Hybrid Android Tech Lead — Connected Grills

Weber-Stephen Products LLC USA; Palatine (IL); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 188,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Job summary

Weber Blackstone is seeking an experienced Android engineer to serve as the technical lead for the Weber Connect app. You will own Android architecture, code quality, and standards, working across hardware, cloud, and product teams to deliver a unified connected grill experience.

This hybrid role requires in-office days at the Palatine, IL campus and focuses on deep hardware-adjacent work, including collaboration with firmware teams on communication protocols and with server teams on state

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or closely related field
• 7+ years of Android/mobile platform experience (incl. iOS)
• Strong knowledge of Kotlin, coroutines/flows, and Jetpack Compose
• Delivered large features and led code refactors
• Experience shipping Android apps that communicate with hardware via Bluetooth LE (GATT, state machines, reconnect, bonding)
• Experience overcoming background execution constraints (foreground services, OEM battery limits)
• Owned a mobile build pipeline: signing, testing, and release path

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical design and implementation of major features in the Weber Connect app: from protocol to pixels
• Partner with Firmware to define and version messaging protocols between app and grill
• Provide Product with assessments on Android capabilities, timelines, and readiness
• Maintain app stability amid Android platform changes and long hardware firmware lifecycles
• Build telemetry and diagnostics to diagnose connection issues with grills
• Set and uphold standards for architecture, quality, testing, and bug triage
• Drive a predictable release cadence: CI/CD, staged rollouts, crash monitoring, feature flags

Skills

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines/Flows

Jetpack Compose

Android

Bluetooth LE

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Android Studio

CI/CD

AOSP build

Job description

Weber Blackstone is seeking an experienced Android engineer to serve as the technical lead for the Weber Connect app. You will own Android architecture, code quality, and standards, working across hardware, cloud, and product teams to deliver a unified connected grill experience.

This hybrid role requires in-office days at the Palatine, IL campus and focuses on deep hardware-adjacent work, including collaboration with firmware teams on communication protocols and with server teams on state