Who We Are
UnitedMasters is building a marketplace that connects artists, brands and fans - empowering artists to earn and grow. UnitedMasters has taken the bold step of building a music distribution service that, radically, puts artists first - disrupting the legacy music business by letting up-and-coming artists distribute their music directly to fans through streaming services while maintaining ownership of their master recording rights and up to 100% of royalties. Through the combination of UnitedMasters’ music distribution platform and its deep ties to brands, UnitedMasters enables independent artists and change-makers to grow and earn unlike any other platform.
The UnitedMasters team is made up of musicians, marketers, engineers, and storytellers with backgrounds from YouTube, SoundCloud, Pandora, Facebook, Uber, Dropbox, Complex, VICE, and more. We work hand in hand with the award-winning creative teams that forge those innovative partnerships at Translation (our in-house creative advertising agency).
We are looking for a Sr. Software Engineer, Android to join UnitedMasters!
What You'll Do
This is a unique opportunity to help improve our main Android application using the latest code and architecture offerings, to modernize this key part of our product.
- Build features to improve our Android application, a key company asset built on the latest and greatest technologies.
- Work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to understand the needs of the application and establish a technical plan for executing on the project.
- Follow best practices and architecture design to develop features which will be easily maintainable and extensible for years to come.
- Break down complex product tasks into iterative milestones with a focus on rapid experimentation.
- Mentor other engineers, collaborate, and help power a high-performance engineering team.
- Help refine our engineering practices and improve code quality.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Expert in Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, and native Android development, with experience building all areas of complex consumer applications.
- Expert in delivering beautiful, world-class user experiences within the Android ecosystem.
- Ability to write understandable, testable code with an eye towards maintainability.
- Ability to clearly explain complex technical concepts to designers, support, and other engineers.
- Excellent communication and teaching skills; able to teach others technical concepts.
- Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, programming languages, distributed systems, and information retrieval.
- Ability to take ambiguous requirements in complex domains and distill them down into actionable tasks.
Minimum Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience building native Android apps with Kotlin and Java.
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, related field or equivalent related professional experience.
Preferred Qualifications
- Hands-on experience building Android apps at scale.
- Experience fast-paced startups.
- Experience launching applications internationally.
- Expertise in other languages and frameworks, particularly GraphQL and Python.
About UnitedMasters, Inc.
UnitedMasters has over 1.5 million artists on its platform and is growing rapidly. Brands like Diageo, Ally, and ESPN come to UnitedMasters to partner with these artists and play a role in moving culture forward. In the past year, UnitedMasters subscribers have grown rapidly. With $170M raised to date and valued at $550M, UnitedMasters is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Apple, Alphabet (aka Google), and Disney amongst others. Over the last year, UnitedMasters artists have used our platform to land sync deals with major brands including the NBA, ESPN, Overtime Elite, Bose, Warner Brother Studios and in the NBA video game 2k. These deals give them additional money for their work and increase their exposure.
Salary Hiring Range: $160,000 - $195,000
Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for our size and industry, and are one part of many compensation, benefits and other reward opportunities we provide (e.g. bonus, stock options, 401(k) match, etc.)
Individual pay rate decisions are based on a number of factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, skillset, and balancing internal equity relative to peers at the company. We expect the majority of the candidates who are offered roles at our company to fall healthily throughout the range based on these factors.
The range above is for the expectations as laid out in the job description, however we are often open to a wide variety of profiles, and recognize that the person we hire may be less experienced (or more senior) than this job description as posted. If that ends up being the case, the updated salary range will be communicated with you as a candidate.
The salary range above is for the NY/CA. As a company, we have a location based strategy, which means the salary range could be lower or higher than this if the role is hired in another location.
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