Android Engineer

São Paulo-SP, Brazil or Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil

In 2021, Poatek was acquired by WillowTree, an award-winning digital product consultancy recognized as one of the fastest growing and best places to work in the United States. Now a TELUS International company, with offices across the globe, we continue to partner with the world’s leading brands, such as Capital One, HBO, PepsiCo, Domino’s and more, to design, build, and transform their digital products and strategies. We’re looking to grow our Poatek offices in Brazil with top talent excited to collaborate with team members across the globe to deliver innovative solutions for our clients.

This is a hybrid role. This model requires the ability to work in a hybrid mode from one of our offices in São Paulo (2 times/ week or 8 days/ month) or Porto Alegre (3 times/ week or 12 days/ month). Our office culture is designed to foster in-person innovation, collaboration, and connection with team members local and visiting from other global offices.

Poatek is seeking an experienced Android Engineer to join our team. You will be responsible for architecting, building, and shipping high-quality Android software applications. You’ll provide technical guidance, mentorship, and champion best practices for software development.

• Design and develop high-quality Android software applications


• Build and ship durable, secure, scalable, and always-up software code


• Architect robust networking and data modeling layers


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


• Champion programming best practices and modular design patterns


• Own the delivery of major features and components


• Mentor other developers


• Collaborate and communicate with teams and clients to deliver software in an agile environment


• Improve existing code to make it more maintainable, testable, and elegant


• Practice pair programming


• Write unit tests to ensure code coverage


• Participate in Scrum and/or Kanban processes and ceremonies

• 4+ years of professional programming experience


• Strong understanding of the Android development Lifecycle and ecosystem


• Familiarity with languages, frameworks, and libraries such as 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


• Experience with CI/CD and setting up deployment pipelines


• Familiarity with automated testing frameworks such as Espresso, JUnit, Mockito/Mockk, and Appium


• Experience with Google APIs and SDKs


• Experience with Hilt


• Developed for multiple Android platforms


• Appreciation for inclusive and accessible UI implementations


• Experience using Jetpack Compose


• Experience with emerging technologies such as Machine Learning, Voice, and/or AR/VR

• Flexible hours and autonomy


• Work with cutting edge technologies


• Partner with global and relevant brands in the market


• Collaborative team and learning ecosystem


• Career development plan & growth


• International travel opportunities (optional)

• Health and dental plan


• Life insurance


• Monthly voucher for meals, culture, education, health and mobility


• Child care assistance and more!

WillowTree celebrates our differences and provides equal employment opportunities to all team members and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Diverse teams build better products. We acknowledge that the tech industry especially lacks opportunity for those who are of non-traditional backgrounds and in underrepresented groups. In order to create the best products for everyone, we know that it's important for our team to reflect the diversity of our users, and we are committed to being the change we want to see.