Software Engineer, Android

About SmartNews

News should be for everyone. But not when it’s buried under cat videos—or when your internet is spotty—or when it’s in a filter bubble. That’s why we created SmartNews.

Our mission is to discover and deliver quality stories to the world. To accomplish this:
We are a machine learning company. News should be impartial, trending and trustworthy. Our algorithms evaluate millions of articles, social signals and human interactions to deliver the top 0.01% of stories that matter most, right now.
We love content. News should be sustainable. We support quality journalism and respect publishers by sharing article traffic and revenue.

Please note that we will only consider you for one application at a time.

Position

Responsibilities

• Design and implement new user-facing features in SmartNews
• Analyze and optimize UI and back-end application code for efficiency and performance
• Optimize mobile applications on the Android platform
• Develop prototypes quickly

Your qualification

• Android application development experience
• Advanced skill and experience in more than one programming language
• Understanding on user interface development and ability of proper data or business logic separation from view
• Business level communication in English

Will be a plus

• Development experience either at a company or individual level and coding skills for actual service operation
• Implementation skill based on comprehensive understanding on product’s service architecture and its business
• Capability of UI/UX design

What we offer

• SmartKitchen - Healthy lunch on a daily basis for free (Tokyo Office)
• ChikyuCoffee - Delicious coffee provided by our Barista every day (Tokyo Office)
• Event space - Free use for any kind of meet up (Tokyo Office)
• Foreign language development support
• Various social insurance benefits included
• Transportation coverage (Maximum 50,000 yen)