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Senior Android Software Engineer
Location: Onsite — Palo Alto, CA or Brooklyn, NY (5 days/week)
About the Opportunity
This role is with a rapidly scaling technology company operating a high-traffic consumer platform. Their product empowers individuals to build online businesses and digital communities, serving over a million active users every month and driving substantial creator-focused revenue worldwide.
The company moves quickly, values clarity and ownership, and seeks people who thrive in high-performance environments.
Who You Are
You’re someone who:
- Wants to build products that impact millions of users at scale.
- Holds yourself—and your teammates—to an exceptionally high standard.
- Loves solving complex problems through elegant, simple solutions.
- Cares deeply about UI/UX, interactions, and product quality.
- Iterates fast, prototypes often, and enjoys working in a startup-paced environment.
What You’ll Do
You will directly shape and elevate the Android experience for a large and growing user base. Responsibilities include:
- Building polished, high-performance features for the Android application.
- Leading features end-to-end—from ideation to production release—contributing to weekly product updates.
- Partnering closely with product leadership and design to refine user flows and interactions.
- Rapidly prototyping new ideas and iterating based on feedback.
- Writing scalable, maintainable Kotlin/Compose code using modern tooling (Hilt, Room, etc.).
- Supporting backend development when needed (experience with a server-side framework is helpful).
- Removing legacy or unused code to simplify architecture and improve engineering velocity.
- Establishing architectural patterns that accelerate future development.
Compensation & Benefits
- Base Salary: $200–350K meaningful equity
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Flexible, self-managed PTO
- Daily meals provided for onsite employees
- Budget for high-end equipment and workspace setup
- High-impact role working directly with founding leaders
Work Environment
- This position is onsite 5/days week
- Either Palo Alto, CA or Brooklyn, NY office
- Designed for individuals who prefer deep collaboration, quick iteration, and high bandwidth communication
Salary : $200,000 - $350,000