Software Engineer, Android - Grammarly

Superhuman offers a full-time dynamic hybrid working model for this role. This flexible approach gives team members the best of both worlds: plenty of focus time along with in-person collaboration that helps foster trust, innovation, and a strong team culture.            

About Superhuman

Grammarly is now part of Superhuman, the AI productivity platform on a mission to unlock the superhuman potential in everyone. The Superhuman suite of apps and agents brings AI wherever people work, integrating with over 1 million applications and websites. The company’s products include Grammarly’s writing assistance, Coda’s collaborative workspaces, Mail’s inbox management, and Go, the proactive AI assistant that understands context and delivers help automatically. Founded in 2009, Superhuman empowers over 40 million people, 50,000 organizations, and 3,000 educational institutions worldwide to eliminate busywork and focus on what matters. Learn more at superhuman.com and about our values here.

The Opportunity

To achieve our ambitious goals, we’re looking for an Android Engineer to join our Mobile Team. In this role, you will have the opportunity to build new features and capabilities that elevate the Superhuman Android experience to a world-class standard.

Superhuman's engineers and researchers have the freedom to innovate and uncover breakthroughs—and, in turn, influence our product roadmap. The complexity of our technical challenges is growing rapidly as we scale our interfaces, algorithms, and infrastructure. You can hear more from our team on our technical blog.

Writing effectively on mobile devices remains challenging, especially in professional settings. The Superhuman AI Writing Assistant was created to make effective and mistake-free writing accessible on mobile. Since its launch in 2023, the writing assistant has gained significant traction, with users interacting with it over seventy times daily.

Creating a seamless writing assistant experience presents unique challenges—there is no room for delays or glitches in a product that people rely on for instant responses. As an Android Engineer on our team, you will:

• Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and Machine Learning teams to bring new ideas from concept to production.
• Contribute to the evolving architecture of our mobile products, ensuring exceptional responsiveness and performance, even in resource-constrained environments.
• Diagnose performance bottlenecks, identify bugs, and drive improvements to deliver a delightful user experience.
• Tackle real-world communication challenges our users face daily, significantly enhancing how people communicate on mobile devices.

Qualifications

• Has 3+ years of relevant experience in designing, developing, and maintaining features for apps published in the Google Play Store.
• Experience with owning and leading projects and/or a small team of engineers.
• Has strong experience in Kotlin.
• Is well-versed in modern Android development patterns, such as MVVM.
• Has solid experience with the Android SDK and commonly used Jetpack libraries.
• Strong knowledge of Android UI design principles, patterns, best practices and building custom UI elements.
• Is skilled in multithreading and optimizing memory and performance for Android.
• Has experience with Kotlin Coroutines and Flow.
• Is proficient in writing and maintaining unit tests and instrumentation tests to ensure high-quality releases.
• Has experience integrating and consuming RESTful APIs.
• Has experience with Mobile CI/CD systems, including automating builds, testing, and deployment processes.
• Has a demonstrated ability to work independently with minimal guidance, proactively manages tasks and priorities across multiple projects, analyzes and executes work efficiently, collaborates effectively with cross-functional teams, and thrives in fast-paced, results-driven environments.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Jetpack Compose.
• Experience with Websockets
• Experience with Android Accessibility Service

Support for you, professionally and personally

• Professional growth: We believe that autonomy and trust are key to empowering our team members to do their best, most innovative work in a way that aligns with their interests, talents, and well-being. We also support professional development and advancement with training, coaching, and regular feedback.
• A connected team: Superhuman builds a product that helps people connect, and we apply this mindset to our own team. Our remote-first hybrid model enables a highly collaborative culture. We work to foster belonging among team members in a variety of ways. This includes our employee resource groups, Superhuman Circles, which promote connection among those with shared identities including BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ team members, women, and parents. We also celebrate our colleagues and accomplishments with global, local, and team-specific programs. 
• Comprehensive benefits for candidates based in Germany: Superhuman offers all team members competitive pay along with a benefits package encompassing life care (including mental health care and risk benefits) and ample and defined time off. We also offer support to set up a home office, wellness and pet care stipends, learning and development opportunities, and more.
• Relocation Support: Superhuman provides comprehensive relocation support to make your move to Berlin seamless. Our package includes visa assistance, destination services to help you and your family settle in comfortably, and a relocation bonus to cover additional expenses, such as housing.

We encourage you to apply

At Superhuman, we value our differences, and we encourage all to apply. Superhuman is an equal-opportunity company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race or ethnic origin, religion or belief, gender, disability, sexual identity, or age.

For more details about the personal data Superhuman collects during the recruitment process, for what purposes, and how you can address your rights, please see the Superhuman Data Privacy Notice for Candidates here.

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