Senior Android Engineer
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About the Role
You will own Android features end to end, from understanding user needs and shaping solutions through building, shipping, and evaluating performance. You will write well-tested Kotlin and Compose UI, collaborate across platforms and with design, make sound decisions amid ambiguity, and help improve mobile code quality, testing, and product thinking.
Requirements
- Production Android app development experience
- Kotlin
- Jetpack Compose
- Coroutines
- Flow
- Modern Android architecture
- Experience with at least one additional platform: web, iOS, or backend
- Cross-functional collaboration with designers and engineers
- Technical tradeoff communication
- Product engineering
- Systems thinking
- Decision-making in ambiguity
Responsibilities
- Own Android features end to end, from problem discovery through delivery and performance evaluation
- Shape product scope, propose simpler solutions, and raise platform constraints early
- Write idiomatic, well-tested Kotlin and Jetpack Compose UI
- Collaborate with iOS, web, and backend engineers to determine where functionality should live
- Partner with leadership, design, and engineers to ship Android experiences
- Clarify ambiguous requests, identify edge cases, and propose practical first steps
- Drive product and feature direction amid ambiguity
- Raise the bar for code quality, testing, and product thinking
- Attend twice-yearly in-person offsites in locations around the United States
Benefits
- Fully remote work
- Healthcare coverage at 100% for employees and 80% for dependents
- Generous parental leave
- Mental health support through Spring Health, Rula, or Kaiser Mental Health Network
- Financial wellness support through Northstar
- Stipends for co-working, professional development, and Wi-Fi
- One-time home office bonus
- Unlimited PTO
- Standard company holidays
- Discounted Medium membership