Staff Prototyping Engineer, Android

Role overview Lead the creation of new Android product experiences, taking ambiguous opportunities from early exploration to working prototypes and production releases. This staff-level role combines hands-on mobile engineering with broad technical leadership, close partnership with product and design, and influence across multiple teams.

Responsibilities - Lead complex, cross-team mobile initiatives from technical exploration through rollout and ongoing improvement. - Build prototypes that help define user experience and evaluate promising product directions. - Partner with product, design, backend, and mobile engineers to balance user needs, performance, reliability, and maintainability. - Align stakeholders around priorities when problems are open-ended and plans are still forming. - Shape engineering practices and operational standards, and influence decisions beyond the immediate team. - Mentor senior engineers and support the growth of the wider mobile engineering community.

Requirements - Eight or more years of professional software engineering experience, including substantial work on sophisticated Android apps at scale. - Deep expertise in Kotlin and modern Android development, including application architecture, lifecycle, concurrency, networking, and performance. - A track record of initiating work across organizational boundaries and guiding prototypes toward production. - Experience leading large, ambiguous technical initiatives with significant organizational or business impact. - Strong collaboration and communication skills, including the ability to align engineering, product, design, and executive stakeholders. - A related technical degree.

Nice to have Experience with Jetpack Compose, Kotlin coroutines, dependency injection frameworks, and modern Android architecture patterns is requested as additional relevant expertise.

Benefits and work setup The listing identifies remote locations in New York and California, including San Francisco. It describes health, dental, vision, mental health, parental leave, insurance, retirement, and employee stock purchase benefits. A base salary range is provided in the source, with different ranges for selected metropolitan areas.