Lead Android Engineer - Connected Grill & IoT Platform

Weber Blackstone; Palatine (IL); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 188,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Life and disability insurance

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

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, turning grills into connected products and improving outdoor cooking experiences. This role owns Android's architecture, code quality, and standards, partnering with Firmware, Server, iOS, and Product teams for a cohesive cross‑platform experience.

The position is hybrid with in‑office days at our Palatine, IL campus, and involves leading major features, defining messaging

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a closely related field
• Experience leading Android features and coaching teammates
• Hands-on work with Bluetooth LE APIs and hardware integration

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 the messaging protocol between app and grill: shaping the spec, not just consuming it
• Give Product the honest read on what Android can deliver: sequencing, estimates, and launch readiness, against hardware still stabilizing and dates that don't move
• Maintain app stability through constant change: Android platform releases, permission and background-execution changes, Play policy, and a hardware fleet spanning years of firmware versions
• Build the telemetry and diagnostics that make connection problems debuggable when the grill is in a backyard you'll never visit
• Set and maintain the standards the Android team builds against - architecture, code quality, testing, bug triage, and mentor engineers across the team to build the instincts behind them
• Drive a predictable, low-risk release cadence: CI/CD, staged rollouts, crash monitoring, and feature flags

Skills

Kotlin

Coroutines/Flows

Jetpack Compose

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Bluetooth LE APIs

Job description

Weber Blackstone is seeking an experienced Android engineer to serve as the technical lead for the Weber Connect app, turning grills into connected products and improving outdoor cooking experiences. This role owns Android's architecture, code quality, and standards, partnering with Firmware, Server, iOS, and Product teams for a cohesive cross‑platform experience.

The position is hybrid with in‑office days at our Palatine, IL campus, and involves leading major features, defining messaging