Android Engineer mfx

At SuitePad were shaping the hotel room of the future!

SuitePad is a Berlinbased SasS Hardware company focused on hotel tech.We deliver hotels aggregated content entertainment and services through inroom tablets and other software and hardwaresolutions. The depth and quality of our services have made us the market leader for inroom guest communication in more than 90000 hotel rooms across the globe. Our customers include renowned international hotel groups like Jumeirah Meli and Van der Valk. As a team we are proud of the industry recognition we have received (Hotel Tech Report Hotelverband Deutschland (IHA) Gastro Vision and more). Our mission is to provide a reliable effective and delightful platform for guest communication.

A unique challenge

Our mission is to help hotels engage their guests in a digital world through our software and hardwaresolutions. Apart from acting as a communication medium you will be working at the intersection of Hardware and Software. Our Android stack ranges from userfacing applications (e.g. TV remote control & VoIP client) to applications related to our fleet management.

We believe that this variety of our Android projects provides a truly unique opportunity for anyone interested in the Android ecosystem.

Tasks

• A range of applications to enhance the inroom experience for hotel guests
• Work with a fleet of Android devices and tablets running our custom AOSP ROMs and suite of native and hybrid (Cordova) Android apps
• Improve testability and maintainability of the current code base by applying best practices and leveraging the latest compatible frameworks for Java Kotlin and Android.
• You will need to push the limits of our custom Android tablets by reverseengineering and discovering ways of doing things that arent publicly documented and no other hardware makers are doing
• Help us explore how to expand our existing infrastructure into the IOT space as we prepare to design and launch new custom hardware
• Your daytoday responsibilities will also include troubleshooting and liaising with staff from other departments

Requirements

• A degree with a background in computer science or similar
• Deep understanding of modern Android development practices and tooling
• You have a solid foundation in writing Object Oriented code
• Experience working with Kotlin and Java
• Understanding of Unix operating systems: e.g. permissions processes file systems etc.
• You see tasks related to release cycles and monitoring as important as coding
• Fluent in English: both written and spoken
• You have the permission to live and work in the EU

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of AOSP Android system hidden APIs and the internals of the Android OS and Linux
• Experience with embedded systems Raspberry Pi Odroid or IoT devices in general
• Familiar with Cloud IoT services (from AWS or Google)
• Experience with Test Case Management

Benefits

Our Android Stack

We work closely with the operating systems internals to create an ecosystem of functionalities around our Androidpowered platform: web browsing VoIP networking system customization device management and provisioning to name a few.

This makes for an especially broad tech stack. Alongside the traditional Kotlin/Java stack that you would expect from an Android role we heavily use scripting languages such as Python Shell and Node.js. We dive deep into AOSP the Android boot sequence hidden system APIs and the network layer.

How we work

• We are a team of lighthearted and international Frontend Backend and Android Engineers.
• We encourage teammates to bring in wellreasoned opinions productively disagree with us and make decisions based on technical merits we make evidencebased decisions as a team.
• We believe in Servant Leadership.
• We respect each others worklife balance.
• We uphold high code quality standards that are enforced via CI static analysis and code reviews as we strive to reduce the total cost of ownership.
• We practice agile methodologies that fit our team size a Kanbanlight approach.

We offer

• A team of excellent international engineers to work with and 50 other colleagues looking forward to your support
• A product with global traction
• Swift decision making
• A high degree of autonomy in your work
• A personal training budget of 1000 EUR mobility benefits 30 days of vacation per calendar year home office days and great team events
• A modern office right in central Berlin and of course free drinks and healthy fruit included :)

If you like what we do here at SuitePad and look forward to working with us apply here!

Show us anything that you are proud of! Be it your open source code Github links to projects you have worked on blog posts etc.

Were looking forward to getting to know you!