Senior Software Engineer (Android)

Who We Are

Welcome to TELUS Digital — where innovation drives impact at a global scale. As an award-winning digital product consultancy and the digital division of TELUS, one of Canada’s largest telecommunications providers, we design and deliver transformative customer experiences through cutting-edge technology, agile thinking, and a people-first culture.

With a global team across North America, South America, Central America, Europe, and APAC, we offer end-to-end expertise across eight core service areas: Digital Product Consulting, Digital Marketing Services, Data & AI, Strategy Consulting, Business Operations Modernization, Enterprise Applications, Cloud Engineering, and QA & Test Engineering.

From mobile apps and websites to voice UI, chatbots, AI, customer service, and in-store solutions, TELUS Digital enables seamless, trusted, and digitally powered experiences that meet customers wherever they are — all backed by the secure infrastructure and scale of our multi-billion-dollar parent company.

Location and Flexibility

Our Senior Software Engineers are integral parts of our team at TELUS Digital. To help retain our deep culture of collaboration, this role will maintain an in-office presence in a hybrid capacity (Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays) out of one of our office locations.

The Opportunity

TELUS Digital is hiring empathetic, curious developers to join our growing team. We work in a dynamic and fulfilling atmosphere, helping our clients’ ideas come to life by building robust mobile and web applications. Our Android technologies vary by project, so we value flexibility and willingness to learn. Our goal is to build amazing solutions for our clients, and our Mobile experience is a crucial part of how we deliver on that promise.

Responsibilities

• Confidently deliver high-quality software by applying critical thinking to products, requirements, and processes

• Work closely with clients to influence technical product decisions and business goals

• Stay up to date with the landscape of software engineering best practices, tools, and frameworks

• Have professional programming experience — we’re thinking at least 5 years

• Understand various software architectures and adapt/compose solutions to unique problems with sustainable and reusable solutions

• Help mentor and coach a project team towards shared goals and outcomes

• Navigate difficult conversations by providing constructive feedback to teams and clients

• Identify obstacles to ensure quality, improve user experience, and optimize how we build software

• Be self-aware of limitations, yet curious to learn new solutions while being receptive to constructive feedback from teammates

• Guide your team to understand and work through changing priorities by bringing positive energy

• Communicate and simplify complex problems to foster understanding across multidisciplinary teams

• Apply your knowledge and findings at an organizational scale

Qualifications

• Driven by curiosity and enthusiastic about learning new technologies

• Motivated by solving problems and finding creative solutions

• Believe in autonomy and taking initiative

• Have professional programming experience — we’re thinking at least 5 years

• Have built and shipped code that is durable, secure, scalable, and always up and running

• Have a strong understanding of the Android development lifecycle and ecosystem including languages, frameworks, and libraries e.g., Java, Kotlin, Room, Coroutines/Flow, RxJava, Dagger 2, Gradle, Fragments, OkHttp3, Retrofit or Volley

• Comfortable using IDEs, version control such as Git, and/or command line tools

• Familiarity with CI/CD (e.g., Jenkins, CircleCI, Azure, GitHub Actions) and experience setting up deployment pipelines

• Frequently use frameworks such as Espresso, JUnit, Mockito/Mockk to write automated tests for your code

• Can architect robust networking and data modeling layers

• Have owned the delivery of major features and components

• Champion programming best practices (SOLID) and are well-versed in different modular design and component-based architectural patterns e.g., MVC, MVVM

• Proactively identify risks and approach them with a solution-oriented mindset

• Able to provide recommendations on the best ways to solve a problem for a particular platform

• Consider 'big picture' perspectives and balance business goals with technical constraints

• Experience working in Agile-based projects including Scrum and/or Kanban processes and ceremonies

• Enjoy mentoring other developers

Bonus Points

• Experience with the code signing and distribution process

• Experience using Google APIs and SDKs like 1Password, Analytics SDKs, Car Play, sensor experience

• Experience with automated testing frameworks like Appium

• Experience with Hilt

• Developed for multiple Android platforms (Android TV, ChromeOS, Amazon Fire, Android Auto, wearables, Android Auto)

• Appreciation for inclusive and accessible UI implementations

• Experience using Jetpack Compose

• Worked with emerging technologies like Machine Learning, Voice, and/or AR/VR

• Have code samples or a GitHub account to share and while you’re there, check us out!

Why TELUS Digital?

We offer a place to be yourself.

At Telus Digital, we value innovation, collaboration, and diversity. We provide a platform where your leadership will directly impact the future of digital transformation. You will have the opportunity to work with top-tier clients, leading teams through cutting-edge projects that shape the future of business operations. We support our team members with professional development opportunities, an inclusive culture, and a commitment to personal growth.

We are committed to creating a workplace that embraces diversity and equal opportunities for all.

Equal Opportunity Employer 

At TELUS Digital, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. All aspects of employment, including the decision to hire and promote, are based on applicants’ qualifications, merits, competence and performance without regard to any characteristic related to diversity.

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