Senior Android Engineer
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Job Description
Senior Android Engineer developing the Android platform for The Economist Group. Collaborating on key features and mentoring junior engineers in a remote-first environment.
Responsibilities:
- Design, development, and evolution of Android architecture, frameworks, and performance-critical systems across the app.
- Collaborate closely with product, design, and platform leads to define technical strategy and ensure high-quality feature delivery.
- Set coding standards and best practices across Android teams, and guide others through code reviews, architecture discussions, and design documentation.
- Identify cross-cutting concerns and lead platform-wide initiatives (e.g., performance optimization, modularization, observability, or test infrastructure).
- Act as a technical mentor for junior engineers, helping grow both technical and leadership capabilities within the team.
- Champion high performance, scalability, and maintainability in everything you build, and work proactively to identify and resolve system-level bottlenecks.
- Foster cross-platform and cross-squad collaboration by running design reviews and improving alignment with iOS and backend counterparts.
Requirements:
- 8+ years of professional experience with Android development, with strong proficiency in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose.
- Proven track record of designing scalable mobile architecture and leading complex engineering projects.
- Solid experience contributing to complex engineering projects, 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 integration, and mobile observability practices.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex ideas and bring people along in decisions.
- Strong ownership mindset, comfortable with ambiguity, and driven to solve problems at both the technical and team level.
Benefits:
- Health insurance
- 401(k) plan
- 25 days annual leave
- Employee Assistance Program
- Work From Anywhere program
- Parental leave
- Volunteering days off
- Free access to The Economist content
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