Android Developer for blue TV

Being the daughter company of Swisscom - leading telecommunications company and one of the most sustainable and innovative companies in Switzerland - we share the same values, vision and goals.

As a trustworthy and efficient Swisscom IT service partner, we create valuable customer experiences. We work in a strong collaboration with our Partners in Switzerland and attract and retain high performers.

We're expanding our footprint in Riga and actively seeking 50+ DevOps Engineers to join our growing teams within this year.

We invite driven professionals to join us, grow with us, and help shape the future.

The Mass Market Product Team develops the services Swiss households love most: Swisscom blue TV, Swisscom myCloud, Swisscom Email, Swisscom myAI and all internet products (routers, WiFi Boxes etc.). We are a motivated group that strives for the best user experience with the right technology while keeping costs in check.

This role is part of the Client SW subgroup within MMP. The subgroup delivers all frontends for our services: iOS/Android Apps, TV Box Software, Smart TV Apps, Web Apps and more.

• Build apps for TV: Design, build, test, improve and maintain Android Apps for smartphones and the Swisscom TV Box
• Craft the interface: Develop and optimize UI heavy frontends that bring live TV, replay and streaming together
• Work across disciplines: Collaborate closely with designers, product managers, backend engineers and streaming specialists in a cross functional team
• Test what you ship: Write and run tests for your own deliveries, and ensure functionality, performance, reliability and visual quality across a diverse device ecosystem
• Shape the architecture: Contribute to technical architecture, state management patterns, testing strategies and engineering best practices
• Keep it scalable: Continuously improve scalability, maintainability and KPI monitoring of the application
• Strengthen the process: Take part in code reviews, CI/CD pipeline maintenance (GitLab CI) and agile ceremonies
• Look ahead: Help shape the future of Swisscom’s client software portfolio, ready to contribute to other projects and tech stacks

Android Development

• Strong Kotlin skills with Jetpack Compose and Views interoperability
• Strong Java Skills
• Kotlin Coroutines and Flow
• WorkManager and background processing
• Memory management, threading, and performance optimization
• Production apps shipped through Google Play

Architecture

• MVVM and modern Android architecture patterns (Clean Architecture)
• Dependency injection (Hilt/Dagger)
• Modular, scalable, and testable application design
• Offline-first and synchronization architectures
• Reusable, scalable component design

Platform Knowledge

• Background tasks, foreground services, push notifications
• IP Networking REST APIs, authentication & security
• App lifecycle, deep links & App Links
• Authentication and security concepts
• Runtime permissions and privacy requirements

Quality & Operations

• Unit & UI testing, crash monitoring
• CI/CD, feature flags, remote config
• Analytics implementation & validation
• Performance profiling and ANR analysis
• Google Play release management
• Good and professional communication skills in English combined with experience in a cross functional environment consisting of stakeholders from designers over product manager, backend engineers to streaming specialists
• Willingness to work as well on other projects with other tech stacks and programming languages
• Observability (Sentry, Firebase, Datadog)
• Privacy & security-sensitive applications
• Android widgets and home screen integrations
• Third-party SDK integration
• Android Media APIs and media handling
• ExoPlayer / Media3 for adaptive media playback (DASH/HLS)
• DRM integration for protected content (Widevine)
• Client-side ad insertion
• Multi-form-factor builds targeting mobile, Android TV, and Android Automotive

• Salary from 3000 to 5500 EUR monthly gross
• 80 EUR monthly cell phone and internet allowance
• Flexible working hours and a hybrid working model, with a minimum of 2 days per week in the office
• Ergonomic home office allowance in value of 500 EUR
• Possibility to work abroad for 4 weeks each year
• Health Insurance – includes gym or pool fitness membership, covers consultations with a psychologist or psychotherapist (issued after 1 month)
• Optics (200 EUR every 2 years)
• 24 working days of annual paid holiday per year
• 5 dedicated paid learning day’s annually
• Day off on your birthday or names day
• 1 day off for social activities (voluntary project, adopting an animal)
• Collaborative, friendly and driven work environment
• Work on innovations, cutting edge technologies and in autonomous high performance teams
• Parking options
• Continuous development environment that fosters your growth (conferences, cross-department experience sharing, learning platforms etc.)
• Annual salary review