Staff Android Systems Engineer

🕒 April 30

🏄 California, New York, +1 more states – Remote

🏄 California – Remote 🗽 New York – Remote ☕ Washington – Remote

💵 $165k - $240k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🤖 Android Engineer

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Greenlight

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2014

💳 Fintech

📚 Education

👥 B2C

💰 $260M Series D on 2021-04

Fintech • Education • B2C

Greenlight is a financial technology company dedicated to providing financial literacy tools and experiences for families, particularly focusing on children and teens. It offers a debit card specifically designed for kids, supported by an app that allows parents to monitor spending, automate allowances, and set savings goals. Greenlight facilitates a comprehensive learning experience by incorporating chores management, investing opportunities, and a financial education game that teaches real-world money skills. It also includes safety features such as location sharing and driving alerts to keep families connected and secure. Through partnerships with banks, the app provides various customizable plans that encourage smart financial habits from an early age.

📋 Description

• Lead the development of Android-based products running on custom hardware • Own the application layer end-to-end while working close to the OS, collaborating with hardware vendors • Shape the AOSP integration and set engineering standards for building, testing, and shipping on-device • Work on Android apps leveraging capabilities at the AOSP level • Collaborate directly with ROM and vendor teams, translating app layer needs to platform changes • Enhance existing functionality in the Greenlight Android mobile app • Design and expose system services, Binder/IPC interfaces, and AIDL-based APIs for secure communication • Own permissions, signing, and app identity model with understanding of standard and privileged/system apps • Drive PackageManager and app installation strategy including silent installs and rollback • Champion WebView performance, security, and hybrid debugging • Build and maintain Android CI/CD pipelines and device-in-the-loop testing • Harden pilot-quality software into production-grade systems • Build field debugging infrastructure including log pipelines and remote bug reports • Serve as the technical bridge between platform architecture and product engineering • Mentor and lead peers in a distributed environment • Translate technical findings into business insights for engineering, QA, and leadership • Apply AI tooling to real engineering problems

🎯 Requirements

• BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent • 8 to12 years of software engineering experience, with significant depth in Android platform or systems engineering rather than app-layer development • AOSP fluency: you've navigated the source tree, worked with OEM or vendor teams, and can answer questions the documentation doesn't • Deep understanding of Android's security model including sandboxing, system app privileges, the threat surface of privileged IPC, and how the same APK can behave differently across devices • Hands-on experience with update mechanisms from application-level updates through system-level OTA, with enough depth to have a credible technical conversation with a vendor about tradeoffs • Comfort with adb shell as a real debugging environment and experience with system-level diagnostic tools and tracing to diagnose problems that never surface in Android Studio • Experience shipping products where WebView is the primary UI surface, not a fallback • A track record of building or significantly evolving Android CI/CD pipelines, with opinions on signing key hygiene, artifact provenance, and device-in-the-loop testing • Experience designing device telemetry and fleet health systems, especially in constrained environments • A quality-first mindset and the ability to champion best practices in testing, observability, and release confidence • Strong communication skills so you can translate deep technical findings for non-technical stakeholders and lead across engineering, QA, and leadership • Genuine excitement about AI and a habit of applying it to real engineering problems

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and HSA match • Paid life insurance, AD&D, and disability benefits • Traditional 401k with company match • Unlimited PTO • Paid company holidays and pop-up bonus holidays • Professional development stipends • Mental health resources • 1:1 financial planners • Fertility healthcare • 100% paid parental and caregiving leave, plus cleaning service and meals during your leave • Flexible WFH, both remote and in-office opportunities • Fully stocked kitchen, catered lunches, and occasional in-office happy hours • Employee resource groups