Lead Android Engineer

Spectraforce Technologies; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Spectraforce Technologies is seeking a hands-on Lead Android Engineer in Austin to deliver modern native Android capabilities for high-visibility client mobile experiences. You will serve as a senior IC, leading complex feature delivery while improving shared platform capabilities, technical practices, and team effectiveness.

The role operates in an enterprise environment where reliability, security, accessibility, performance, and client trust are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in CS/engineering.
• 7+ years of native Android development, shipping complex apps.
• Hands-on Kotlin and Jetpack Compose experience.
• Designing, testing, releasing, and supporting production Android features.
• Experience in Agile delivery with sprint planning and release planning.
• Ability to explain technical decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Leadership through code reviews, design reviews, mentoring, and standards.

Responsibilities

• Deliver modern native Android capabilities for high-visibility client mobile experiences.
• Lead complex feature delivery while improving shared platform capabilities and team effectiveness.
• Coordinate delivery across product, design, quality, platform, security, and backend partners.

Skills

Kotlin

Jetpack Compose

Android SDK

Android Jetpack

Gradle

REST APIs

Android architecture

Agile delivery

Code reviews

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

CI/CD

Release automation

Job description

Title: Lead Android Engineer

Contract/Perm: 12-18m contract to start. (idea is for them to convert to FTE)

Location: Austin preferred, 2nd option Southlake, 3rd: Denver (last pref)

Services is seeking a hands-on Lead Android Engineer (Level 5-8) to deliver modern native Android capabilities for high-visibility client mobile experiences. This is a senior individual-contributor role for an engineer who can lead complex feature delivery while improving shared platform capabilities, technical practices, and team effectiveness.

Day to Day

Android Engineer to deliver modern native Android capabilities for high-visibility client mobile experiences. This is a senior individual-contributor role for an engineer who can lead complex feature delivery while improving shared platform capabilities, technical practices, and team effectiveness.

The role operates in an enterprise environment where reliability, security, accessibility, performance, thoughtful rollout, and client trust are essential. Candidates must be able to work effectively in an established architecture, make pragmatic technical tradeoffs, and coordinate delivery across product, design, quality, platform, security, and backend partners.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years of professional native Android development experience, including ship ping complex applications to production.
• Strong, recent hands-on experience with Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Android SDK, Android Jetpack libraries, Gradle, REST APIs, and modern Android architecture patterns.
• Demonstrated experience personally designing, implementing, testing, releasing, and supporting meaningful production Android features in an enterprise-scale application.
• Experience working in Agile delivery teams with sprint planning, estimation, execution, dependency coordination, and release planning.
• Ability to explain technical decisions, alternatives, risks, and tradeoffs clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Demonstrated technical leadership through code reviews, design reviews, mentoring, engineering standards, technical influence, or leading delivery across team bound aries.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in a SAFe or Agile Release Train environment, including PI planning, dependency tracking, and cross-team release coordination.
• Experience in regulated, security-conscious, financial-services, or other high-avail ability environments.
• Production experience with feature flags, staged rollouts, experimentation, kill switches, analytics, crash reporting, logging, and performance monitoring.
• Experience with modular Android applications, CI/CD, build optimization, release automation, and automated testing.
• Responsible use of AI-assisted engineering tools for code generation, refactoring, testing, debugging, documentation, or design exploration, with appropriate human validation.

Level Expectations

• Broad technical impact: Improves shared Android platform capabilities, libraries, architecture, quality practices, build/release workflows, or developer productivity in addition to delivering features.
• Cross-team influence: Builds alignment and unblocks delivery across engineering, product, design, quality, platform, security, and backend partners without relying on formal authority.
• Sound technical judgment: Understands existing design constraints before recommending changes; weighs delivery, scalability, reliability, security, testability, and long-term maintenance.
• Ambiguity ownership: Can turn unclear requirements, technical debt, migrations, research, or architectural problems into an actionable plan with risks, dependencies, and decisions clearly communicated.
• Operational ownership: Plans for testing, accessibility, observability, safe rollout, performance, failure behavior, and production support-not only implementation.
• Credible delivery: Follows through on commitments, raises risks early, communicates clearly, and focuses on client impact and measurable outcomes

Must Have

Kotlin/ jetpack exp

Mobile application exp - Andriod dev exp

Pluses

BIG PLUS - Trading exp

Project:

• They will be working on the Clients mobile retail app - specifically on the Trading team
  • adding new features, enhance features
  • potential; platform upgrades