Android Platform Engineer (Remote)
Seeking a Senior Android Platform Engineer to join a high-impact mobile platform team supporting one of the nation's largest digital commerce applications.
This is not a traditional feature development role. Instead, you will focus on building and maintaining the foundational Android platform capabilities that enable dozens of feature teams to deliver reliable, scalable, and high-performing customer experiences.
The Android Platform team owns many of the application's cross-cutting concerns, including performance optimization, networking, caching, SDK governance, application architecture, build tooling, privacy, security, accessibility, and other platform-wide capabilities.
The ideal candidate has experience supporting large-scale production Android applications and enjoys solving complex engineering challenges that improve platform health, scalability, performance, and developer experience across the organization.
What You'll Do
- Improve application performance, including startup times, rendering performance, memory utilization, and responsiveness
- Design, build, and maintain foundational platform capabilities used by multiple Android feature teams
- Optimize application caching, networking, and data delivery strategies
- Evaluate, implement, and govern platform-wide SDKs, mobile tooling, and engineering standards
- Improve Android build performance, CI/CD efficiency, and developer productivity
- Establish and evolve technical patterns that support scalable Android development
- Partner closely with feature engineering teams to solve platform-related challenges
- Support privacy, security, accessibility, and compliance initiatives across the mobile ecosystem
- Monitor application health and proactively identify opportunities for platform improvements
- Conduct performance profiling, diagnostics, benchmarking, and root cause analysis
- Contribute to platform architecture decisions and long-term mobile engineering strategy
- Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and technical design sessions
- Troubleshoot complex production issues within a large-scale consumer-facing application
Required Qualifications
- Advanced Android development experience using Kotlin and the Android SDK
- Deep understanding of Android application architecture and platform internals
- Experience supporting enterprise-scale or consumer-facing mobile applications in production
- Proven expertise in mobile performance optimization, including startup time, rendering, memory management, and responsiveness
- Experience implementing and optimizing caching and networking solutions
- Strong understanding of platform engineering principles and scalable mobile architectures
- Experience with application profiling, diagnostics, monitoring, and root cause analysis
- Knowledge of mobile security, privacy, and accessibility best practices
- Ability to quickly navigate and contribute within large, complex codebases
- Strong collaboration and communication skills
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working on a dedicated Mobile Platform Engineering team
- Experience supporting Android applications used by millions of customers
- Expertise with Android performance profiling and analysis tools
- Experience improving build systems, release pipelines, and CI/CD processes
- Knowledge of modular Android architectures
- Experience establishing engineering standards, governance, and best practices
- Exposure to SDK evaluation, implementation, and lifecycle management
Top Skill Sets
- Advanced Android engineering experience using Kotlin and Android SDK
- Mobile performance optimization and application tuning expertise
- Experience supporting large-scale production mobile platforms
What Success Looks Like
- Platform performance measurably improves across the Android application
- Feature teams develop and deliver more efficiently through platform enhancements
- Build times, startup times, rendering performance, and overall application stability improve
- Platform-wide technical standards and best practices are consistently adopted
- Privacy, security, and accessibility initiatives are effectively supported
- Android engineers across the organization have better tooling, foundations, and development patterns available to them
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