Senior Android Engineer

Peraton; Tacoma (WA); On-site; USD 104,000 - 166,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to design, build, and evolve high-quality Android experiences using Kotlin and modern Android frameworks. This role will own consequential technical decisions and partner closely with product, design, backend, quality, and iOS peers to 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

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional Android software engineering with ownership of production apps.
• Advanced Kotlin skills and deep Android framework knowledge.
• Experience with Kotlin Multiplatform is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own design and implementation of complex Android features from discovery through post-release monitoring.
• Set and evolve technical direction for Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, app architecture, and modularization.
• Write technical designs and surface tradeoffs, risks, and dependencies.
• Build accessible, responsive interfaces with product design and research.
• Improve automated testing across unit, integration, UI, and end-to-end layers.
• Strengthen observability, performance, crash health, security, and release confidence for the Android app.
• Collaborate with backend and platform teams on API contracts, offline behavior, authentication, and analytics.
• Mentor engineers and raise code quality without bottleneck.

Skills

Kotlin

Jetpack Compose

Android SDK

REST/GraphQL APIs

Testing & Debugging

Mentoring

Communication

Education

BS/BA in Computer Science or Engineering

High School Diploma + 12 years experience

Job description

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

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