Senior Android Engineer

Peraton; Falls Church (VA); On-site; USD 104,000 - 166,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton in Falls Church, VA is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to design, build, and evolve high-quality Android experiences using Kotlin and modern Android frameworks. You will own key technical decisions and partner with product, design, backend, QA, and iOS peers.

You should bring deep Android expertise, hands-on iOS familiarity, and a track record of shipping to Google Play. This role emphasizes architecture, testing, observability, and collaboration across mobile platforms to deliver

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with Android apps.
• Advanced Kotlin skills and strong Android SDK knowledge.
• Experience with REST or GraphQL APIs and local persistence.
• Clear written and verbal communication; mentoring others.
• U.S. Citizenship and ability to obtain Public Trust clearance.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement complex Android features end-to-end.
• Define Kotlin/Jetpack Compose tech direction.
• Collaborate with product, design, backend, and iOS teams.
• Improve testing across unit, integration, UI, and end-to-end.
• Enhance observability, performance, and release confidence.
• Partner with backend on API contracts and auth.
• Mentor engineers and improve team practices.
• Participate in planning, estimation, and incident response.

Skills

Kotlin

Android SDK

Jetpack Compose

REST/GraphQL

Testing

Mentoring

Education

BS/BA in CS or related

High school diploma + 12 years

Tools

Swift

Xcode

App Store release

Job description

Senior Android Engineer

Job Locations: US-WA-Tacoma | US-VA-Falls Church | US-CO-Aurora | US-TX-San Antonio

Responsibilities

The Senior Android Engineer will design, build, and evolve high-quality Android experiences using Kotlin and modern Android frameworks. This person will own consequential technical decisions, partner closely with product, design, backend, quality, and iOS peers, and help the team ship reliable customer value. The ideal candidate has deep Android expertise and enough hands-on iOS experience to reason about platform tradeoffs, review shared mobile patterns, and occasionally contribute targeted Swift or SwiftUI changes when useful.

Core responsibilities

• Own the design and implementation of complex Android features from discovery through monitoring after release.
• Set and evolve technical direction for Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, app architecture, modularization, networking, persistence, and dependency management.
• Write clear technical designs; surface tradeoffs, risks, dependencies, and migration plans before implementation.
• Build accessible, responsive interfaces in close partnership with product design and research.
• Improve automated testing across unit, integration, UI, and end-to-end layers; make quality an everyday engineering practice.
• Strengthen observability, performance, crash health, security, privacy, and release confidence for the Android app.
• Partner with backend and platform teams on API contracts, offline behavior, authentication, experimentation, and analytics.
• Collaborate with iOS engineers on shared product behavior and mobile standards while respecting platform-native conventions.
• Review code thoughtfully, mentor engineers, and raise the quality of technical decisions without becoming a delivery bottleneck.
• Participate in planning, estimation, incident response, and continuous improvement of the mobile delivery process.
• This position will be in one of the following locations: Falls Church, VA, Aurora, CO, San Antonio, TX, or Tacoma, WA.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years with BS/BA; 12 years of experience with a high school diploma.
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including substantial ownership of production Android applications; equivalent depth of experience is welcome.
• Advanced Kotlin skills and strong knowledge of Android SDK fundamentals, Jetpack libraries, coroutines, and reactive state management.
• Production experience with Jetpack Compose, including state, navigation, performance, testing, and interoperability with Views.
• Demonstrated ability to make sound architecture decisions and evolve a mature codebase safely over time.
• Experience with REST or GraphQL APIs, local persistence, background work, authentication, analytics, and push notifications.
• Strong testing and debugging habits, including use of crash, performance, and product telemetry to guide decisions.
• Experience shipping through Google Play, managing staged rollouts, and responding to production issues.
• Clear written and verbal communication with engineers and non-engineering partners.
• A record of mentoring others and improving team practices through influence and example.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen.
• Ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance.

iOS experience expected

This remains an Android-first role. Candidates do not need to be senior iOS specialists, but they should have enough practical experience to collaborate across both mobile platforms. Strong evidence includes:

• Hands-on experience reading and making scoped changes in Swift, SwiftUI, and/or UIKit.
• Familiarity with Xcode, iOS app lifecycle, navigation, concurrency, testing, code signing, and App Store release workflows.
• Ability to compare Android and iOS implementation tradeoffs without forcing identical architecture or user-interface patterns.
• Experience contributing to shared mobile conventions, API contracts, design systems, analytics taxonomies, or cross-platform feature parity.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in a consumer, subscription, healthcare, fintech, marketplace, or other reliability-sensitive mobile product.
• Knowledge of Kotlin Multiplatform or another selective code-sharing approach, with pragmatic judgment about where sharing helps.
• Experience with mobile CI/CD, build performance, feature flags, experimentation, and automated release tooling.
• Familiarity with mobile security, privacy, accessibility standards, and threat modeling.
• Experience leading migrations such as Views to Compose, monolith to modules, or legacy asynchronous code to coroutines.

Peraton Overview

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world's leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can't be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we're keeping people around the world safe and secure.

Target Salary Range

$104,000 - $166,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual's experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.

EEO

Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.