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Job Title: Android Engineer
Location: San Francisco Bay Area (Hybrid – Berry St HQ preferred)
Duration: Late May – December (High possibility of extension)
Rate: Max Pay $100 -105/hr
Role Overview
We are looking for a skilled and passionate Android Engineer to join a high-impact “tiger team” focused on accelerating modernization of our Rider Android application. This role involves adopting modern unidirectional architecture to improve scalability, maintainability, and developer productivity.
You will collaborate closely with senior and staff engineers across mobile infrastructure and product teams to deliver high-quality features at scale. The application serves millions of users, with a strong emphasis on clean architecture, rapid release cycles, and data-driven improvements.
Key Responsibilities
- Collaborate with senior and staff Android engineers to adopt new APIs and resolve technical blockers
- Quickly ramp up on existing codebase, architecture, and product context
- Contribute to both new feature development and legacy code improvements
- Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code
- Participate in code reviews and uphold engineering best practices
- Support and unblock team members in a collaborative environment
Required Skills & Experience
- 5 years of software engineering experience
- Proven experience building and shipping large-scale Android applications
- Strong expertise in Kotlin
- Hands-on experience with Jetpack Compose
- Experience with unit testing and snapshot testing
- Strong understanding of unidirectional data flow (UDF, MVI, MVVM)
- Experience with asynchronous programming (Kotlin coroutines, suspend functions)
- Experience with reactive programming (RxJava and/or Kotlin Flows)
- Experience building shared/reusable components
- Exposure to AI-augmented development tools (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code)
Nice to Have
- Experience working in high-scale consumer applications
- Familiarity with A/B testing, feature flagging, and analytics
- Strong understanding of CI/CD and automated testing practices
Salary : $100 - $105