Principal Software Engineer- Android

Principal Software Engineer – Android

Platform

About the Role

We are looking for a highly experienced Principal Engineer to drive the technical direction,

architecture, performance, and engineering excellence of our Android applications.

This is a hands-on individual contributor role requiring deep Android expertise, strong

architectural judgment, analytical thinking, and the ability to influence engineering teams and

technical decisions across the organization.

Key Responsibilities

● Own and drive the Android architecture and long-term technical strategy for

large-scale consumer applications.

● Design scalable, maintainable, and highly performant solutions across application

architecture, networking, modularization, and platform capabilities.

● Work hands-on with complex Android codebases and lead modernization of legacy

Java and Kotlin systems.

● Drive adoption of modern Android technologies, particularly Kotlin, Coroutines,

Jetpack Compose, and modern Android architecture patterns.

● Lead performance engineering using production data, telemetry, Android Vitals,

crash/ANR metrics, and other engineering signals.

● Design and optimize applications consuming high-volume REST APIs, with emphasis

on latency, caching, concurrency, reliability, and efficient data handling.

● Own technical aspects of the Google Play ecosystem, including publishing, release

management, Play Store listings, and monitoring Android Vitals.

● Define and drive automated testing strategies covering unit, Android/instrumentation,

integration, and black-box testing.

● Identify technical risks and drive initiatives to improve engineering quality, reliability,

maintainability, and developer productivity.

● Mentor senior engineers and provide technical leadership through architecture reviews,

design discussions, and engineering standards.

● Collaborate with product, backend, design, and other engineering teams to deliver

robust end-to-end solutions.

Required Qualifications

● 9+ years of software engineering experience, with significant depth in Android

development.

● Expert-level Android expertise with strong understanding of the Android platform.

● Expert-level Kotlin skills, including Coroutines, Flow, and structured concurrency.

● Strong hands-on experience with Jetpack Compose — mandatory.

● Proven experience designing and evolving large-scale, multi-module Android

applications.

● Strong experience working with codebases containing both legacy Java and modern

Kotlin.

● Strong experience building highly performant applications backed by REST APIs.

● Excellent software architecture and system design skills with demonstrated ability to

make sound technical trade-offs.

● Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, particularly in diagnosing complex

production and performance issues.

● Deep understanding of mobile performance optimization, including startup time,

rendering, memory, networking, battery, crashes, and ANRs.

● Hands-on experience with Google Play Console, application publishing, Play Store

management, release management, and Android Vitals.

● Strong experience with automated testing, including JUnit, Android/instrumentation

testing, integration testing, and black-box testing.

● Strong communication and technical leadership skills, with the ability to influence

engineering decisions across teams.

Good to Have

● Experience working on Ads, Payments, and/or Subscriptions. Experience in these

domains will be considered highly influential, particularly around monetization

platforms, SDK integrations, billing flows, reliability, and performance.

● Experience using AI-assisted tools for technical decision-making, software design,

coding, debugging, testing, and developer productivity.

● Experience with mobile CI/CD and release automation.

● Experience with Android build systems, Gradle optimization, and large-scale

dependency management.

● Experience with observability, telemetry, crash analytics, and production diagnostics.

● Experience with iOS / Swift or cross-platform technologies such as Flutter.

Role Type

Principal Software Engineer – Individual Contributor

A highly hands-on technical leadership role with significant influence over architecture,

platform strategy, performance, engineering quality, and technical execution.