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Android Platform Engineer

ISOFTUnited States🇺🇸United StatesPosted 15 Sept 2026

Quick Overview

Seniority
Mid Senior
Work mode
Hybrid
Location
United States
Posted
Yesterday
Android SDKKotlinAndroid

Job Description

Android Platform Engineer (Remote)

Seeking a Senior Android Platform Engineer to join a high-impact mobile platform team supporting one of the nation's largest digital commerce applications.
This is not a traditional feature development role. Instead, you will focus on building and maintaining the foundational Android platform capabilities that enable dozens of feature teams to deliver reliable, scalable, and high-performing customer experiences.
The Android Platform team owns many of the application's cross-cutting concerns, including performance optimization, networking, caching, SDK governance, application architecture, build tooling, privacy, security, accessibility, and other platform-wide capabilities.
The ideal candidate has experience supporting large-scale production Android applications and enjoys solving complex engineering challenges that improve platform health, scalability, performance, and developer experience across the organization.
What You'll Do
  • Improve application performance, including startup times, rendering performance, memory utilization, and responsiveness
  • Design, build, and maintain foundational platform capabilities used by multiple Android feature teams
  • Optimize application caching, networking, and data delivery strategies
  • Evaluate, implement, and govern platform-wide SDKs, mobile tooling, and engineering standards
  • Improve Android build performance, CI/CD efficiency, and developer productivity
  • Establish and evolve technical patterns that support scalable Android development
  • Partner closely with feature engineering teams to solve platform-related challenges
  • Support privacy, security, accessibility, and compliance initiatives across the mobile ecosystem
  • Monitor application health and proactively identify opportunities for platform improvements
  • Conduct performance profiling, diagnostics, benchmarking, and root cause analysis
  • Contribute to platform architecture decisions and long-term mobile engineering strategy
  • Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and technical design sessions
  • Troubleshoot complex production issues within a large-scale consumer-facing application
Required Qualifications
  • Advanced Android development experience using Kotlin and the Android SDK
  • Deep understanding of Android application architecture and platform internals
  • Experience supporting enterprise-scale or consumer-facing mobile applications in production
  • Proven expertise in mobile performance optimization, including startup time, rendering, memory management, and responsiveness
  • Experience implementing and optimizing caching and networking solutions
  • Strong understanding of platform engineering principles and scalable mobile architectures
  • Experience with application profiling, diagnostics, monitoring, and root cause analysis
  • Knowledge of mobile security, privacy, and accessibility best practices
  • Ability to quickly navigate and contribute within large, complex codebases
  • Strong collaboration and communication skills
Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience working on a dedicated Mobile Platform Engineering team
  • Experience supporting Android applications used by millions of customers
  • Expertise with Android performance profiling and analysis tools
  • Experience improving build systems, release pipelines, and CI/CD processes
  • Knowledge of modular Android architectures
  • Experience establishing engineering standards, governance, and best practices
  • Exposure to SDK evaluation, implementation, and lifecycle management
Top Skill Sets
  1. Advanced Android engineering experience using Kotlin and Android SDK
  2. Mobile performance optimization and application tuning expertise
  3. Experience supporting large-scale production mobile platforms
What Success Looks Like
  • Platform performance measurably improves across the Android application
  • Feature teams develop and deliver more efficiently through platform enhancements
  • Build times, startup times, rendering performance, and overall application stability improve
  • Platform-wide technical standards and best practices are consistently adopted
  • Privacy, security, and accessibility initiatives are effectively supported
  • Android engineers across the organization have better tooling, foundations, and development patterns available to them

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