Senior Staff Engineer, Android

Devconnectplatform; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

AlphaSense is seeking a Senior Staff Android Engineer to set technical direction and build scalable mobile systems across Android and related surfaces. You will work with cross-functional teams to shape architecture, standards, and contracts, ensuring fast, secure experiences for enterprise customers.

This hands-on role entails deep technical ownership and mentoring across teams. You'll collaborate with backend, web, and product partners to align decisions with customer outcomes, while driving

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in modern production Android architecture required.
• Ability to represent mobile platform principles with iOS fluency.
• Experience shaping mobile-facing platform contracts and backend boundaries.
• Ability to read and contribute to backend systems when needed.
• Experience shaping AI-enabled engineering systems for validation and delivery.
• Strong reliability, release-quality judgment across production mobile systems.

Responsibilities

• Set Android-rooted mobile-system direction for fast, secure experiences.
• Lead hands-on system design and durable production architecture.
• Improve reliability and rollout practices across initiatives.
• Define boundaries and operating expectations for mobile contracts.
• Raise engineering judgment and create reusable standards across teams.

Skills

Android architecture

Cross-functional collaboration

Backend service understanding

AI-enabled engineering

Reliability & release quality

Strong communication

Tools

Android Studio

Design systems

Job description

# Senior Staff Engineer, AndroidAlphaSenseSalary not statedFull-timeremote· leadUKandroidiosListed via Jobicy · posted 22 Oct 2026. The application happens there, not on DevConnect.Apply on Jobicy## DescriptionAbout AlphaSense:AlphaSense is the AI platform redefining market intelligence and workflow orchestration, trusted by thousands of leading organizations to drive faster, more confident decisions in business and finance. The platform combines domain-specific AI with a vast content universe of over 500 million premium business documents — including equity research, earnings calls, expert interviews, filings, news, and internal proprietary content. Purpose-built for speed, accuracy, and enterprise-grade security, AlphaSense helps teams extract critical insights, uncover market-moving trends, and automate complex workflows with high-quality outputs. With AI solutions like Generative Search, Generative Grid, and Deep Research, AlphaSense delivers the clarity and depth professionals need to navigate complexity and obtain accurate, real-time information quickly. For more information, visit www.alpha-sense.com. Come join us.About the Team:Our diverse Product & Engineering team values innovation, collaboration, and the continuous improvement of our platform. We offer a dynamic work environment where employees can grow and thrive while working on cutting-edge technology that shapes the future of AI and search.At AlphaSense, we believe that diverse experiences and perspectives are critical to our success. We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where all employees feel valued and empowered to be their authentic selves.About the Role:AlphaSense has spent more than a decade helping professionals find, trust, and synthesize market intelligence. With SuperAnalyst, we are expanding that foundation into continuous, decision-ready execution: workflows that monitor change, update outputs, and surface what matters as situations evolve. Mobile is a critical part of that future because the moments that matter do not only happen when customers are sitting at a desktop.Android is an important surface for that future because continuous, decision-ready workflows need to feel fast, secure, and reliable across phones, foldables, and managed enterprise environments.As a Senior Staff Android Engineer, you will set technical direction for Android and the mobile-facing systems that shape product quality across customer workflows. You will work from deep Android expertise while influencing the architecture, standards, and system contracts that help teams build reliable native experiences across initiatives.This is a hands-on Senior Staff role with significant architectural ownership, multi-team leverage, and long-term product impact. You will help teams move faster while preserving the quality, reliability, and trust that enterprise mobile experiences require, including by shaping how AI-enabled development changes mobile engineering.What You’ll Do:- Set Android-rooted mobile-system direction: Define the technical direction for Android and the mobile-facing systems that make AlphaSense experiences fast, reliable, secure, and easier to evolve across teams.- Lead through hands-on Android system design: Turn complex mobile-system problems into durable production architecture grounded in deep Android expertise.- Scale reliability and execution practices: Shape how mobile work is designed, reviewed, tested, shipped, and operated across initiatives, including the automation, observability, rollout practices, and AI-enabled validation needed to move quickly with confidence.- Create durable mobile-facing system contracts: Help teams define the boundaries, ownership, and operating expectations that let mobile-facing systems evolve without pushing hidden complexity into native clients.- Raise mobile-system judgment across teams: Turn complex mobile-system work into reusable standards and stronger engineering judgment for the teams building native experiences.What Were looking for:Required:- Deep expertise in modern production Android architecture, with a track record of setting technical standards beyond one feature team.- Ability to represent mobile platform principles from a deep Android base, with enough iOS fluency to shape cross-functional architecture decisions where backend, web, and product choices affect identity, reliability, release quality, observability, and native product outcomes.- Experience shaping mobile-facing platform contracts or backend service boundaries that improve product quality across native and adjacent client surfaces.- Ability to read, debug, and contribute to backend systems when needed to unblock mobile-facing outcomes.- Experience shaping AI-enabled engineering systems that improve validation, product quality, and delivery confidence across teams.- Strong reliability and release-quality judgment across production mobile systems, with experience raising quality standards across multiple initiatives.- Track record making engineers around you better by turning complex mobile-system work into clear standards, reusable patterns, and stronger technical judgment across teams.- Excellent product judgment and communication skills, including the ability to connect technical decisions to customer outcomes and align teams around durable technical decisions.Preferred:- Experience building Android product experiences across varied device and form-factor contexts, such as foldables, wearables, Android Auto, or other platform-native surfaces.- Experience with enterprise mobile environments where identity, device management, compliance, or security constraints shape architecture, including MDM/EMM.- Experience shaping mobile design-system foundations and design-to-code workflows that improve consistency, accessibility, development velocity, and AI-assisted UI generation across native platforms.AlphaSense is an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to a work environment that supports, inspires, and respects all individuals. All employees share in the responsibility for fulfilling AlphaSense’s commitment to equal employment opportunity. AlphaSense does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, color, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, military or veteran status, disability, or any other non-merit factor. This policy applies to every aspect of employment at AlphaSense, including recruitment, hiring, training, advancement, and termination.In addition, it is the policy of AlphaSense to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified employees who have protected disabilities to the extent required by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances where a particular employee works.Recruiting Scams and FraudWe at AlphaSense have been made aware of fraudulent job postings and individuals impersonating AlphaSense recruiters. These scams may involve fake job offers, requests for sensitive personal information, or demands for payment. Please note:- AlphaSense never asks candidates to pay for job applications, equipment, or training.- All official communications will come from an @alpha-sense.com email address.- If you’re unsure about a job posting or recruiter, verify it on our Careers page.If you believe you’ve been targeted by a scam or have any doubts regarding the authenticity of any job listing purportedly from or on behalf of AlphaSense please contact us. Your security and trust matter to us.