Lead Android Backend Engineer

Ninja Van

full-time

Posted on: 9/16/2025

Origin: • 🇮🇳 India

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Senior

AndroidAngularCloudDistributed SystemsDockerGoGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaKafkaKotlinKubernetesMySQLReact

About the role

Engineers with deep expertise in either Android and Backend and openness to contribute across domains.
Design, build, and maintain highly scalable Android apps and/or backend services.
Be flexible across domains: contribute to backend APIs if Android-focused and to Android if backend-focused.
Ensure reliability, performance, and scalability in all systems.
Collaborate with product managers, designers, QA, and DevOps to deliver features end-to-end.
Participate in code reviews and design discussions, driving engineering best practices.

7+ years of professional software engineering experience (minimum).
At least 3+ years experience in Android and Backend.
Android (preferred): Proficiency in Kotlin (Java acceptable), Android SDK, UI/UX best practices, API integration.
Backend (preferred): Hands-on experience with Golang (Java acceptable), micro-services, RESTful APIs.
Strong knowledge of MySQL or TiDB.
Solid understanding of cloud concepts (scalability, distributed systems, networking, storage); direct GCP experience not required.
Strong foundation in system design, algorithms, and data structures.
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and containerization (Docker/Kubernetes).
Experience with Kafka or other messaging systems (nice-to-have).
Exposure to frontend frameworks (React, Angular) is a plus.