Staff Android Engineer

Overview

As a Staff Android Engineer, you will shape the future of our Android platform within our flagship mobile engineering team. You’ll influence architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and drive scalable, high-performance mobile capabilities. You’ll collaborate with product, design, and platform leads to deliver high-quality features and improve cross-platform alignment. This role offers hands-on leadership in a globally impactful product suite and opportunities to push performance, observability, and engineering culture forward. You’ll join a collaborative, innovation-driven environment where your work accelerates trusted insights for millions of users.

Pay / Benefits

• pension or 401(k) plan
• private health insurance
• Employee Assistance Program (wellbeing resources)
• Work From Anywhere program
• generous leave (annual, parental, volunteering)
• free access to The Economist content (subscription, apps, podcasts)

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve Android architecture, frameworks, and performance‑critical systems across the app
• Collaborate with product, design, and platform leads to define technical strategy and ensure feature quality
• Set coding standards and lead code reviews, architecture discussions, and design documentation
• Identify cross-cutting concerns and lead platform-wide initiatives (performance, modularization, observability, test infrastructure)
• Mentor engineers across levels to grow technical and leadership capabilities
• Foster high performance, scalability, and maintainability; resolve system bottlenecks
• Promote cross‑platform collaboration with iOS and backend teams
• Drive architectural decisions and maintainability in a scalable Android experience

Key requirements

• Professional Android development experience with deep proficiency in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose
• Proven track record designing scalable mobile architecture and leading complex projects
• Strong technical leadership including mentorship, cross‑functional collaboration, and influencing engineering culture
• Deep understanding of UI frameworks, offline data strategies, threading, performance profiling, and memory management in Android
• Experience with test automation, CI/CD, and mobile observability practices
• Excellent communication skills and ability to simplify complex ideas for multiple stakeholders
• Strong ownership mindset, comfort with ambiguity, and problem-solving at technical and team levels

• excellent communication
• mentorship and coaching
• cross-functional collaboration
• Kotlin
• Jetpack Compose
• Android architecture design

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