we use:

  • Retofit 2.0
  • RxJava with RxAndroid
  • OkHttp
  • Glide