Dreamix

Principal Android Engineer

Dreamix

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Bulgaria

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Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

AndroidAWSCloudGraphQLiOSKotlin

About the role

  • Guide the mobile technical vision, ensuring alignment with peers, and with architectural and long-term product goals.
  • Champion scalability, performance, and maintainability across the mobile code base.
  • Lead the teams feature design activities, ensuring end-to-end technical risks are managed.
  • Proactively identify opportunities to enhance developer productivity, system reliability, and app performance.
  • Guide teams in adopting modern Android paradigms (Jetpack Compose, modularization, reactive programming, multiplatform opportunities).
  • Evaluate emerging technologies, frameworks, and tools to continuously evolve our Android engineering capabilities.
  • Provide technical mentorship to senior and mid-level engineers, raising the overall capability of the Android community of practice.
  • Influence engineering practices beyond your team, ensuring consistency, code quality, and knowledge sharing across the organisation.
  • Represent Android engineering in cross-functional forums, influencing product direction with technical insights.
  • Partner with Product Owners, Architects, and Engineering Managers to develop solutions that balance delivery speed with quality.
  • Help the team plan their work effectively, make delivery commitments that reflect their capabilities and monitor and assist delivering on those commitments.
  • Lead critical initiatives and features.
  • Oversee observability, resilience, and operational excellence for mobile apps (in conjunction with your iOS counterparts).
  • Lead initiatives to reduce technical debt and improve code base maintainability.
  • Guide the evolution of CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and release strategies.
  • Take ownership of resolving complex production issues and preventing recurrence through systemic improvements.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of professional experience in Android Mobile App development, with 3+ years in a technical leadership role mentoring teams and driving technical decisions.
  • Proven ability to lead technical discussions, make architectural decisions, resolve conflicts, and drive consensus across teams.
  • Expert-level proficiency with Android SDK, Android Studio, Kotlin, and Jetpack Compose.
  • Deep understanding of Android internals, performance optimisation, and platform-specific capabilities.
  • Familiar with cross-platform development strategies (e.g. KMP) and modular shared code base architectures.
  • Understanding of how technical decisions impact business outcomes, with ability to balance technical excellence with business priorities.
  • Proven experience designing and implementing large-scale mobile architectures.
  • Expert knowledge of design patterns, clean architecture principles, and scalable system design.
  • Exceptional English communication skills, both written and spoken, with ability to explain complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.
  • Has architected, released, and scaled production apps in the Google Play Store serving large user bases with high availability requirements.
  • Expert in mobile testing strategies including unit, integration, and end-to-end testing.
  • Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines, mobile DevOps practices, remote configuration management, and observability/monitoring solutions.
  • Deep expertise with networking, security, REST and GraphQL-based APIs, and third-party service integrations.
  • Deep knowledge of AWS services including API Gateway, App Sync, CloudWatch, Lambda, and mobile-specific cloud solutions.
  • Expert in Git, SCM practices, code review processes, and agile development methodologies.
  • Exceptional analytical and troubleshooting skills with ability to solve complex technical challenges and guide others through problem-solving processes.
Benefits
  • A warm and supportive work environment where you can reach your full potential
  • Flexible working hours that allow you to balance your work and personal life
  • Unlimited home office to help you stay productive and focused
  • Opportunities for professional development, including certifications and training
  • Additional benefits for academic teaching and speaking engagements
  • Knowledge-sharing sessions where you can learn from our Dreamix team
  • Team and company-wide events that bring us together
  • Amazing week long summer office and winter office initiatives
  • Additional health insurance and dental allowance to ensure your well-being
  • Multisport card to encourage a healthy and active lifestyle
  • Office massages to help you relax and unwind
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Hard Skills & Tools
Android SDKAndroid StudioKotlinJetpack Composecross-platform developmentmobile architecturedesign patternsclean architecturemobile testing strategiesCI/CD pipelines
Soft Skills
technical leadershipcommunication skillsconflict resolutionconsensus buildingmentorshipanalytical skillstroubleshooting skillsteam collaborationproblem-solvinginfluencing skills