At Big Nerd Ranch we empower individuals and organizations to dream big and achieve more through innovative digital product development and training. We do this through our signature immersive bootcamps, our quality online trainings, our elite consulting capabilities and our best sellingBig Nerd Ranch Guides.
We have a vision to build relationships that drive partnerships with 20 Fortune 500 companies and train 200,000 designers and engineers by 2020. How are we going to do it? It’s all our people — we only hire the best. We are passionate about writing stylish code and teaching others to do the same. We then live through our values. We are acommunityof Nerds who are Brilliant and Curious, Hard-working and Accountable, Kind and Authentic.
Sound appealing? Learn more about us.
As a Developer, you will
Learn every single day
Have empathy for and communicate clearly with your coworkers and clients
Develop existing and new mobile applications for Big Nerd Ranch and for our clients
Author stories (use cases, technical and functional requirements) and tests
Contribute to and participate in development meetings (standÃÂups, kickÃÂoffs, retrospectives) and design sessions with teams and clients
Collaborate with team members, consultants, designers and clients to provide accurate estimations, timelines and risks associated with development
Contribute to the Android community through code, blog posts, teaching and speaking
As a candidate, you
Have Android development experience and experience working on consulting projects
Understand that an activity is destroyed across a configuration change, but also why it’s destroyed and how to embrace its lifecycle
Know how to gracefully support any screen size and device type
Appreciate the quality guarantees that wellÃÂ-written tests provide
Have a drive to learn and understand as much as possible
Enjoy reviewing others’ code and having your code reviewed
Appreciate the perspective that others from a variety of different backgrounds and experience levels can provide
Have strong written and verbal communication skills
You might also
Have experience with Kotlin (if not, don’t worry. We’ll teach you)
Have knowledge of RxJava and its impact on application architecture
Enjoy teaching others and can clearly describe complicated software to your fellow developers
The benefits we offer to full time employees:
Health, dental, vision, life insurance; 401k matching, short and long term disability
Any hardware, software or services you need to do your job are always 100% on us.
A flexible, remote-friendly and learning based environment where creative ideas are explored and the desire to learn new technologies is encouraged and valued.
Must reside in the US and be legally authorized to work in the US.
AtBig Nerd Ranch you will make a differenceand contribute to the development community in interesting ways. Are you up to the challenge?
