Remote Android + Executive + Mobile + Web Developer Jobs

\nCome and work at the Associated Press alongside some of the most talented technologists in any industry.  The AP is the largest and most trusted source of independent newsgathering in the world, with deep technology roots, and a passion and track record for using the latest technology to deliver world class customer experiences.\n\nThe AP seeks a Senior Web and Mobile Architect to lead an engineering team that envisions, builds and evolves our advertising-driven direct-to-consumer products, including the AP News website http://www.apnews.com and our mobile apps on the iOS and Android platforms. As the leader of the AP News engineering team you will be responsible for all aspects of technology delivery and be a thought-leader among the advertising, product and editorial teams, bringing insight and vision as AP grows direct-to-consumer revenue.  And as a member of the development team, you will make significant hands-on contributions, leveraging your engineering expertise to build, deploy and support a cloud-based content management platform that delivers news to 2/3 of the world’s population every day.\n\nResponsibilities\n\n\n* Lead and evolve the development team using cutting edge engineering practices\n\n* Become an expert on AP’s direct-to-consumer stack (web, mobile, backend), identifying  transformation opportunities related to stability, agility, security and fit for future roadmap\n\n* Translate business and editorial requirements into architectural vision and implementation details\n\n* Ensure the security, scalability and performance of the web and mobile platforms to a global audience, particularly during breaking news events\n\n* Develop, code, test, deploy and support the platform as a hands-on member of the team\n\n\n\n\nQualifications\n\n\n* 10+ years hands-on experience building highly scalable consumer facing websites and mobile applications\n\n* 5+ years’ experience as the leader of an engineering team setting architectural vision\n\n* Hands-on experience with most of the following technologies:\n\n\n* Google Cloud Platform including AppEngine and Cloud Storage \n\n* Amazon Web Services including compute and storage technologies\n\n\n\n\n\n* Python, Django/DRF, Postgres, Sphinx, Swagger\n\n* Redis/Memcache, Elastic Search\n\n* TypeScript, ReactJS, NodeJS, MobX, Koa\n\n* iOS and Android: Kotlin, XCode, Swift, RealmSwift, Firebase, Facebook SDK\n\n* Google Ads, Taboola, Nativo and other ad stack technologies\n\n\n\n\n\n* Deep experience with video and photo publishing workflow and content management, including optimization and delivery of video to consumer channels such as YouTube and other social networks\n\n* Experience architecting and implementing caching solutions using best of breed techniques, including both client and server-side rendering and use of vendor caching technologies\n\n* Experience architecting, building, and deploying well-reviewed, highly trafficked media driven apps for both iOS and Android platforms, including specific approval workflow for each app provider\n\n* Experience automating the testing and deployment of multi-tiered web solutions in a continuous deployment model\n\n* Experience integrating advertising stack technologies including video ad unit placement\n\n* Experience exploiting and implementing best of breed search engine optimization techniques\n\n* Some experience and perspective with commercial content management solutions and ability to lead a technical evaluation and potential transformation (i.e. Drupal, WordPress, etc)\n\n\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n

**About GooseChase**\n\nGooseChase is a rapidly growing, fully remote web and mobile platform for creating and facilitating scavenger hunts. Through our website, organizers create custom "hunts" for anything from on-boarding new employees, touring museums, engaging at festivals, educating students and more! Participants can compete as teams or individuals to submit photo/video, text or GPS based missions through our native Android and iOS apps.\n\nThe key aspects of our platform are:\n\n* Game Manager (Web): The game manager is where game organizers create and manage their scavenger hunt games. We have an incredible number of different use cases for our platform, with various levels of organizer experience, making this a crucial interface for us to get right!\n* iOS & Android Apps: When someone participates in a GooseChase, they do so using our native mobile applications. The primary flows here are (i) finding & joining the right game, (ii) completing the missions via photos, videos, text responses & GPS check-ins, and (iii) staying up to date & engaged in the game via direct messages, announcements and bonuses from the game organizer. People can get very competitive when playing, so creating a seamless experience that doesn’t get in the way makes a big difference.\n\nBecause of the flexibility and ease-of-use of our product, we have successfully powered game types ranging from festival-wide competitions, with thousands of dollars in prizes, to K-12 classroom lessons on government types, featuring gummy bears to help demonstrate the differences between a dictatorship and a democracy! \n\nSeeing the different ways the product can be used, and the joy it creates in those who participate is an incredibly rewarding experience & is something we’d love to share with you as well! You'll also be having a major impact as our apps have been responsible for ~10M submissions in the last year alone!\n\n**Perks**\n\n* Fully remote work - work whenever/wherever/however you want.\nCompetitive compensation & benefits, including stipends for equipment, co-working spaces, etc.\n* Join a company that is profitable & growing quickly, but still prioritizes doing the right thing above all else.\n* Significant learning opportunities - whether it’s learning about other parts of the business or taking on more responsibility, we expect everyone on the team to be continually looking to grow.\n\n\n\n# Responsibilities\n We are looking for an enthusiastic individual to work with our Lead Product Designer as part of our growing design team. You’ll have the opportunity to research & create new, exciting features for our game organizers & participants. You will work closely with our customers and collaborate with our product & revenue teams to ensure we’re building the right thing in a beautiful, usable way. \n\nSpecific responsibilities include:\n\n* Being familiar and up-to-date with existing platform functionality and the use cases our customers have for those features.\n* Taking ownership of ideas all the way from the initial prototype phase to the final high-fidelity mockups phase and conducting the required customer & internal stakeholder research to get there.\n* Participating as an integral member of the product team - we’re looking for someone who will readily work with the engineering team to understand existing design patterns for cost-effective development, while still prioritizing user delight! \n* Collaborating with the marketing team to create and design a mesmerizing story that immerses our customers in their journey through the product.\n* Working under limited supervision with significant latitude for the use of initiative and independent judgment.\n \n\n# Requirements\nThe candidate for this position must have:\n* 3+ years of product or UI/UX design experience.\n* A strong portfolio that highlights your ability to take concepts & turn them into highly usable, beautiful designs that achieve the desired business goals.\n* An ability to take ownership of work, maintaining high standards of design quality despite limited supervision.\n* Experience with standard design tools such as Sketch, Invision, etc. \n* Excellent written & verbal communication skills - as you may be occasionally writing customer-facing copy, there’s a strong preference for native or near-native fluency in English.\n* Regular working hours within the UTC-8 (PST) to UTC+2 (CEST) time zones to ensure sufficient overlap with our distributed product team.\n\nAlthough not required, it would be a big plus if the candidate:\n* Had past experience working with smaller teams, especially in a remote setting.\n* A passion for great stories! \n \n\nPlease mention the words **GREEN SOAP BORROW** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xNDY=). This is a feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Mobile, Design, Product Designer, Executive, Web Developer, Digital Nomad and Android jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $120,000/year\n \n\n#Location\nUTC-8 to UTC+2 (Americas/Europe/Africa)