Lead Android Engineer

Job Description:

Required Qualifications

Submit only candidates who meet all of these requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years of professional native Android development experience, including ship ping complex applications to production.
• Strong, recent hands-on experience with Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Android SDK, Android Jetpack libraries, Gradle, REST APIs, and modern Android architecture patterns.
• Demonstrated experience personally designing, implementing, testing, releasing, and supporting meaningful production Android features in an enterprise-scale application.
• Experience working in Agile delivery teams with sprint planning, estimation, execution, dependency coordination, and release planning.
• Ability to explain technical decisions, alternatives, risks, and tradeoffs clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Demonstrated technical leadership through code reviews, design reviews, mentoring, engineering standards, technical influence, or leading delivery across team boundaries.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in a SAFe or Agile Release Train environment, including PI planning, dependency tracking, and cross-team release coordination.
• Experience in regulated, security-conscious, financial-services, or other high-avail ability environments.
• Production experience with feature flags, staged rollouts, experimentation, kill switches, analytics, crash reporting, logging, and performance monitoring.
• Experience with modular Android applications, CI/CD, build optimization, release automation, and automated testing.
• Responsible use of AI-assisted engineering tools for code generation, refactoring, testing, debugging, documentation, or design exploration, with appropriate human validation