Senior Android Engineer

About Brave

Brave is on a mission to protect the human right to privacy online. We’ve built a free web browser that blocks creepy ads and trackers by default, a private search engine with a truly independent index, a browser-native crypto wallet, and a private ad network (opt-in!) that directly rewards you for your attention. And we’re just getting started. Already 50 million people have switched to Brave for a faster, more private web. Millions more switch every month. The internet is a sea of ads, hackers, and echo chambers. Big Tech makes huge profits off our data, and tells us what’s true and what’s not. Brave is fighting back. Join us!

Job brief

Brave browser for Android is on a strong growth trajectory. We are looking to hire an experienced Android developer to design, build, and maintain the Android version of the Brave web browser. Brave is receiving great reviews in the Google Play store and we’re just getting started. Work together with our developers and privacy/security experts to help us take our browser to the next level.

Responsibilities will include:

• Develop and maintain the Android version of the Brave web browser.
• Working closely in collaboration with the product and design teams. Provide guidance on best implementation.
• Write maintainable code, applying testing responsibly. Collaborate with others on the brave-core team (desktop and Android) to formulate best practices.
• Work alongside privacy and security experts to help provide a secure and private experience for our users.
• Work with the open source community on GitHub – help guide contributors by being transparent about our work items and helping review externally submitted work. Contribute back to the community when possible (improving an open source library we use, etc).

 Required qualifications:

• 5+ years experience with Android development
• Strong Java development skills
• Working experience with writing C++ code
• Android Studio and/or Eclipse IDE experience
• Demonstrated experience developing for material design
• Android SDK, NDK, and JNI experience
• Experience with software development via distributed development teams
• Comfortable working in an open source setting
• A passion for helping protect users’ privacy and security

Working at Brave

• Industry-leader in privacy, with a research and engineering team that’s innovating everyday to keep people safer online and beat Big Tech
• Highly competitive salaries & benefits, and generous home-office stipends
• Fully remote team (no office, no commute)
• Welcoming, humble, ridiculously smart teammates, and a truly flat org structure
• Opportunity to get in early at a hyper-growth company, and revolutionize the web
• Oh, and did we mention Brendan, our CEO & co-founder, invented JavaScript?