Sr SW Development Engineer - Android at Dexcom in Portland, Oregon

Job Description:

About Dexcom:

Dexcom, Inc. empowers people to take control of diabetes through innovative continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) systems. Headquartered in San Diego, California, Dexcom has emerged as a leader of diabetes care technology. By listening to the needs of users, caregivers, and providers, Dexcom simplifies and improves diabetes management around the world.

Position Summary:
You'll be working at our Software Center of Excellence located in downtown Portland. The team is smart, driven, and growing -- we need great engineers to help us continue to deliver innovative software solutions for diabetes management. As a member of our team you'll make a real difference in the lives of people living with diabetes.

As a Software Engineer working on our client/mobile development team you'll help us develop modern mobile applications to help patients and healthcare professionals manage diabetes.

You'll be great in the position if:

• You love native Android development.


• You enjoy writing Kotlin.


• You enjoy making mobile apps with simple, refined user interfaces that are accessible to all types of people.


• You have experience distributing mobile applications to app stores.


• You're comfortable consuming APIs and interpreting results.


• You believe that great testing is critical to creating great software.


• You prefer working in a collaborative, team environment and have the strong communication skills necessary for effective teamwork.


• You can effectively manage your time and are comfortable supporting and coaching others.


• You are a fast learner and love to stay up to date with the latest technology.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Design of mobile software applications


• Interpretation of requirements and translating those requirements into software assets and software features


• Developing unit tests


• Working with test engineers to verify and validate software development deliverables


• Participating in design reviews and code reviews

Required Qualifications:

• Typically requires a Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline, and a minimum of 5-8 years related experience or Master's degree and 2-5 years equivalent industry experience or a PhD and 0-2 years experience


• Experience with Kotlin/Java

Experience that would give you an edge:

• Experience with Coroutines and/or LiveData


• Experience with Jetpack for Navigation and Constraint Layout


• Experience with BLE


• Experience with Swift


• Experience with internationalizing products


• Experience with Google Analytics / Firebase


• Experience creating medical products or working in a regulated industry

Functional Description: Technical Individual Contributors

Plans, designs, develops and tests software systems or applications for software enhancements and new products including cloud-based or internet-related tools. Analyzes, designs, programs, debugs, and modifies software enhancements and/or new products used in local, networked, or Internet-related computer programs. Using current programming language and technologies, writes code, completes programming, and performs testing and debugging of applications. Completes documentation and procedures for installation and maintenance.

Functional/Business Knowledge:

• Possesses broad understanding of technical principles and theories. Ability to synthesize external data and research findings for application that may impact technical objectives.

Scope:

• Demonstrates successes in technical proficiency and independent thought. Works on complex problems in which analysis of situations or data requires an in‐depth evaluation of various factors. Exercises judgment within broadly defined practices and policies in selecting methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.

Judgement:

• Exercises good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.


• Normally receives little instruction on day‐to‐day work, general instructions on new assignments.

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An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

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