Android Engineer, Kotlin + Jetpack, Cross‑Platform

BDR Solutions, LLC; Falls Church (VA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

BDR Solutions, LLC in Falls Church, VA seeks a Mobile Developer to design, build, and evolve Android experiences using Kotlin and modern Android frameworks. You will partner with product, design, backend, quality, and iOS peers to ship reliable customer value.

The ideal candidate has deep Android expertise and enough hands-on iOS experience to reason about platform tradeoffs and occasionally contribute Swift/SwiftUI changes when useful. U.S.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience with production Android apps.
• Advanced Kotlin skills and strong knowledge of Android SDK fundamentals, Jetpack libraries, coroutines, and reactive state management.
• Experience with Jetpack Compose including state, navigation, performance, testing, and interoperability with Views.
• Ability to make sound architecture decisions and evolve a mature codebase safely over time.
• Experience with REST or GraphQL APIs, local persistence, background work, authentication, analytics, and push notifications.
• Strong testing and debugging habits with telemetry to guide decisions.
• Experience shipping through Google Play, managing staged rollouts, and responding to production issues.
• Clear written and verbal communication with engineers and non-engineering partners.
• A track record of mentoring others and improving team practices through influence.

Responsibilities

• Own the design and implementation of complex Android features from discovery through monitoring after release.
• Set and evolve technical direction for Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, app architecture, modularization, networking, persistence, and dependency management.
• Write clear technical designs; surface tradeoffs, risks, dependencies, and migration plans before implementation.
• Build accessible, responsive interfaces in close partnership with product design and research.
• Improve automated testing across unit, integration, UI, and end-to-end layers; make quality an everyday engineering practice.
• Strengthen observability, performance, crash health, security, privacy, and release confidence for the Android app.
• Partner with backend and platform teams on API contracts, offline behavior, authentication, experimentation, and analytics.
• Collaborate with iOS engineers on shared product behavior and mobile standards while respecting platform-native conventions.
• Review code thoughtfully, mentor engineers, and raise the quality of technical decisions without becoming a delivery bottleneck.
• Participate in planning, estimation, incident response, and continuous improvement of the mobile delivery process.

Skills

Android

Kotlin

Jetpack Compose

REST/GraphQL

Testing & debugging

Android architecture

Communication

Mentoring

Tools

Xcode

Google Play Console

Job description

BDR Solutions, LLC in Falls Church, VA seeks a Mobile Developer to design, build, and evolve Android experiences using Kotlin and modern Android frameworks. You will partner with product, design, backend, quality, and iOS peers to ship reliable customer value.

The ideal candidate has deep Android expertise and enough hands-on iOS experience to reason about platform tradeoffs and occasionally contribute Swift/SwiftUI changes when useful. U.S.