About Us and Why We’re Hiring
We construct “You Want a Price range,” one of the best budgeting software program and training assets 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 impression 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 large plans for our Android app, and that’s the place you are available!
We’ve got one overarching requirement with regards to becoming a member of our staff: our Core Values Manifesto has to essentially click on with you. If you happen to’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!
In fact, now we have some agency* necessities too, like 5 years {of professional} software program improvement expertise, and a minimal of 4 years spent writing Android apps.
*Properly, firm-ish. If you already know you’re an incredible match for this function however fall a bit of wanting the five-year requirement, we encourage you to go forward and apply. We don’t want you to be the right candidate on paper.
On an identical word, we all know imposter syndrome generally is a highly effective pressure, 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 sturdy, seven of whom are Android builders. We often 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 assorted 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 vigorous board recreation session), however internally we construct up our teammates and have fun their successes. All of us like to program and remedy issues in inventive methods, and we usually 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 wonderful designers. They’ve the awards (together with no less than one precise Emmy®) to show they’re good at designing stuff. Extra importantly, they welcome suggestions and strategies through the improvement course of and are comfortable to tweak an interplay for those who inform them it should prevent vital improvement effort.
How You’ll Work at YNAB
We additionally work actually arduous, collectively, to make working at YNAB an incredible expertise, and we had 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 suppose is correct.
We additionally work collaboratively. We repeatedly search the correct quantity of construction and unity essential to maximise productiveness. The place it is sensible, we designate somebody to make a name.
Despite the fact that our builders are proper rather a lot, it’s okay to make errors right here. Exploration and calculated dangers are important to velocity and development. We freely admit once we’re improper. 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, evaluate, 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 totally distant staff, and have individuals all around the world. For this function, you’ll must be positioned someplace between the Pacific Time Zone (UTC-8) and the Central European Time Zone (UTC+1). Wherever you’re, simply ensure you 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 course 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 outdoors of YNAB. We seldom work greater than a standard workweek. There have been just a few events the place issues obtained 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 arduous and good 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 you might must be versatile together with your working hours, maybe a day or two every week, particularly for those who dwell in our time zones’ western or japanese extremes.
Take Trip (Significantly)
We wish you to take trip. In reality, now we have a minimal trip coverage of three weeks per 12 months. 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 sit up for seeing photos of your adventures in our #office_wall Slack channel.
The YNAB Retreat
When the pandemic isn’t preserving us from touring, we get the entire staff collectively yearly. To this point, we’ve accomplished Costa Rica, a gigantic cabin within the mountains, a seashore 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!). Assume 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 all around the United States. We arrange staff members within the US and UK as staff, and people in different international locations as impartial contractors.
As talked about above, now we have a while zone restrictions for this function, 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 for those who did have to test your imaginative and prescient, NBD, we’ve obtained you lined!
For full- and part-time W2 staff within the US, we even have a Conventional and Roth 401(ok) possibility. 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 price construction doable, the place all plan prices are paid by YNAB, not your retirement nest egg. The funding funds out there 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 provide beneficiant paid parental depart 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 form of factor.
Different Tidbits
- When you begin, we DEMAND (in a pleasant, ALL CAPS IS YELLING manner) that you just fill out your “Bucket Listing” spreadsheet with 50 gadgets. (That’s more durable than it sounds!)
- The bucket record actually helps in deciding what we must always offer you on 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 substitute it each three years, and as a cellular developer, a brand new cellphone each two years.
- Did we point out that YNAB makes an enormous, optimistic distinction in individuals’s lives? You might not suppose that issues a lot, however then just a few months down the street you’ll notice it’s made your job actually, actually pleasurable. Don’t underestimate this one!
- And don’t neglect about that 4-Day Work Week!
If this feels like your ultimate surroundings, learn on as a result of now we wish to discuss you. You’ll play an enormous half in constructing one thing straightforward and joyful to make use of that helps thousands and thousands of individuals uncover budgeting as a vital 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 no less than 4 of these years working with Android. You understand how to write down 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 person 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 based mostly on TypeScript and the V8 engine, however we’re actively investigating migrating to Kotlin Multiplatform.
Our minSdk is 26, we’re transferring in the direction of a unidirectional information move structure, and we use Compose, Coroutines, Circulate, Dagger, Robolectric, Bitrise CI, and GitHub.
You’re our ultimate candidate if:
- You’re a wonderful, 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 will have in depth expertise with Kotlin and Java.
- You will have performed a vital function in constructing, transport, and supporting no less than one vital Android app.
- You will have wonderful debugging expertise. You understand how to seek out issues and construct apps in order that issues are discoverable within the first place.
- You’re self-motivated and thrive with instructions like:
- “This a part of this system is simply too sluggish. Can you discover out why?”
- “This element must be re-architected to permit for brand new function X. How do you suppose 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 probably’t discover the setTimeout operate. Are you able to examine?”
- You will have an understanding of algorithms and information buildings past arrays and “for loops.” That doesn’t imply you must be a pc science PhD and even that you must 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 are feeling proper at house 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 offer you bonus factors for this one.)
Range
YNAB is an equal alternative employer. We imagine a variety of backgrounds, beliefs, talents, and experiences is essential to our success. We’re keen about making a welcoming, supportive, and collaborative surroundings for all staff. All are inspired to use as we proceed to develop a wise, skilled, and numerous staff that loves working collectively to construct one thing that issues.
Apply
- Apply by filling out this manner. 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 objective is to make the hiring course of as accessible as doable. If we might help you with an accessibility want, e mail us at lodging@youneedabudget.com. Remember to point out within the topic line that you just’re making use of for the Senior Android Developer place. (Please word that this inbox is simply monitored for messages associated to lodging.)
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