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Staff Android Engineer
We’re looking for a Staff Android Engineer to provide technical leadership across the Android platform. This is a highly hands-on role focused on Android architecture, platform development, developer productivity, and emerging technologies.
What You’ll Do
- Spend approximately 80% of your time coding and 20% on architecture, technical design, and implementation.
- Design and implement scalable, modular, and testable Android architectures.
- Build tools, libraries, and platform capabilities that enable other Android developers.
- Serve as an Android technology expert, staying current with the latest Android technologies, tools, and development practices.
- Drive technical decisions and help determine the best technology and implementation approaches.
- Evaluate and introduce new technologies and development approaches, including proofs of concept and experimental work.
- Review technical designs from other teams and provide guidance on complex engineering challenges.
- Help shape long-term Android platform strategy and development standards.
- Mentor senior engineers and lead by example, without direct people management responsibilities.
- Create technical design documentation and communicate technical risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Explore and implement AI-enabled development workflows and integrations, with a strong focus on improving developer productivity.
- Own automated and manual testing to ensure production-ready, shippable code.
What You Bring
- 8+ years of professional Android development experience, including 3+ years in an architectural or technical leadership capacity.
- Deep expertise in Kotlin, including Coroutines and Flow.
- Strong experience with Jetpack Compose and legacy Android XML.
- Strong understanding of modern Android architecture and application state management.
- Experience with Gradle Kotlin DSL and Android build systems.
- Experience working on an Android platform, foundation, or developer tooling team is a strong plus.
- Experience building tools, libraries, SDKs, or reusable components for other developers.
- Experience implementing or integrating AI development workflows and tools.
- Experience with MCP servers or similar AI/agent integrations is highly desirable.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts, risks, and tradeoffs to non-technical stakeholders.
- Demonstrated experience mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction without direct people management.
Contract Details
- Long-term contract with potential opportunity to convert to a permanent position.
- Remote opportunity; candidates located in Pittsburgh are a plus.
- Candidates must be able to work Eastern Time hours.