Staff Prototyping Engineer, Android

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
San Francisco, CANew York, NY
Salary
$197,300–$313,700 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
3 days ago
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Confirmed live today

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TL;DR · Staff Prototyping Engineer, Android

Staff Prototyping Engineer, Android joins the Slack Mobile team to shape the future of mobile experiences through high-impact innovation. This role focuses on greenfield, zero-to-one initiatives where the engineer acts as a leader to move from ambiguous problems to functional prototypes and shipped features. You will collaborate with Product, Design, and Backend teams to build intuitive, performant tools for millions of users while influencing technical direction and mentoring other engineers. The ideal candidate possesses deep expertise in the Kotlin framework, modern Android architecture, concurrency, networking, and performance optimization. Preferred skills include Jetpack Compose, Combine Concurrency, and dependency injection frameworks like Needle or Resolver. This role solves complex problems in mobile messaging and collaboration by transforming early-stage technical explorations into reliable products while establishing best practices for development across the broader engineering organization.

What you'll do

  • Lead the engineering development of mobile experiences used by millions of users across multiple teams.
  • Drive complex, ambiguous, cross-functional initiatives from initial technical exploration through production rollout.
  • Build and ship first versions of new product features as a prototyping engineer on greenfield projects.
  • Partner with Product and Design to balance user needs with technical constraints and maintainability.
  • Influence engineering decisions across the organization through technical leadership, reviews, and mentorship.
  • Establish and promote best practices for mobile feature development and operational excellence.
  • Mentor senior engineers and contribute to the growth of the broader mobile engineering community.

What we're looking for

  • A related technical degree is required.
  • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience building complex, high-craft Android applications at scale are required.
  • Proven track record of leading large, ambiguous, cross-functional initiatives with significant business impact is required.
  • Deep expertise in the Kotlin framework and modern Android development is required.
  • Strong understanding of Android architecture, application lifecycle, concurrency, networking, and performance optimization is required.
  • Experience with Jetpack Compose and modern Android architecture patterns (preferred).
  • Experience with Combine Concurrency and dependency injection frameworks like Needle or Resolver (preferred).
  • Experience leading large-scale product transformations or contributing to the open source community (preferred).

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