Full-Time Job: Android Software Engineer, Los Altos, CA (Box)
Job Title: Android Engineer
Job location: Los Altos, CA
Employer: Box
Employment Type: Full-Time Job
Job Description
As an Android developer, you will join a small, tight-knit group bringing our award-winning web-based cloud content management platform to mobile devices. Passion, excitement, and the drive to create amazing products are all musts; you want nothing more than to take advantage of cutting edge technology to delight customers. In addition, you will be working with the biggest device manufacturers and major carriers to define how phones and tablets interact with the cloud. We regularly meet with companies like Samsung to talk about and work on the future of content on mobile devices.
As Android adoption has now eclipsed iOS it has become critically important to Box and it will only become more of a focus. We’re looking for passionate engineers to drive new feature development on the Android platform. Our ideal candidate will have Java experience and the ability to learn new technologies and frameworks quickly. You will have product sensibilities and the ability to communicate with many people across departments.
Joining Box means you’ll be on the cutting edge of content management, leading the development of a critical application for over 5 million users and 60 thousand businesses. You’ll also play an instrumental role in shaping the future of the cloud on mobile devices by working with the biggest players in the field. With our popular iOS devices, recent Android launch and our upcoming desktop presence, Box is poised to define how people access their cloud-based content across all devices.
Android Engineer | Requirements:
- 4-year degree from a top-notch Comptuer Science or comparable program
- Exceptional Java development skills
- 1+ years experience building Android native applications
- Strong knowledge of related CS theory: MVC, OOP, threading
- Experienced with learning new frameworks on a variety of platforms
- Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience developing highly rated and popular applications for Android
- Web application work experience
Company Description:
Box (www.box.net), is about simple, secure sharing. We’re leading the way for individuals, small businesses, and enterprises to share, collaborate, and store content online. Box currently has more than 7 million users and 100 thousand businesses clients (including 77% of the Fortune 500), serves over 1 million files every day, and has over 4,500 developers using its APIs. Additionally, Box ranked #2 Best Place to Work within Mid-Sized Companies of the Bay Area by the Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal, and #4 on the San Francisco Business Times list of Fastest Growing Private Companies.
In October, we raised $81 million in additional funding to help enterprises worldwide move information and collaboration to the cloud, and have built a powerful ecosystem of next-generation enterprise applications. We’re still privately held and key investors include Andreessen-Horowitz, Emergence Capital, Meritech, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, US Venture Partners, and Scale Venture Partners. The new investment brings Box’s total capital raised to $162 million.