Staff Android Engineer, Android Platform

Reddit

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Remote
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$217,000–$303,900 / yr
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15 days ago
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TL;DR · Staff Android Engineer, Android Platform

The Staff Android Engineer, Android Platform joins the Android Platform team to set technical direction and lead cross-team initiatives for a large, multi-team Android codebase. This role focuses on three pillars: Client Health, Developer Experiences, and App Architecture. You will turn ambiguous platform problems into multi-quarter roadmaps, architect observability foundations like events and traces, and drive strategies to accelerate build and test cycles. You will provide technical leadership and mentorship while championing AI-supercharged developer workflows. The role requires deep expertise in Kotlin, Android lifecycle, concurrency, Jetpack Compose, and Kotlin coroutines. You will solve complex infrastructure problems involving shared libraries, navigation, startup orchestration, and core networking or caching to improve app reliability, performance, and developer productivity across the entire Android development ecosystem.

What you'll do

  • Lead technical decisions to scale the Android platform for over 100 million daily active users.
  • Drive the developer experience strategy to accelerate build cycles and improve release safety.
  • Architect client health and observability foundations including events, traces, and dashboards.
  • Champion AI-powered developer and agent workflows to improve engineering productivity.
  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to senior engineers through architectural reviews and documentation.
  • Turn ambiguous platform problems into multi-quarter roadmaps and align engineering partners.
  • Design and implement shared libraries, frameworks, and core networking or caching components.

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of software development experience.
  • 3+ years of experience building Android applications.
  • Experience leading complex Android initiatives from problem definition through delivery and sustained adoption.
  • Experience setting technical direction and delivering shared platform capabilities in a large Android codebase.
  • Deep expertise in Kotlin, Android lifecycle, concurrency, Jetpack Compose, and Kotlin coroutines.
  • Strong background in Android platform/infrastructure work including shared libraries, frameworks, navigation, or networking/caching.
  • Ability to influence without formal authority and communicate technical strategy to engineering, product, design, and data partners.
  • Practical experience applying AI to engineering workflows (preferred).

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