Software Engineer – Android

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2009

📡 Telecommunications

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and sustain high-performance Android applications using Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, and Java. • Lead architectural modernization and modularization to improve scalability and cross-platform reuse. • Define and own the entire lifecycle of your systems: feature ideation, API design, instrumentation, deployment (CI/CD), live-traffic monitoring, unit/UI/e2e testing, user telemetry & data analysis, experiment design (A/B tests), and continuous iteration. • Influence and evolve our architecture: propose and lead initiatives to decompose monoliths, build shared libraries and frameworks, improve modularization, enable reuse across Android, iOS, and Web; evaluate new Android platform capabilities (e.g., new OS releases, device types, form factors, architectures) and lead their adoption. • Apply AI-driven tools and automation frameworks to speed up development, code analysis, testing, and reliability. • Leverage intelligent telemetry, analytics, and optimization pipelines to improve app performance and user experience. • Define observability standards, telemetry pipelines, and fault-tolerance strategies for production-grade systems. • Partner closely with product, design, backend, and data teams to deliver seamless, high-quality user experiences. • Drive technical discussions, mentor engineers, and influence strategic direction across mobile platforms.

🎯 Requirements

• A technical leader with the ability to create and lead roadmaps/initiatives that align to high-level business objectives. • Deep expertise in Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, and modern concurrency tools such as Coroutines and Flows. • Proven track record of architecting modular, maintainable systems that balance speed and reliability. • Strong background in performance optimization, observability, and system-level debugging. • Experience using AI and automation to improve developer velocity, reliability, or product intelligence. • A collaborative technical leader who thrives in fast-moving environments and mentors others to excel. • Passionate about creating elegant, high-performance mobile experiences across Android’s ecosystem. • You architect for observability, reliability, and production-readiness: you understand instrumentation, SLOs/SLIs, fault-tolerance, runbooks, incident triage, scalable telemetry pipelines, and production diagnostics for mobile clients. • You have been a technical leader (not just an individual contributor): you’ve influenced roadmap decisions, contributed to multi-team initiatives, mentored/led engineers, driven culture/process improvements, and interfaced with senior engineering/product leadership.

🏖️ Benefits

• Strong work life blend • Flexible work arrangements (wfh, remote, or access to one of our office spaces) • Employee Stock Options • Unlimited vacation • Competitive pay and benefits • Parental leave • Benefits for both physical and mental well being (wellness credit and L&D credit) • We travel a few times a year for various team events, company wide off-sites, and more