Vacancy: Android Developer (Middle / Strong Middle)

Company: World Chess Location: Europe / Remote (candidates outside Russia and Belarus) Employment: full-time Format: remote Product: global chess platform with real-time functionality, subscriptions, and interactive UI Salary range: $3500-4000 gross Experience: 3+ years

At World Chess, we are not just making an app, but a full-fledged product: real-time game, accounts, subscriptions, analytics, and complex user scenarios. We are looking for an Android developer who can independently bring features to production and understands how to build a stable application.

You are definitely a fit for this vacancy if you have:

• Android / Kotlin:

  • Kotlin
  • Android SDK
  • Coroutines / Flow
  • Jetpack (ViewModel, Navigation, etc.)
  • Experience with networking, serialization, and local data storage

• Architecture:

  • MVVM / MVI
  • Understanding of Clean Architecture
  • Separation of UI / domain / data layers

• Production practice:

  • Experience with crash reports, ANR, edge cases
  • Integration with APIs and unstable backends
  • Performance optimization
  • Experience with releases and application support

Important:

• Ability to independently manage features end-to-end
• Experience working with a real product, not just academic projects
• Good communication with the team (backend, QA, product, design)

Will be a plus:

• Jetpack Compose
• Experience with subscriptions / billing / paywall
• Real-time or interactive applications
• Complex UI (dashboards, lists, live data)
• Experience working with legacy code

What we offer:

• Work on a global product in the chess industry
• Strong product team
• Opportunity to influence architecture and decisions
• Growth to Senior / Lead

Important: we only consider candidates located outside Russia and Belarus