Proximity Works
Proximity Works
Proximity Works is a technology consultancy working across artificial intelligence, SaaS, UX design, and product engineering. Its team develops high-performance software and AI strategy for organizations seeking to improve productivity, scale products, and modernize business operations. The company has collaborated with major organizations including Nasdaq, Disney, and ESPN, combining machine learning expertise with product development and user experience design.

Senior Full Stack Engineer, Android, Go and Java — Remote in India

Senior full stack engineer developing Android and Fire TV applications alongside Go or Java backend services. Build subscription, payment, and entitlement systems for global sports, media, and entertainment clients.

Description

  • Design, develop, and maintain Android and Fire TV applications with their supporting backend services.
  • Create Kotlin and Java Android features that prioritize performance, reliability, and user experience.
  • Develop scalable backend services in Go or Java.
  • Build and integrate APIs for subscription, payment, and entitlement workflows.
  • Implement Fire TV in-app purchase flows covering purchases, renewals, cancellations, and entitlement synchronization.
  • Connect applications with app-store APIs, payment platforms, and internal backend services.
  • Create resilient workflows with failure handling, retries, and transaction reconciliation.
  • Design systems that handle high concurrency and traffic surges during live sports and major content releases.
  • Improve application startup time, API latency, network efficiency, and overall system performance.
  • Contribute to authentication, device management, and user-session flows as needed.
  • Implement monitoring, logging, and observability across mobile, TV, and backend systems.
  • Produce maintainable, thoroughly tested production code.
  • Contribute to architecture discussions, code reviews, and technical design reviews.
  • Partner with Android, backend, platform, payments, and product teams to deliver features end to end.

Requirements

  • Substantial Android development experience with Kotlin and/or Java.
  • Solid knowledge of Android application architecture, lifecycle management, and performance optimization.
  • Experience building Android TV or Fire TV applications is highly desirable.
  • Strong backend development experience with Go or Java.
  • Experience with Spring Boot for Java services or established Go web and service frameworks.
  • Strong experience designing and consuming REST APIs.
  • Working knowledge of microservices and distributed systems.
  • Experience using SQL databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL.
  • Experience with NoSQL databases is desirable.
  • Experience with caching systems such as Redis.
  • Exposure to Kafka or comparable messaging and event-streaming technologies.
  • Understanding of asynchronous processing, concurrency, and distributed transactions.
  • Experience with AWS or a similar cloud platform.
  • Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Strong debugging and production incident-troubleshooting abilities.
  • Four to seven years of software engineering experience.
  • Strong practical Android development experience.
  • Practical backend development experience with Go or Java.
  • Ability to independently own and deliver features across application and backend layers.
  • Experience developing and operating scalable production applications.

Benefits

  • The company describes its compensation as best-in-class and aligned with strong talent.
  • Proximity Talks provide opportunities to learn from designers, engineers, product leaders, and AI practitioners.
  • Continuous learning alongside a world-class team working with current AI, engineering, and product practices.
  • High-impact work building AI-first systems and products used at scale by global clients.

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