Lead Full Stack Android Engineer:

DT; Durham (NC); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Digital Turbine in Durham, NC, is seeking a Lead Full Stack Android Engineer to steer the design, architecture, and execution of high-impact features spanning web front-ends, back-end services, and APIs that power campaign management and reporting.

You will collaborate with product leads to align the roadmap, mentor engineers, and push for robust testing, observability, and performance, while delivering scalable solutions for a fast-paced, data-driven marketplace.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of production platform experience (backend focus)
• Strong algorithmic fundamentals and system design
• Experience with polyglot tech environments and multiple languages

Responsibilities

• Architect and execute high-impact, full-stack features from front-end to back-end services and APIs.
• Drive technical direction across a polyglot stack and optimize back-end workloads.
• Design and integrate robust, well-designed APIs unifying DT products and services.
• Ensure reliability with testing standards, observability, performance, and on-call readiness.
• Collaborate with product leads to shape the technical roadmap and drive scoping/estimation.
• Mentor engineers and promote architectural best practices across the team.

Skills

Platform Leadership

Advanced Problem Solving

Polyglot Mindset

Full-Stack Mastery

Engineering Fundamentals

Autonomous Impact

Tools

AWS

GCP

CI/CD pipelines

Containers

Job description

At Digital Turbine, we make mobile advertising experiences more meaningful and rewarding for users, app publishers, and advertisers — intelligently connecting people in more ways, across more devices. We provide app publishers and advertisers with powerful ads and experiences that captivate consumers, fuel performance, and help telecoms and OEMs supercharge awareness, acquisition, and monetization. In a rapidly evolving industry, we are constantly innovating and creating better paths of discovery to connect consumers, publishers, and advertisers across the mobile ecosystem. Digital Turbine is a hybrid work environment; only candidates local to the posting location will be considered. Digital Turbine runs on small, autonomous pods that own an outcome and a roadmap end to end. We hire engineers, not language specialists: we care that you can reason about systems, pick the right tool for the problem, and ship reliable software across the stack. As a Lead Full Stack Android Engineer, you will drive the technical direction and architecture for the critical product surfaces that bring our marketplace together — campaign management and creation, unified dashboards and reporting, audience and asset tooling, and the APIs that connect demand to supply. You will provide technical leadership across front-end, back-end, and data engineering, steering the unified product architecture at the heart of our FY27 roadmap. The underlying platform requires heavy back-end engineering, low-latency optimization, and sophisticated algorithmic problem-solving to manage massive throughput and real-time marketplace dynamics

About The Lead Full Stack Android Engineer

• Architect & Execute: Lead the design, architecture, and execution of high-impact, full-stack features—from responsive web front-ends to scalable back-end services and APIs—that power campaign management, reporting, and marketplace optimization
• Technical Strategy: Establish the technical direction across a polyglot stack, ensuring the front end remains lightweight by strategically pushing complex computational logic, data modeling, and heavy algorithmic weight into robust, highly scalable back-end services
• System Integration: Drive the design and integration of robust, well-designed APIs that unify DT products into a cohesive ecosystem, breaking down potential silos
• Operational Excellence: Take end-to-end accountability for service reliability, defining standards for testing, observability, performance, and on-call rotation while fostering a culture of collective quality
• Strategic Collaboration: Partner directly with product leads and key stakeholders to shape the technical roadmap, translate business requirements into architecture, and lead scoping and estimation efforts within your pod
• Mentorship & Standards: Champion engineering excellence by mentoring team members, conducting rigorous code reviews, driving automation, and establishing pragmatic architectural best practices

About You As The Lead Full Stack Android Engineer

• Platform Leadership: 5+ years of experience architecting and shipping production platforms, with a heavy, proven focus on backend architecture, system design, and deep code optimization
• Advanced Problem Solving: Strong algorithmic fundamentals, data structures, and a proven track record of leading solutions for complex data-processing or resource optimization problems
• Polyglot Mindset: Demonstrated capability to be highly effective in more than one language/ecosystem (eg, TypeScript/JavaScript, Java, Kotlin, Python, Go, Scala, or C++)—with a mindset that optimizes for the problem, not a single tool
• Full-Stack Mastery: Solid command of modern front-end frameworks (eg, React) and back-end service design, paired with deep experience utilizing relational and/or distributed data stores (MySQL, PostgreSQL, and similar)
• Engineering Fundamentals: Strong foundational expertise in API design, data modeling, testing methodology, and large-scale system design
• Autonomous Impact: Proven ability to operate with a high degree of autonomy, driving results and navigating ambiguity in a fast-paced, ownership-driven environment

Nice To Have Skills

• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS or GCP), containers, and CI/CD pipelines
• Exposure to the AdTech domain, dashboards/BI surfaces, or high-throughput, data-driven products
• Experience integrating ML or data services into live product workflows

About Digital Turbine

Digital Turbine (NASDAQ: APPS) powers superior mobile consumer experiences and results for the world’s leading telcos, advertisers and publishers. Our end-to-end platform uniquely simplifies the ability to supercharge awareness, acquisition and monetization — connecting our partners to more consumers, in more ways, across more devices.

The company is headquartered in Austin, Texas, with global offices in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, Berlin, Singapore, Tel Aviv, and other cities around the world, serving top agency, app developer, and advertising markets.

We are honored to have achieved numerous awards as an employer of choice, around the world, including: BuiltIn\'s Best Places to Work Awards in 2022, 2023 and 2024, DUNS 100 Best Places to Work in Tech for 2023 and 2024, and BDICode\'s 100 Best Companies to Work in 2024.

Digital Turbine is an equal opportunity employer committed to exemplifying diversity and inclusion around the world. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives. We embed diversity in our mindset, products, and teams to empower an inclusive, equitable, and culturally fluent environment. Building and continuously fostering this culture within our teams makes us better collaborators, partners, and innovators.

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