Android Developer

Rare Candy; Northern (KY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive startup compensation

Meaningful equity upside

Salary range $120,000-$140,000

Full benefits: health, dental, vision;

401(k)

Wellness stipend

Dogfooding budget for cards

Job summary

Rare Candy is hiring a Junior Android Developer to enhance the mobile experience for collectors, including managing collections, connecting with the community, and opening Instapacks.

You will work closely with the CTO and engineering team to ship features in the Android app, using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, with GraphQL integrations and a fast-moving startup pace. This is an opportunity to grow quickly and own meaningful mobile features.

Qualifications

• 3 years of Android development experience in a production app or serious project.
• Strong Kotlin and Jetpack Compose skills for building mobile UI.
• Experience with GraphQL or API integration and data pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Build and improve Android features for Rare Candy's collector app.
• Integrate with GraphQL APIs and collaborate with backend engineers on contracts.
• Fix bugs, improve polish, and raise the Android app quality.
• Work with product, design, and engineering to ship features.
• Communicate clearly when something is blocked or needs review.

Skills

Android

Kotlin

Jetpack Compose

GraphQL

Tools

Android Studio

Git

CI/CD

Job description

Location: Fully remote
Compensation: $120,000-$140,000, competitive startup comp, and meaningful equity upside
Department: Engineering
Reports to: CTO

About Rare Candy

Rare Candy is revolutionizing the $25 billion trading-card industry as the only community marketplace 100% dedicated to TCGs. Collectors use our AI-powered card scanner, data-rich collection tools, and jaw-dropping drops to buy, sell, rip, and showcase Pokémon, MTG, Lorcana, One Piece, and more. We\'ve hit 10x revenue growth over the last 6 months, the business is highly profitable, and we\'re building the team to take this from a great product to a category-defining one.

We\'re a 10-person team moving fast and looking for the next set of TCG-obsessed rock stars to join our team.

The Role

We\'re hiring a Junior Android Developer to help build the mobile experience for collectors to use every day from managing their collections, connecting with the community, and opening Instapacks.

You\'ll work closely with the CTO and engineering team to ship features across our Android app. This is a hands-on product engineering role for someone early in their career who already knows how to build in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, has worked with GraphQL, and wants to grow quickly inside a fast-moving startup.

You won\'t be handed endless tickets in a giant backlog. You\'ll work on real product problems, learn from one of the leading mobile engineers, and see your work go directly into the hands of passionate collectors.

If you love trading cards or collector communities, and want to level up fast, this is a role for you.

What Success Looks Like

First 30 days: You get the app running locally, understand the core product flows, and ship your first meaningful fixes or small features.

By day 90: You\'re regularly shipping Android work with support from the CTO and mobile lead. You can take a well-scoped feature or improvement, ask the right questions, implement it cleanly, test it, and get it into production.

By the end of year one: You\'ve become a reliable Android contributor across some of the most important parts of the product. You\'ve shipped meaningful improvements to the collector experience, grown your Kotlin and Jetpack Compose craft, and earned ownership over increasingly important features.

What You\'ll Do

• Build and improve Android features across Rare Candy\'s collector-facing product.

• Integrate with GraphQL APIs and collaborate with backend engineers to shape clean, usable client-server contracts.

• Fix bugs, improve polish, and raise the quality bar for the Android app.

• Work closely with product, design, and engineering to turn ideas into shipped experiences.

• Learn quickly, ask good questions, and communicate clearly when something is blocked, unclear, or ready for review.

A Day in Your Life at Rare Candy

You start the morning checking the Android board and reviewing feedback on a feature you shipped yesterday.

Mid-morning, you\'re pairing with other engineers on a new integration for a collection feature.

After lunch, you\'re tightening up a screen, fixing an edge case, and testing the flow against real user behavior.

Later in the day, you\'re in a product discussion about how users want to showcase their favorite pulls, bringing both your Android perspective and your own TCG fluency to the conversation.

You close the day by opening a PR with a clear summary, screenshots, and a note about what still needs review.

You Might Be a Fit If

• You have around 3 years of Android development experience and have shipped real features in a production app or serious side project.

• You\'re comfortable building with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose.

• You\'ve worked with GraphQL, or you have enough API experience to ramp quickly.

• You care about product quality, UI polish, and the little details that make an app feel good.

• You\'re early in your career but serious about getting better. You want feedback, mentorship, and real responsibility.

• You\'re comfortable in a fast-moving startup where priorities can shift and the best answer is often “figure it out, then make it better.”

• You know the trading-card or collector world. You collect, play, rip packs, follow the market, or have real fluency in a similar collectible space.

What You\'ll Need to Thrive Here

You\'re expected to take ownership of your role at Rare Candy and drive your own growth. That doesn\'t mean doing it alone. You\'ll have support, context, and mentorship along the way.

The systems are still evolving, the team is small, and your work will matter immediately. You\'ll need to be curious, detail-oriented, and comfortable learning by doing.

If you like mobile product craft, collector communities, and the idea of building tools you would actually want to use yourself, you\'ll do great here.

Why Join Us Now

Work on features collectors actually care about and are using everyday.

Get real ownership early in your career while learning directly from experienced engineering leadership.

Join a high-trust, low-ego team that ships fast, celebrates wins, and cares deeply about the hobby.

Competitive startup comp, meaningful equity upside, and a salary range of $100,000-$120,000.

Full benefits: health, dental, and vision coverage, 401(k), and a wellness stipend.

A monthly dogfooding budget to spend on cards, because we hire people who love this hobby.

How to Apply

Apply through our Ashby posting and answer these:

• Describe an Android feature you built. What did you own, what technical choices did you make, and what was the result?

• Explain a bug you debugged. What made it tricky, how did you track it down, and what did you learn?

• What trading-card or collector communities do you understand best? Tell us your favorite card, set, format, deck, rip, or collector niche.

Rare Candy is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate individuality, from Pikachu collectors to Planeswalker pros, and are committed to building an inclusive team.