Job Description
Welcome to the intersection of energy and home services. At NRG, we’re driven by the idea of a smarter, cleaner, more connected future—and the possibilities that will bring to the world and to the 7.3 million customers we serve.
Vivint Smart Home, an NRG owned company, is a leading smart home company in the United States, dedicated to redefining the home experience with intelligent products and services. We find purpose in proactively protecting and keeping our customers connected to home, no matter where they are. Join the Smart Home team to create smarter, safer and more sustainable homes. More information is available at www.nrg.com or www.vivint.com. Connect with NRG and Vivint on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and X
The Role:
The Ecosystem team within the Vivint Innovation Center is looking for a Senior Software Engineer on our Android team. You will be working on experiences to support our world-class smart home solutions. We are looking to grow our team of exceptional engineers. Join us and use your passion for engineering cool solutions to create the world's best smart home experience.
What you will do:
- Collaborate closely with software engineers representing other disciplines to build amazing experiences from top to bottom.
- Leverage your technical expertise and interpersonal skills to help the team make great implementation decisions together, including active participation in code reviews and other software lifecycle activities.
- Work in a fast-paced, self-directed, agile environment.
- Research and evaluate new technologies and tools.
- Contribute to new feature development, maintenance, and architectural activities.
- Actively participate in the Android guild with fellow engineers to develop better organization-wide development practices and solve hard problems.
- Participate in a quarterly "Innovation Week" and work on innovative projects of your choice.
- Put smart home products in your own home and experience your work product firsthand.
Who you will work with:
You will be a central part of a cross-functional delivery team focused on building customer experiences through integrations with our energy service providers. You will work closely with product management, program management, QA, UX designers and others. The position resides within the Ecosystem team. We are aligned in priorities and goals, and strong collaboration and employee satisfaction is a hallmark of our efforts. We succeed and fail together. You will find team members to be incredibly bright, driven, helpful, and supportive.
What we're looking for:
- Experience with well-known design patterns
- Experience with Kotlin and/or Java and Android Studio
- Experience with Android SDK and tools, including Jetpack Compose and Coroutines
- Experience building RESTful services
- Experience with Dependency injection (Dagger, Hilt, etc)
- Experience with Unit Testing
- Common software architectural practices and principles (MVC, MVP, MVVM, Clean, SOLID)
- 5+ years relevant work experience
- B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
Skills that are highly desired, but you can learn them on the job:
- Agile development processes (Scrum)
- Mentoring fellow mobile engineers
- Experience with Mobile analytics frameworks
- Driving architectural changes within an organization
- IoT products and services (security, home automation)