Android Principal Engineer – Technical Leadership

Meta; Des Moines (IA); On-site; USD 219,000 - 301,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta is seeking exceptionally talented principal engineers to join our teams in Des Moines, IA, and beyond, building cutting-edge Android and cross-platform features. You will oversee complex technical problems, shape long-term roadmaps, and guide collaboration across product, design, and platform teams to deliver scalable solutions for billions of users.

You will mentor leaders, drive execution, and push the boundaries of user experiences on mobile and web.

Qualifications

• Experience driving large cross-functional/industry-wide engineering efforts.
• Experience mentoring/influencing executive stakeholders across organizations.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience communicating and working across functions to drive solutions.
• Proven track record of planning multi-year roadmaps aligning short-term projects with the long-term mission.
• 12+ years of programming experience in a relevant language OR 8+ years with a PhD.
• Experience utilizing data and analysis to explain technical problems and provide detailed feedback and solutions.

Responsibilities

• Drive the team's goals and technical direction to pursue opportunities that make your larger organization more efficient.
• Effectively communicate complex features and systems in detail.
• Understand industry & company-wide trends to help assess & develop new technologies.
• Partner & collaborate with organization leaders to help improve the level of performance of the team & organization.
• Identify new opportunities for the larger organization & influence the appropriate people for staffing/prioritizing these new ideas.
• Lead long term technical vision and roadmap for large cross-company efforts.
• Suggest, collect and synthesize requirements and create an effective feature roadmap.
• Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues, and drive large efforts to reduce technical debt.

Skills

Technical leadership

Cross-functional leadership

Android development (Java/Kotlin)

System architecture

Communication with stakeholders

Roadmap planning

Mentoring executives

Performance optimization

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent

PhD (optional) in a relevant field

Job description

Meta is seeking exceptionally talented principal engineers to join our teams in Des Moines, IA, and beyond, building cutting-edge Android and cross-platform features. You will oversee complex technical problems, shape long-term roadmaps, and guide collaboration across product, design, and platform teams to deliver scalable solutions for billions of users.

You will mentor leaders, drive execution, and push the boundaries of user experiences on mobile and web.