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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1843

📱 Media

📚 Education

🤝 B2B

📋 Description

• Design, development, and evolution of Android architecture, frameworks, and performance-critical systems across the app. • Collaborate closely with product, design, and platform leads to define technical strategy and ensure high-quality feature delivery. • Set coding standards and best practices across Android teams, and guide others through code reviews, architecture discussions, and design documentation. • Identify cross-cutting concerns and lead platform-wide initiatives (e.g., performance optimization, modularization, observability, or test infrastructure). • Act as a technical mentor for junior engineers, helping grow both technical and leadership capabilities within the team. • Champion high performance, scalability, and maintainability in everything you build, and work proactively to identify and resolve system-level bottlenecks. • Foster cross-platform and cross-squad collaboration by running design reviews and improving alignment with iOS and backend counterparts.

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of professional experience with Android development, with strong proficiency in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose. • Proven track record of designing scalable mobile architecture and leading complex engineering projects. • Solid experience contributing to complex engineering projects, cross-functional collaboration, and influencing engineering culture. • Deep understanding of UI frameworks, offline data strategies, threading, performance profiling, and memory management in Android. • Experience with test automation, CI/CD integration, and mobile observability practices. • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex ideas and bring people along in decisions. • Strong ownership mindset, comfortable with ambiguity, and driven to solve problems at both the technical and team level.

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • 401(k) plan • 25 days annual leave • Employee Assistance Program • Work From Anywhere program • Parental leave • Volunteering days off • Free access to The Economist content