Software Engineer - Mobile Performance Twitter
San Francisco, CA

Job Description

Software Engineer - Mobile Performance

San Francisco, CA

The mobile teams are responsible for building Twitter for Android and Twitter for iOS. These teams impact hundreds of millions of users, and face particularly interesting product and technical challenges that come paired with working at that scale. We keep development lightweight and agile, make data driven decisions, and release with high quality and velocity. Come be a part of our team!

Who We Are:

Our team is all about performance. We love using the latest technologies and tools for making our apps as performant, stable, and available as possible. We work at all layers of our applications, from the networking stack and other core infrastructure under the hood to UI changes and product features that are front and center. On the Mobile Performance team you have the opportunity to have significant ownership of and impact on the performance and quality of our mobile applications that hundreds of millions of people love to use.

What You'll Do:

As part of the team you'll be responsible for using your creativity, excellent problem solving and technical skills to enable Twitter for Android and Twitter for iOS to reach our next billion global users. You will collaborate closely with other highly motivated and wonderful client engineers, backend engineers, data scientists, product managers, and designers. You will use your in-depth knowledge of all things Android or iOS to craft features and infrastructure that

* Improve measured and perceived performance
* Increase the quality of our apps on less performant devices and lower quality networks
* Reach Twitter users around the world

The work you drive will play a key role in Twitter user satisfaction and growth. Existing customers will immediately benefit from this work, and many more new customers worldwide will follow. You will empower people across the globe to connect and communicate.

Who You Are:

You're an experienced mobile engineer looking to make Twitter's Android and iOS apps the best mobile experiences out there. You're someone who excels at user-centric product development and has a passion for making beautiful, smooth, and delightful mobile experiences. You care deeply about performance, you're experienced with the tools of the trade, you're comfortable digging into the nitty-gritty, and you're eager to have an impact at a global scale.

Ideally, you have experience with:

* Top-notch programming skills in languages like Java, Swift, or Objective-C
* Platform specific performance measurement and debugging tools
* General networking knowledge with detailed experience in Android or iOS networking stacks
* Implementing new features and optimizing existing ones
* Technical depth that allows you to rapidly fix bugs and solve problems
* Working closely across a variety of teams including product management, design, and engineering
* Knowledge of core engineering concepts such as: common data structures, algorithms, profiling, and testing

Requirements:

* 3+ years experience developing previous Android or iOS applications
* 3+ years experience with Java, Swift, Objective-C
* BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience

We are committed to an inclusive and diverse Twitter. Twitter is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any legally protected status.

San Francisco applicants: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.