Senior Android Engineer — AI-Driven Mobile Platform

Sekai; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Top-tier salary & equity

Full health insurance

Job summary

Sekai is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to build the native Android foundation for Sekai’s mobile product, focusing on the core app shell and architecture. You will collaborate with Product, Design, Backend, and Mobile teams to deliver a fast, polished, mobile-first consumer experience.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years of Android development, deep knowledge of Kotlin and Android SDK, and a track record shipping consumer apps.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional Android engineering experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with Kotlin, Android SDK, and production Android app development.
• Experience building or owning major parts of a consumer-facing Android app.
• Strong understanding of Android architecture, app lifecycle, navigation, concurrency, networking, persistence, dependency management, and modularization.
• Experience building high-quality mobile UI using Jetpack Compose and/or the traditional Android View system.
• Strong product sense and care for mobile user experience, polish, responsiveness, and reliability.
• Ability to make independent architecture decisions and clearly explain technical tradeoffs.
• Strong ownership mindset and ability to drive work end-to-end in a fast-paced environment.
• Comfortable collaborating closely with Product, Design, Backend, Mobile, and Growth teams.

Responsibilities

• Build and own Sekai’s native Android foundation using Kotlin, Android SDK, and modern Android architecture
• Design and improve the Android app shell, navigation, lifecycle handling, session management, permissions, push notifications, deeplinks, and release workflows
• Create clean integration points for product modules built in native Android, React Native, Flutter, or WebView
• Partner with Product, Design, Backend, and Mobile engineers to ship high-quality consumer mobile experiences
• Improve Android app reliability, responsiveness, maintainability, and production quality across real-world devices
• Build observability and debugging workflows for crashes, app health, release quality, and user-impacting issues
• Define engineering patterns for native modules, cross-stack communication, hybrid screen ownership, testing, CI/CD, and rollout
• Use modern AI development tools to move faster while maintaining strong engineering quality

Skills

Kotlin

Android SDK

App architecture

Jetpack Compose

CI/CD

Debugging

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Firebase Crashlytics

Sentry

Datadog

Job description

Sekai is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to build the native Android foundation for Sekai’s mobile product, focusing on the core app shell and architecture. You will collaborate with Product, Design, Backend, and Mobile teams to deliver a fast, polished, mobile-first consumer experience.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years of Android development, deep knowledge of Kotlin and Android SDK, and a track record shipping consumer apps.