Staff Software Developer (Kotlin Libraries)

Requirements:

• Create and maintain foundational libraries for Kotlin core primitives that are used by hundreds of thousands of developers
• Become an expert in specific domains of computer science and software engineering
• Be part of a design committee that decides how the Kotlin API should be shaped
• Participate in creating standard Kotlin tools, specifications, and language features

Preferable:

• JVM development experience down to the implementation details of the Java standard library
• Strong understanding of the domain you've been working with
• Ability to write design documents for complex systems with strong reasoning behind each trade-off and technical decision
• Experience in performance engineering or API design

What You'll Be Doing:

• If you see yourself reading a Unicode standard, exploring how five other languages transform strings to bytes, figuring out why some Oceania islands changed their timezone from -10:00 to +14:00 and whether it should be expressed in the API of Kotlin timezones, optimizing interface hierarchy to be more JIT-friendly, and are not afraid of re-iterating over documentation a multitude of times, you won't get bored in our team

Perks and Benefits:

• We are an equal opportunity employer
• We have an open and inclusive workplace
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