Senior Android Engineer

Job Description
Seeking a Senior Android Engineer to help build the next generation of mobile applications in baseball &
softball training, livestreaming youth sports events, and content consumption. Diamond Kinetics is looking for a high-performance engineer interested in spearheading the team that is launching our native Android mobile application. As a development leader at Diamond Kinetics, you must be passionate about delivering in-app experiences that delight users with their simplicity while the difficult work of Bluetooth connection management, computer vision, data storage &
synchronization, data display, and video streaming is handled seamlessly behind the scenes.
Your work guiding the Android development team at Diamond Kinetics will advance the state-of-the-art motion analytics and computer vision in baseball and softball. As a senior engineer on our mobile team, you will interface with all engineering aspects at Diamond Kinetics. You will build the systems that thousands of teams rely on every weekend to stream their game video to fans across the globe;
you will build robust data transfer schemes over Bluetooth with our firmware team;
you will build frameworks to embed Python to help facilitate our R&
D department;
you will build methods to more effectively and efficiently synchronize data across thousands of devices;
you will interface withcomputer vision and machine learning models to enable users to interact with our app in ways they never would have expected.
Diamond Kinetics’ team and our product offerings are growing quickly, so the role requires a self-motivated individual with a proven track record of excellent communication, organization, and technical skills to work cross-functionally with other organizations (internal and external), who can also communicate to all levels of management.
Job Function and Purpose
The Senior Android Engineer is responsible for the development and maintenance of native mobile code on the Android platform. Working closely with the rest of the development team, this person utilizes their knowledge of software development best practices and hardware capabilities in defining and delivering a delightful mobile user experience to our users. This person will be required to collaborate with a cross-functional group of developers, designers, and product managers while also fostering and mentoring junior engineers to deliver new features for the Diamond Kinetics app portfolio.
This position will require someone with demonstrable success building and shipping native mobile applications and leading a team to successful app releases. As the company grows into new and exciting opportunities within the sports of baseball &
softball we seek an engineer who is passionate about software development best practices, team building, and delivering high-quality mobile applications.
Beyond technical development capabilities, the Senior Android Engineer has team leadership responsibilities, including roadmap planning, and leading a small team of mobile developers to achieve overall development quality and execution goals.
Key Responsibilities
Contribute to and lead the development of mobile application features, services, and test suites for Android
Maintain and enhance our RTMP-based live streaming capabilities
Architect features in a maintainable and testable way within the modern DK codebase for a system that integrates classically “hard to test” concepts like Bluetooth, video processing &
streaming, computer vision, in-app purchases, and user interfaces
Work with our product management team to create compelling user interfaces using Kotlin
Collaborate with the R&
D team to integrate new sensor capabilities, computer vision and machine learning experiences, and data into mobile applications
Promote mobile software development best practices including continuous integration, accuracy testing &
reporting, centralized logging, crash reporting, etc.
Effectively engage with customers (coaches, players, and parents) during real-life use of Diamond Kinetics’ software and hardware