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Delivery Hub is one of inDrive's business units responsible for building and scaling the delivery product, which is rapidly expanding into new markets and adopting an AI-first approach to engineering processes.
You will combine hands-on Android engineering with technical leadership responsibilities. You will own team delivery and execution, define technical direction, ensure solution quality, and support engineers' growth through mentoring and regular 1:1s under the guidance of an Engineering Manager.
Key responsibilities:
- Translate business needs into technical strategy with measurable outcomes, ensuring alignment with global company strategy.
- Identify and propose architectural and technical improvements across product and platform using data and trade-off analysis.
- Advocate, present, and defend technical solutions at the organizational level in collaboration with Product, Data, Security, SRE, and other stakeholders.
- Participate in reviewing product and technical strategies as a subject-matter expert.
- Lead technical research and implementation to create or improve services and systems.
- Write clean, effective, and maintainable code based on company standards; participate in improving company-wide code review standards.
- Take ownership of and improve the Android development lifecycle.
- Help engineers grow and increase their productivity.
- Create effective processes for knowledge sharing and collaborative work; increase reuse of best practices across teams.
- Lead task decomposition, mentor engineers, and contribute to engineering guidelines.
Requirements:
- 6+ years of commercial Android development; expert in Kotlin and modern Android APIs.
- Hands-on experience with Retrofit/OkHttp, Coroutines/Flow (plus RxJava for legacy), Jetpack (Compose, WorkManager), Google Maps, FCM, and Gradle.
- Proven experience with CI/CD (GitHub Actions/GitLab CI), feature flags, and large-scale A/B experimentation.
- Strong grasp of offline storage, concurrency, performance tuning, and network debugging.
- Practical expertise in Clean Architecture and mainstream patterns (MVI/MVVM/MVP) applied in production.
- Deep understanding of client-server interaction and how to make it efficient; knowledge of specific features and limitations for various use cases.
- Proven record of mentoring and technical leadership, shaping processes, and raising engineering quality across teams.
- Strong grasp of backend-service principles, API design, networking, concurrency, and performance optimization.
- Experience setting up telemetry, dashboards, and automated alerts for production systems; risk assessment and mitigation.
- Exceptional communication, strategic thinking, and influence; able to drive alignment across multiple teams.
- AI-first mindset and readiness to adopt AI tools in engineering processes.
- Real backend development experience is a strong plus.
