About Us and Why We’re Hiring
We construct “You Want a Finances,” the perfect budgeting software program and schooling sources round. (These within the know name us YNAB, which is pronounced “why-nab.”) For greater than a decade, individuals have been shopping for YNAB after which telling their pals what a distinction it has made of their lives. Google us, or learn a few of our critiques on the app retailer, and also you’ll see what we imply. We love constructing one thing that has an enormous optimistic affect on individuals’s lives.
YNAB is rising, and so is our product staff. We’re a software program ecosystem that features apps for internet, Android, and iOS. We’ve got some massive plans for our Android app, and that’s the place you are available!
We’ve got one overarching requirement relating to becoming a member of our staff: our Core Values Manifesto has to actually click on with you. For those who’re nodding emphatically whereas studying this, you’ll in all probability prefer it right here, and we are able to’t wait to attach with you!
After all, we’ve some agency* necessities too, like 5 years {of professional} software program improvement expertise, and a minimal of 4 years spent writing Android apps.
*Effectively, firm-ish. If you already know you’re a fantastic match for this position however fall somewhat in need of the five-year requirement, we encourage you to go forward and apply. We don’t want you to be the proper candidate on paper.
On an identical be aware, we all know imposter syndrome generally is a highly effective power, and will discourage incredible individuals from making use of. Please apply anyway. Many people right here have it too, so that you’re in good firm.
Okay, let’s discuss life at YNAB, after which we’ll go into element about what we’re on the lookout for.
Who You’d Be Working With
Our engineering staff is about 50 individuals robust, seven of whom are Android builders. We incessantly function in cross-functional groups, so that you’ll get to work with superior individuals from all totally different roles within the firm.
No matter their diversified pursuits, all of our builders have one factor in widespread: they’re a pleasure to work with. You received’t discover heated arguments and raised voices right here. We save our aggressive spirit for YNAB’s exterior opponents (or the occasional full of life board sport session), however internally we construct up our teammates and have fun their successes. All of us like to program and resolve issues in inventive methods, and we often take time to geek out and present one another one thing cool we constructed or discovered to make our lives simpler.
And naturally, as a developer, you’ll work carefully with our superb designers. They’ve the awards (together with at the very least one precise Emmy®) to show they’re good at designing stuff. Extra importantly, they welcome suggestions and ideas in the course of the improvement course of and are pleased to tweak an interplay in the event you inform them it’ll prevent important improvement effort.
How You’ll Work at YNAB
We additionally work actually onerous, collectively, to make working at YNAB a tremendous expertise, and we have been (humbly) proud to be named Fortune’s #1 Greatest Small Firm to Work For the final two years. We’ve got a staff of really distinctive individuals—the type you’ll be excited to work with. Right here’s how we function:
Duty and Empowerment
YNAB appreciates, respects, and trusts the experience and judgment of our builders. We empower them to do what they assume is true.
We additionally work collaboratively. We repeatedly search the correct amount of construction and unity mandatory to maximise productiveness. The place it is sensible, we designate somebody to make a name.
Although our builders are proper so much, it’s okay to make errors right here. Exploration and calculated dangers are very important to velocity and progress. We freely admit once we’re unsuitable. If one thing doesn’t go as anticipated, we study, bounce again, and make corrections.
You received’t be alone; others might be there to assist, assessment, reassure, and again you up. We personal our processes and collective outcomes as a staff.
Dwell (Nearly) Anyplace You Need
We’ve at all times been a completely distant staff, and have individuals everywhere in the world. For this position, you’ll have to be situated someplace between the Pacific Time Zone (UTC-8) and the Central European Time Zone (UTC+1). Wherever you’re, simply be sure to have a dependable web connection.
A 4-Day Work Week with No Outrageous Hours
We’re presently trialing a four-day work week! For us, this implies 4 common days of labor adopted by a three-day weekend…each week. That is new to us, and we’re solely in the midst of a six-month trial, however we’re enthusiastic about what it might imply each for the corporate and our staff members.
We wish everybody to have a full life exterior of YNAB. We seldom work greater than a standard workweek. There have been a number of events the place issues acquired busy and other people needed to put some further time in. However then they took some further day without work, so all of it balances out. We work onerous and sensible however we’re on this for the lengthy haul.
Whereas we do our greatest to allow asynchronous work wherever we are able to, generally we merely want to speak in actual time, for instance, for firm or staff conferences. This implies chances are you’ll have to be versatile together with your working hours, maybe a day or two per week, particularly in the event you stay in our time zones’ western or jap extremes.
Take Trip (Significantly)
We wish you to take trip. In reality, we’ve a minimal trip coverage of three weeks per yr. 5 weeks feels about proper (plus two further weeks for Vacation break). It’s necessary to get loads of downtime and get out and do one thing. We’ll stay up for seeing photos of your adventures in our #office_wall Slack channel.
The YNAB Retreat
When the pandemic isn’t protecting us from touring, we get the entire staff collectively annually. Thus far, we’ve completed Costa Rica, a gigantic cabin within the mountains, a seaside home within the Outer Banks, a ranch in Montana, and most just lately, Laguna Seaside. We do actually enjoyable issues at these retreats, however the spotlight is inevitably simply being collectively and having a blast.
Up Your Sport
We’re severe about serving to you enhance your craft. We price range for it (hey-o!). Suppose conferences, Lynda/Skillshare subscriptions, books, and devoted time away from work to study one thing new. We like to see our individuals develop.
Worldwide is Completely Okay
Our staff is unfold throughout the globe, together with Germany, Switzerland, Mexico, Canada, Brazil, the UK, and everywhere in the United States. We arrange staff members within the US and UK as staff, and people in different nations as impartial contractors.
As talked about above, we’ve a while zone restrictions for this position, however so long as you’re between UTC-8 and UTC+1, we’re good!
Advantages
For full-time W2 staff within the US, we provide incredible well being, dental, and imaginative and prescient insurance coverage, the place we cowl 100% of the premium for you and your loved ones. No have to test your imaginative and prescient, you learn that proper—100%. Though in the event you did have to test your imaginative and prescient, NBD, we’ve acquired you coated!
For full- and part-time W2 staff within the US, we even have a Conventional and Roth 401(ok) choice. YNAB matches your contributions as much as six %, and matches vest instantly. (Are you a private finance junkie like our founder Jesse? He arrange YNAB’s 401k to have the bottom charge construction attainable, the place all plan prices are paid by YNAB, not your retirement nest egg. The funding funds accessible are incredible, passively-managed, extremely low-cost index funds. You’re not a PF junkie? Belief us, it’s superior.) For UK staff, we additionally contribute six % to your pension.
We additionally supply beneficiant paid parental go away for all full-time staff members.
Aggressive Compensation
The beginning wage vary for this place is $131,000-$162,000 yearly. We take into account raises yearly, and have a bi-annual profit-share bonus. YNAB wins, you win—that sort of factor.
Different Tidbits
- When you begin, we DEMAND (in a pleasant, ALL CAPS IS YELLING means) that you just fill out your “Bucket Record” spreadsheet with 50 gadgets. (That’s tougher than it sounds!)
- The bucket listing actually helps in deciding what we must always provide you with to your birthday and the vacations.
- We’re all adults. There’s no have to punch a clock, or ask for permission to take off early one afternoon to go see the physician. We take a look at what you accomplish, not how lengthy you’re in entrance of a pc.
- We wish you firing on all cylinders, so we’ll set you up with a shiny new laptop and change it each three years, and as a cellular developer, a brand new telephone each two years.
- Did we point out that YNAB makes an enormous, optimistic distinction in individuals’s lives? You might not assume that issues a lot, however then a number of months down the highway you’ll notice it’s made your job actually, actually gratifying. Don’t underestimate this one!
- And don’t neglect about that 4-Day Work Week!
If this appears like your ideally suited atmosphere, learn on as a result of now we need to discuss you. You’ll play an enormous half in constructing one thing straightforward and joyful to make use of that helps hundreds of thousands of individuals uncover budgeting as an important monetary and life-planning instrument. You will change lives.
You, Our New Senior Android Developer
You’re a software program developer with over 5 years {of professional}, full-time expertise. You spent at the very least 4 of these years working with Android. You know the way to put in writing easy-to-maintain software program whereas nonetheless maintaining a tally of the roadmap.
You’ll assist us write and preserve options in our Android app.
All of our Android code is in Kotlin. We imagine within the energy of native consumer interfaces and we’re going all in on Compose.
We’ve got a powerful choice for shared enterprise logic throughout our platforms. We’ve got a present code sharing answer primarily based on TypeScript and the V8 engine, however we’re actively investigating migrating to Kotlin Multiplatform.
Our minSdk is 26, we’re transferring in direction of a unidirectional information stream structure, and we use Compose, Coroutines, Move, Dagger, Robolectric, Bitrise CI, and GitHub.
You’re our ideally suited candidate if:
- You might be a superb, senior developer that may adapt to new languages shortly.
- You write code that’s straightforward for different programmers and your future self to know and use.
- You may have in depth expertise with Kotlin and Java.
- You may have performed an important position in constructing, transport, and supporting at the very least one important Android app.
- You may have glorious debugging expertise. You know the way to search out issues and how one can construct apps in order that issues are discoverable within the first place.
- You might be self-motivated and thrive with instructions like:
- “This a part of this system is just too gradual. Can you discover out why?”
- “This part must be re-architected to permit for brand spanking new function X. How do you assume we must always do it?”
- “Our code must name right into a Javascript library, however that Javascript library is crashing as a result of it might’t discover the setTimeout perform. Are you able to examine?”
- You may have an understanding of algorithms and information constructions past arrays and “for loops.” That doesn’t imply it’s important to be a pc science PhD and even that it’s important to know “Massive O” notation, however it is best to know when to make use of a Dictionary/Map, and why discovering a component in a sorted array is quicker than discovering a component in an unsorted array.
- You’re feeling proper at dwelling with Git/GitHub.
- You aren’t (essentially) a safety specialist, however you already know sufficient to be protecting of buyer information and privateness.
- You already use and love YNAB. (Not a requirement, however we’ll provide you with bonus factors for this one.)
Range
YNAB is an equal alternative employer. We imagine a variety of backgrounds, beliefs, talents, and experiences is crucial to our success. We’re captivated with making a welcoming, supportive, and collaborative atmosphere for all staff. All are inspired to use as we proceed to develop a sensible, skilled, and numerous staff that loves working collectively to construct one thing that issues.
The way to Apply
- Apply by filling out this kind. You’ll have to log in to your Google account to entry it.
- The deadline is 11:59 pm PT on Sunday, September 25, 2022.
- Our aim is to make the hiring course of as accessible as attainable. If we may help you with an accessibility want, electronic mail us at lodging@youneedabudget.com. You’ll want to point out within the topic line that you just’re making use of for the Senior Android Developer place. (Please be aware that this inbox is just monitored for messages associated to lodging.)
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P.P.S. For those who’re not on this place proper now, however know somebody who is likely to be, we’d respect you passing this alongside!
