Flock - Android Framework Engineer

• We are looking for people who: • Bring experience designing versioned service interfaces via AIDL/HIDL to expose device functionality to headless Kotlin apps via a custom SDK • Have developed testable service implementations in Rust/C++ • Bring knowledge of the android build system and best practices for API design between kernel and apps • Have strong Kotlin/JAVA development experience such as but not limited to • Exposure to coroutines & OS threading concepts such as semaphores, synchronization, deadlocks • familiar with android profiler & memory leaks/management, etc. • Unit testing, CTS/VTS. • Power and performance optimizations, profiler, perfetto, tracing • Have exposure to or interest in AOSP development: • Including shell scripting experience & init.rc • Exposure to security and SE Policy • Possess strong debugging skills on custom Android HW. • Ability to trace app code through different layers of the stack • Reliability / self-healing • Network / connectivity • Tombstone / bugreport analysis • System app development, methodologies, design patterns, etc. • Have experience with architecture, design, and documentation. • Skilled in JIRA, Confluence, Jenkins, Gerrit, Git/GitHub. • C/C++ skills and expertise with lower levels of the stack such as kernel, services, bootloaders etc. • Linux kernel driver development experience • Experience working on Linux platforms, including Embedded Linux • Familiarity with tools like perfetto used for debugging and performance • Familiarity with Qualcomm based Android devices • Have the ability to write automation shell scripts to improve self productivity and share such helper scripts with the team to boost overall productivity. • 90 Days at Flock • 90 Days at Flock • We are a results-oriented culture and believe job descriptions are a thing of the past. We prescribe to 90 day plans and believe that good days, lead to good weeks, which lead to good months. This serves as a preview of the 90 day plan you will receive if you were to be hired as an Android Framework Engineer at Flock Safety. • The First 30 Days • The First 30 Days • Learn as much as possible about Flock's devices, cloud systems, and customer requirements • Familiarize yourself with members of the Engineering Team • Understand Flock device product goals and system design • The First 60 Days • The First 60 Days • Contribute to system apps development • Contribute to system services development • Expand the use and accessibility to engineers • 90 Days & Beyond • 90 Days & Beyond • Be a key contributor to system apps and system services. • Be a key contributor in developing the new products and the next generation. • Play a central role in streamlining the code to ensure it supports multiple platforms