Android Tech Lead

Apex Systems; Town of Florida, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 96,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

401K with company match

Employee stock purchase program (ESPP)

Health Savings Account (HSA)

Career coaching and certification prep

Job summary

Everforth Apex Systems in Doral, Florida, is seeking an Android Tech Lead to guide platform-level development. The role involves hands-on coding, architecture discussions, and reviews across teams, with 20-30% time spent coding.

You will mentor engineers, promote Android coding standards, and drive reliability, performance, and security across initiatives in a hybrid work environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years of hands-on Technical Lead experience required.
• Total experience 8–10 years preferred.
• Strong Kotlin and Android SDK experience with modern Jetpack libraries.
• Experience with architectural patterns and code reviews.

Responsibilities

• Lead Android feature delivery across multiple pods with technical checkpoints.
• Review designs, estimates, dependencies, and risks for feasibility and quality.
• Ensure Android constraints, non-functional requirements and product assumptions are met.
• Mentor engineers and promote reusable patterns and coding standards.
• Improve CI/CD, build performance, testing, and documentation.

Skills

Kotlin & Android SDK

Jetpack Compose

Kotlin Coroutines/Flow

MVVM & Clean Architecture

REST APIs (Retrofit/OkHttp)

Room persistence

Websockets

Job description

Android Tech LeadLocation: Doral, Florida (Hybrid)Duration: 6 Month Rolling Contract Rate: $70-$80 Per Hour W2

Role OverviewThe Android Mobile Lead is a platform-level technical leader responsible for enabling high-quality Android feature delivery. This role operates across teams to provide guidance at key technical checkpoints, maintaining engineering consistency, reliability, and platform health. The position involves hands-on coding, architecture and design discussions, and code reviews, with approximately 20-30% of the week dedicated to coding.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with assigned Pods at technical checkpoints to improve feasibility, quality, and predictability.
• Review feature approaches, technical designs, dependencies, estimates, and implementation risks.
• Validate Android constraints, non-functional requirements, and product assumptions before development.
• Consult on complex implementation areas such as lifecycle, networking, persistence, background work, performance, and security.
• Own and promote Android coding standards, best practices, reusable patterns, and consistent implementation approaches.
• Review high-risk, shared, and complex changes for quality, maintainability, security, performance, testability, and consistency.
• Improve CI/CD reliability, build performance, test stability, static analysis, documentation, and onboarding.
• Monitor crashes, ANRs, performance, regressions, network reliability, background behavior, and dependency health.
• Mentor Android engineers, strengthen technical ownership, and facilitate knowledge sharing across teams.

Required Qualifications

• Experience: A minimum of 2 years of hands-on Technical Lead experience is required, with 8-10 years of total experience.
• Technical Skills:Strong hands-on Kotlin and Android SDK experience.
• Experience with Jetpack Compose and modern Jetpack libraries.
• Proficiency with Kotlin Coroutines/Flow and concurrency.
• Knowledge of MVVM and Clean Architecture principles.
• Experience with REST APIs, using tools such as Retrofit or OkHttp.
• Familiarity with Room or comparable local persistence solutions.
• Experience with Websockets.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with caching, offline, and synchronization strategies.
• Knowledge of Navigation, deep links, and app lifecycle.
• Experience with WorkManager or background processing.
• Familiarity with unit, integration, and UI testing.
• Proficiency with Gradle, Git, PR workflows, and CI/CD.
• Experience with Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) or Compose Multiplatform.
• General knowledge of iOS is a plus.

Everforth Apex Benefits Overview

• medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection.
• ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure.
• HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan).
• SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions.
• corporate discount savings program and other discounts.
• on-demand training program, access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA.
• dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, and a certified Career Coach.
• full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our ‘Welcome Packet’ as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.

Everforth Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Everforth Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law.

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