
Senior Android Engineer, App Platform
GameChanger
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Alaska • Hawaii • United States
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Salary
💰 $160,000 - $180,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Build foundational and scalable solutions for Android engineers that work on multiple, domain-specific, teams.
- Create developer SDKs that modernize our tech stack; promote the use of our SDKs, and lead multi-team migrations. Our Android codebase uses Kotlin with Jetpack Compose, Realm, and Flows/RxJava.
- Monitor and improve the performance of our Android tooling, including local development tools and CI/CD systems.
- Understand App Platform's users by gathering data from internal tools, participating in the Android guild, and working with directly with Android engineers from other teams.
- Help define the team's technical roadmaps.
- Contribute to the team's internal developer support on-call rotation.
Requirements
- Have a deep technical understanding of the Android platform. This understanding includes knowledge of the operating system, first-party API (performance, concurrency, state, UI), dependency management, build configurations and artifacts, compiler, and runtime.
- You have 4+ years experience with Android CI/CD systems and tooling (Gradle, GitHub Actions, Firebase App Distribution, and Google Play Console) with experience optimizing build pipelines for developer productivity.
- You take ownership of technical planning and production reliability; from designing solutions and anticipating risks, to responding to incidents independently and improving observability to prevent future issues.
- You lead cross-team projects, guide collaboration, mentor teammates, guarantee work aligns with goals, and address risks to long-term maintainability.
- You integrate multiple perspectives into technical decisions. You incorporate product, business, and operational considerations into your designs, while identifying risks and future scenarios that could affect system health.
- You communicate complex technical concepts in technical documentation, ad-hoc communications, and can present these concepts to larger audiences internally.
Benefits
- Work remotely throughout the US* or from our well-furnished, modern office in Manhattan, NY.
- Unlimited vacation policy.
- Paid volunteer opportunities.
- Technology stipend - $4,000 every 2 years after your start to make sure you have the latest and greatest technology.
- WFH stipend - $500 annually to make your WFH situation comfortable.
- Learning stipend - $500 annually towards continued development.
- Monthly physical, mental, wellness & learning stipend offered through Holisticly.
- Monthly lifestyle stipend offered through Fringe.
- Full health benefits - medical, dental, vision, prescription, FSA, HRA, HSA, and coverage for family/dependents.
- Retirement savings - Traditional and Roth 401K plans are offered through Vanguard, with an immediate company match.
- Life insurance - basic life, supplemental life, and dependent life.
- Disability leave - short-term disability and long-term disability.
- Company paid parental leave - up to 20 weeks for birthing parents and up to 12 weeks for non-birthing parents.
- Family building benefits offered through Progyny.
- DICK'S Sporting Goods and their family of brands teammate discount.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
KotlinJetpack ComposeRealmFlowsRxJavaAndroid CI/CD systemsGradleGitHub ActionsFirebase App DistributionGoogle Play Console
Soft skills
technical planningproduction reliabilitycross-team collaborationmentoringrisk managementcommunicationtechnical documentationproblem-solvingobservabilityownership