Android Developer

Brillio; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Brillio, a leading digital technology services provider, seeks an accomplished Android engineer with 9+ years of experience in Kotlin to deliver cutting-edge mobile applications. You will drive architecture choices, mentor juniors, and collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams to ship delightful user experiences.

You will lead delivery from planning to release, advocate modular code, and ensure robust testing and operations in a fast-paced startup-like environment.

Qualifications

• BS in CS or equivalent practical experience.
• 9+ years of professional Android development using Kotlin.
• 3+ years with modern Kotlin practices (Jetpack Compose, Flow).
• Experience collaborating with Product, Design and Engineering stakeholders.
• Master CS fundamentals and Android design patterns.
• Strong design sense and attention to detail.
• Experience leading a project from planning to release and mentoring juniors.
• Experience with AI tools.
• Experience with RESTful server-side services.
• Experience with Scrum/Agile methodologies.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Mentoring junior engineers.

Responsibilities

• Work in a startup-like environment building agile products and services.
• Collaborate with engineers, product and design to launch projects solving real-world problems.
• Influence the product roadmap with technical insights and architecture suggestions.
• Guide the team in technical trade-offs and propose optimal solutions.
• Lead complex projects and mentor junior engineers.
• Architect toward a modular, scalable codebase to speed builds.
• Perform code and design reviews and write high-quality tests.
• Ensure code quality with monitoring, runbooks, and operational rigor.
• Develop documentation and become subject matter expert for services.
• Remove bottlenecks to improve developer experience.

Skills

Android development

Kotlin

Jetpack Compose

Flow

RESTful services

AI tools

Leadership

Education

BS in CS or equivalent

Tools

RESTful APIs

AI tools

Job description

Brillio is one of the fastest growing digital technology service providers and a partner of choice for many Fortune 1000 companies seeking to turn disruption into a competitive advantage through innovative digital adoption. Brillio, renowned for its world-class professionals, referred to as "Brillians", distinguishes itself through their capacity to seamlessly integrate cutting‑edge digital and design thinking skills with an unwavering dedication to client satisfaction.

Brillio takes pride in its status as an employer of choice, consistently attracting the most exceptional and talented individuals due to its unwavering emphasis on contemporary, groundbreaking technologies, and exclusive digital projects. Brillio's relentless commitment to providing an exceptional experience to its Brillians and nurturing their full potential consistently garners them the Great Place to Work® certification year after year.

Job Description:

• BS in CS or equivalent practical experience
• 9+ years of professional Android development experience using Kotlin and shipping apps to the Play Store
• 3+ years of experience with modern Kotlin development practices, such as Jetpack Compose and Flow. Experience with Kotlin Multiplatform is a plus but not mandatory
• Ability to collaborate with Product, Design and Engineering stakeholders to implement solutions which surprise and delight our customers
• Master Computer Science fundamentals and Android design patterns and best practices
• A sheer eye for design and attention to detail, the products you build should not merely be functional but should take in context and anticipate our customer’s needs in a beautiful way
• Experience leading the development of a project from planning to release, dispatching work among a team, mentoring and guiding junior engineers
• Experience with AI tools
• Experience integrating with RESTful server‑side services
• Experience with Scrum/Agile development methodologies
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Passion about mentoring and helping more junior engineers to grow

What you will do:

• Work in a startup-like environment building agile products and services
• Collaborate closely with engineers on your team, engineers on other teams, as well as your product and design counterparts to successfully launch projects which solve real‑world customer problems
• Act as a strategic partner to Product and Design, using technical insights to influence the product roadmap and proactively suggesting architectural changes that enable new categories of user experiences
• Guide the team to make technical trade‑offs necessary to bring product initiatives to fruition, weighing different approaches and arriving to a recommended solution, detailing its pros and cons
• Independently define, decompose, and lead delivery of complex projects, may lead other engineers
• Modularization and Architecture. Architect and lead the transition toward a highly modularized codebase to improve build speeds and team fungibility, ensuring our architecture scales with our growing engineering organization.
• Perform code reviews, design reviews, and write high‑quality tests
• Have a strong stance and advocate for efficient, scalable, and extensible approaches that solve technical problems in a manner that stands the test of time
• Hold yourself and the team to a high standard of code quality and operational rigor, ensuring that code is well‑tested, and your systems have appropriate monitoring, alerting, and runbooks implemented
• Become the subject matter expert for one or more services in your domain
• Create clear and concise documentation (diagrams, service descriptions, decisions, runbooks)
• Identify and remove bottlenecks to address inefficiencies in the developer experience
• Oversee and mentor junior engineers on the team, building their technical skills and ensuring that they understand best practices around engineering and operational

Why should you apply for this role?

As Brillio continues to gain momentum as a trusted partner for our clients in their digital transformation journey, we strive to set new benchmarks for speed and value creation. The DI team at Brillio is at the forefront of leading this charge by reimagining and executing how we structure, sell and deliver our services to better serve our clients.

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Equal Employment Opportunity Declaration

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