Senior Android Developer Software Development Remote - South Africa

Storyteller; South Africa; Remote; ZAR 900,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Up to ZAR 1,000,000 salary

Fully remote work opportunity

33 Days Paid Leave

Exciting growth product

Latest hardware and tech stack

Job summary

A leading B2B SaaS platform is seeking an experienced Android Developer to join their fully remote team based in South Africa. The ideal candidate will have 4-8 years of commercial Android development experience, strong Kotlin skills, and a solid understanding of Android architecture. This role offers a competitive salary and benefits, including 33 days of paid leave. Candidates should possess a high standard of code quality and the ability to mentor others.

Qualifications

• In-depth knowledge of Android internals is crucial.
• 4 - 8 years of commercial Android experience required.
• 2 years of experience with Jetpack Compose ideal.
• Kotlin skills and Coroutines experience necessary.
• Familiarity with Git and REST APIs is a must.

Responsibilities

• Lead projects from conception to delivery.
• Improve internal practices and introduce new tech.
• Translate business objectives into tech plans.
• Provide mentorship to junior developers.
• Triage and fix urgent production issues.

Skills

In-depth knowledge of the Android platform and its internals

Commercial Android experience (4-8 years)

Experience with Jetpack Compose (2 years)

Strong Kotlin skills and experience with Coroutines

Experience with Gradle

Experience with REST APIs and Git

Familiarity with Android architectural patterns

Experience with Continuous Integration

Unit testing and test frameworks experience

Strong written and spoken English

Education

Degree in Computer Science or related discipline

Tools

Hilt

Dagger

ExoPlayer

Flutter

React Native

Job description

🇿🇦Up to ZAR 1,000,000salary on a full time, permanent employment contract
🌎 Fully remote working anywhere in South Africa!
🏖️ 33 Days Paid Leave and Benefits
✨ Exciting high growth product, relied on by leading global sports brands
💻 Working with the latest hardware, tech stack and tools

About us

Storyteller is a high growth B2B SaaS platform, which allows companies to integrate Stories into their owned and operated platforms. Popularized by Instagram and Snapchat, Stories are perfectly suited for boosting user engagement, audience retention, and driving advertising revenue.

Our end‑to‑end platform gives companies a best‑in‑class Stories experience in days with native iOS, Android, and Web SDKs, publishing tools, analytics, and ad support.

We work with many globally recognised clients, particularly within sport, so if you're a sporting fan this could be a great fit!

Responsibilities

What can you expect?

Improve internal technical practice and processes; identify and introduce relevant new technology

Lead projects end-to-end, from conception to delivery

Translate business objectives into clear technical plans

Be a standard-bearer for code quality across the company

Proactively identify and execute work without a detailed brief

Collaborate with other team leads to drive company-wide cohesion and efficiency

Partner with non-technical teams to elevate overall technical output

Provide technical guidance and mentoring to less experienced developers

Liaise with project management when technical input is needed

Evolve our DevOps tools and processes to enable rapid delivery

Reduce technical debt thoughtfully and consistently

Triage and fix urgent production issues, sharing learnings afterwards

Help define product and system architecture

Build and maintain reusable software by contributing to our Storyteller Android SDK

Eventually, we'd like you to:

Take full ownership of your outcomes

Raise team quality through thoughtful reviews and feedback

Create clear tasks, plans, and estimates

Prioritise effectively when trade-offs are required

Lead client communication and delivery when needed

Qualifications

What's important to us:

In-depth knowledge of the Android platform and its internals

4 - 8 years of commercial Android experience

2 years of experience with Jetpack Compose

Experience with Hilt and Dagger

Strong Kotlin skills and experience with Coroutines

Experience with Gradle

Experience with REST APIs and Git

Familiarity with Android architectural patterns

Experience with Continuous Integration

Experience with Clean Architecture, MVI, and MVVM

Experience with unit testing and test frameworks

Strong written and spoken English

What’s nice to have:

A degree in Computer Science or a related discipline

Solid object-oriented design practices

Open-source contributions (an active GitHub is a plus)

Experience creating and publishing Android libraries

ExoPlayer

Flutter

React Native

Recruitment Process

First – you’ll have an initial call with one of our hiring team, where you’ll discuss your background and experience, and have the opportunity to learn more about the role and our company.

If we think there's a fit, we’ll invite you to complete a short technical test so you can show us what you’re capable of doing (you’ll be compensated for it).

Next – you’ll be invited to a technical interview with Filip, Head of Mobile and Artem, Senior Android Developer, where we’ll share more details about the role and answer any questions you may have.

Finally – we’ll then invite you to meet Filip, Artem, and Dave, our CTO, to go through any other questions.