Senior Mobile Engineer
2 days ago
Barcelona
About Stark Stark builds the world’s most powerful electric motorcycles. From the VARG MX to the road‑legal VARG EX & SM, our bikes have won world championships and are engineered to outperform anything with a combustion engine. We’re based in Sant Boi, Barcelona, growing fast (77% year‑on‑year), and building a team that will take us even further. Our mission is to lead the way towards a sustainable motorcycle industry, by reducing plastic and CO₂ pollution. Maximice sus posibilidades de que su candidatura sea seleccionada asegurándose de que su CV y sus habilidades se ajustan al perfil. Role Overview Stark is developing the first vehicle smart display that runs on an Android phone, enabling customers to adjust several bike settings such as engine power. This is one of Stark’s most ambitious projects and one crucial step towards being a game‑changer in the industry. What You’ll Do • Own the architecture and technical direction of the Android application, making pragmatic decisions that balance quality, performance, and speed, • Take end‑to‑end ownership of mobile features: from definition and design through development, release, and monitoring, • Diagnose and resolve complex performance, memory, and stability issues, with a deep understanding of multithreading, concurrency, and data caching, • Collaborate with product managers, designers, and business stakeholders to turn requirements into polished, user‑centric experiences, • Foster a culture of continuous improvement — challenge what could be better, share mistakes openly, and lead by exampleDuties, • Be a core member of a high‑performance, multidisciplinary team, contributing expertise openly in technical and product discussions, • Set and uphold standards for clean, stable, and extensible code across the mobile team, • Drive best practices in architecture, testing, CI/CD, and tooling, • Leverage AI tools as a standard part of your development workflow to ship faster and with higher quality, • Partner with other engineering teams to co‑design features across the stack, • Stay current with mobile industry trends and proactively propose product improvements, • Use data to drive decisions — A/B testing, feature flags, and experimentation frameworks to measure and validate impact, • Be a role model to team members, • Keep your backlog up to date and communicate frequently with engineers, product managers, and the creative teamWhat you will bring to Stark, • 5+ years of experience leading Android application development, with a track record of shipping production apps at scale, • Deep proficiency in Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, and modern Android development practices, • Strong command of Android architecture patterns (MVVM, MVI, Clean Architecture) and the ability to evolve them pragmatically, • Solid understanding of concurrency, coroutines, flows, and performance optimisation, • Experience diagnosing and resolving complex performance, memory, and stability issues, • Broad knowledge of the Android SDK, including best practices, Jetpack libraries, and key third‑party APIs, • Strong testing mindset — unit, integration, and UI testing as part of normal development, • Data‑driven approach to product development: A/B testing, feature flags, and experimentation frameworks, • Ability to manage and prioritise multiple workstreams simultaneously, • Proficient in English, written and spokenNice to have, • Experience with Kotlin Multiplatform, • Experience with Bluetooth, • Experience in improving developer experience (CI/CD, Git strategies…)Benefits, • The chance to work on a product people are genuinely passionate about, • A fast‑growing company with real momentum, • A creative, international team based in Barcelona, • Competitive salary and benefits package, • Direct access to riders, race teams, and the product — this is not a remote‑from‑the‑product role, • Subsidised lunch in our in‑house restaurant, • Free access to our in‑house gym (including weekends!), • 30 days of paid vacationEqual Employment Opportunity At Stark, we don’t just accept difference—we celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products, and our community. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone, regardless of gender identity, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, neurodiversity, or disability, feels a true sense of belonging. xcskxlj We believe that diverse teams make better decisions and that a culture of equity is a prerequisite for innovation. Accessibility: If you require any reasonable adjustments during the application or interview process (such as assistive technology, extra time, or a specific format), please let us know at #J-18808-Ljbffr
